Last Drop Off and Pick up for Kindergarten

So today is the last Thursday of the school year. And if I'm sounding like I'm being melodramatic about it, it's because it is the last time I'm dropping Johnnie off to school for kindergarten. The next time I drop him off to school he'll be a first-grader. The memory I have of today's drop-off was that on the line to check in there were only parents. All the kids had run off and started playing with each other in the yard. Now THAT is as normal as it gets. So Johnnie checked in and that was that. There's still tomorrow of course but that's Lisa's watch and I'm hoping it is uncharacteristically uneventful unlike last week. Really that isn't up to me so I just shrugged off those intruding thoughts and went back to focusing on today. It's a busy day after all. I have 3 back-to-back-to-back meetings and then after lunch I committed to playing golf with Scott and friend(s) at Penmar. I was looking forward to that actually since I hadn't played in the middle of the week in many months! Still I had to do my IS Team Meeting first, then my one-on-one with Dennis which lasted all of 15 minutes and then the OCHIN Strategy meetings one of many that weaves everything going on with OCHIN into a presentation. Which only meant that I hadn't heard anything new really. Still it was close to 11 AM when I got done. Just time enough to take the dog out for her walk. After all, I was going to leave her alone for a few hours later. I wolfed down my lunch, headed to Penmar and already I felt gratitude that I'm here in the middle of the week playing golf on a beautiful warm day. I knew Scott obviously but none of the other 3 players and that's always good in that there's no stale old jokes. Just a bunch of guys enjoying golf outside. As far as the actual play, I would say that I was my unfocused self. Which is to say I was my inconsistent self. I started with a bogey. Then a bomb off the tee on Hole 2 and Hole 4. But followed those up with nasty whiffs from the fairway straight ahead of the pin. Cost me pars actually. Still it wasn't like I played terribly. I just didn't play well enough to be satisfied with my game today. I know I could have played better. Much better. Anyway I didn't even last 9 holes. It was 3 PM by the time we got done with Hole 8. And so I took off early to pick up Johnnie. Besides I had left Claire alone since noon by this time. 

As far as Johnnie went he was his usual playful self when I picked him up. It's like all the counselors knew who he was. I think he was trying to give them presents of stuff he had drawn (just like what he gives his mom) to remember him by. That's my little guy. By this time, I was tired. After all I had played golf and barely ate lunch. He wolfed down penne pasta chicken broth and I snacked on chips. He was sweaty and it was clear he had run around a lot all afternoon. Dad and son now needing to chill the rest of the day LOL. And then there's the hand-off with Lisa. Apparently Lisa had come earlier than usual. As in earliest ever. She claimed she had called from outside my apartment at 5:30. We were in Panda Express Westwood at the time getting our food for dinner. She had apparently gone home to play the piano and came back by 7:30.  Hey that worked for me too. Johnnie did not have any time to clean up and I didn't feel like it when he left. I was already close to 11000 steps because of the golf and so I didn't do much more exercise. What did I do? Chill on the couch. Let the day go by. Hey I got to play golf today. Any day I get to do that is already a good day.  And I imagined doing that a lot more when I no longer have to work... not work for anyone that is. Hey those guys I played with today weren't retired? Ok maybe 2 of them... I don't consider Scott retired. Still all well and good. I'm ready for the weekend already LOL.