So I finally found that list of things to blog about I wrote down at camp but lost in the move home. So a few things I might have mentioned briefly before, I apologize for any repeats:
When I was working on the closing slideshow, I headed to Panera bread in Uniontown (and ended up spending nine hours there), and while I was having dinner, a group from Jumonville’s staff came in, apparently on some of their time off as well. It was strange watching another camp staff interact with each other. Also, coming from a Christian camp/retreat center, it changed the dynamic a bit, but you could still definitely see it was a summer camp staff.
We played trivial pursuit a couple times over the summer, each time playing on teams to speed things up, which, although it helped, never brought a game to under three hours. Even playing 90’s trivial pursuit (which is what we had), while fun, was still hard: but that’s one of the great things about the game, you really do learn a lot while playing. A fun pastime of mine was matching up answers on the back to the question I just read to see what would be the funniest combination. We ended up playing one night in Keystone, under the chandeliers, and on the very last question of the night, without talking amongst ourselves, the chaplain and I both came up with the same (correct) answer at the exact same time, exclaiming it out loud: enema. For the record, it was from Seinfield, and at that, a Kramer quote, but I can’t remember the exact question at the moment, just the hilarious outcome.
A company came up with an 87-piece Swiss Army Knife. I don’t have the link in front of me, but I saw it, and it was a massive piece of equipment, that would probably give you a significant limp if you put it in your pocket. I really don’t know what kind of expedition would require it, personally I’ll keep my generic multitool, that even with ten or 12 pieces, still has more than I regularly use.
A sequel of the game Cooking Mama was announced: and it comes with oven mitts! Pretty cool I thought, even though Mama is really mean if you mess up. The upcoming game Jam Sessions is coming with a small amp, another pretty cool pack-in, if you ask me (except for the fact that it significantly rose the price of the game).
One of my jobs over the summer was to keep the Keystone building clean, which I didn’t mind (except when people would clog the toilets and not tell me, that was a pain, but thankfully only happened twice). Although one incident left me puzzled: I was in the bathroom restocking it one day and I noticed that it smelled like pineapples. The next day, it smelled like ham. My conclusion: someone was eating a Hawaiian pizza in the bathroom and not sharing.
Apparantly the new 100 dollar bills will feature a moving hologram of Benjamin Franklin as an added security measure. Not that I ever will, but it would be interesting to see one of those.
Again, I don’t have the link with me (I read the story at camp), but a company is selling cheap, clear canoes. As much as I prefer aluminum canoes (to fiberglass), a clear one would be really cool, especially if you were boating in a shallow, tropical climate. Being able to watch the underwater world from the surface while gliding over top of it would be pretty sweet.
So, at the end of every year, Church of God comes into camp and overtakes it. I’m fairly certain I’ve mentioned it before, so I won’t go into too much detail, except for the one comment I have written down: the impact they have on parking. The staff takes three houses, but in those houses, they seemed like they were packed in like sardines, taking all our parking spaces on the road in front of the eight houses.
Two quick notes about football: 1.) We watched the first Steeler’s game at Kevin’s house, and the referee sounded like The Ladies Man. We were hoping for penalties just to hear him talk! Also, he got a couple numbers wrong, so we think he was really sending out his phone number for all the ladies to call him up. Also, watching it with Medic Dan was awesome, he called them all jerks when appropriate, which was quite entertaining. 2.) I’ll have a full write-up about the SVC home opener soon, until then, make sure to check out my two newest photo galleries here.
That’s it for now, I’ll have more pictures and book reviews up soon, but as always, check out the pictures from this weekend if you haven’t seen them yet. Have a great one everybody!
