00/04/08

Here I sit.

I'm in one of those spaces that I find myself in every once in awhile.

Bone-weary yet not wanting to sleep, hungry yet not wanting to eat anything.

Lets see, what kind of stuff happened today...

I worked all morning, It was time to carry out the annual operations practical tests for our  Hazardous materials operations course. We  finished around 1330, I came home (it was a beautiful day) and put the top down on the Jeep and took the boys out to my friend Stan's place. They didn't seem to mind going for a blast with the top down, neither did I.

Stan is in a rough spot right now. His marraige is disintegrating around his ears and they just discovered that his wife is pregnant, they already have a four-year-old daughter. It's pretty tense around there.

I wish I was one of those people who can find the time to make an entry every day, but alas I'm not. I'm afraid that I just can't bring myself to talk about the mundanities of my life, yet i find it comforting to read of other people's ordinary days. Weird, I know, but there it is.

I spent the last couple of days teaching a course to a bunch of Firefighters in anoher Fire Department. That's always fun but its a hell of a lot of work. hese were a really good bunch of guys. It's a really small world. One of the guys I was teaching was an ex-student of my father's (Dad taught grade seven for 35 years before dying three years ago) He heard me telling another student about my dad and then the name clicked. It was kinda neat, he said "You teach just like your old man" other people have said that, evidently him and I have the same style of teaching, we move around the classroom the same way, our gestures are the same, and so is our way of approaching the class. Funny the things we inherit.

Tomorrow I'm hoping to get out to my shop and turn some wrenches on my bike. The weather has been looking really nice lately and I have some repairs that need doing before the old girl gets on the highway. I guess all there is for it is to get out there and just get to it. I dunno though, if the weather looks good enough.

A short time ago the one of the Johndoers (Sorry, I don't remember who asked) asked us to finish the sentence "I know its spring when..." When I answered I forgot to mention that I know its REALLY spring when I've strung my hammock to the trees. Take it from me, there is NOTHING in this world like a nap in a hammock. Mine a huge Mayan job it's 12 feet long and fits all four of us at once. They're good for 600 lbs. So yeah, I've got some plans for tomorrow, but they might all go for a dump when I lay eyes on the hammock. Wouldn't be the first time.

I guess that's it, I wish I had something more interesting to say, but my life just isn't all that exciting lately.

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