We had a plan. It was simple. I would work for 1/2 a day and then we would be on vacation for the duration of the week. It is good to have a plan. The problem with this plan is that everything had to go right at work for the first 1/2 of the day. As you might have guessed, that did not happen.
I am taking over a small job at work that involves about 2 hours of my time every month on the 8th business day of the month. As luck would have it, yesterday was the 8th business day of the month. Last month I sort of receive some training but I did not pick up everything I needed to know so that I could do this solo this month. My manager knows what to do but he does not have the access to do it. So we were stuck with him looking over my shoulder (virtually) and trying to walk me through it. It did not help that he was driving to Houston yesterday and had a full day of meetings. Anyway, long story short, it was 2 pm before I was able to log off and start the vacation.
We had planned to have lunch around 1:00 in Indianapolis and that turned into an early dinner around 3:30 ad Red Robin. We needed to stop by the lake house owner’s house to pick up some sheets and towels. After a short visit with him and his new lab puppy, Lego, we were on our way. We rolled into Spencer, IN, around 6:00 and hit the local grocery store for vacation food (food never allowed in our house in Kokomo, you know, like food that comes in boxes and cans and has words like “instant” on the label). We finally got to the lake house around 7:00 and got unpacked. It was very hot and since the house was shut up it was also hot. We opened all the windows, turned on all the fans and then hit the deck by the lake to enjoy a little breeze while the house cooled down.
The water was calm and peaceful and the bugs were few (though the fish were plenty). After about 30 minutes the house was tolerable and we did what any family would do while on vacation at a remote lake house, we set up the netbook, external hard drive containing movies, 20” monitor and 2.1 speakers and watched a movie (Flipped, a very good movie) on the screened in porch. I sipped my Peach Faygo (on sale at Babb’s SuperValu) and the kids enjoyed Black Cherry Faygo and all was good.
The wife and I have been here several times but last year was the first year that we brought the kids. They have been looking forward to this trip since the day that I mentioned it last month. Every day one of them would tell me how many days were left before the lake house trip. Their faces were quite distraught yesterday when I kept working well past noon. If stares and looks could make me work faster then I would have been done on time.
It is supposed to rain today but clear up by early afternoon. Hopefully the kids can get some swimming done in the lake then. There are only 3 good restaurants in Spencer I think so it is not a matter of where to eat but in what order we eat at each place over the next few nights.
Well, the daughter has the Uno deck out and is shuffling (or trying to shuffle) the cards right next to me. I can take a hint.
Jon
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