Never too old to learn?

Now that I'm not slaving away at the car dealership on nights and weekends, I (and Karen) have signed up for some classes through the local community college. Class #1: Intro to welding. Ever since I started tinkering with cars and trucks, I have wanted to learn how to weld. For one reason or another, that has never happened. A lot of people say, "just go buy the equipment and teach yourself." Since my ultimate goal would be to build parts for my vehicles, and either restore an old car or build a kit car, I would rather have someone teach me the proper way to do it. Plus, I will be able to play around with someoneelse's equipment before I have to get permission from the Chief Financial Officer to buy equipment. I've also always been interested in metal yard art that people make, but (of course) I'd rather make my own. This should be interesting.

Class #2: Intro to golf. This is the class that Karen is taking as well, which will add another twist to learning. Will one of us be better than the other, possibly. Will it get competitive between us? Probably will. Surprisingly, she can get pretty competitive when it comes to games, so I foresee this being that way too. In case we decide that we really like it, I have already identified locations in the backyard for a putting green and chipping pads to hit from. I know I'm jumping the gun on that, but hey, we have a big back yard with lots of room to fill up.

As my previous post stated, Karen's parentes were in town for the weekend. Lots of good food (restaurants and cooked up by yours truly) and many rounds of Karen's current favorite game, Marble Pursuit. Here is a link for those of you who might be interested: We were introduced to it by one of Karen's friends and we've spread that interest on to others. You can often find the couple who makes the game selling boards with "defects" at discounted prices on ebay. That is what I bought and the board just had some minor scratches on it. Well worth the savings.

To top off their visit, her parents brought me frozen Chick-fil-a chicken biscuits! I know, it sounds sad and somewhat twisted, but I really miss Chick-fil-a! We learned this trick from one of my college friends who lives in Boston and misses the food as well. Her parents developed the frozen chicken-n-biscuit trick and we have passed it along to Karen's parents. Sure, it is thawed and re-heated, but it is better than waiting until our next trip south and 10x better than what micky d's can do fresh.