Without Children

The house is so quiet. I made Flank steaks for dinner at 5:30. By 6:30 we were upstairs in bed reading books. Tom is reading an Austrian Political Economist. He has been studying his work for months now. Ludwig Von Mises was a prolific writer and quite interesting. Tom has been plowing through these 600 page text books with the TV on Bloomberg watching the world news. He loves to multi task.

When he plays poker on line, sometimes he will play more than one table at a time. I have seen him play three tables at once. In tournaments though he can only do one table at a time. He has been consistently a top 100 finisher out of fields 1400. He is practicing for his dream of participating in one of those million dollar pots. It is fun entertainment and often it is only at fake play money sights, though he says they don't bet the same with play money as the real sights. He has set himself an allowance for the gaming which works for both of us, but I still like the nights when he picks up a book rather than the computer.

As Tom reads , he quotes the author to me when something really interesting appears in the text. We may discuss the concept. Well, he'll talk about it and I'll listen mostly. Since I don't have my nose in an economic text book, it is a little harder for me to contribute to the conversation. Thank goodness for my economics degree over 20 years ago or I wouldn't be able to converse at all. I am slogging through a another book he gave me to read. A small treatise on the gold standard. I'll read some then put it down for something else that is a little more fun.

I just started the new book "The Girl who kicked the hornets nest" I had ordered it from Barns and Noble to be sent as soon as it went to press. that was back in May. I was so excited to get it then it has taken this long to open the book. It is the third and last book in a series. It drops me right back into the characters lives as I had left them when book two ended. Escapism at its best. I do need to get through it because I have many family who are reading the series, but I am the only one with book three. I was the only one willing to pay hard bound price for the third book when it came out. So I have to get through it so I can share it. I think we might bring it with us on our trip. Tom read one and two also.

Tom is an avid reader. It is one of the things I find attractive about him. We sit and read our respective books. This night the house is so quiet otherwise, I wonder if the TV is on just to make noise. Usually it is going so Trevor can't hear us clearly. In the next room, the walls are uninsulated, he tells us he can hear everything we do, and don't we think it might cause him development issues? I hear my alarm go off on my cell phone downstairs. It's the reminder that Riley needs to take his 9:00 pills before bed. We get to ignore it tonight.

We are getting so old, at 9:30 Tom turns the TV off with the remote and rolls over to sleep. I remember when it was normal to stay up past 11:00 pm. We still do sometimes, but Tom gets up at 5:00 am every day for work. As Tom reaches for his bed side light to turn it off, Tom asks me if I am worried. My response is to say that I know there is a Doctor on sight, and multiple nurses. I have met the doctor who is attending the camp, in one of our clinic visits. I am confident that Riley is in good hands turn off my light and sleep. Not keeping one ear open for the children, I sleep soundly for once.