Hello again

I have actually watched some NBA playoff basketball this season and have enjoyed it so far. Most of my enjoyment has come from watching the thugs down here getting upset about the Hawks taking it to the Heat. Evidently, the Heat weren't that good(who knew?), but I will try and watch the series against the Cavaliers.

Nicole is doing well with her classes and I made A's on my first two. Zach has finished track and is no longer grounded as he has pulled up his grades somewhat. Zach is still dating the same girl and has started driving(yikes). Chloe is in the middle of soccer and just finished with dance and her first recital(we are waiting on the dvd). I am no longer working at the tiny jail and have been sent back to work nights at the big jail for now after they closed most of the small one. It is an adjustment and I am just waiting to get back to days. My current plan is to stay put and finish my masters with the agency paying for it and then see what is available out in the world. I will try to avoid law enforcement or corrections, but stay in government if I change jobs. They just make it harder and harder to leave with steady increases in PDO if not money. I generally like people and have a positive outlook on life. Over time in my job I have developed an increasingly negative view of people and an increasingly dark sense of humor.

I have been getting into Stoic philosophy lately and have been reading Seneca and Marcus Aurelius. I am looking for a good biography of Marcus Aurelius if anyone has any ideas. Seneca cracks me up and was such a character. If not for him, Nero would have been worse. His life was Job's without the happy ending and far more wealth in the middle. I like to fancy myself a Stoic sometimes because I can usually bounce back from setbacks well and don't place great stock in material possessions. My problem is I am too big a fan of comfort to ever be a complete stoic and I do love the Georgia Bulldawgs more than a reasonable stoic should.

I am really writing all this just to prep myself for tomorrow as it is the anniversary of my mother's death.