So basically, I've been working a lot lately. Due to a couple
of days off and some overtime that I was fortunate enough to get, I've been
working 10 hour days for about the past 6 weeks. While I enjoy the extra money
and I've always got more than enough to keep me busy for those extra hours, I’ll
be looking forward to going back to 8 hour days next week.
I haven’t been playing nearly as much disc golf as I’d like,
but I’m still getting out about once a week with some friends from work. I've
also decided that I’m going to give a different putting style a try. It’s still
probably the weakest part of my game so it’s worth a shot. It’s called push
putting. I've tried practicing out behind the apt a bit and once I got the hang
of the technique, I seem to be able to keep the disc on a relatively straight
path (which is the idea). I want to get a portable basket so I can actually
practice instead of throwing at an imaginary basket. I also still want to try
to enter a tournament at some point this year.
Exciting news on the cat front: Sammy is now fully trained
to use his feeding box.
He hasn't thrown up in months and now we can just leave
his food out all the time for him to eat at his leisure. We decided to train
him in slow steps since he’s an older cat and isn't the quickest to adapt to
new situations. I’ll be honest, when we were only part way through and he didn't
seem to like the tunnel with a wide open door, I was a little nervous that I’d
spent money on the cat door. Sammy, however, pleasantly surprised me when he
picked up on pushing the door open all on his own within a day of us adding the
flap into the equation. So nice to be able to accommodate both of our cats’
eating habits.
Char and I have gotten out and done a lot of bike riding the
past 2 weeks. It took us a little bit to get going with all the traveling and
extra work I've been doing, but we've finally got our momentum going. Hopefully
it continues for the rest of the year. I’m also hoping to bike to work a little
more often starting next week when I’m back to shorter hours. (trying to be
ready to leave at 5 AM to bike in was just not going to happen)
This has been a summer of weddings. We were out in Dublin,
Ohio two and a half weeks ago to celebrate my friend Andromeda getting married.
I was afforded the honor of giving a reading in the ceremony, and I couldn't be
happier for her and Jacob. They are an excellent pair and will take good care
of each other. This weekend, my Uncle Ed (godfather) is getting married. It's supposed to be a small ceremony, but like any wedding seems to have gotten bigger as we get closer to the date. In any case, he and Jan seem to make each other very happy and I'm looking forward to the opportunity to meet some of her family. In just over three weeks, my brother-in-law, Marcus, is getting
married. Char and I are standing up in the wedding, a first for both of us. I’m
pretty sure Marc’s still only fifteen, but we’re excited about welcoming Molly
and her two-year-old daughter, Sophie, into the family.
Well that’s enough for now, but this is the type of post I’m
going to try to put out once a week. Just little blurbs about what’s going on. I
pretty much stole the idea from Char’s updates
that she posts on Fridays, but as the saying goes, “imitation is the
sincerest form of flattery.” Have a great week!
