Calvin's Weblog

Today is one of my favorite days of the year!

I wait for this day for six months, and now that it's finally here, I'm SO excited! Today is the day that marks all the good stuff to come over the next six months. True, it doesn't always fall on February 10th, in fact, it came a week earlier this year!
So what am I so happy about? Well, today was the first day that, at 6:34AM as I left for work, I could see the crimson glow of sunrise peeking out from behind the eastern mountain range, with clear blue skies above. Stary blackness still loomed to the west, but in the east came the first glimpse of that six month old promise of longer days, warmer weather, shorts, beaches, sunglasses, BBQs, gardens and cervesas! (okay, okay, the cervesa is a year-round thing...)

It was truely a great way to start the day. Especially since two hours after seeing that sunrise, I'd be in a surgeon's office, waiting to hear when is the soonest I can have my gallbladder removed. As it turns out, after this seven month long wait to see the surgeon, he's totally free in March, and I had my choice of dates. I figured I'd wait until after my birthday and the Easter holiday, so I'm now finally booked for March 31! What a relief. So, barring any unforseen bumpings, it looks like that date's solid. I'll start April as a new and improved Calvin.