My son, Matthew, will be joining me in this mission.  He and I took measurements and logged everything down.  We are ready to go.  In 10 weeks we will have transformed our bodies even further than we have so far.  It is going to be amazing.  Stay tuned to this blog for more on this transformation.

I spent the day doing family stuff.  I took Matthew to his job (he referees ice hockey games) at 10:30 a.m.  I stayed and watched both games because it made no sense to leave and come back.  I enjoyed watching him do what he loves to do. I took some pictures of him in action and posted them on my Facebook.  Have a look!

After Matty and I came home, I sat and watched a movie with Alyssa.  We caught up on the past couple of days.  She was very talkative!

After the movie, Alison and I went and got some shopping done.  We hurried around because we had something to do later that night.

Today we had another of our CAHA weekends.  We were scheduled for 2 games.  Our first game was against the #2 team in our division (#3 in the country).  My son played his worst game of the year (as did the team) and we lost 16-0.  After the game, the coach sat the kids down in the locker room and explained to them the things they needed to start doing better. He talked about earning the respect of other teams.  He spoke about how they must turn things around and now.  He let them know exactly what it was going to take for them to make a move and to earn some respect.  He also asked them to play all 3 periods of the next game hard to show respect for his friend, our other coach, who wasn't present for the morning game due to work obligations.

After that discussion we all went to breakfast and then on to the team manager's house.  On the way to the team manager's house several parents called to complain about the long "tirade" of the coach.  This created some major drama.  The parents seem to have the opinion that the coach doesn't know what he is doing.  I was quite amused in some respects by all of it.

Prior to our evening game the same coach came in and gave the kids another speech.  He basically made them tell everyone on the team what was something they had done wrong in the previous game and how they were going to fix that in the next game.  He reminded them of their promise from the morning game.  He pushed them to play all 3 periods hard.

Well, those kids went out and took the ice against a team they lost to 13-1 just 3 weeks ago.  After the first period we were down 2-1.  After the second period we were down 2-1.  The final score was a 3-2 loss for our team.  So many firsts happened during this game:  the first time we took the first shot on goal of the game, first time we had more than 15 shots on goal, first time in an official game where we scored more than 1 goal, first time we played all 3 periods of a game, first time we were in a game for all 3 periods. 

I handled all the equipment manager duties alone.  As we have a game tomorrow morning (and evening), I had alot of gear to bring with me that I normally would not be bringing.

The dinner discussion was fun as we all caught up.  We had not seen each other for many years.  We spoke about our children and what we've been doing with our lives.  My brother-in-law told us alot about what he does for a living.

Later we accompanied them all back to my brother-in-law's hotel room to meet his wife and son and both in-laws who had spent the day at Disneyland.  We had a very wonderful discussion with them about so many different things.  Both couples (my brother and sister-in-law and my wife's cousin and his wife) have only been married for 5 years and each have a 3 year old son.  With my wife and I having 4 children, there was alot of advice being sought by the two couples.  It was just a really fun time and I enjoyed watching my wife reconnect with her brother.

I have always developed software for other people. My new plan involves creating software that I can sell to a niche market.  I have gained a load of understanding about this niche market over the past 7 years and feel that I have alot to offer in this area.  Having a niche is the one principle I've read over and over again.  It will make it easier to sell any product that is created.  I also have a strong partner who I trust and can rely on.  All of these things add up to an exciting new plan.