My Journey

My journey through life has now lasted for more than fifty years. I got my first every fifty plus discount this past weekend. My birthday was actually last Thursday and passed quietly for the most part. Two of my pen pals here had emails or e-cards waiting for me. It looked like that would be it until my wife decided to send a note out to the people she knows. I got cards and emails from people I've not heard from in a very long time. Most are more her friends than mine but it was still nice.

Actually I don't need or really want a lot of fuss over my birthday. Connie is the one who needs and wants a fuss made over things like that. I was happy to see who remembered on their own. I know I can't say anything because I can be bad at remembering birthdays and even then I sometimes procrastinate and don't actually acknowledge it.

I don't feel any older and in a lot of ways it's hard to believe I'm fifty. For so long that seemed so old. Now it doesn't. Most of the time I don't FEEL fifty. I guess my mental view of myself still has me in my 20's somewhere, or maybe early 30's I guess. There are times when a knee will hurt as it didn't used to or some other body part will send messages reminding me that I am, in fact, older than I think I am but mostly that is just a passing thing.

I'm back home in Orlando this morning, here for about 2 weeks. Mostly I'll be working on laying new flooring at this house here. I'm not planning on playing much poker except some online stuff for practice. With gas prices as they are it's not really worth the 60 mile drive to either Daytona or Melbourne or the 80 mile drive to Tampa. With the small games there I'd be hard pressed to count on making gas money and the profit would not justify the time expended. I'll take the time here to study a book or two which is something I need to do more of.

Ok enough rambling for right now. I've got other things to write about. People visited us in Mississippi this past time and I'll write about that. I built a new bed platform and I'll write about that and include pictures even. I may even write some more philosophical entries tying poker lessons to life lessons and vice-versa. I may put that one in my poker journal. Restarting that and catching up is another thing I hope to do in the very near future.

How much of that will happen? Your guess is as good as mine, tune in and find out. In the mean time I hope ya'll are having a wonderful day!

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• #1 Comment from rcfarms4959 
  6/2/08 9:11 AM | Permalink

  Happy Belated Birthday ! Hope all is well in your neck of the woods. I'm still enjoying your entries, just don't seem to be to many of them lately