Hi Gabriel:

Thanks for checkin in. Why am I not posting on my thread? I dont know. I am exhausted mentally and little physically and I have had a couple curve balls to dodge for the past week and a lot of deadlines at work that I am laboring through. I NEED A VACATION. And heaven knows I am sick of taking vacations on my own or with D3. I have done this for the past two years (since D3 was D1). Not much of a vacation, when you are changing diapers 10 times a day, huh? (Obvious disclaimer- D3 is the light of my life, but you know what I mean, I just want to at least have a warm body next to me when I am catching a Seinfeld rerun or watching the Daily Show). Well, I am just very tired right now but I know this too will pass. The training for the marathon is good, it fills my lonely times, gets me outside for long periods of time, and gets me to sleep instantly when I hit the sack. But it also takes a toll on my energy level for other things. So, that is where I am, just exhausted. I am going to be at a meeting in Boston for a few days. Still work, but maybe getting away from here will make my spirits rebound. I have been in these low energy periods many times during the last two years and something or other comes along and jogs me out of it, so I guess I will just go with the flow.

My WAW and I are getting along fine. I see some baby steps but I am not going to react to them with too much hope or enthusiasm or raise my expectations. I have been there many times before and every time I have expectations and do a "what gives" talk, she does a quick draw of the D guns. Sort of like that standoff between James Coburn and the drunken dude in my second favorite Western (The Mag. 7). First favorite Western - The Good, Bad and the Ugly. Love the music, love Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef (boy, were they good!). Anyhoo, I digress......

Yeah, I guess, as this post indicates, I am just tired and drifting. Actually I notice that many of us on this forum that I am keeping track of are sort of drifting and off course lately - Bruce, Kevin, me, Wes, dejavu, Gabe, Jo. All of us are off-equilibrium right now it seems like. Or maybe I am just projecting my own sense of desultoriness on everybody. Bah, I am too tired even to look for appropriate emoticons (Oops, wrong choice).

UD

The 3 laws of DBing: 1. PMA is critical to DBing. 2. Since drop in WAW's PMA leads to drop in LBS's PMA and vice-versa detachment is critical. 3. Validate to raise WAW's PMA and GAL to raise LBS's.