9 Days Short

Well about a year ago I quit My job and said I never wanted to work for the man again ... or at least not for a year. Well as it turns out, I am not only going back to work part time, but 9 days short of a full year off.

Looking at the bright side, who else do I know that took a year off in the middle of His life? No one! It's been great, and I wish I could convince the rest of the family to follow My retarded ways of cutting off the power and water supply to the house and just living off the land. Getting water from a well, eating food from the garden, getting heat from a wood stove, and getting light from lanterns. But, as fate would have it, I live with other rational people who insist on using today's technology to make an easy, convenient life for us .. and PAYING for it I might add.

And looking at the negative side of it, I'm really disappointed in Myself. I had such high hopes of doing cool things and really changing the way we live. I let a few small 'let downs' get a grip on Me and kept Me from pursuing My goals. When My goals of selling certain items to get some capital to use for My projects fell through, I became really chicken about digging into savings to make it happen. Now that a year has gone by, I kinda wish I would have taken the plunge, after all .. you only go around once.

I guess I did do some stuff that I might not have had time for if I was working 50 hours a week. I put in a large garden and tended to that all summer, and considering what a crappy summer we had, I'm fairly happy with the amount of food we got out of it. I plan on keeping it going next year again. I also took the family on a vacation which was the highlight of the kid's year. Speaking of kids, I spent more time with them this year than I probably have rest of their whole lives, and that right there makes it worth it alone. And I installed a woodstove in our living room which I'm excited to see the difference in heating bills from last year.

So ..... I may not have the roof plastered with solar panels, nor do I have a field of wind towers built, but I guess having a year off to get some other stuff done, plus plenty of relaxing time was well worth it. Not to mention becoming the little "Hero Daddy" again that I once was to My kids, but kinda lost it with the long and odd hour jobs that I've had. I am once again the 'cool' person to play with in the house.

So, I guess I'm doing the next best thing. Although I am working, it's only part time, and it's about as menial a job you can get next to flipping burgers or pushing grocery carts. I accept NO responsibility at My job, other than showing up, doing My part, and going home. I don't care if other people quit, don't show up, stuff is late, stuff is early, don't got enough stuff, or got too much stuff. Not My problem. I ain't climbing no corporate ladder, or advancing to another position, or going to salary, or moving to management. I AM at the bottom of the ladder, and that's where I'm gonna stay! Money ain't everything, and hanging at home on the farm is MY full time job.

So as of tomorrow at 8:00 AM, I will become, in the most modest sense, a wage earner again. I'm sorry.