gotshoo?

It’s that time of year where I can’t believe the summer is almost over. I’ve always looked forward to August because of my birthday and the state fair. But a part of me cringes at the thought of it because it always the crest of summer just before fall and school starting.

I am a full grown adult (plus a little belly) and I still get that ‘first day of school’ feeling every once in a while, even though I work year round. I still vividly remember the first day of fourth grade. My family had just moved across town and my brother was entering kindergarten. He cried like there was no tomorrow just before he had to get on the bus. I remember awkwardly trying to calm him down the best a nine year old could do.

Weird that I can still remember that, but I would have to Google the formula for pythagorean’s theorem.

The cool thing about fourth grade is that I would make friendships that still carry on today. Some of the most intelligent guys I know came from that year in school.

I know I am on kind of a tangent, but Snow Patrol is playing and I am enjoying a cold root beer. I’ll try to relate this back to August.

So August, it’s my new year’s day. It’s always been a month of starting something new. Something that’s never been tried before. I feel like I’ve been pushing myself in a new direction, striving for a new graduation.

In September I am going to ride a century which I’ve been training for the last three months. I rode 300 miles in the month of July. My side company, Afterhours Development, has a pretty large project going on at the end of the year and we’re developing some more neat local resource sites.

And I can’t leave out Mrs. Shoo! She was just accepted into her graduate program at ISU and will be starting classes this fall while still teaching full time. She works ten times harder than me, I don’t know how she does it.

Even though I’ll feel those August butterflies it’s exciting to think of what’s coming next. Who am I going to meet? What new challenges lie ahead?

Here’s to August!