Sometimes there are things that you really don't want to do but you do them anyway because they are really the right things to do.  You do them for your wife or for your family or simply because they need to be done for reasons that are higher then yourself.  Then when you do them you find that they are tolerable, even enjoyable, and often they end up being some of those life important events that give good vibes over and over again as your life continues.  Family Reunions are some of those kinds of things.  I know that they just have to be honored and I know that there is good food too, but in the end they do give back good things that can make you feel good for having gone.  Such was today.  I like to not have a schedule.  If my work presses me I like it to be without hard deadlines and always with time to be leisurely at getting the task finished, and I prefer it to be tomorrow that needs to be planned rather then today.  But life doesn't do it that way.  It has its own way, and more often then not 'it' requires my allegiance rather then me demanding 'it' to follow my needs.  Knowing that is the first part of wisdom, but accepting that is graduate work.  So today part of my life was dictated to me.  I was smart enough to go along with it, and in the end it really wasn't all that bad, in fact, it was exactly what I want when I'm seeing things the way that they really are rather then the way that I would like them to be.  Sometimes it is just better to 'go with the flow' and not try to over think things.