After the crazy birthday last year ($1,000 worth of stuff and my passport stolen) I promised myself that future birthdays wouldn’t be spent at foreign police stations. So far it is a success. But in an hour my flight departs for Shanghai which will cut my birthday short by crossing the International Date Line.
The mountains were beautiful on my flight from Petersburg to Juneau. I’ll soon be on a flight to Seattle where i’ll be renewing my Aquatic Facility Operator certification. On the 6th I head to Shanghai!
On Friday we had our "guy’s lunch out" and somehow I mentioned the ping pong table at work. Within hours there was a battle in the activity room. For almost 3 hours Seth went undefeated. He took it easy on me as I learned the game.
Way back on the 9th I went to the homecoming games. I spent 7 hours sitting on the bleachers (and standing to stretch when possible).
I realized that the kids on the court that day were all in 2nd grade or lower when I moved to Petersburg.
36 is just over a week away for me.
If money grew on trees and for some reason it was still valuable i’d do a few things with all the fat stacks of cash that i would sustainably harvest.
Oh – and maybe one more thing. Buy a really good metal detector. Because looking for old coins and lost jewelry just seems like a good way to make some money, have fun and get some fresh air and exercise.
Ollie crashes hard sometimes. It is a lot of work to get onto the recliner!
We tried to pretend to be happy today. They were here for almost three weeks and it just flew by.
This afternoon Pepper and Jordan left to head back to Shanghai until June. I’ll be heading there for much of February and should see them in April also – if things go well – for at least a week.
Considering Jordan had surgery just a month ago on a finger he was pretty fearless in the sled. Not quite ready to make jumps and try for distance like Kevin used to… But not everyone can be as reckless as Kevin was. Our species must survive after all.
See how the disc sleds treat their rider?