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- Bucy’s Law
Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.
- Law of the Individual
Nobody really cares or understands what anyone else is doing.
- Not the Last Adventure
Last Thursday at zero dark thirty, the Uber arrived and took me to the airport. My flight to Nashville was to depart at 6:40 a.m. Uber and my wife declared i should leave my house at 4:15. They were correct. It was a non-stop to Nashville. For the first time i can remember, i had no bags to check, only a backpack and a small carry-on suitcase.,
It was the beginning of yet another adventure. I’m not ready to say it’s my last, but at 82, i’m wondering how many more are left in me. My parents made their last winter cross country trip from Lebanon to the Southwest Corner when she was 84 and he was 87 (2001). Shortly after, i went fishing with him — he hooked the boat trailer to his SUV, drove to Center Hill, and did many other things — when he was 93. He stopped going fishing by himself a few months later.
i should point out he didn’t stop going fishing alone because he felt it was undsafe but because he didn’t want to leave my mother alone who had some health problems, .
i am aware i am not the amazing physical specimen my father was, mostly because i have spent a much wilder life than he did. So, even though i would love to be 93 when i finally have to hang my adventures on a trophy case, i have begun to wonder when i should stop the adventures. My wife seems to think it should be now. Maybe, just maybe, she’s right. But i feel i have several more in me. We’ll see.
But this one was a dandy.
I originally envisioned it to be a ten-day affair. The plan was to leave on Thursday, October 8, going back home for the Castle Heights Miiitary Academy’s “Homecoming.” The school closed in 1987. Every year since then, former students gather for the first weekend in October at buildings that were part of the campus to celebrate being part of a wonderful institution. Since i completed my active duty service in 1989, i have had a desire to attend. Other obligations kept getting in the way. This year was no different. This year, the problem was medical appointments, the annoying requirement for old men.
My plan was to see friends and family in my home town until mid-week and then drive to Signal Mountain for my sister Martha’s 80th birthday, but then i found out she and Todd would be keeping their three grandchildren to allow her son Tommy and his wife Abby to get away without their children, something they had been unable to do for 14 years, a magnamimous gesture on my sister’s part, but making my presence most likely an annoyance.
So, the adventure was reduced to four days. i will describe the great time i had on the abbreviated adventure in my next post. But i do think there will more,
- Murphy’s All Purpose Excuse for Workers
That’s the way we’ve always done it.
- Cornuelle’s Law
Authority tends to assign jobs to those who are least able to do them.
Hmm…