The Athens Diaries: Days Four and Five at 9:34 PM

In the interest of not boring anyone out of their respective skulls, I'll just sum up the last couple of days quickly. I went to work on day four, then came home that night and had ribs from Damon's. To keep on the food theme of this week, I think Damon's ribs could be better. The meat is tender and comes off the bone easily, which is a good quality for ribs to have of course, but I could use some more sauce. When I get a plate full of ribs, I don't want to be able to see the meat itself. I want to see a sheet of sauce covering what I think might be some ribs. If you give me two packets of extra barbecue sauce with my ribs (which they did), that means I don't have enough on the ribs themselves. That's all I have to say about that.

The drive home on Friday was blissfully uneventful, as I decided to take everything with me this time. That tends to make things much more pleasant. It's about a five hour drive when you don't get lost, so that's about how long it took me to get back home. It's nice to be back. I went and got Jessica and Luke from the airport earlier today. The poor kid had a rough time with the whole flying thing coming back, but he's sleeping now, so he'll probably get over it.

Of course, my own personal return to Kokomo would have been better if I didn't have to work on Saturday morning, but whatever. At least I have Thursday and Friday off so that we can move, which everyone knows is the perfect way to spend one's day off. Speaking of the move, we had a fun thing happen tonight. The people living in the house right now called tonight and talked to Jessica for a bit. I could tell there was some subject that was making her a bit uneasy, so I was curious as to what was going on. I had a random thought in the back of my head wondering "what if they're asking if we want their dog?", when lo and behold, she got off the phone and said "You're not gonna believe this". She was right. How weird is it that I was thinking about something as abstract as that? Anyway, when we were over there, I made a comment about how I liked their dog. I'm a dog lover, so I like pretty much all dogs. My wife, on the other hand, has never had a pet other than a rabbit that they kept in a hutch in the back yard when she was younger. So I guess the house they're moving into has a backyard that's all mud, and they don't want to keep the dog in that yard. That seems like a bit of a weak reason to me...almost like they were looking for a reason to get rid of the dog, but I could be wrong. Who knows? So we'll see what happens on that front. It should be interesting. I'll keep you updated.

If this post seems disjointed and rambling, please accept my apologies. I can hardly keep my eyes open, but I wanted to get this done before I wasn't in the mood anymore.

Song of the Day: "Turn the Page", by Bob Seger. Good stuff. Metallica also did a cover of this song, which was good as well.

Alright...here's some pictures like I promised so many times:


This Luke when he was three days old.


This is him a couple of days ago, next to his cousin Nathan (born Feb. 18, I believe). Luke is on the left.


This is also a couple of days ago. Is this not the cutest baby you've ever seen? He's nine weeks old now.