I work 12 hour shifts, 4 on 3 off 3 on 4 off, so I have long weekends every weekend. I’m currently in a 3-day weekend.

Recently, my days start around 3am, insomnia. I wake up and I know I’m done sleeping and luckily, dogs don’t care, they get hot, go pee and go back to sleep on a dog bed, or the couch, or the kitchen floor, they don’t really care.

Yesterday, I went to Denny’s for breakfast with a former coworker, Denny’s has a great breakfast and pretty reliable food that isn’t too expensive. I took the dogs to a dog park in the new neighborhood that we’ll be living in and then acted as an Uber driver and picked up a friend from Ontario who’s in Calgary for the weekend for the Conservative convention. At $700, it’s out of this world expensive, although you get a large chunk of that as a tax deductible contribution.  Still, the content is pretty boring so I’ll pass…

I made an excellent dinner. Sauteed chicken breasts, diced tomatoes, sweet Thai chili sauce and cheese on a hollowed out giant circular French style bread. OMG was it ever good.

I ate about half of it and the other half will shortly be breakfast.

It was a relaxing even watching some TV and then about 5 hours of sleep. Not really enough to function at 💯 but close, a nap may be in order.

I’m going to a Chinese buffet for lunch in Airdrie where I used to live with a friend that I haven’t seen since about May. Should be good.

Tomorrow, I’m going for dinner with the friend I picked up at the airport, we are headed downtown to Palomino, a smokehouse BBQ place, amazing food and the best deep fried pickles you’ll ever have.

That’ll take care of the weekend, back to work on Sunday and a 3-day workweek. I’m moving February 20, so that’ll be here before I know it. It’ll be a fresh start for the relatively new year and a marked improvement over the shitty year that 2025 was.

I hope you enjoy your weekend, once it arrives after the work day today.