Look, sometimes, we're given the tools we know how to use best. Yours is laughter. You can't leap a tall building in a single bound, but you can make a supervillain pee his pants, making him look like an idiot in his wet tights, then killing his evil spirit, and reducing him to a child.

So Master Po/Uncle Ben, what you are saying is, "With great power comes great responsibility." Cool!


On cold days my right knee can barely get me to the upstairs bathroom.

This is why I moved my bedroom downstairs YEARS ago, and my knees were bothering me then. I had enough foresight to get closer to the kitchen and bathroom. Now I can slither there if I must. After the BACKIOTOMY, I will be thanking my lucky stars that we made this move.

Chris,

What's new with you? How is coaching? DD20? Wayzilla?

How is the lady friend?

Would be great to hear from you.

Things are going pretty good. Considering all the adultery anniversaries at that time, the holidays were far better than I ever imagined they could be. We really had a great time. So great it surprised us.

DD20 moved out a couple weeks ago into an apartment with a girl friend. She is doing real good, but there has been some lingering insecurities. I am sure she will do fine. The house sure is quiet.

I got back this weekend from a week long training session in Watertown, SD. COLD! REALLY COLD! I don’t think I recorded a reading higher than 1.3 on the FunMeter the whole week and that was in a bar one night watching basketball.

I have two basketball games this week with the boys. They lost one last week with the JV coach running them while I was out of town so we are 6-2 on the season. I can’t believe there are only six weeks left in the season. It has been a blast.

I hosted a party at the house for the JV girl’s team on DD’s behalf last Saturday night after I got home from SD. 10 girls between the ages of 14 and 16 make a noise similar to an air raid siren high on Mountain Dew.

Next Wednesday will be the one-year anniversary of Wayzilla leaving home to be “alone and independent as Gollum’s lap dancer. The D was final 7 months last week.

The JHPBftFSoP Plan B continues in complete darkness. I have not spoken to Wayzilla in 7-months. She sent a little happy birthday email last month to probe Plan B but received no response. DD and I have not mentioned her to each other this year.

Time to start thinking about the garden and patio expansions I want to do this spring. DD20 and I have to start making plans to return my Mother’s ashes to the family farm in Minnesota this summer. That is where she had the happiest times of her whole life. I bet DD will want to plan in some time to visit The Mall of the Northern Hemisphere as well (insert a Rin LOL)!

Sure are a lot of newbies here after the holidays. I wish them all the stillness and calm they need to face the most challenging days of their lives. Life does go on, even after adultery.

Say "hey!" to DD20 for me

Tell her I think about her often & I hope she wears her tiara if ever she is feeling the [color:"blue"]blue meanies [/color] ...

AHHHHH, SPRING! I've been working inside the house, and making honeydo lists for PWC. It keeps him outta trouble <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />, and keeps me from going MAD!

Since this summer, I have completed the bathroom renovation, and mostly completed the bedroom. When I can, I'll finish painting the molding and move on to the living room, which needs some molding and a new paint job.

Good to hear from you, my friend.

You need to cup your hands around your mouth and do the stadium-announcer voice thing when you mention this place. It is quite impressive.

I can understand why you want to hold off until spring, though.

More news from the Karma Bus.

DD20 called last night after I got home from Bball practice. She is still a little clingy since moving into her apartment a couple weeks ago but is sounding great.

She told me Wayzilla called her yesterday and was more “weird psycho” than her “normal flipped out crazy self”. Finally Wayzilla told her that the branch in Mordor where Gollum works out of is closing down. In fact she called from the Mordor branch where she was doing asset inventory and preparation for the personnel lay-offs. DD said she sounded a little shaky and sniffy. Poor thing.

She told DD that this was secret information and to tell no one. Riiiiiiiight. Telegraph, Telephone, TeleDD. The secret was out in about 8 hours. Did she really think DD would keep this to herself? I have to think the sole purpose of telling DD was to flow the info to me. But why? Remember, I was responsible for her securing her 4 best jobs in her life.

I don’t know how this closure will effect Gollum but Wayzilla’s #1 emotional need through the marriage was financial security and stability. Her company has struggled for a few years now as they have gone from three facilities in Colorado down to one. Their main competitor (where Gollum left after his second affair) has grown from one facility in Mordor to three strong shops up the corridor. I don’t think there is much time left. The parent company is tired of the bleeding.

Now if the DOT would just hurry up (a DOT in a hurry?) and get those living room bulldozer races up and running!

Little unfulfilling probes into my Plan B? Making sure I know about the sad tragedy in Mordor?

Time to pull up a lawn chair and get a Long Island Ice Tea………

Wait! What am I thinking? I am way too busy! I have a game tonight and two to assist and DGS and I are dressing up and going to a jazz club tomorrow night.

My head coach asked me to be the JV coach next year last night. I received three phone calls over the past two weeks from people who want me to interview for two different high school girl head coach positions expected to open in the next two months. Work is busy and fun.

Who would have thought personal recovery could be such a blast.

Keep up the good fight all.

Karma can be a beautiful thing. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />

Morning, chris!

That Karma bus......moves a little slow, doesn't she? But when it parks in front of someone - it does a heck of a job.



Rescue. Maybe only subconciously....but where do you instinctively look when you are in a bind - to the one that has rescued you before.

She can't look to Gollum - no history to back it up - and he's on his way down with her.

And she knows it.

Her fall has seemed to be slow because she's caught a foothold here and there.......but she will still feel the impact when she hits bottom.

It's there......waiting for her to stop fighting in the wrong direction. There's two sides of the canyon. She's falling down the bad side, 'cause she shouldn't have been there in the first place. She'll have to hit bottom to come back up the good side. Unless she again chooses the bad side - then she has to start over again. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />



Funny......but sad, too.

It's great to hear you've found your calling. Sounds like coaching loves you as much as you love it. Congrats!


Fox

It's starting to sound like half the FLEET of Karma Bus' is waiting outside WZ's door. I would fear walking in my front yard at this point, for fear that a HOUSE might fall on me.
Looks like DOROTHY may be the NAME on the Karma Bus.

Chris,

Just wanted you to know I was alive and we had flurries last weekend. WOOHOO!!!

Looks like the Karma bus got a flat right in front of Wayzilla's house. [email]D@mn[/email] the bad luck. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />


Oh, going to the camp tonight, and to a hog roast next weekend in the infamous Jena, La. Gonna be a whole keg of bud light. So the only marching I'll be doing is to the nearest tree. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

It's not easy being Cajun, but I try. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Send my love to DD, the waffle fuerer, and of course to the Joi de mon vie.

Beau

What, did some frost slop off your Bud Light can? But I am glad you are alive.

Hi 14th, SL and Cowgirl!

Cowgirl, I love the canyon wall comparison. Very Wil E Coyote. Wayzilla in her ACME jet boots and fishnet stockings with that big overhang rock thingy that always breaks off and lands on her. Ooooooo.....hit replay, hit replay.

<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> You make it so much funnier than how I said it. Love it!

Fox

So I get stuck a few minutes late on a project at work last night and was about 10-minutes late to basketball practice. I call DD20 who is at the school wrapping up her JV practice. I ask her if she can start the boys off until I get there. No problem.

When I arrive, I look through the gym door windows and I see all 12 of my freshman and sophomores lined up on the baseline holding the down position of a pushup. DD is swaggering along the front of the line with her hands behind her back forcefully telling the boys, “Gentlemen, it takes hard work to be a champion. I expect more effort from my girls than you are giving me.”

One of the boys loses his hold on the pushup and hits the floor.

“I did not tell you to quit! Everyone! Start over!”

I walk in the gym and my big post player who averages around 20 points a game calls out in a pathetic whine, “Coach! Thank God you are here! Please make her stop!”

I told him I had to go to the equipment room for a couple minutes and for DD to carry on. This was met with a resounding moan.

When I come out she has them holding a low defensive stance position for 2-1/2 minutes. If you have not done this, it is torture.

She is something!

We both got wins last Friday night. My boys are 7-3 now. She coaches a game tonight and I have one tomorrow. We talked and laughed on the phone for nearly an hour last night.

I am a lucky man!

THis is just great! I remember having to SIT up against the wall in Vball practice. I swear, I thought my legs would spontaneously combust any minute. It IS torture, but, hey, it put a lot of spring in my digging step (libero/middle back position, as it were).

DD20 reminds me of my drill seargent.

Hi Coach C,

Enjoyed your post and identified with your (and your DD20's) coaching scenario. No wonder you're so proud of her. Thanks for sharing.

Ace

Hi SL! Hi Ace!

Today is the one year anniversary of Wayzilla moving out in the night and the start of Plan B. It is very nice to get by all the “firsts”. I look back today in amazement about what a wreck I was a year ago and where I am today. It’s like a whole new life.

The last major “first” now will be the divorce being final this June.

DD20 lost her game last night and was a little bummed when we talked on the phone. Wayzilla was at the game (I was at practice) but DD said they never spoke. Still a wayward maroon.

I have a game tonight and two to assist. The boys made a deal with me the other day that if they won league for level 3 that I would shave off my beard. No one on the planet would recognize me without my beard. They are a pretty good team but I am feeling pretty safe.

Mornin', chris

What a hoot your DD20 is - apple doesn't fall far from the tree does it? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />




Truly amazing. Thank you for sharing the journey with us. I can't thank you enough for sharing your sense of humor and good advice.



Be careful. Humiliating the coach is one heck of a motivation!

Take care, chris. It's great to hear how much better your life is getting.



Geez-a-moley, I'm still waiting for the FIRST court date. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

Carry on, amigo, carry on.

Fox