"Totally Random"

I signed up for a 10 km fun run and fundraiser this coming Saturday!  What the heck eh?  I can always walk.  The money goes to Inn Out Of The Cold, a local shelter, which is really what motivated me to sign up.

Pope Frank says that Mother Teresa gets to be a Saint come September.  Apparently some lady in Calcutta says she had a stomach tumour that got better after praying to Teresa.  It seems that was the second one, and I guess 2 miracles is all it takes.  I'm good with that cause I know the catholics need their saints, but I still don't understand why her, and not my mother??  It don't make sense to me.  Oh well.  Mom ain't the only saint I've had the honour to know, and if the truth be known I suspect the Pope misses the vast majority of them, simply because saints generally prefer to remain in the shadows.

Oh, and as an aside.  I'm kinda pissed to find out that a simple prayer to Mother Teresa could have fixed Sally's stomach.  Then again she wasn't Catholic, so perhaps she wouldn't qualify eh?

Got my building permit to rebuild our shed.  Gotta start getting quotes now.  Jon is gonna frame it, and everything else we will farm out.

I've come to realize that Canada Post is a truly amazing operation.  The fact that any mail gets delivered by an organization where perhaps one in 10 employees actually cares whether it gets delivered, is truly remarkable.   They must have some seriously robust processes, no doubt designed by outsiders.   Needless to say Roo is one of the 10%, and it causes her some serious stress to deal with all the puppy makers!!

Elly's comment the other day about needing a mission hit home to me.  I think I've known for a while that I gotta find a new passion, but I continue to deny it because I get scared. I'm not sure what of, but fear is definitely the problem.   I'll work on that.

I love my bicycle!  Have I  told you that before?  :) Today I just headed up town to see if I could find Roo, and after achieving that, scouting out Saturdays run route, and then going to the ice cream store with Ky, I ended up logging more than 40 kms!!

My big sister Cory turns 65 years old later this year.  Why does that surprise me? After all, I'm only 4 years behind her.  Maybe that's why I love bike riding.  It's hard to feel old when you're pedalling your ass off, going around a corner at 30 kms an hour, with Pink Floyd banging on your ear drums!!

I can't figure out why my natural disposition seems to be of a critical nature?  I can find something wrong with everything, and everybody.  Mind you I'm not apologizing, just wondering whether monitoring that tendency a bit may be good for me?

I love my bicycle!  Some time I think that if I could just keep riding forever, I would find all the answers I'm looking for.

I can't stop thinking that I want to do another Ironman.  Is that just because of the lack of some more useful mission?  Probably eh!

Speaking of which, back in my business days whenever we would start a new organization we would always go through the process of establishing the Vision, Mission and Values for that undertaking.  I'm thinking once again of doing this on a personal level.  I already know what my vision is, have a good idea of the values I hold true, but sure enough, the mission part is missing.  That suggests I suppose that I know where I want to go, know how I want to act getting there, but just don't know what the f*%k I'm actually doing!!

And I think that''s enough gibberish for today.  I leave you with another quote out of this fabulous new book I was gifted by my friends Ky and Deb.

.....this one was written just for me I think...oh and maybe for Old John as well :)

"All the advice you ever gave your partner is for you to hear"---Byron Katie

Love
Peter