Zeus' Palatial Blog

The weekend is winding down and I’m looking into the coming week while reflecting over the last couple of busy days.

Hera’s BBQ went off without a hitch and everyone had a good time (kids and adults alike). The weather cooperated for the most part though we did move things inside as the weather cooled off in the evening.

I actually got around to doing some household renovations this weekend as well. New doors, new kitchen accessories (Hera picked them out), paint, and drywalling kept me busy throughout Sunday. Thankfully it’s all done and looking quite good - at least Hera is satisfied with the results. I’m still in for a bunch more updating and renovations though, which means it is time for my wife to stop watching the renovations shows on television. Apparently we “need” new counter tops, new paint and carpet in the rec room, and the carpet upstairs exchanged for hardwood. I’m glad she has such lofty goals now we’ll just have to see if that money tree I planted sprouts….

This week promises to be about standard for me with the boys in school, Hera working, and me running my business like usual. I have loads of psi to accomplish this week coming as well, but that is about standard issue as well. I’m sure there will be a couple alarms I haven’t scheduled in yet as there always is - still the big hiccups don’t happen until next week.

After a very very busy weekend of dashing around with the family while saving the world I’m glad to see a new week begin. I usually get some down time during work hours where I don’t have to do anything except work (or in this case blog) and it’s a nice change from the hectic order that is my life. I’m also looking forward to sleeping tonight since that’s what I have all planned out already. I keep telling myself I like to sleep so I can procure dreams for the Dream Course, but it may just be that I’m getting older.

Speaking of getting older I was at the Doctor’s and am apparently as healthy as can be expected for a person of my age. A vampire would have been ecstatic with the amount of blood that was pumped from my body to run tests on. I believe that they’ve discovered that my blood is red when exposed to oxygen - I’m thrilled by this discovery. There are still more tests to run, but apparently we have to allow six weeks between them for some crazy reason. I’m guessing that they want more blood for the vampire blood bank - yay for the commonality of my blood type.

I’ve been amassing dreams and thanks to everyone’s contributions I have 10 pages of dreams (seven actual dreams) at this point for this week that I am busy interpreting. Nesjamag seems to be really getting into the interpretations, which is awesome and others are jumping on board as well. I’m still hoping to run things for at least another week and maybe two just to create a massive example interpretation database of dreams. When the course is finished I believe I will move its content over to the main Palatium site to be included in the archives and also create a PDF of the entire course for people to download and use. Doing all of that will free up space for Sven and Nes to begin their course in the Circle.

Having fallen seriously behind on a program that I need to finish I’ve decided to recreate my work schedule to make it more conducive to finishing up the software within a reasonable time frame. This is the *big* system that will see good stuff for my company in the future, but future money unfortunately doesn’t pay the bills right now, so I’ve been forced to balance out my time carefully with it. I have no doubt I’ll get it finished and play it out as it should be — just takes time.

As Hera (my wife) is packing for her week away training for her new Ministry position I’m making sure I have my ducks in a row as far as my upcoming week is concerned. Usually I would be in charge of parenting only 3/4 of the time during any given week, but because of Hera being away I’ve had to make some slight changes in my schedules. I am looking forward to Hera’s new position which is much closer to home and will more evenly distribute parenting time, which will translate into less “uber” scheduling for me. Though I tend to have the boys more in any given week than Hera does we always ensure that she can take them to “special” things that I specifically avoid just so the boys and her have their own fun stuff to do together. To give you an idea I don’t take the boys out to eat. Hera on the other hand will get them fast food once a week for lunch as a treat. Finding the balance in family isn’t easy, but then again it isn’t easy with energy either. And as I’ve quoted before, “Nothing worth doing right is ever easy.”

The more I use this blog and reveal more about myself the more questions I’ve had flood into my e-mail. A recurring questions seems to wonder how I have time to accomplish my “psi appointments” if I’m always attempting to be available for family. The answer is quite simply usually. Since there is a group that looks after all of our “psi appointments” there are many that do not have children, or that are single. We schedule as best we can to make sure the non-children people are available for the hours when people like me would normally be having family time. The majority of my open schedule is during school hours, or after the boys are in bed. I can have someone stay at the house without issue once the boys are sleeping. Everyone remains happy since most single people would rather not be tied up for their nights and most family people would rather be available for their families during the day. Oh, that looks like balance too doesn’t it.

There must be some underlying message in today’s post regarding balance in life. I wonder if it’s important?

Sorry for the length of time between updates, but I filled my spare time with doing tours at the farm instead of working and playing on computers for the past few days. We had a record number of people show for the Maple Syrup Festival up due to the beautiful weather and thanks to the great commitment by the family we pulled through it with spectacular effectiveness. After talking non-stop for six hours on Saturday and almost eight hours on Sunday you’d think that my voice would be gone, but thanks to the wonders of psi that just doesn’t happen to be the case. There’s another useful feature of psi in everyday life.

The first interpretation classes for the Dream Course are coming this Wednesday and I’m looking forward to seeing people open up about their dreams and the interpretation of the same.

Other than lots of fresh air nothing overly new to report. I’ve been taking the time out at the farm to Dr. Doolittle with the animals since that isn’t a skill I can work on all the time.

I do have some fun things in the wings and will report on those as they come to fruition this week and next.