Work & Family Life

“Masturbation is the thinking man’s television.”
-as heard during the
On-Broadway show
starring Matthew Broderick,
“The Philanthropist”

Yesterday, I was reading a book and I read the line 'family life could be overrated'. Coincidentally, over the weekend a retired Miami Beach, Florida City employee, named Hank, said, "Work is overrated".

In my opinion, it is 'family life' and 'work' that allow for growth, production, new minds, new ventures and the progressive changes this world needs to continue for the better.

Never discount 'family life' or 'work life' as it benefits the globe. It is all connected in more ways that you can begin to know.

Twenty-five years ago today:

July 2, 1984
Monday

It was so busy at work today! I had breakfast with Ben Nunley. I telephoned Salima at home because she did not make it to work. There was no answer.

I popped over at Emporium-Capwell’s department store with Tony and Helen and bought two pairs of ZODIAC brand boots.
After work, my brothers (Tony and John) and I went to Sherri’s Dad’s house to get Sherri’s piano. It was a bit of a work out, lifting a piano. And I had just helped John move his mattress and desk from my place on Solomon Lane. I was exhausted.

I hate to say it but I enjoyed another meal at moms’: homemade hamburgers. I lounged there for a while watching Dad get high from a bottle of red wine.
“I want you to know that you don’t owe me a red cent and that everything that is mine is yours,” Dad said in-between sips of his red wine. He went on and on. I guess the wine was giving him a very positive outlook on life. It was kind of funny but his words made me feel good.

I started to wonder if I was missing any phone calls from ‘God knows who’. I decided to walk on home. I showered (in a 'thinking man's kind of way') and was realizing that I did not have one phone call since I had returned. It is now 9:30PM and I think it’s time to go to bed early. So, that is what I will do. Yawn.