We were planning on returning from North Carolina on Tuesday, the day after watching our brother fly in from his aircraft carrier following his six month tour of duty. In fact, so certain were we that he would fly in on Monday, thereby allowing us to return home Tuesday that I wrote three articles in advance of leaving for North Carolina on Sunday. These articles, let's call them exhibit's A, B, and C, were designed to give the reader the feeling that they were witnessing events as they happened. The idea was that the reader would feel as one with the author as the events of the trip to North Carolina unfolded. This, of course, required me to anticipate how the trip would go and put this anticipated story down as words. Permanent as a sharpie marker on Aunt Alice's good china tea cups.Of course, this very permanence becomes quite the author's downfall when the train of events suddenly derails. Thus, the events as foretold have suddenly ended up in a twisted heap. We are still in North Carolina - now visiting with my mother at her house in Raleigh. Our brother didn't make it in from his aircraft carrier on Monday as planned, but on Tuesday - the armed forces once again proving they use a totally different calendar system than normal mortal Americans. Today, Thursday, we are driving back to Florida from my mother's house. We plan on stopping at my grandparent's house in Jacksonville (the one in Florida) for the night before resuming our homeward trek Friday morning. The point here being that this week has pretty much been a wash for articles. I doubt there'll be a decent one until Saturday morning at best, but you're more than welcome to check in on the intervening days. Who knows what I might be inspired to write by the somewhat chaotic turn of events as they seem to be unfolding this week. I've no real idea where we'll be tomorrow - I know what we're planning, but plans don't seem to count for much on the road.
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