Additional Thoughts on Past Posts

Some other quick comments on some recent past posts.

Poker night. We ordered Sardina's. I have not mentioned this place enough. It started as little Italian place on Morena when we were kids. We actually had our first "date" there when I was about 10 and Sharlynn was 12. We split a mini pizza. It has expanded recently, but the quality of the food remains the same---EXCELLENT! From the simple meatball sandwiches to a pasta with fresh mussels, to the exquisite calzones and pizzas, this place is great food, and a great price. We had appetizers of sauteed mushrooms and fried zucchini. An eggplant calzone and a chicken Parmesan calzone, a vegie and a meat pizza, and their antipasto salad is one of the best I have had. It has become very popular of late, since the expansion, and I cannot be happier for their success, as it has been in the same family since it opened.

Another comment--The Martian Child---again, why does the dog have to die? Please, keep the canines alive!!!


Poker night---Emily is looking fantastic. Pregnancy agrees with her fo' shizzle!!

Several friends have recently mentioned the movie Into the Wild to me. They loved it. And they are surprised I really disliked it. I did not like it at all.

Turning 45. I am taking a week off for a mid-life crisis, prior to me turning 45. Somehow, this age is getting to me. Rarely am I concerned about my age, or the age of others, but 45 is gnawing at me a bit, and I do not know why. I am in all likely hood more than halfway past my life span. I probably should be feeling grown up by now. But instead I feel as uncertain in many aspects of life as I ever did. When do I feel like I have a handle on things? When do I feel like career is set? When do I feel complacent? And like I have problems solved? Is this just the conditions of life? Were our parents ever as certain as they seemed to us at the time?

I do not feel uncertain about the choices I have made. The marriage I have, the friends who are close to me. These people I love, they are certain to me. Though
they may not live here anymore, Sharon and Alex, Paul and Wendy, Stella and Yannis, Dan and Norma---they are as dear friends as I could want. And the people who are here, Yvette and Bill, Tandora, Jorge, Janine, Emily and Seth and D'anne and Steven and all the rest. What a joy to have them in my life. And of course my pets, especially the two pooches. I love them so much.

And my friend, my wife. What a waste my life would be without her. I have known Sharlynn since I can remember knowing. We have been friends for 43 years at least, and now married for almost 22. And it still seems like I did not start living until I was with her. And it still seems like she is in a spell that she should be with me, and one day she will wake up and see where she is and say---"What the hell!" LOL!

And so in a mid-life crisis, I am humbled also, by all that I do have.

But 45? C'mon---that is NOT right!!!!!