excellent weekend planned

I am taking my son's camping--should be awesome, they are just old enough to really enjoy the outdoors and quit whining.
I am taking a couple four-wheelers and a couple kayaks, it should be pretty memorable.

One of my friends at work, (I would say colleague but it feels too pretentious) gave me a chotchky this morning, it's a little metal duck that winds up and runs in circles. It's a metaphor for peddling furiously and going no where. (Like Sisyphus who was forced to push the rock up the hill only to have the stupid rock fall back to the bottom and start all over again.)
Either way--it was a nice gift--makes me feel like I am beginning to be a permanent fixture here.