In-Between Days

I'm gonna start this blog post with a little bit of trivia about the calendar that you may or may not already know. 

If you look at the names of two of the last few months of the year you'll notice there's some issue with their names. The 10th month begins with "Oct", which means "eight" as in octopus or octagon.  The 12th month starts with "Dec" with means ten as in decade. 

Why are the numbers in these month 2 off? Well, thank the Romans. They took the Greek calendar and added two months in honor of their most popular emperors, Julius Cesar and August Cesar. That's why we have July and August. Now you know. On with today's post.  

The month of August is a transitional month for us near Nashville. Here in the south the school year starts in the first week of August.

Then there are all the residual community changes that go along with the return to class as well. Public pools and amusement parks only open on weekends or close all together. Libraries change their hours and businesses near the college campus come back to life. Of course, the biggest factor is slower traffic due to school buses and speed zones. 

Several members of my family both here in Kentucky, and in Pennsylvania, celebrate birthdays in August. Also, sadly, there are days that we honor the memory of some family members we said "good-bye" in years past.

Where I grew up, August was always the month that the weather began to change. Fall weather previews would come through during the last half of the month. Not so here in Kentucky, summer continues well into October. 

But the 8th month of 2019 has just started so I'm going to share with you what the first week was like for me.

Not a very note worthy week around here. I spent most of the time at home. When I did go out it was to do your "normal" everyday things like: grocery shopping, dropping off mail at the USPS, returning something to Sam's Club, you know stuff like that. 

I did take Monday afternoon to go to Nashville to buy a new jacket to wear in the Soky's Got Talent finals. I'll be showing you that soon. Other than the clothes shopping and a stop at Target store it was an relatively uneventful trip. 

Here at home, my days were filled with mostly everyday tasks: putting the house back in order after the grand children's weekend visit, loading the dishwasher, laundry, filing and shredding bills, statements and other paperwork, ect.  

The residual happiness from advancing in the talent show over the weekend was also part of my week. I got plenty of "congrats" and encouraging words on social media. I thank everyone for those. I have already prepared a couple of new jokes for the final round coming up in about 2 weeks. 

Right now, and until then, I find myself looking back at my best public performance in 5 years and looking forward to giving even better example of what Cecil and I do, in the finals. 

In the middle of that waiting is a long weekend trip for my wife's business. It has the potential to, not only help her grow and succeed as a Color Street stylist, but could effect the way we travel far distances in the future. 

I know that last part is a little cryptic but I promise to share the details once we get back. 

My point in mentioning all of that is this. It's difficult for me do anything but look ahead. I'm kind of like a kid at Christmas time. I'm counting the number of "sleeps" until we leave for our trip and the night of the SOKY's GT finals.  

Because we are all encouraged, especially on social media, to make the most of each day, I must assure you, I am not just sitting around watching the calendar. 

In addition to the things I listed earlier, I am working on some of my hobbies: building Lego sets, organizing and cataloging my music library, getting back to recording my "Rewind" shows. 

Also, I've been enjoying the latest season of NBC's America's Got Talent and the amazing season the New York Yankees are having. At this point I don't have any idea just what the results of either are going to be. But its really fun going along for the ride. 

Now I know, just like an episode of "Seinfeld" this post has mostly been about "nothing". But it really does paint an accurate picture of what these first few days of August have been like for this "Yankee". 

Thanks for being a faithful reader of my blog. While life for me is in a bit of a holding pattern in just a few days I'll have plenty to write about and share with you. Till then I'll just get through the "in-between" days.