Today was take your kids to work day or some variant of that depending on what part of the country you live in. We’ve allowed this for quite a few years now though it does cause some slowdown at work. Maybe it’s the economy but we only had two kids this year: the regulars. Anyway, as is tradition I bought pizza and Coke for everyone. Dominos was the winner because of the on-line coupons. Eleven pizzas, six Cokes, bread sticks, for $108 including tax and tip. Not bad. The kids were happy and most of the adults too. I was bad and had three slices instead of the zero I should have had. This is why I am fat — when it comes to food I’ve got no will-power.
I woke up, ate my usual breakfast, (bowl of Raisin Bran cereal with skim milk and two teaspoons — levelled — of sugar) read the paper and filed off to work. At work got up and was oddly dizzy. Maybe not dizzy but certainly light-headed and had to grab the wall. This is not usual for me, and except for that post-drinking hangover, never really experienced it before. I was also out-of-sorts which is unusual for me (thanks for the smart-ass comments I can hear you all thinking). Not sure it was related to the spell or not. If you’ve ever been hung-over from a hard night and then received a call at 8am when you were hoping to wake just in time for lunch, you know how I felt: foggy, a little confused, and, well, out-of-sorts.
I am overly preoccupied with some things lately so the out-of-sorts bit may be unrelated. Several friends suggested it might be that nasty bout of meningitis going around but I lack some of the very key symptoms. Oddly, I thought Erin might have it but again same thing. Which is good. So if the Red Wings lose, we may do dinner together Saturday night.
A special shout out to Tara who’s going through a rough patch. Not sure she reads here, but nonetheless she gets the shout out anyway.
Skating and breakfast Sunday. Saturday AM must run to Fort Lauderdale for an hour for a secret project. I hope to share the details with you one day. It’ll be cool. I’m guessing long about Xmas. A few of you will think I’m nuts, but most of you will think it was a good thing to do. I’ll give you a hint: it involves lots of forms.
Lastly, I won’t embed this video but will link to it. It’s a video of model trains from a company called Miniatur Wunderland of the largest model railroad in the world. Worth the 4m51s to watch if you’re into that thing.