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What do I do now?

This is part eight of a ten part series that started on July 13th.

Honestly, I don’t know that I’ve had a free weekend.

We have actually dinner parties now.  “Dinner party” being inviting our church friends over to give me an excuse to cook crawfish.

I still volunteer at the same prospect shows I volunteered at before, there’s just no longer the pretense that I’m doing it as some sort of marketing ploy to sell calves.

I'm taking a Udacity class on Android app development.

Chess

About a week after I moved on from the cattle herd, I started ‘coaching’ the ‘chess team’ at our local elementary school.  Truth be told, I do it for the same selfish reasons I volunteer at prospect shows, so my kids will see me volunteering.  That whole subject will be another day.

I hear your judgement, it’s chess.

You’re right about just about all of those stereotypes.

My only defense is that the dad we 'stall' with at tournaments most often is a fighter pilot.

But by gosh, Luke aint half bad at it.  He’s trophied in his last five full tournaments he’s been in.  He’s bit of an outlier on the intelligence side of things and chess lets him do something with that.

I actually got him a real chess coach because I’m not very good a chess at all.  I justified the cost because a year’s worth of lessons only costs about half what a decently competitive mini-Hereford would cost and we don’t have to eat those miniature rib eyes.

Unlike feeding a show steer, he’s passionate about it, so we’re running with it until get gets burned out.

Golf

About 8-9 years ago I got on a little golf kick.  It didn’t last long because eventually I realized that I was paying some course to let me get four hours of sunlight when I could get that same outdoor exposure just going down to the ranch and doing a little bit of work.  The fact that I was absolutely terrible at golf had a big role in that as well.

Two months ago I got tired of not having a reason to get outside and started playing again.

A lot.

Too much actually.

I remember thinking at one time that I couldn’t imagine getting a golf handicap because I’d have to play a minimum of five rounds and that’d take several months to get groups together for.

NOT counting the golf scramble at the VATAT convention this week I’ve played seven rounds in the past 14-days.

I still suck at it.

“Bootcamp”

Don’t let the farmer beer bellies fool you, you do get a bit of a workout when you’re involved with a  ranch.  You don't get that programming websites.

Have you seen me lately?  Do you wonder why I look marginally sexier than I did earlier in the year?

It’s because the mornings I’m able to drag my fat butt out of bed at 5:30 AM I go do a bootcamp workout for girls.

I thought I was doing cross fit for the first three sessions because I’m a freaking idiot, I’m actually doing some sort of boot camp thing.  It doesn’t really matter, I can’t make it through the beginner level of either one.

I’m not the only dude in the class but I’m certainly the fatest and most out of shape. 

If you don't like me, wake up at 6 AM some day and think to yourself that somewhere there's a college girl taking little chunks out of whatever self pride I ever had with repeated “you’re doing great Jeff, keep it up” bull shit as I’m crawling my way up from another burpee.

I do the 6 AM workout session for one reason and one reason alone, I’m too embarrassed to do it during the day.

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