{"id":572,"date":"2008-09-21T17:14:24","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T02:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bbryson.com\/bill\/?p=572"},"modified":"2008-09-21T17:14:24","modified_gmt":"2008-09-22T02:14:24","slug":"managing-work-and-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/2008\/09\/21\/managing-work-and-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Managing work and play&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m about three weeks in to my offical work year now.\u00a0 Its a bit of a rude awaking from what I have been doing for the last year.\u00a0 I got pretty used to having days around the house when I was in Minnesota, and crazy jam packed working for three week stints in Alaska.\u00a0 Now I am back to the old Monday through Friday work week.\u00a0 I usually leave the house at 6:30 AM to make the 40 mile drive to work.\u00a0 If I&#8217;m lucky I&#8217;ll get home around 5, but there are plenty of days that I don&#8217;t seem to make it home until 6:30 or 7:00 PM.\u00a0 That doesn&#8217;t leave much time to hang out with Erin before I need to get the sack and catch some z&#8217;s to do it all again the next day.<\/p>\n<p>Friday night Erin, April, Jesse, Jim, and myself went to the Cook vs. Tower high school football game to watch their cousin Jordan play.\u00a0 There were some fancy storm clouds overhead.\u00a0 I really like the big billowing clouds that build up over the midwest.\u00a0 Tower ended up beating Cook pretty easily, and it was a fun evening under the lights.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbryson.com\/bill\/files\/2008\/09\/cloud1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-575\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bbryson.com\/bill\/files\/2008\/09\/cloud1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"229\" height=\"171\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbryson.com\/bill\/files\/2008\/09\/cloud2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-576\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bbryson.com\/bill\/files\/2008\/09\/cloud2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"227\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbryson.com\/bill\/files\/2008\/09\/cloud3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-577\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bbryson.com\/bill\/files\/2008\/09\/cloud3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"227\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This weekend a couple of friends from work Tony (Art teacher) and Kate (English teacher) joined me on a BWCACAST trip.\u00a0 I got up at 6:00 AM and met them at the Y-Store at 7:15.\u00a0 We headed to the end of the Fernburg Trail (by car) and paddled through Lakes 1, 2, 3, and went to the edge of Lake 4.\u00a0 It was a gorgeous day, and I of course didn&#8217;t bring sun screen and burnt my face.\u00a0 I was hoping to get some video of the leaves changing, but it appears I went a week or two early.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll have to think about going in again in the near future to get the fall colors caught on tape.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbryson.com\/bill\/files\/2008\/09\/kate_tony_me.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-579\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bbryson.com\/bill\/files\/2008\/09\/kate_tony_me.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbryson.com\/bill\/files\/2008\/09\/canoe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-574\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bbryson.com\/bill\/files\/2008\/09\/canoe.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My grandparents drove up from Alden to Duluth to attend a hawk sighting deal in Duluth.\u00a0 They called us up and let us know they were in the area.\u00a0 We were lucky enough to have them stop by today.\u00a0 We went out for a pontoon ride, and had them over for some venison pot roast for dinner.\u00a0 It was nice to catch up with them.<\/p>\n<p><a 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