Well, it's actually two days well spent.  Yesterday i completed a good job, spent time with a sponsee, put a new wood floor in my work/utility trailer, made a meeting and then i actually cooked a dinner for myself.  I'm really amazed about how my dinner turned out because i am not a cook at all.  I just asked the lady next door and she told me how to fry boneless chicken breast.  They came out so good! I am so cooking challenged that when she told me how to make a roll of dinner biskets, i had to ask her what a baking pan looks like, so i could look and see if i had one.  She came in for a moment, browsed around my kitchen cabinets and found a couple of them.  See, i have all sorts of kitchen utensels, and cooking appliances but i have never really cooked.  Any meals i ate at home were either cooked by a woman or ordered in by delivery.  Heck, i know dominos pizza number by heart!  Otherwise, i have spent many years eating out or rolling through drive thru windows.  So, actually cooking a meal that did not involve the microwave oven, seemed like a big accomplishment to me.  I am going to start cooking at least a meal or two a week and try to enjoy the task and not burn my place down or poison myself in the process.  I have cooked one other time in the past three years and couldn't eat it because i burnt the spagetti noodles so bad i had to throw the pan away.  

Today i worked predominately on trying to figure out a few new business marketing methods.  I put a business profile on Angies List, and installed a blog/website developer program on my business site.  It's called WordPress, which i have seen all over the internet for years but never tried to figure out how ti use it.  It seemed a bit intimidating and still does a little bir but its rich in site enhancement features and connects seamlessly to my current site with relative ease.  I think that my learning how to use all its features will help me when i am ready to give MIP a face lift this summer.

As some of you already know, my son went to jail in Dec and i foolishly made his bond.  He jumped the bond and went back to Texas within a few days of my getting him out.  I told him the very same day that i would swallow the grand it took to get him out but i would not be responsible for the other 9 grand if he ran.  I clearly told him, "you run, i hunt, you go right back to jail".  Well, after sending him messages through family members, giving him 10 days to return on his own to no avail, it took me 3 phone calls and 30 minutes to get the address for where he was staying.  I passed that info over to the bondsmen, who in turn had a bounty hunter grab him and drive him to Alabama, where the bondsmen met them and brought him the rest of the way in.  Right to the county jail.  I wrote him a letter that night and decided to wait two days to decide if i would actually send it.  This morning i read the letter i had written.  It was so full of angry venom and did not in any manner reflect that i was any healthier or spiritual than he.  He surely qualifies as one of us, and went to jail after breaking into a small store to steal beer and cigs at 4am.  I had to tell myself many times that "we are not bad people that need to get good, but sick people that need to get well".  So, i put my first letter to the side and wrote another.  I was able to express myself in a much healthier way.  The same point was made without all the venom attached to it,   and if nothing else he knows i do love him and while i won't help any further, i will never give up hope.  I did offer to send him....a Big Book and 12x12.  I may not hear from him and he might not want the books i offered to send, but i feel i have done my part as both a father and as a member of AA.

John