Well, all good things must come to an end and, sadly, my vacation is just about over. I guess, as of 4:30 p.m. today, my vacation is officially over, since it’s a three-day weekend for many people (myself included).
I will admit, while these last two weeks seem to have flown by, it also seems like I’ve been on vacation for quite a while. I came in to this vacation with a bunch of projects I wanted to tackle. If I am being honest, I am, as always, disappointed with my progress on those projects. If I am being perfectly honest, I’ve got a fair amount accomplished, it’s just that there’s always so much more I want to get done.
I still have a couple of things I want to get done before I head back to King’s but for the most part I am going to be taking a “vacation” from my To Do list. Sit back. Watch a couple of movies. Hang out on the back porch and do some reading. Just relax.
One thing I did do today was travel over to Glencoe again. I think my Mom and I ended up being one of the first people to use the new traffic lights at the Melbourne Town Line. The reason I was in Glencoe this time had nothing to do with visiting the old home town.
I bought a cemetery plot. It was something I had been thinking about for a while. My family bought a plot out there at Oakland Cemetery when my sister, Kerri, passed in 1980 and so my folks bought three plots, initially for Kerri and eventually for my Mom and Dad. I wanted to be buried in the plot next to them and thought I better get at it before someone one did.
I did a bit of writing here and there. I posted a couple of articles to my Track Talk blog and an article about World War I flying ace Tom Williams. I’ve also decided to post some of my writing on my website. Back in the 1990s, I wrote a novel called A Time of War. I’ve always wanted to get it published (and have tried to on a couple of occasions) but decided to publish it online. I have a couple of other novels, one completed, one nearly completed (although I keep wanting to add to it) and another one I recently started. I posted the completed novel but am not sure I’m ready to show it to people. Meanwhile, check out A Time Of War and tell me what you think.
As always, if you want to discuss anything covered above (or below), chat me up on Facebook Messenger or via email. (It’d be nice to know someone is reading it. I’m beginning to think the readers from Sweden, Germany, North Carolina, California, and Oregon are bots. The weird part is WordPress says they’re coming from my Facebook posts – which are set to “Friends Only.”)
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