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# The Weekend Eudemon
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/4876/
- Published: 2006-07-29T10:37:21.000Z
- Updated: 2006-07-29T10:37:21.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Entertainment, TWE, #wpChunk

The House that Rock Built. [The Rock-n-Roll Hall of Fame](http://rockhall.com/home/default.asp?ref=thedailyeudemon.com) in Cleveland. That's my destination this morning. My wife is the godmother of a newborn little girl. The family is in Cleveland, so we're going to make a day trip out of it and check out a few sites. I'll try to post some pictures tomorrow.

Of course, blogging will be light. It's been a rough summer, travel-wise. Every weekend except one from mid-June to mid-August requires me to travel at least three hours (one way). And the one weekend I didn't have to travel? I had out-of-town company. Combine this with a busy summer at the office, and it's a wonder I blog at all. It's a wonder I do anything. I've scarcely read anything, and I've written nothing.

At one point in my life, I read and read and read: philosophy, theology, history, literature. I grappled with Aquinas and Pascal. I bought the [54-volume Great Books series](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great%5FBooks%5Fof%5Fthe%5FWestern%5FWorld?ref=thedailyeudemon.com) and figured I would read it by age 40\. Now, all that's gone, and I'm reminded of George Santayana's poem about the scholarly life and marriage:

*I cannot part from what I prize*  
 *For all I prize is in my head;*  
 *My fancies are the fields and skies*  
 *I will not change till I am dead,*  
 *Unless indeed I lose my wits*  
 *Or (what is much the same thing) wed.*

Am I complaining? Perhaps. Am I unhappy? I don't think so. Am I resigned? For the most part, but it's a melancholy kind of resignation. Thing is, each individual event is fine: I like a family vacation, I like to attend weddings, I'm happy to make today's trip to Cleveland. I enjoy them all: individually. But grouped together, coming rapid-fire, knowing a busy Fall sports season looms? That's a different matter. In this, all the activity is like a case of beer. Each beer is a good thing, but taken together, rapid-fire? That's a different matter.