Monday, Monday.....

Well, sports fans the day of has arrived. It is a day that I have..... well to say dreaded would be to strong, so avoided is what we will go with.... avoided for sometime now. It is the Monday after you retire. You get up early, and I swear I did this, start to take a shower and start thinking about what you were going to do today at work. You know getting a plan together for what needed to get done, what had to get done, and what you missed last week because you took a couple of days off. Then it hit me like a ton of bricks, it was like I was dreaming, I don't have a job anymore. In a little panic, I walked out of the bathroom and there over a my bed post was the uniform that I retired in. I just stood there for a moment, ran my hands through my hair and rubbed my eyes like that was going to make things more clear. I don't know how long I stood there but I had these flashbacks of random stuff like me running up the stairs to see what my third class crow looked like on my sleeve in the mirror, me looking around at all the people at my father’s funeral, me hitting my first high school homerun. It was very weird. The last thing I remembered was me standing at the podium telling everyone what my Dad would always tell me in moments of happiness or crisis, strife and struggle, and mostly in times of boredom, he would say, “ Do you know what tomorrow is…… Just another day.” Once again my Dad is still giving me a path. As my friend Rebock would say….. easy day, easy day. So now that I have gotten over the early morning dilemma, it’s time to start the second career. I know that this time it is not going to have a cool factor or mystery about it but you what I did not ever care about that stuff anyway. My friend OSO, quoted me in her latest blog. The quote was from my retirement speech and I truly believe that it is the key to everything that is good in life. It is all about relationships. When we talk about transferable skills that is my biggest military transfer. Let’s hope everyone sees that.