We're ready for the delivery....I hope. Video camera, digital camera and two changes of clothes are in my trunk. I've a tank of gas, some cash, and my cell phone charger as well. Shannon's iPod is ready with music to keep her mind off the contractions until it is time for the epidural....be prepared! My money is on this kid coming down the chute ( Read more... )

Directors' Planning Retreat
I hope it went well. I think it did. There were some things that we didn't do or had to reschedule because we ran out of time. This seems to be a pattern with our planning events. I need to work on this. Eight out of our twelve week-long, overnight camp sessions were represented. I was hoping for ten, but eight is OK. ( Read more... )

This weekend is the Director Planning Retreat for the 2008 summer camping season. I'm stoked but I'd rather feel more prepared. I know I've got everything ready but just don't feel like I've had time to prepare myself for the weekend.

Random stuff:

Last Friday's birthday was good. We met friends for dinner at the Olive Branch in Cahaba Heights and ( Read more... )

Tomorrow I turn 31 years old. I know I'm turning 31 years old because yesterday I wore white socks with brown shoes. Woo-hoo! Old!

On a positive note, the whole camp staff has tomorrow off. I thought that was pretty cool that everyone would take a day to celebrate my birthday. Or maybe it has something to do with Good Friday. That's entirely ( Read more... )

I just read the text of Barack Obama's speech addressing his association with Rev. Wright, which he used to speak to the issue of race in our nation. WOW.

I have a master's degree in communication studies and am a rhetoric geek. I have works by Cicero and Aristotle next to the Athlon's Football Annual. I get weepy reading Richard Nixon's "Checkers ( Read more... )

Camp Stuff

I tried to buy 11 mountain bikes from Target on Saturday. They talked me out of it. It's a long story but the policy should be to sell merchandise. I e-mailed the company and the gist was, "What a way to run a business!" They're sending me a $10 gift card. So, we'll get the bikes but I don't know if I'll get as good of a price and I don't ( Read more... )

I just took a mountain bike to A/C Rock and back and to the lake dam and back. My legs are jelly. The trails aren't bad. I'm just out of shape. Yesterday I picked up a Schwinn bike at Target for $124. They're on sale through tomorrow. In a bit, I'm going to take the bike back out and try to destroy it (a la junior high male camper). If it holds up ( Read more... )

The summer camp office now has a credit card for making purchases for camp-related stuff. Thank Bob. However, he warned me that if it is misused, he will break my fingers. With that in mind, I have shared with him a wish list of things that we need and that will be put on this card - with his go ahead. I told him he's the boss so I have to justify ( Read more... )

Thanks to everyone who's been thinking about and praying for Shannon and me. I'm not what I would consider a maudlin person. But I do understand the healthiness of expressing loss and grieving. Last night, we read Ecclesiastes before bed. People who think Christians should walk around their whole lives with goofy smiles that imply brainwashing, ( Read more... )

Saturday afternoon our dog Quincy was attacked by four other dogs. When I got to him he was in pretty bad shape. The firefighters in Argo dressed his wounds until I could get him him more help. He was awake the whole way to the hospital, in his bed and wrapped in a towel. I got him to the Vet Hospital in Birmingham and they gave me a guarded ( Read more... )