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January 18, 2014

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The Lie of the Guidance Counselor

Life is never as straightforward as we would like it to be. It's funny how the older as person gets, the more we realize that we cannot control our future. There are times that we point ourselves in a certain direction, but the place we end up is somewhere quite different, and you look back and feel "well how the heck did I end up here?" Remember doing aptitude testing in grade school? You sit down with a counselor and answer 25 questions and BAM - they gave you a list of 10 occupations perfectly suited for you. You could be a pilot, an entertainer or a mailman. You were to choose these courses in high school and all the guess work was now taken out of play. Life was under control and you were on your way. Obviously it never ends up that way. If averages hold true, most of us will work in 7-10 different career fields over the course of our lives. We'll have major transitions in what our personal life. We'll live in different cities (or countries) and expe...

My Confession

I just spent the past 7 hrs watching football. I may have painted a jewellery box with my daughter in the middle somewhere, but that part was a blur really. The blow up hit on the punt tho - crystal clear in my mind What's worse is that I will wake up tomorrow and watch a PVR'd game of two NBA teams I don't care much about. Then at night I'll be playing pick up ball with 12 other addicts in a local high school gym. Somewhere I'll try to find time for a run as well. I'm not sure who leads the NDP party in Ontario, but I do know that Mike Munchak just got let go by the Titans but was quickly interviewed by the Steelers for a staff position. Right wing and left wing are hard to keep straight in a political sense, but man Vladamir Tarasanko is a killer RW in my fantasy league. The last two books I read and loved were sports commentaries. And I'll probably re-read them just be sure I digest it all properly. I really do make time for family/faith/frie...

Real Men Fall... & then get back up

For Father's Day this year I decided to run a triathlon. For me, 51.5 km of swimming, biking and running beats the heck out of watching golf on the couch any day. Well most days. Today it was 15 degrees and raining with a chance of thunderstorms. Not exactly a morning I wanted to be outside. Yesterday all day I tried to create a decent excuse for why I didn't need to go. I couldn't ABANDON my family like that. Surely they would want me around for those 3 hrs. Or maybe the lightning was just too unsafe. Can't take a risk like that. Despite my best efforts, I couldn't come up with anything that sounded legitimate so off I went at 7:00 AM this morning. When I got there it was only raining lightly, so I set up my bike and running gear and dressed for the swim. The skies opened up & we had a good 1/2 hr soaking just before it was time to get into the water (fitting). However once the gun went and we all dashed into the lake all was forgotten. The cold, the ...

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