So I’m finally back from camp, and it really was a good summer, wet, but good. From what I heard and read, all the Scouts had a great time. Of course there were a couple things here and there to work on, but overall a great program.
One of the most exciting things to happen was a big storm that hit us the end of Week 7. Most of the cells that came our way over the summer tended to break up as they hit the mountain, but this one just sat overtop of us, hammering us for hours on end. I talked with other people the next morning, and we all had the same reaction, we were near our radios, waiting for a call to go work some emergency. Thankfully, nothing happened, and everyone awoke the next morning safe, if not a little damp.
A tree outside of Keystone (the building where I work) got hit, and I’ll have pictures of it up hopefully soon, there was debris everywhere, some as far as the far side of Keystone.
After camp, I ended up working two days at Flag, the first when Rangers Jim and Todd brought our office files back to Flag for us, and the next day was hot dog day! Hot dog day is an event that hasn’t been done in a while, but basically we spend the day cleaning the inside of the building. We started with common areas, mostly resource rooms and shared storage areas, and then moved to personal spaces, offices, desks and the like.
We used a dumpster and a half (those big long ones) over the course of two days (they ended up working again on Monday, but I took two days off to recoup from camp) and filled a 15 passenger van (seats removed) with paper to be recycled. So I just realized I never explained why it’s called ‘hot dog day,’ that’s because for lunch council provided hot dogs and we had a picnic lunch (some of us ate outside since the lunch room was full).
Since hot dog day, the outside of our building has started to be cleaned as well. We’re getting the stone pressure washed and restored in preparations for the 40 anniversary of
Also in preparations for the
I had my picnic last weekend, and it was a good time. Some of my Christmas lights weren’t working, so that was a bit strange, but otherwise, everything went well. As always, I’m looking forward to doing it again next year, but in the meantime, I have tailgating to look forward to.
And of course, what would a blog post be without links and some media:
Check out mygazines, a great way to read magazines online. I really doubt that it will be around for long, as I can’t believe it follows copyright laws, but then again, some of the magazines represented may appreciate their periodicals reaching a larger audience, some of it may just depend on how they present it to their advertisers.
Rights to “The Eye of the World” have been purchased by Universal. As awesome it would be to see a movie version of The Wheel of Time, I have a hard time believing a studio would commit to doing all 12, let alone doing them well and keeping the integrity of
Blog action day is coming up again, and again I’m planning on participating. Last year’s theme was the environment, check out my post here.
And of course, a video, this one from Hedwig and the Angry Inch:
More coming soon, including comments about what I read over the summer. Catch everyone later!
