Another day of woe

Wednesday, May 16, 2007. Today started poorly. I woke up at around 4:00 o'clock a.m. and went upstairs. I finally fell back asleep for an hour or so. When I came downstairs and let Tex out, Cindy was in a cheerful mood but wanted to ask me a bunch of questions. Unfortunately, I was not in the mood for questions, so it didn't go well between us. We had a little tiff but make up before I left.

I went into the office and overstayed before I left to go to the hearing in Warner Robins. I had hoped I would be able continue the hearing, but when the hearing officer/judge arrived, I spoke with him and he called for an officer from Robins Air Force Base. There not being anyone from Robins present, he dismissed the administrative suspension of my client's driver's license. I am still working trying to make my client understand the difference between the administrative suspension process and the prosecution of the two criminal charges in Federal District Court. Everytime I think I'm getting close to explaining it to him, he asks a question and seems to be back where we started. Anyway, he understood that what this hearing meant was that they were not going to suspend his driver's license. That made him happy.

I stopped on the way back to Griffin and put some cheap (Hah!) gas in the car and bought a sandwich and a drink for lunch. I then continued on to Griffin and waited for Kate to come downstairs. She drove me to Griffin Tech where I took Cindy's car and she drove on to Fayetteville to return a dress and supposedly buy me a Father's Day present. When I spoke with Cindy later she asked me why Kate was driving to Fayetteville for that. I told her and she asked why she was buying me a Father's Day present and hadn't bought her a Mother's Day present which, of course, was last Sunday. I had no response to give.

When I got to the office, it was time for Mrs. Kennedy to come to see me and bring a cashier's check for $10,000.00 for her closing. Of course, I am still waiting on her visit. I called her place of business and they told me she had left to go see her attorney. I assume they are referring to me. Hope springs eternal, etc.

Well, I got two new title requests and one closing was set up for Friday. I will travel to Clayton County tomorrow after Court in Lamar County to do one of the titles and hopefully return in the afternoon to do the title in Spalding County. This is all to the good.

My calendar says that today is Rogation Wednesday, which apparently was a day in Saxon times when the village elders took the children out to mark the boundaries of the homeplaces and lands. The elders apparently used this "holiday" as an excuse to get inebriated and abuse the children. Sounds like a whole lot of fun. In Scotland they call this "riding the marches."

Well as much as I would like to take Kate out and walk around the boundaries of our homeplace and pour water on her whenever we got to a boundary or landmark, there are way too many trees to do it effectively and I just don't have the energy to want to do it. I am sure Kate would agree with that as a concept.

The fun we had in old days has long gone past and we just don't have as much of it as we used to.