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Good-Bye, Summer ’09

Last year, summer was a blur.  This year, summer was an epic journey filled with adventure, tragedy, comedy and Kodak moments.

Someone - a very nice young single person - was complaining about how quickly the time passed during her summer off.  She's a teacher...has some months of time that do not require her to be at the job.  I told her at that point 'time passes - all you can do is fill it up with good things'.  I can barely recall Memorial Day Weekend - it seems like it happened 10 years ago.  If I were to write a "How I Spent My Summer" essay - it'd have to include some of the following moments:

• Seeing the Jeep totaled and just being grateful that The Lady and Little Man were okay
• Driving a Hummer H3 around for a few weeks - now I know not to buy one.
• Spraining my ankle in June
• Taking Little Man camping
• Playing basketball almost every Sunday - I've never played basketball before and until now was never much of a fan.
• Bonfire on the beach
• The California State Fair
• Night shooting with the new SteadyCam
• The Annual Convention in San Francisco
• Little Man and the Fire Station
• Little Man and the steam train
• Little Man and the real train
• The Fremont Art and Wine Festival
• The Niles Antique Fair

It's been said that I like to be busy and yes, it's true - I like to be busy.  Because of that, I can look back with appreciation on the past summer and not with regret.  When you get older, it's too easy to be focused on the details of life and lose decades of time in caring for the chores, the errands, the tasks and the projects.  I can't say that I did everything right but I enjoyed this summer far more than the last one.

Now it's time to plan how we will spend our fall.