{"id":167,"date":"2010-10-24T22:58:35","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T03:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrisgiles.org\/blog\/?p=167"},"modified":"2010-10-24T23:28:47","modified_gmt":"2010-10-25T04:28:47","slug":"five-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisgiles.org\/blog\/2010\/10\/24\/five-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Months"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been five months since that stupid, stupid girl failed to yield the right of way, turning right in front of my brother on his motorcycle.\u00a0 I was playing softball with my Texas Exes team in Austin that night…\u00a0 I didn’t have a proper conversation with him.<\/p>\n

<Monday>
\n(2010\/05\/24 13:16) Chris Giles (M):<\/strong> Good Greenwald<\/a> article today.
\n(2010\/05\/24 19:51) Chris Giles (M):<\/strong> Let’s go into business.
\n(2010\/05\/24 19:51) Chris Giles (M):<\/strong> IT consultant shop.
\n(2010\/05\/24 19:52) Chris Giles (M):<\/strong> Software development, something.(2010\/05\/24 19:52) Robert Giles:<\/strong> Softball!
\n(2010\/05\/24 19:52) Chris Giles (M):<\/strong> Haha. Good luck. I just got back from cages – brooo-tooo-tooo!
\n(2010\/05\/24 20:40) Chris Giles (M):<\/strong> What’s your Starbucks wifi login?
\n(2010\/05\/24 20:40) Chris Giles (M):<\/strong> \ud83d\ude42
\n(2010\/05\/24 20:40) Robert Giles:<\/strong> Only works with coffee card (free at counter)<\/p>\n

<Tuesday>
\n(2010\/05\/25 11:49) Robert Giles:<\/strong> Dude where are you?
\n(2010\/05\/25 11:52) Robert Giles:<\/strong> Cliff said you didn’t show up to work today<\/p>\n

“They say you can’t relive the past, but as the lights went down, it all came rushing back.” (Propagandhi – “The Banger’s Embrace”)<\/p>\n

When I went to pick up Chris’s property at San Antonio’s University Hospital on Tuesday afternoon, there was a brand-new, never-used Starbucks card in his wallet.<\/p>\n

There was a big blue “Wilson” bag with his<\/em> softball gear, sitting smack in the middle of the living room floor when we unlocked his apartment late that night.\u00a0 Chris had indeed come back from the batting cages, thrown the softball gear down, grabbed the laptop bag and his helmet, and headed out to the coffee shop on his Sportster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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