It's Bowling Season!
That's what's starting -- well, bowling season is -- for Martha tonight, in addition to her coming to the tail end of her week off from Trinity Health to make sure our kids get to and from school with as my in-laws are out of town this week. I got home tonight from work where I had to stay late because I was scheduled to attend a mandatory benefits meeting. I remember the "m" word from two summers of camping at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, North Carolina. I have so many stories about that place from the mid-80s and I really must set them down sometime.
Oh, about mandatory ... every weekend when we were off from classes there the camp staff and admins would have some fun activity planned that we just HAD to go out on and it was always on a nasty school bus. And I was always the one no one wanted to sit with them. Seriously, I once had to sit down in the center aisle on a ninety-minute trip. Both ways. Man, I am remembering so much as I type this as I'm getting used to my new posting and working schedules. And it's SO good to be home right now with my kids watching The Standoff.
The movie's about eight teens who get a chance to win a car by touching it. That is, by holding their hand on the car the longest. Picture an older version of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory in terms of characters; they learn more about each other as kids "drop off" from holding on to the car, by various means. "So shines a good deed in a weary world." And on the day after Bethany Lutheran's church school for Jeffrey and first confirmation class for Sarah (and a great many other kids as well) I am sitting here closing out the day and thinking what to finish next.
David
Oh, about mandatory ... every weekend when we were off from classes there the camp staff and admins would have some fun activity planned that we just HAD to go out on and it was always on a nasty school bus. And I was always the one no one wanted to sit with them. Seriously, I once had to sit down in the center aisle on a ninety-minute trip. Both ways. Man, I am remembering so much as I type this as I'm getting used to my new posting and working schedules. And it's SO good to be home right now with my kids watching The Standoff.
The movie's about eight teens who get a chance to win a car by touching it. That is, by holding their hand on the car the longest. Picture an older version of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory in terms of characters; they learn more about each other as kids "drop off" from holding on to the car, by various means. "So shines a good deed in a weary world." And on the day after Bethany Lutheran's church school for Jeffrey and first confirmation class for Sarah (and a great many other kids as well) I am sitting here closing out the day and thinking what to finish next.
David
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