The First Day Of The Beginning Of The End

Today the end begins! 

"Ends?", you ask, "what ends?"  My sanity?  A fair guess, my sanity has slowly been eroding for years.  It's not a stretch to believe that the current job has finally scraped away what little sanity I do have.  No, not my sanity.

The end of the world?  No silly, everyone knows that doesn't happen until next year and by all accounts survivours spend a lot of time outracing shockwaves and tsunami's.  No, the world isn't ending......not yet.

The end that I am referring to is the end of my elongated tour of work.  I am officially at the halfway point.  From today forward, the number of days start to get smaller.  When I volunteered for this longer tour, I had no idea how it was going to affect me.  I can say with 100% certainty, six months is far too long.  During my most recent week off one thought kept recurring; if I were working a normal rotation, I wouldn't have had to fly back to my "home" away from home.

I have arrived safely back to my work home.  So far, not much has changed.  Not much to do but watch some T.V. and get high.  The weather is a little warmer, the roads a little muddier and my eyes are still open for the Scumbag Dealer.  I'll see him again, I'm sure.  In the meantime, I have come to terms with the current job and how it sits.  They have once again said "It's going to get real busy now".  Pardon me for saying but "I'll believe that when I see it".

I should also ask Constant Reader, to keep you're eyes glued to the news for a middle aged technician going crazy in his condo, glued to his chair in front of his laptop, most likely publishing a blog post.  The screen filled with:

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