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Well, that was an expensive visit to REI. However, I was able to pick up a bunch of the gear he needs for his summer High Adventure trip with the scouts.
Especially his new sleeping bag. This one is good to 20 degF. And it’s a backpacking bag, so it compacts really well. It’s good for up to 6’ tall, which is my height. Hopefully, that’ll be good for him for a long time.
Also picked him up some new mess gear, a new headlamp, a couple of quick-drying towels, a head net (for skeeters), a keeper strap for his glasses, and a new water-proof bag for his bed phone.
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In a little while I’ll take a trip over to Hobby Lobby. I need to see if they have the right size wooden letters I need to repair the troop sign. It’s old, and several of the letters are damaged. So I said I’d fix it.
Might swing by Academy while I’m out that way and pick up a couple of items I need.
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An especially Happy Mother's Day to the following:
- My own beautiful wife, who gave me to "wonderful" children and hasn't smothered me in my sleep yet.
- My own mother, who gifted me to the world and allowed me to reach adulthood without smothering me in my sleep.
- My mother-in-law, who gifted me my wife and allowed her to marry me (hopefully) without encouraging my wife to smother me in my sleep.
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Last night the wife and I watched the new movie Conclave. It was an excellent movie, with a wonderful cast and interesting story. Right up until the end, when it took an all-to-predictable Hollywood turn into typical "let's insult all Catholics everywhere" bigotry. Something that's always rich coming from the degenerates of the film industry.
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Not sure what's on the menu today. Other than some of the usual.
Waiting to hear from the troop as to when we can expect them back from the camping trip. That shouldn't take long. Camp Tellepsen is about an hour away. If they leave camp by 9 am, even stopping at Buc-ees on the way home they'd still get back by about 10:30.
After that, we don't have anything special planned. At least, not that I've been informed. I will be cooking some chicken on the grill tonight for dinner, so at some point I'll need to get that in a marinade.
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Incidentally, we need to meet at the elementary school now because our former end-of-camp pick up location is no longer available to us. They typically return from camping trips on Sundays, when the church parking lot is busy. In the past we would meet across the road in the parking lot owned by the synagogue. However, they sold off most of their parking lot to a private owner, so we can't meet there anymore.
Hence the school now.
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Next up is giving my wife her Mother’s Day gifts. They’re all wine related, so will most likely be appreciated. We got some tabs she can put in her wine to clean it and (apparently) make it taste better, an electric wine bottle opener, a new, wine-themed tumbler, some wine-themed socks, and a book she can write in with a title of “Great Thoughts I had while drinking wine”. Or something like that. It was a gag gift.
Although sometimes I do wish she’d pull a me and put together a list of simple gift ideas.
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Well, that sucks.
One of my coworkers got laid off today. He was one of four mechanical designers. The going story is (a) they didn’t have enough work for all of them, and (b) he was not being a team player with some of the new ways of getting stuff done.
I’m slightly more concerned about the first part. I hope the company isn’t moving towards another Chapter 11. They were coming out of the first one when I hired on.
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I don 't know. The drive in was okay, but I'm feeling a bit run down this morning. That could be a combination of things:
Stress
My TMJ issues have been really acting up, so I took a heavy (for me) does of ibuprofen yesterday. And I was using a lot of Anbesol as well. Then we had spaghetti for dinner. None of these things did wonders for my stomach.
Some of my other usual muscle aches have been acting up as well.
And all the weather hasn't been helpful. Down in the 60s at night, then up into the high 70s or low 80s during the day. Off and on rain or clouds. Lots of wind. Messes with my sinuses.