As Far as Six Thirty-One
April 8, 2008 in Blogs
I suppose it was a sort of accomplishment.
I finished my scheduled Monday work last night, signing out from posting to the Corinthians list just as my wife finished hers and arrived home. We were both dealing with those last-thing-before-bed things when the phone rang, and our son wanted to come home from his work address. Normally my wife would go, as she enjoys late night drives; or else, if she was not feeling well, I would go. However, she decided we would both go. That, though, meant that our departure was delayed a bit longer, and we stayed a bit longer at the other end than we otherwise might have done. I got home in time to shut off the five o’clock alarm and give the first boy his medicine as he prepared for school.
We had a bit of a scare, because his bus was late. I do not recall it ever having been late, and thus our fear was that it had come early and he had missed it. This would have meant an extra forty minutes or more of driving for me, to deliver him to the school. However, it arrived, and he caught it. I, then, proceeded to prod the other boy, the one who has to catch the next bus but who lately has been freed from riding buses because his girlfriend drives and has her own car. He is not an easy starter, but I managed to get him to acknowledge verbally that it was six thirty-one.
I’m afraid that the next thing I remember was said girlfriend standing over him telling him that he had to hurry, because she had misplaced her car keys and her father was driving them. He flew out of the house remarkably quickly as I apologized for failing to roust him quicker, and I finally had the opportunity to get ready for bed.
All of which means that I am finally hitting the ground for today’s work. I have managed in the midst of everything else to arrange for our mechanic to take a look at the car one of my sons is hoping will be available for him to take to school soon. I’ve unblocked it in the drive, but one of our houseguests has apparently decided it is a good place to store stuff, so I’m going to have to get him to clean it out later before it vanishes. However, there is much still to do, so I’d better get to the doing.
–M. J. Young