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chlorine and sunscreen July is here and I took full advantage of the summer weather today. Three glorious hours in the pool looking up at the sun and the sky was how I passed the time and I didn't feel guilty about it either. What better way is there to spend a Monday afternoon than floating around in a pool? Should I have been sitting inside an office staring at a computer screen instead? I think not. ... My niece surprised me this afternoon by asking me when I was going to get married and have some children. She wanted someone to teach how to play chess. The chess part I understood, because earlier in the day I had been trying to teach her how to play chess. Somehow she had discovered and taken an interest in my old chess set in the basement that had been lying there for years unused. Teaching her was fine by me except for the fact that she wanted to play by her rules where the knights or the horses as she liked to call them could jump around the board at will. Suddenly it was more like checkers than chess to me. Then again I don't think that she has quite the right personality to play chess. Calm thinking is not her strong point. My mom eagerly stepped in to answer the question for me by saying that I needed to get married before I had any children. Okay. Well, since I didn't go to the last party that I had been invited to last Saturday, I don't think that I'll be meeting the woman of my dreams any time soon. My social contacts are a little thin at the moment, but that might change in the future. Looking back through the journal as I do from time to time, I saw that I first met Summer last Fourth of July. Somehow I don't think that something like that is going to happen this year. That made for a memorable holiday though and I still remember every detail. I can even tell you what she was wearing when I first met her sitting slightly agitated at the computer working on a spreadsheet for her parents business. So much has happened since then. ... I'm finding it hard to believe that I've been back longer than I was away in Europe. Time really moves in strange ways for me.
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