I'm combining the power of jet lag with my introverted tendencies and here I am after sleeping earlier today going counter the popular schedule so I can be afforded the chance to think some. Did medical screenings all day. Getting up to come down to the day room I saw several of my brothers in arms inspecting the toilet from various angles after much celebration....personally, I'm not a proponent of the sport.

We could count down our homecoming now in hours if we wanted. I was telling someone today that as dysfunctional as they are these people have all been our family for more than a year in situations where you're life was literally in the hands of the other guy. On Monday we'll all go our separate ways...very strange feeling.


So many of us are so anxious to move from this extraordinary event in our lives back to the ordinary sadly...I say resist that urge. This year meant a lot of different things to a lot of different people...for me perhaps more of an awakening. I see the world differently...myself differently....and people that I used to know differently. Sometimes we're lucky when things go awry from our expectations. I will only comment on my personal affairs to people who ask me directly. I am feeling good about this disaster of sorts and just sorry that so many people whose opinion I respect will let their personal allegiances serve as a substitute for the truth. But hey...as a dear friend of mine said recently and I think I subscribe to....karma is sometimes not so mild a mistress.