first 3 days of sabbatical are over… quick recap… am i fit out for retirement?
yes… it suits me… day 1, thurs jan 8 ’04, had a # of chores… cleaning up office, having lunch with bruce moore downtown… chowed down on wings at tatonka with friends (holiday excursion to fox sports grill… plus, spent some time in the evil empire today, and tried out their $2.99 for 24 hours of internet access… seemed like a pretty good deal for me…
day 2, fri jan 9 ’04… already slipping from memory a bit… started reading the da vinci code… enjoying so far… wondering though how many of the truths mentioned in the book are really true… was da vinci gay? was mona lisa really a female version of himself and are the words mona lisa really referring to ‘man woman’ which is another play on the androgynousness of it all, and what she’s really knowlingly smirking about? fun stuff… also got in a workout… pretty sure my metabolism has officially slowed down… i’ve been pretty good with cutting back on eating and exercising a lot more… but, the weight has remained pretty steadfast… uh oh…
day 3, fri jan 10 ’04… up at 6:30 or so… took zach over to orvidas/demage house… then we hit the road to portland to Aunt Jeanine and Uncle Hal’s house… visiting were Aunt Connie and Uncle Jim with adorable cousin Katya from Chile… her father (Jason) wasn’t along for the trip, but she was perfectly at home with us all… then cousin Lynn and Ed Valenter stopped over with Connor, Nolan, Luke and Renee… we had a few raucous snowball fights, gorged ourselves on some all day grazing… then turned around again… listened to a book on cd called the last american man … very interesting to think about how far we all are from really being able to ‘live off the land’… this guy, Eustace Conway, is doing it, right now at turtle island…