Today I telecommuted because it is my day for that and because I can enjoy the preview of Spring which is just like the anticipation of opening Christmas presents while waiting for baseball in the stadium to begin.
Enjoying the outdoors exercising along the paths of the Potomac is truly beautiful and I must say that in the Palisades it escalates your feeling of safety and security so that you do not even realize you are in DC. That sense of security and rest can be pleasant but the reality and link to the real world is really not there at all. This is where I want to be today, far away from work because tomorrow will be back to the bowels.
Tomorrow is the scheduled trial date for a Defendant that has no common sense. The trial date will not proceed because he has had four different attorneys and has done everything to sabotage his own case. The trial date will end up becoming a status date, thus dragging it on for yet another season. This Defendant has sat in jail for nearly three years. He was offered a plea at the beginning where he would have been out of jail in less than six months, but instead he has chosen to go to trial and spent more than six times what he would have served on the plea before he even goes to trial. When he goes to trial he will be found guilty and he will likely spend the next 25 years in a federal prison. This is not a way for a nineteen year old to begin their adult life, but he started his behavior long before the state allows drivers' permit.
I look at my calendar and all I can do is flip forward looking at the next dates and weeks that I will be soon traveling to Spring Training. Baseball has become a way for me to get through one week to the next with something to look forward to. By the time that the regular season starts I have the entire home stand schedule memorized and adopt that as my calendar. I do not refer to weeks and dates but rather the games with names of each series. It would be Philly, The Cubs, The Mets, etc. and then I measure time with the series and that gets me through the weeks to come.
Spring Training is right around the corner and soon I will be in my own season of Christmas with every game a new present!
