A blog about my journey to "enlightenment and purpose" during my 6 month work leave...

Week 14

Not a lot to report this past week. 

It’s been a hard couple of months so I decided to get a massage and a pedicure to help relax further.  A guy needs to pamper himself every once and a while. This was the first pedicure in about 20 years, so needless to say, there was a good amount of work to do. Pretty sure she started with 50 grit sandpaper.

Generally housebound this week during this first spell of cold and snow in Calgary.  As a result, I decided to take up a new indoor hobby.  I signed up for an acrylic painting course on-line from the local arts university. This should be interesting, as until now this has been a substantially underdeveloped quadrant of my brain. My daughter loves painting so she’ll join me in the classes.  Should be good bonding time, and an opportunity to try to beat her at art…

Finally got around to re-assembling the doors and roof of the Jeep.  Been damn cold without them. Now need to fix the dent in the side panel from when I took the door off in the first place. Then I can get it on the market, as I’ve started a new project with my oldest son (my automotive advisor) to buy a “cool” new (used) car. Some difference of opinion on what a teenager and a middle aged dad thinks is cool. In any event, there’s been a lot of test driving and pretending I understand what mechanics and car dealers are talking about.  We’ll see where this ends up…

P.S. Let me know if you want to buy a Jeep. Like new. 🙂

1 Comment

  1. Karen Watson

    Bit of a shock to hear someone (you) describing yourself as middle-aged, since you are just a really mature kid to me.

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