22 November 2023

With having a Thanksgiving dinner last weekend and another one tomorrow it has felt like a week of Thanksgiving. There’s a common joke that the Christmas season begins the day after Halloween, the joke used to be that it started the day after Thanksgiving, but Black Friday sales have crept forward to the entire month of November. Having a longer period to focus on this month’s holiday has been nice. Today might also mark the beginning of my Army friends visiting. I’m not sure when they’ll arrive, that’s part of dealing with these guys. There’s two veterans, one is bringing his pet wolf and the other his nephew, they’ll all be riding to my place together. After that who knows what’ll happen, it’s not like when we were younger blacking out getting into fights, I’ve actually been doing a weekly Bible study with these guys. The mayhem will be more like herding cats, we each have very individual personalities and hard heads, so everyone is doing whatever they want whenever they want. There’s a lot of yelling and push ups in the Army because it takes a strong hand to get everyone on the same page. We have a lot of experience together, hard to believe it’s almost been 15 years since we slept side by side in Iraq. While hard to herd them, giving them a wide berth of personal space and repeating our current objective will eventually get us there. A thick skin is require, in my normal life if someone were to treat me like them there would either be an altercation or I’d walk away, we still might have some wrestling. For the most part I’ll work to go with the flow and let everything wash off me like water. If they’ve tied me up and I’m unable to make to my keyboard until Monday, have a happy holiday.