Five years ago…

A lifetime ago in some ways.
A different world in many ways.

Five years ago the greatest single tragedy of my lifetime occurred.
I am sure that many will speak of politics, of terror, and patriotism.

I will speak of none of those things.

Five years ago in a very short time frame 2996 voices were silenced.

One of those voices belonged to Luke Rambousek.
He was 27 years old.
He had a passion for Techno Music. Every year he invited friends to his parent’s vacation home in Pennsylvania. They would camp out and indulge in mountains of junk food all day. They would party all night, with Luke manning the turntables himself.

He came from a family with loving parents.
A family with proud Czech heritage.

I have never met Luke.
Never spoke to his parents.

But on September 11, I will mourn his passing.

You are not forgotten Luke.

The victims of 9-11 are not statistics, but fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives who one tragic day, never came home.

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I spilled coffee on my shirt.

It happens more than I care to admit.

I spent 30 minutes doing my mileage paperwork this morning. It’s tedious, but I get paid for my mileage so its not terrible. I decided that I would start this month out right and start my paperwork this week with the promise I would stay on top of it instead of waiting till the end of the month. I filled out my mileage for Friday and today.

And then I saved it over August’s Mileage.

So I spent another 3o minutes doing my mileage.

I was inspired to write this, started, got distracted and shut down my laptop. With out saving.

I’m not sure that three-day weekends make it worth the hell of a compressed 4 day week.

I’m sure it’s just me.

I know it’s just me.

I feel as though I have no time.

But I’m no busier than anyone else.
Hell, I see these parents who run their kids from sports to scouts to who-knows-what. I don’t know how they do it.

I feel so crunched for time.
What ever I’m doing seems to be at the expense of something else.

If I want to work on building a web page, it’s at the expense of getting anything done around the house. If I work overtime, it is at the expense of going to the gym. If I need to run the kids here or there, it means I can’t do anything else.

How do people watch TV? I understand that most people seem to find it entertaining, but how do they find time?

I must be be doing something wrong. Maybe I’m just slow. Maybe it takes me longer to do stuff than other people.

It’s making me a little nuts, I’m sick of feeling behind all the time.

Part of the problem, is that I don’t give myself the weekends. The last 4 weekends, for example, have been visiting family, a back packing trip and 2 trips to the lake. (And I’m going backpacking next weekend too!)

It’s good that I get to relax and do these things, but I keep slipping behind on everything else.

If only I had more time.
If only I had more energy.

At least I found time to write this.