I remember flashes at first… It had been a long day of work. As a construction worker, my days are filled with constant physical labor. Most days I trudge home, kiss the wife on the cheek, go to shower, grab something to eat and wind down. We’ll watch some TV and chat about our day… But generally, I’m calling it quits around 930… But last Friday was different…. I had lost a drill head about four feet into some rock. We needed to get that head… We can’t drill again until we find and free it…. So we call for a mini-axe…. And after we come across the rock…. We realize there’s nothing short of a jackhammer that’s going to break up what we are stuck in. So my guys call for the jackhammer and compressor and get to it. Hours go by and to everyone’s surprise, it barely makes a dent. Chiseling away at this tiny mountain has done little more than nothing. I am frustrated… Pounding of hundreds of beats a minute into this rock has sent reverberations throughout my hands, arms, and chest.. I’m exhausted…. Finally, they bring in the big guns…. An industrial Jack head on an excavator. Finally, we pierce through. We’ve penetrated the rock and can finally work on. The day was draining though, and after it was said and done, I headed home. On the way, as always, I phoned to tell my wife I’m headed on. She’s excited as always, but I hear she’s had some wine, and company is in the background. “Great,” I think…. “She’s having a night out at home…. ” I figured this meant she’d be loud and having a time as I’m trying to sleep in the other room while her friends are chuckling at nonsense or crying again because their landlord won’t let them have a puppy… (yeah, I’ve been there for that one too many times). I pull up in the parking lot, having no memory of the drive home. I shut the ignition of the truck off, Bruno Mars is telling me to put my pinky finger to the moon…. Perhaps another night… I stand up, feeling the day’s wear on me as I awkwardly stumble to my front door. From outside I hear my wife laughing. I can’t help but smile because it’s easily my favorite sound on Earth.