And It Shall Begin

        After what seems like forever, I will now begin the journey that started over nine months ago in a doctors examining room with the dreadful news that my lovely Dolores had a tumor that would in very short order take her life and change our lives for all time.

        We cannot know what tomorrow holds, which is a good thing, because if we did, would we have the strength to face it? They say, there is a reason for everything, well I don’t know who the hell “They” are or why “They” seem to know so damn much! But They do! We are left to just struggle along and do the best we can as best we know how.

        If, and I say “If” with great trepidation, because so far everything that should have gone smoothly with the legal paperwork that is inevitable at times like this; has developed a glitch at every turn. Example:

I mailed three different sets of paperwork to her Human Resources Dept. in the same envelope so to reduce the possibility of becoming lost in the mail or not being routed to the same person. So guess what? That’s right, the “One” person LOST or rather MISPLACED one of the sets of paperwork and of course I didn’t become aware of this until over a week later when I received a letter from the company that handled two of the sets of paperwork that they indeed only received one set! This delayed my trip by a week at least.

        Don’t ask me why I am not allowed to deal directly with the company involved; that I am afraid would make too much sense! No my friend we live in a corporate world which requires that we do things with the bureaucratic efficiency of an Enron.

So, I hope that now everything has been done that can be done and all things shall be put to rights so that I can leave on June 1^st 2008. Barring any other unforeseen incompetence by our middle management mutton heads! I shall leave then. I will not mention the company involved because to be fair they have been so very helpful and have on occasion gone above and beyond what they are required by law to do and only at the very end was there any glitch. Of course that is what comes to mind, when like me a person’s emotions are raw and very sensitive.

        You would think that there would be a special sensitivity at play when dealing with the loss of a loved one. Perhaps a special type of person assigned to oversee the mundane process of paperwork to insure that added pain and stress would be avoided at all costs. But I guess that has nothing to do with the bottom line and therefore not a priority. How very sad.

        So stay tuned, only one week to go. By the way, I did see my Doctor yesterday and was given a clean bill of health and he was surprised that although I have for the most part just sat on my ass for the last nine months I only gained 20 pounds. What he doesn’t know is that I lost over 10 pounds the week before I saw him!

 

Ready to start!

 

The Demonmaster