...when Mrs Chromosome and I got back to the (ahem) real world we wish we'd stayed where we were.

It's been just one thing after another. Meetings, schedules, trying to re-organize time to fit more than 24 hours into a day...That sort of thing. I'm not complaining, mind you. This is the way my life is and I'd rather have this than nothing.

I think most of you feel the same. Empty days are awful. You can almost hear the clock of Life ticking down and that's not the way a person should live. But truly, it has been a little hectic, shall we say. Okay, it has been a BIG hectic :)

It wouldn't be fair to bore you with details so early in the morning (if it's that time of day where you are), so here's just the "good" points.

Monday a.m. Ready to head back to Prague. Yes, we're pretty well ready to go, when for the usual Murphy's Law reason the lock on the driver's door lets go. Just won't work anymore. Try to shut it: CLUNK. Not the CHONK of a nicely-shutting door, the CLUNK of a piece of hardened steel hitting another and not...ummm...shutting. So off down to our neighbours to borrow a few tools and take the lock out. These door panels on modern(ish) cars are a Chinese puzzle if you've never had the dubious pleasure of trying to take one off. And you have to take the panel off to get at the connecting bits to the inner and outer handles: hidden screws, bits you have to push just the right way to make them unclick and release; that sort of thing. Finally I got the lock off. A teeny little spring had let go. I suppose it's designed that way. The thing is, you can't get at it because the whole works is put together with rivets and a million-ton press. But I managed to jerry-rig it so that at least it will shut. It just won't lock...

Got back home only three or four hours late. The rest of Monday is such a mess you really don't want to read about it. Well even if you do I don't :)

Tuesday. Meetings, plans, the stuff of life! ;D Got through the day, finishing at around 8pm, then ambled along by the River Vltava to a little Blues club where I have a show with my band. (No time for dinner.)

High point of the day. The guys are great and singing with them always raises my spirits. Met some wonderful people from the US and a couple from England too who were in our small but appreciative audience. Great to talk with them and share a drink. I can't say that I exactly wound down but at least I stopped winding up to the point where the spring breaks...

I'll skip most details of the next two days. Summary:

More meetings. Took on a special job for a school for children with hearing disabilities. They got left high and dry and I was glad to help them out of a very tough situation.

My daughter moved house and texted me her new address. (Unbeknownst to me Hotmail had wiped her a/c for heaven knows what reason and so my emails to her failed. Worrying when this is my only daughter, who is still dealing with the after-effects of what her violent so-called 'boyfriend' did to her -- and who has a new baby to care for on her own at the same as she tries to heal her physical and psychological wounds...) That is a whole other story which I may or may not reveal to you. I'm not sure, because my own feelings are still pretty raw. But I was mighty glad to get that text, I can tell you! I live in fear that he might find her...And she's twelve thousand miles away...

I love that girl.

Let's move on. It's still early in the day here and darkness can wait until the sun goes down.

I also found an old friend from a decade ago via a websearch. He lived with us for a while and now he's in San Francisco and doing well in his artistic pursuits: another high point to offset the lows!

Things always seem to balance out, don't they?

Then, just a little while ago, I logged on to SC and the first post I saw was from SilverWhisper -- which saved me a few seconds of clicking onto his blog as his is usually the first or second one I check whenever I'm on :))

I sent in a comment and promptly broke his new rules. I'm still not absolutely sure if that's what he wants us to do. I see the need to keep out the gibberish, but I suspect that his comments about people's comments wandering off and away from the original topic...

Oh, you are more perceptive than me. I don't ned to state the obvious.

It's good to be back. I've missed this little world!

Truly.

Whyc *