So I turn 29 today, and it's not that I feel older or going through a mid-life crisis but I'm not accustomed to being up until midnight for 2 nights in a row. I'm wiped out today and I want nothing more than to relax at home and go to bed pretty early tonight. It's funny how we look at what's "old" the older we get. I remember when I was 19 or 20 and thinking that being 30 was OOOOLLLLDDDD and that I would be married, have 2 kids, gray hair, and a mortgage. Well I've got three of those things and I'm still young and I still feel young(aside from the fact I've been constantly listening to my 3 disc George Jones CD I got for Xmas...LOVE IT!!). I didn't have any time table of where I wanted to "be at" when I was 29 or 30 or any certain age but I'm very satisfied where I'm at. I want kids but I don't feel like I have to have one like right now or anything. Although I was at the YMCA playing basketball the other day and little kids were having basketball practice and I thought about how much I would enjoy taking my kid to basketball practice or coaching him.
Pool league again last night and as usual it was a late night. For some reason our Wednesday night team plays our match on one table all night. Well this is a race to 13 games for a possibility of 25 games(for you math handicapped) played by deliberate and usually very good players. Some games are done in 2 minutes and some games take 20 minutes depending on the layout of the table and the style of player. We played the first place team and gave them a good asswhooping beating them 13 to 9. I was 3-2 on the night and played real well again. On two of the games my opponent broke dry and I ran out, another one my opponent broke and ran on me, and my most enjoyable game of the night was a tactical game against a STRONG player that he won. He left me a shot that I looked at for what seemed like 10 minutes(probably like 2-3) that I didn't see a way I don't sell out the game and sure enough I did. Very enjoyable game and my opponent was a real nice guy coming over and discussing the game and the specific shot afterward.
After the match was over one of the guys on our team says "that could have been a thousand dollar match." Meaning that 1st place pays like $1000 more than second place or somewhere close to that. I look at this different than him and most people. Here's the way I see it, I pay my $20 yearly dues and $10 per week and I see this as entertainment costs. I'm in no way shape or form looking at this as some sort of investment opportunity or secondary income. Of course the money is a nice perk at the end of the session but I don't think about it during the session.
I'm leaving for Vegas next Thursday afternoon and I'm trying to get everything situated at work. I haven't missed a day of work since I started my business last December. My dad is going to watch things for the 2 days I'll be gone but I'm pretty nervous about not being at work. I will have everything lined out for Friday and possibly Monday and he may not need to do anything. But when it comes to my work I am a control freak and need to be in charge to make sure everything is done. I'm not building cabinets or sending someone to the moon here and everything will be fine without me for a couple and probably several days but we are who we are.
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