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Monday sure came up fast after the weekend. It was a little crazy today as I had a lot of stuff to do for work, and I also had to prepare myself for teaching this evening. As the day started, I realized that I wasn’t very well prepared for class tonight, and knew I needed to spend some time getting ready. It just seemed like all day I was bouncing from one thing to another trying to get everything I needed to done.

I actually didn’t make it. I got to class tonight, and I didn’t have the study guide ready to distribute for next week. It isn’t a serious problem, I’ll be able to send it out via e-mail, but it still has to be done. I also have some work stuff I didn’t get done, putting together orders for computers for a client, so I’ll have to squeeze that in tomorrow.

Not completing all this stuff makes me disappointed in myself. In terms of school, I just had a week off because of the Labor Day holiday, and I had 2 weeks to get this work done. I just couldn’t get motivated. I usually get this stuff done in 1 week. As far as the work stuff goes, I have been attempting to get these quotes together for what seems like 6 weeks. They really need to get done.

I’ll go to bed tonight. Sleep rather peacefully, and wake in the morning with these things to do. It will all get done. It just seems that sometimes I spend lots of time trying to get stuff done, more than actually getting stuff done. Anyway, that’s my thoughts for this crazy Monday. J

I’m about to close up the computer for the day, and just thought I would spin out a quick entry.

I spoke with a good friend today. He was pretty emotional. He shared with me some troubles he is experiencing in his relationship with his wife. She wandered a little bit, and he called her on it. I listened, tried to be encouraging, and struggled to understand how this could happen to this great couple. Then I realized that all of us are close to the edge. I see it like a drive up the side of a mountain. There’s plenty of room for you to travel, but the edge is still there. For some reason, despite the more than adequate room away from the edge, many people still like to walk right along the edge. One wrong step, and it could lead to disaster. Some choose to walk along the edge, others of us are dragged there, and still others encounter things on the road that force them to the edge. We don’t want to walk there, but for some reason we must. I don’t like to walk to close to the edge, and so far in life, I haven’t had to.

For now, I’ll just keep watch. I’m looking for others, like my friend, that are walking close to the edge. I’ll try to be ready to pull them back to safety if there is a mis-step. J

It is probably strange to title the first post to a new blog with the title “The End”, but that is exactly how I see this day. The end of the month of August. It has been an awfully long month. Many good things happened this month, but it has seemed to be very long.

The summer is ending. Warm weather is ending. The pool will be closing. I’ll stop wearing short sleeve shirts to my clients. I’ll stop running my car’s air conditioning everywhere I go. Long, hot summer nights are drawing to a close for another season.

Of course, there are also many things that are beginning. School is starting. Colorful trees are coming. Football season is near. Coats will come out of hiding.

As always, with endings come beginnings. I just hope I can look at this time as the ending of something, and the beginning of much more. J