Back when we lived in the real world,
I would accumulate about two weeks worth of vacation time over the year. Inevitably,
I would take a week off for vacation and people would always ask, “Where are
you going on your vacation?”
Here is a bit of advice for those that
don’t understand the plight of the poor. We don’t go on vacation. My week would
always be the same. I would get caught up on projects like cleaning out the
hall closet or emptying junk out of the garage. At least those would be my
intentions. More often than not, it ended up taking naps in the afternoon after
catching up on my DVR. I could literally go days without setting foot off my
property or seeing people. And I was perfectly okay with that.
I am not tremendously introverted or
anything but I could handle being stranded or trapped inside. Major ice storm
makes the road impassable for four days? As long as I have food and an internet
connection, it was not a problem.
Not everyone has this mindset or this
temperament. And you can definitely see it in the people that did not like
being cooped up in the store during those winter months. With the weather
warming every day, I think guys like Lance and Hunter would sleep outside if
they could. Kanen has been particularly antsy. And the only thing worse than
trapping Kanen inside a building… is being trapped inside a building with
Kanen. He is just not built for this kind of isolation.
I think part of it is youth but I
think the other part is being told that he cannot do something. Isn’t that the
case with anything “forbidden”? It makes it all the more sweeter to do it? I
may have to come up with something to occupy his time. I’ve tried taking one of
Kilo’s tennis balls and making Kanen chase it. (What was really sad is that the
first couple of times he actually did it.) But that appears to have lost its
charm as of late.
Way back when, Kanen was pretty
adamant about getting his motorcycle and his riding gear from his house which
is not far from the store. He did that and over the winter months while Kanen
has been isolated, he has been working on modifying the plastic motocross armor
to defend him in case of an attack.
Maybe I could distract him with
turning the armor into something… offensive. Hmmm… I might be on to something
there.
