A Pleasant Evening...

Saturday was a good day. We slept late, then got up for a leisurely early afternoon spent running errands and packing. I went by the U-Haul place to reserve a truck and to get some boxes, furniture storage covers, etc. Afterwards, I stopped by Caplan's Men's Store (my college employer) to chat with some of the nice folks there. I spent an hour talking politics and such with the guys and got a good deal on a couple of shirts. I'm going to miss those people.

By the time I got home, my wife was cooking supper for some friends of ours who were coming over. They've been some of our best friends here, and while I hate to leave them, they plan to get married and move to California in the next few years, anyway. We ate my wife's delicious crawfish pasta, enjoyed some Sicilian red wine, and had some great conversation. After talking a little while together, my friend and I went out to the front porch for cognac and cigars. The weather outside was extremely nice and somewhat cool - quite unusual for Louisiana in May. I told my friend that I was going to miss sitting on my porch - I haven't done it nearly enough. It'll probably be awhile before I have a front porch that cool again, but it will happen in due time. It's nights like these that will give me fond memories of living in Central Louisiana. My time here has been good, but at the same time, I wouldn't be caught dead working in this school system another year.