FLEETING MEETING

Things that I will do in the next five days:

• Travel more than 800 miles, round trip
• Wear a tie
• Spend time with people I’d rather not spend time with
• Host a party for 20 relatives
• Dig a large ditch
• Miss my wife and children
• Order an expensive meal on the agency’s dime
• Take delivery of a new washer and dryer, temporarily
• Purchase an obscenely large cake
• Party with a woman three-quarters of a century old
• Lie to my mother
• Chase my children
• Curse, most likely

Things that I will not do in the next five days:

• Update my blog