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At least I can take care of my human children. They need more clothes, so it'll be off to Walmart a little later this morning. The girl needs new pants and shorts, maybe some new shirts. The boy needs some new shorts, maybe some new long pants, and definitely some new shirts as well.
With the boy it's getting a bit more challenging. He's hitting that point in his growth where he's becoming very tall and thin (like his old man), which can make finding good fitting pants...fun. The shirts are a bit easier. I can get him a small men's size now, and that'll work well.
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While we're out and about, we might also either look around in Walmart's garden center, or go over to Lowe's. I need a new, small flower pot and a small bag of soil.
Back at Christmas my daughter received a plastic flower pot thing (in the shape of a book) from my in-laws. She decided to plant two seeds from an orange she had eaten. To my surprise, at least one of them has been growing. It's now reached the point where we probably need to transfer it to something bigger.
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Well, the shopping for new kid clothing was far less painful than I expected it to be. And we were able to pick up the small pot and some potting soil for my daughter’s (hopefully future) orange tree.
All that, and we still made it home just in time for that first load of laundry (which I put in right before we left) to finish. So about 48 minutes. That’s my kind of efficiency.
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We'll see, but I have my doubts. For one, it's Monday. Two, it's cold in April. That just ain't natural. Three, I've still got this idiotic project with issues that just won't go away. Four, it's the first Monday of the month, which means I've got a troop committee meeting tonight. Which means I've got a long day ahead of me.
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And I've got to get off my butt and get that app the guys at the comic book store were telling me about. It lets you scan in the cover to record which books you have.
The only downside is it seems to only store it on a Cloud, and you can only access it through your phone. Although I recall them saying there might be desktop access if you pay a higher subscription. Which I just might do.
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The main point, of course, being that the Assistant Scoutmasters need to do a better job of signing off on requirements. Mostly meaning they have to actually put MONTH/DATE/YEAR. Too many of them have just been putting two numbers, and sometimes it's hard to tell.
The legibility of their initials is another thing. I'm a little more lenient on that, however. My own handwriting can best be described as "there appears to have been a struggle'.
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The a-hole dog keeps chewing stuff. Monday she destroyed a plastic cup from our 2016 Disney trip. Yesterday she destroyed my daughter's jacket and one of my wife's old paperbacks.
I keep telling my wife to lock her in her kennel each day. Then the wife complains she whines too much. So either way I've got a female whining about something.
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The meeting went well last night, except we had to kind of rush the Boards of Review. There was a guest speaker invited to talk to the scouts about being an entrepreneur, and he went on for nearly an hour.
Bad timing on the invite, but I don't want to give too much criticism about it. The new scoutmaster is, I think, under a bit of stress about his performance. I think he's doing wonderful. The previous scoutmaster is still heavily involved, however, and the kind of a-hole who will condescendingly offer his advice at every turn.