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Cub Scout Adventure Day for the Phoenix District! Very hot, but successful. Someone said we had upwards of 300 scouts. Many got to shoot off the model rockets they were given when they first signed up for scouting.
I ran a table as part of the Scout STEM-NOVA program, of which I am a counselor. My table was all about careers in space exploration. I even had a prop - an actual schematic of an S-1C Saturn Booster rocket. This was the first stage of the Saturn V rockets that carried our Apollow astronauts into space.
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Thanksgiving was...okay. Some decent food. It's always nice to visit my mother. The kids love visiting with her, and with my in-laws. The boy and I saw the new John Cene movie Playing with Fire. The less said about that, the better.
The highlight of the week was seeing to of my old Fraternity Brothers. One of them, Matt, was always a friend and brother, but I was never very close to him. The other, John, is one of my oldest friends. We've known each other for over 40 years. He now owns a Pizza buffet place in Picayune, MS. We met at his restaraunt.
It was nice to have friends again. Even if only for a few hours.
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And, since I've been watching that animated show, I decided over the weekend to re-watch the prequel trilogy for the first time in years.
While I still think there was plenty wrong with them, time has allowed me to see they also have plenty right. I think a large part of that was Lucas and his singular vision of what he wanted.
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Weather-wise, we had a beautiful last few days here in Houston.
Christmas Day was nice, and I got some great books: Lore of Love for the old Time Life Books Enchanted World Series, Volumes 3, 4 & 5 of the Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith, and a biography of C.S. Lewis. Of all those, the biography was the most unexpected and unwelcome. Unxpected because I was unaware of its existence and hadn't asked for it. Unwelcome because I'm not really a big fan of biographies.
I took advantage of today's good weather to get outside and trim a tree out front, as well as watch over my daughter and help her out riding her bike.
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We have a dog now.
I've always been a dog person, but refrained from pushing to get one for various reasons, not the least of which was the simple fact my wife has never been a dog person.
So, within the last few months, the wife started talking about getting a dog, Within the last few weeks, she became unusually excited about the idea. Then, just the other day, she mentioned that someone from her kick boxing class had a litter of German Shepherd pupies.
So now we have seven week old Lily.
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Well, my mystery illness ruined the weekend plans the boy and I had.
Silver lining, however, is that this will potentially be the last time. Got a call from my primary on Friday to make an appointment about discussing the results of my bloodwork. It seems they have pinpointed at least one of my problems.
So, today I have an appointment to discuss those results (and what to do about them).
Sheesh medical issues are the worst, when you dont know what it is!
Good luck and Godspeed back to full (good) health!
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When I left my job with the Navy (almost 7 years ago), I left behind a bunch of surprises. Specifically, I printed out a bunch of pictures of my face, then stuck each picture in a random location (desk drawers, cabinents, file folders, etc).
They just found another one today.
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Just five business days to go before we fly over to Florida for our Disney vacation. I'm excited. The boy and I are scheduled to build lightsabers and robots.
Not to mention, with us in Florida, and the dog in a boarding facility, I just might manage to get my first uninterrupted nights of sleep since before New Year's Eve.
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Had to get outside and do a little garden work yesterday. There were weeds starting to get out of hand, and several bushes needed trimming. Sadly, the lawn itself is also getting out of hand, but my lawn guy is down and out at the moment with a bad back.
I may have to find someone to temporarily replace him. Especially if the HOA decides to renew their typically douchebag behavior and send me an angry letter about the state of my grass.
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In other news, our school district's remote learning is moving along pretty well, all things considered. The middle and high schools had it easier, since many of their students already had laptops and were assigned work via computer. I've been slightly impressed at how quickly they got it going for the elementary kids.
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In other, other news, I found the old Dark Shadows TV show available on Amazon. They separated out the original 200-ish episodes under the listing title "The Beginning" (or something like that), while picking up with the main series starting where Barnabas is freed from his coffin.
So that's been something to divert my attention.
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I saw an article today talking about some big natural gas company filing for bancruptcy. The entire oil and gas sector has been hit hard by SOME RECENT EVENTS.
It got me thinking of at least one former employer of mine, and I can't help but hope they go under from all this. Probably makes me a bad person, but f**+ those a#@!%@%s.
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Speaking of my children....
The fur baby is most likely over 30 pounds by now. Right before we left for Disney, at the beginnng of March, she was 29 pounds at the vet. So I figure she's got to be closer to 35 or 40 pounds by now.
That's a far cry from the 7-ish pounds she weighed when we brought her home on 1 January. I told the wife and kids she was going to get big. They might finally believe me.