After reading th epost about being alone I thought Id post this. This is something I wrote a while back in the darker days to my web site

Alone

Living alone is the same for all

An absolute with no adornment.

Listening to the crescendo of silence

We flee to work or play

Circuit the routine of the day.

Deadly dull

When night comes

Keep the demons at bay.

Prepare the food

The drink

The music

And retire to think.

Shall we listen to our divided selves

The metronome of all our fears?

Can we denigrate that intrusive voice

Beating in our ears

Marking time in limbo

We revise things gone.

How we loved

But didn't.

What we

Yay! STBx showed her self online ... hurrah :-)!!

Now ... I wonder how that stands with the harassment order?!

Now we are all lined up for our weekend away. A nice break in London and to take in a show.

I will admit that this week while shopping I found myself saying "we best start booking somewhere for Christmas dinner" to be met with "but you agreed, we're going to my parents, my mum's already ordered the poultry .."

I hadn't forgotten, I'd just slipped in to automatic where it comes to

This weekend was not what I expected, nor was the outcome of the events that followed.

There is good news and bad news...then more good news.

I dropped off my son at his daycare Friday morning and headed off to Las Vegas for a job interview I've been anticipating for a couple of weeks. My x2b was going to pick up my son and I had expected that she would not be alone, so I warned the teachers at the daycare so they would not be surprised. My suspicions were accurate.

My wife told me of her plans to take my son to Disneyland over the weekend, and I thought that was fine. Better,