Why do the short weeks feel longer than the regular weeks? I swear, by Wednesday, I felt like I’d been working for a couple of days. Oh well, another week has come to an end and I’m looking towards a quiet – but hopefully productive weekend.
We had a pretty good Thanksgiving weekend. My sister and nephew came down. We all gathered round and helped trim the bushes in the backyard. (It was more fun and heart-warming than it sounds.) On Sunday, we went to the One of A Kind Antique Mall in Woodstock. With this being the first major holiday since my Dad passed, we were kinda wanting to focus more on being together as a family than the traditional holiday. We did have a good meal together though.
So last weekend was Thanksgiving weekend but it sure seems like it’s been a week of giving thanks. I’ve had several people, co-workers and friends alike, who thanked me for helping them out one way or the other. In each case, it wasn’t a big task for me but it was nice that they appreciated what I had done for them.
Last weekend, NASCAR went to the Charlotte Roval. In the latter stages of the Xfinity race, it looked like Parker Kligerman was going to win but it wasn’t to be, under some very controversial circumstances. I decided to devote a column in my Track Talk section to my thoughts on the situation. In an effort to drum up some more readership, I posted a link on my Twitter…er…X feed and tagged Parker. And sure enough, he liked my Tweet! That kinda made my Monday night!
Let’s see, I’ve been reading the late Eddie Guerrero’s autobiography, Cheating Death, Stealing Life. It’s really good and I must admit, unlike a lot of sports autobiographies which give a pretty clean cut white-wash version of the story, Eddie doesn’t shy away from telling all the dirty details of battling his demons – and he’s not exactly a choir boy when it comes to the language. (I really liked his assessment of Kevin Nash in WCW, it echoes what I’ve thought for a long time.)
As with any weekend, I have a pretty fair “To Do” list but it’s a lot of little things, like going back and updating the Shelf Life and Ingersoll District Nature Club’s website, organizing some photos I’ve taken over the past few months, that kind of thing.
Hopefully, I can work away on this and get some things accomplished…but then I saw that every weekend.
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