I have settled into a routine. One week with the kids as a single parent, but no work. One week working 10.5 hr days.
I cycle to work with my 5+ year old bike a couple times a week on average. Work is steady, and secure. For now.
Drivers and passengers pretty much ignore me now. The wide open 6 mile commute gives everyone way more space than the old shoulder-to-shoulder, traffic-signal-saturated confines of Pulteney St to Denison Pkwy. No one is frustrated enough to roll a window down and yell or throw things at me.
Money is good. Favorable divorce judgement is the big factor there.
I work out like a fiend. 5 days a week. Weights. Rowing. Swimming. Keeps me sane in an insane world which seems bent on destroying what's left of our natural resources for personal pleasure and consumption.
Keeping away from women now. From what I see it is highly unlikely I can find someone who'll put up with me and I, her, for the long term.
I enjoy the interactions with my kids. Just completed a vacation to Virginia Beach - Busch Gardens - Chincoteague Island. It had its ups and downs. Saw old friends and relatives on the way.
Summer was dry until mid August, then the floodgates opened. What was looking to be a meager harvest turned suddenly bountiful. I have more vegetables than I can handle now! Plants did a wonderful job bouncing back and overcoming adverse conditions.
I need to follow the plants' example.
