This conversation took place in the fitness club's locker room while I was changing my clothes, ready to go home after my workout. Two guys, one older, sitting down, taking off his clothes, getting ready to shower, the other, younger, is changing into his workout clothes. The older guy is in his late 60's, out of shape, regular patron, who likes ( Read more... )

On Boxing Day evening, we hosted a games night. Four friends came over and we ordered pizza. Kevin & I made a fruit crumble. The six of us played several games of Bannagrams and a couple of Scattergories. Being the horrible host that I am, I won every single game that we played that night. Bad me ( Read more... )

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This weekend is all about the entertainment. I haven't been doing much square dancing lately, since people have been busy or on vacations and we haven't had enough for a square for some of our nights. For the last few weeks, I either danced zero or once per week. This week possibly twice and then probably zero until next year. But that is okay, I ( Read more... )

Went to the gym Friday night, Saturday morning and Sunday afternoon ( Read more... )

Well, another fly-in weekend has come and gone. This year we were back at St. Paul's church. It was much better than the leaky church we were in last year (where we had buckets to catch the rain water drippings). This year's attendance looked like it was up and energy was strong. Anne and John did a great job calling for us. The gca callers had fun ( Read more... )

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It all started in the summer of 1984. I was a young man and went on my coming of age summer Israel/Europe trip. The first part was a short summer ulpan (Hebrew work study program) in Israel. I was assigned to stay at the Ramat Rachel Kibbutz where I worked in the morning and studied in the afternoon. One weekend day, a British guy, who worked at ( Read more... )

Well another week went by, and I didn't say anything about it in my journal. I guess, being on vacation, one loses a bit of discipline ( Read more... )