no pencil pushing callus on these fingers
my father used to show me his finger and say "see this callus, that's from pushing a pencil all day! it's the only callus on these hands!" it made no sense to me. I thought he was complaining about all that pencil pushing. I think his point was something about getting a good education or you will end up with a laborious job. turns out I like physical labor and I hate sitting behind a desk all day; pushing pencils or clicking keys. I once worked the same 9-5/m-f desk job for two years and that was enough for me.
we did concrete pour two of three, bought 17 bags and had 4 to spare. the screen room is really starting to feel like another room and not so much part of the outdoors. I really need to get crackin' on the doors so we can lock the joint up when we leave.
I'm happiest after a day of real work, not that fake work people do at the gym. I never really got the concept of paying $ to go work off excess energy. indicates the inefficiency of america where people eat so much they pay good money to go work at something that accomplishes nothing except relieving themselves of that excess energy. if only they would turn those calories into electricity, think of the power we could harness.
hard work deserves reward....
we went to fion wine pub in steiner ranch. steiner ranch is like a giant planned community set amongst the hills. everything sort of fits and looks the same. not the austin I am familiar with. reminds me of orange county ca and the weeds theme song. fion has this clever beer flight for $5 during happy hour. pick four beers from their 40+ drafts.
the blanche was our favorite. the food was also delicious.
other than that, not much going on around here this week.
my dad is in town and is downstairs right now. he no longer pushes a pencil, brought his laptop and iphone. I need to help get him on our wifi.