Reach

It was a nice relaxing day, a little humid but overall a nice day. I'm winding down at the end of the day, reading a book, writing in my journal, those kinds of things. I decided to go back and read over the last 10 years of my journal entries for today's date. There were a lot of interesting and mundane things that happened today in my life over the last 10 years.

The most interesting day was June 28, 2005. It was a Tuesday. I was slightly hung over. I had a lot going on at this point in my life. My dad had died 2 months ago. I was stressed out about a ex that I had just broken up with earlier in the month. I had almost wrecked my car a week and a half ago ( a precursor to totaling it another 9 months from now). A few days ago I returned from a week long business trip in Chicago. Today they operated on Frank to remove the cancer from his pancreas but found that it had spread to his liver.

At the time Randy & I were hanging out at Applebees. He had stuff to do that day at home so after work I went over with Denny. We had a good talk & hung out for a while but he always left right at 5pm. At 6:30 my Russian friend, Kare'n stopped over. He always had some off the wall wisdom. Coming from a communist country he saw things very differently than I did, but he always made so much sense and would see everything in a completely different light than I ever did. We would drink shots of vodka with a lime while he would chain smoke and dispense Eastern European wisdom. Kare'n told me he had something for me. He said "Time heals all wounds, & maybe this will help you to remember that." Then he handed me a black box. It had a Russian made wrist watch in it. Very cool.

Later in the evening I also made a new friend, Sean. We have a lot in common. Military, Astronomy, & the same political views, we both even drink captain & coke. He had met Kare'n the week before and we hit it off. I love meeting random interesting people in bars. He said he had a book he wanted to give me. He ran home and got it. The book is called Reach, by Edward Gibson, he was a former astronaut. Sean even wrote a little wisdom inside the book for me.
Scott,
no matter where you are, or how far you've gone, you should always be reaching for whats next.