It’s time again…let’s put on our thinking caps and enjoy,
shall we?
1) I think I never get enough time at the lake. I had waaaaay too much fun this trip, made
more enjoyable by good friends, my awesome Little Danger and Wifefish, good
food, and good booze.
I also picked up a pair of these bad boys: http://www.darkfingloves.com/ For those who are too lazy to click, let
suffice the description of a pair of webbed gloves. Coupled with a short pair of foot fins, I
zipped around the lake like an otter on meth. The gloves are slender enough
that you can still open a can of Samuel Adams with ease, put it in a coozie,
and slurp away to your heart’s content.
You can even do it 12 times in a row.
If, by chance, you felt the need to do so.
2) I think I’m pleased as punch about the new career. It’s official now, Wifefish and I bought out
the business. We are officially business
owners. That’s both exhilarating and a
bit frightening, but mostly the first one.
I’ve been involved in the tax industry for years and years
and years, but now I get to put all that knowledge and all my curiosity to work
for clients of my very own. I’ll be
transitioning to a full time be-my-own-boss in January, and I’m looking forward
to it like a beaver on the way to a tree farm.
3) I think I’m enjoying the living history aspect of Pioneer
Village. Yes, we’ve made more progress on the cabin
from 1797, but beyond that I’ve been learning some new skills.
I got to work in the Smithy last time around, as did Little
Danger. I just worked the bellows for
the blacksmith as he made some nails and such, but still, I got to learn
something I didn’t know. I’ll be making
a point to get in there and learn every chance I get, because let’s face it…hot
steel is awesome.
Granted, our last foray out there for a museum event was as
muggy as Satan’s jock strap, and a wasp used my neck as a bull’s eye for a
loaded butt bombing run. I may have made
a noise akin to a mule having a surprise prostate exam. Ah, the life of a pioneer has hardships, my
friends.
4) I think I truly
understand the nature of ambivalence. I’m
at a point again with the Game where I am tired of it. Events are awesome, I see great things,
participate in wonderful theatre, get exercise, and just generally have fun.
Between events, though, I get to deal with crap. Complaints.
Bitching. Requests for special
attention that would require me taking time away from career and family to sit
down with players and mediate whatever dispute may be on their minds. At least one person just stirring the shit
pot trying to get a rise out of someone else, using me to do it.
I’m not amused. I
find myself again looking at the calendar and wondering if running this thing
is worth all the crap I put up with. Game
day, the answer is yes. Today, the answer
is no.
5) I think it’s time for another kid brag. Little Danger got bumped out of his swim
class…not for being bad, but because they wanted him to swim in the next age
bracket. Good swimmer, that one, and he’s
just done the width of the pool with no flotation device.
I am truly in love with the way parenthood makes little
milestones extraordinary. You may recall
my thoughts on bad dads some time ago, wherein I said my job is to lift him up,
to raise him above me. This is one such
milestone…I didn’t learn to swim until high school. He’s already able to tow me around in a
rescue swim.
You see, last lake trip, I noticed he was moving around
pretty darn well, so I decided about 5 boat lengths away from the pontoon to
just stop and ask him to take me back to the boat. We were both wearing jackets, because lake=85
feet deep, but he managed to haul me back in toot de suite in a nearly perfect
rescue swim.
Wifefish and I make it a habit not to tell him he can’t do
things.
Well, those are my thoughts for today...some good, some bad, all mine. What do YOU think?
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