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Ferris Beuller WAS right…..

Posted by Justin at 11:44 Coot Smirk, principles, Reflections

Feb 102015

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Ahh immortal words, “Life moves pretty fast, if you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” Ferris Beuller was right. My youngest daughter went to school this year and looking back on it, these past 6 years have gone by very quickly. I look at my youngest and he will be in school in 4 short years.

This year was a different birthday….it just didn’t matter as much. I am not sure why, maybe just getting older. If it wasn’t for the kids it may have passed quietly and been just a blip. I am quite sure that I was more excited for Talk Like a Pirate Day.

Yep, life moves fast, somewhere we all have to find the perspective to look around and see what is actually happening. My oldest is 12 and growing up way too fast. It is disconcerting to think that she will be an adult in only 6 years. Now is the time to make those count, because we cant get them back.

Go outside and enjoy fall. I went camping last weekend. All of the trees were changing, the elk were bugling and the fish were moderately biting. The temperature never got above 70. It was great, and it sure beat cleaning out the garage.

Don’t miss life sitting here in front of a computer. Go live life, winter is coming. (bonus points if you take that as a reference and not a statement of the changing seasons.)

-Justin

Justin

Justin is the young Coot with a Cantankerous Soul who continues to be educated by older, more cootish Ralph and Bob. His Cantankerosity is his own.

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Down with Schedules!

Posted by Justin at 11:21 Down with, Plain 'ol Cantankerous, rants

Aug 112013

Schedules suck lets face it. I lump deadlines in with schedules as well here. They all suck. Over the last few days my wife and I have been trying to come up with a schedule for the family to get back on in preparation for school starting in less than one month. Whatever happened to the Lazziez-Faire school of summer?

Over the past few weeks all sense of timing and schedule have gone out of our kids. They end up in bed at midnight, wake up near noon, eat whenever and don’t get all of their chores done. Well now we have decided that this just won’t do any more so a schedule we have devised. It is simple, spells out time for everything and it sucks. I don’t want to be on a schedule but there it is, I have to, they have to.
And if a daily schedule is not bad enough, trying to figure out when to go on vacations amid all of the things that the kids get into and before school starts sucks just as bad. At least we only have a few free days to go fishing, we can’t afford anything else. At least the kids like camping. And the only schedule I have to keep in the mountains has to do with the sun rising and setting and how much gas I have in my boat.

Schedules suck. How do you feel about them? Oh that’s right no one really reads this blog, or if they do, they don’t bother to interact so whatever.

Have a great weekend anyway.

-Justin

Justin

Justin is the young Coot with a Cantankerous Soul who continues to be educated by older, more cootish Ralph and Bob. His Cantankerosity is his own.

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