Do I look this bad all the time?

I was looking through some pictures of a big canoe trip I went on this last summer and found a couple pictures that I liked a lot and a couple pictures that I didn't like so much. After looking at a few of the images I couldn't help but remember how hard, cold, frustrating, fun, and beautiful the trip was. This picture pretty much sums up the entire trip for me. Can you guess which one of us is older? The sad thing is, is that one of us is 12 years older than the other.

I guess it should be a wake up call for me to look up to my elders not look like them. I hope that I can get on this trip again some day. There is something positive about spending 10 days out in the wilderness, paddling in a canoe, shaving your head, growing facial hair , eating out a can, smelling like camp fire and not caring where you take a leak. I think another trip with friends and family should be organized in the near future.

I got so bored this weekend that I actually spent the entire day on Saturday organizing my garage. I can actually park a car in there now! Lisa would be proud. No Lisa it isn't on a spread sheet or anything fancy, but for me it is organized very neatly. I actually purged a lot of stuff that was once considered valuable by my standards.

I have one more week of bachelor life left in me before Lisa and the kids come home from California. I have come to realize why I was married in the first place. It sucks to be alone all the time! The first week or so of being alone is kind of cool because you can do all the things you wouldn't normally do when your wife is home......like leave clothes on the floor, watch ESPN until you pass out, eat cheese, taquitos, and macaroni on the couch for dinner or stay up late watching COPS. Just to name a few things. Lisa would argue that there is no difference when she is home, and maybe there isn't but it does feel different some how. Regardless it will be good to get the kids and Lisa home again so that my evenings feel normal again.