9-11-2023

 Had a minute of silence at work for 9/11 today.  Talked to a coworker who was in first grade when the attacks happened.  

Hard to explain the different world that existed before then.  Travel, Finance, Military Service, things changed tremendously.

The attacks happened in 2001, I went to the recruiters got on a wait list*, got some things in order, and was off to training by 2002.  Those attacks would broadly define the next decade of my life.

*- Not joking, there was a months long waiting list to ship off to Basic Training with all the post 9-11 enlistments.  Hard to imagine today.

Labor Day 2023

 I try to write a few words each Labor Day, remembering my favorite recognized holiday.

I had to work on this Labor Day, but after a day of it I came home to close down the pool with my wife and son and his friends for the Summer.

My wife have done my best to make this a memorable year for the family, especially the Summer.

Trips and baseball games and roller coasters and beaches and sunsets and water slides and alligators and so much more.  Feeling like the family man I aspire to be.

There is a simple but great Dirty Heads lyric...

 "Hard work has paid off, it's paying me." 

Happy Labor Day