reminder

Ah, Kaleidoscope. My last year as a jr. high youth, this event was called Jr. High Jamboree. My first year as a jr. high youth, this event was called Jr. High Weekend.

As a staff member, the event is more fun than it ever was when I was a youth. I love staffing these things. What really got me was all the people who were important parts of my youth that were around. I got to cut up with the very people who had inspired me to be there. Timm Hackett was the big one though. He and Heath Gilbert were the two staffers who, when I was a youth, started making what I believed make sense. So getting to cut up in the back with him, Ramey Kemp (another longtime favorite staff member from my youth), Bret Farmer, Zack, and Justing Langston was a huge blessing.

I would be a jerk not to mention how much some encouraging words from Tom Pritchard meant to me as well. Tom doesn't read this. But I want to thank him in an interweb setting anyway.

It's nice to have weekends like this and weeks lke Global Vision earlier coming on the heels of some serious dissatisfaction with the Church. It's nice to be reminded of all the reasons to keep the faith.

By the way, it's a little late but congratulations are in order for another longime favorite from my days as a youth, Leonard Fairley.

i me mine

Well. Kobe got the team he wanted. He got rid of the people who were keeping him from being a star. This was his team, and he was going to show the world. So how did his season end?

With Bryant "resting an injury" rather than leading his team as the Lakers were eliminated from the playoffs officially.

In the meantime, Shaq and some kid named Wade (no, not Wade) are headlining the best team in the East. Wade and the Heat got the job done with the big fella on the sideline himself, for the record...if you didn't read the link.

Kobe now has some free time to watch those all-important early major league baseball games.

When does football start?

i me mine

Well. Kobe got the team he wanted. He got rid of the people who were keeping him from being a star. This was his team, and he was going to show the world. So how did his season end?

With Bryant "resting an injury" rather than leading his team as the Lakers were officially.

In the meantime, Shaq and some kid named Wade (no, not Wade) are headlining the best team in the East. Wade and the Heat got the job done with the big fella on the sideline himself, for the record...if you didn't read the link.

Kobe now has some free time to watch those all-important early major league baseball games.

When does football start?

it looks pretty

Andi got some new kind of makeup/bronzer thingy. She asked me how it looked and then told me what to say so that I wouldn't screw it up. See why I love her?

poop

My father tells me that my great grandmother's favorite word in the English language was "horseshit." Dogshit sounds funnier, I always thought, but I may never laugh when I hear it again. So Grandnanny, I shall never mock your choice of swears again.

I kenneled the puppy. I kenneled him good. They know how to take care of him there. They will do all the things that I either couldn't do or didn't know to do. As a result, the puppy will probably poop when he's taken out to poop and not in the middle of the night. Either way, I know for sure that the poop will not have to be cleaned up by me.

It's been a learning experience. I learned that the reason I loved my dogs so much is that they were lazy, lazy dogs that only wanted to play on a once-a-day basis (if that much).