away

do you have an away message?... have you been away?... where is away, anyway?... well, i am about to embark on a bit of a vacation, a softball vacation, and i had to figure out how to put an away message in my email and on my phone and it took the better part of an hour to get that done... it was the phone that took the time because every time i recorded a message something interrupted the message during the message and that's not very professional to have an outgoing message on your phone at work that kind of rambles off on a conversation to someone else and then comes back with ok, where were we?... ah yes, i'm not here at the moment so...... i finally got the message recorded and you can hear it by calling my office and asking for me and after they say i am not in would you like to leave a voicemail, just say yes... if you say no, then you won't hear the message... yeah, so i will be away, wherever that is (dallas, in this case... i know, i wonder if anyone is warning dallas... look out dallas, and all that)... who would have thought that dallas is away?...

anyway... but seriously, where is away?... everybody always says it in some way or another... i've got to get away... i am flying to dallas on a wanna get away fare, though actually with points, not fare... and there are away games all over the place so away seems to be anywhere that isn't here (wherever here is)...

and practical phil comes through ones again... philip, philamena, philomena, philicity, philippines, what's in a name, anyway... dear phil often breaks the language down to simplicity... bringing felicity, or philicity... so many ways to get away and certainly you know by now one of my favorite is right here, or writing here, to be more precise... writing anywhere, actually... the away in my mind... so now do we ask which anywhere is away?... it's an amazing journey, getting away, but what about the train of thought?... did something get away from you?...

narf :)