Scout Camp
It seems I am getting worse and worse at writing here. I go gung-ho for awhile and then I seem to quit. I guess I am at least writing a little bit here as time goes on. Oh well. I'll just have to work on getting here to write more often.
At work I am doing a lot of analysis work. Of course in this last little while I have been getting involved in a couple of fixes that need to take place, so that is taking my time to do the coding. There is a lot of analysis work to be done for a new system to be working on the data warehouse side. It gets boring after awhile of looking at manuals to try to figure out what all of the needs are to send data to another place. I then will need to look to see if we have all or part of the data in the warehouse as well as on the mainframe system. In the long run, we are hoping that a particular problem that we have been having with getting data out will be automated and a lot less problematic. It may also make it so a couple of people don't have too much to do, and this is one of the main reasons this hasn't come to the forefront before now.
In my personal life, not too much has been happening out of the ordinary. That is a part of the reason that I don't write things here, because I really don't feel that there is too much to say (although once I start typing, I usually come up with something to say). The only thing of significance that I can think of to write about was Scout Camp this past Friday and Saturday.
On Thursday I picked up a Scout Uniform so I could have it for the Scout Camp. That was $40 down the drain (I'm supposed to be more enthusiastic about it probably). That night, I had my daughter start to sew on a bunch of patches. We don't have a sewing machine, so this has to be done manually. She was a good sport about it, so I let her do it. She got most of it done, and my wife finished up one number patch for her (it was getting too late for her to be up). It was while she was doing this that my son told me that she wanted a sewing machine for her birthday.
Friday was my day off, and I packed most of my stuff in the early morning while my wife had visiting teachers over. My wife joked about all of the stuff I have to take in order to go on a scout camp. I have my C-Pap machine that needs a battery and an inverter, and then for my comfort I put in an over sized cot as well as a camp chair (unfortunately the over sized cot was of no use because of the size of tent we had). My wife and I went to a nice lunch together and then, after arriving home, just cuddled up on the couch.
Soon after the kids arrived home, I had to go over to the church. Glen (the scoutmaster) was a little bit late because he couldn't find the key to the scout shed. There was five boys that I stayed with while we were waiting for Glen to arrive. He got there, we loaded up and we left. We went to the Jordanelle Dam for the camp. We could tell it was going to be a chilly night. There was still a little bit of snow on the ground (although it wasn't all over). We had the boys set up camp and their tents and get dinner going. My patrol (the Rams) had a simple dinner of chicken sandwiches (with precooked chicken breast) and the other patrol had foil dinners. Glen made himself two dinners and then offered me some of the second one (which I gladly took). We mostly hung around the camp fire because it was so cold outside of it and just gabbed and ate. We roasted some marshmallows and stayed up until around 10:00 (I actually stayed up till around 11:00). I had two sleeping bags and used one of them to help cushion the hard ground. I don't know what it is, but the older I get, the harder the ground seems to get.
During the long night (I didn't sleep all that well) my nose piece on the C-pap machine completely got messed up and I had to run to the public restrooms (in my long-johns) to try to fix it. I finally got that fixed and went back to the hard ground to try to sleep. I don't know what the temperature got down too, but there was a little bit of ice on any water that was around (so it went down to at least 32 degrees Fahrenheit. We got up and almost immediately took down our tent. We also had the boys take down their tent because three of them had to leave early, leaving us with only the two boys (Dallin and Chandler). While cleaning up the camp (there was supposed to be an inspection - which didn't happen) I was reminded of when I was a boy as I watched a few of them struggle with some of the things with the leaders gently urging them on. I remembered that I used to hate it when they would tell me exactly how to do things and yet, as an adult I see the wisdom in what they had done. I used to be one of those that didn't know what it was that I was supposed to do.
We went over to the flag ceremony and found out where we needed to go for our service project. We went over to the day use side of the Jordanelle Dam resort so we could prune trees of any shoots that were under two feet of the trees. We did this for about two hours, but we finished everything that we had to finish. The only frustrating thing about that was that they had told us to bring rakes, shovels and wheelbarrows. Thank goodness the ranger came around to us and had a couple of clippers to use.
We were able to finish everything and arrived home at around noon. I was a bit stiff but it wasn't too bad. That's really about all that we happened.
Over the rest of the weekend, my wife and I discussed our daughters birthday which is coming up this week (Wednesday). We pretty much decided on the sewing machine and were able to get a beginner one that we think is pretty good for $200. That's more than we wanted to spend, but we don't want to get one that will be lousy. We picked out a Bernette which is made by Bernina. I certainly hope our son was correct on what our daughter wanted for her birthday. I had asked her a bit about it and she doesn't seem like she will be adverse to it. Well, that's about it. I have nothing more to really say than I have already said.
At work I am doing a lot of analysis work. Of course in this last little while I have been getting involved in a couple of fixes that need to take place, so that is taking my time to do the coding. There is a lot of analysis work to be done for a new system to be working on the data warehouse side. It gets boring after awhile of looking at manuals to try to figure out what all of the needs are to send data to another place. I then will need to look to see if we have all or part of the data in the warehouse as well as on the mainframe system. In the long run, we are hoping that a particular problem that we have been having with getting data out will be automated and a lot less problematic. It may also make it so a couple of people don't have too much to do, and this is one of the main reasons this hasn't come to the forefront before now.
In my personal life, not too much has been happening out of the ordinary. That is a part of the reason that I don't write things here, because I really don't feel that there is too much to say (although once I start typing, I usually come up with something to say). The only thing of significance that I can think of to write about was Scout Camp this past Friday and Saturday.
On Thursday I picked up a Scout Uniform so I could have it for the Scout Camp. That was $40 down the drain (I'm supposed to be more enthusiastic about it probably). That night, I had my daughter start to sew on a bunch of patches. We don't have a sewing machine, so this has to be done manually. She was a good sport about it, so I let her do it. She got most of it done, and my wife finished up one number patch for her (it was getting too late for her to be up). It was while she was doing this that my son told me that she wanted a sewing machine for her birthday.
Friday was my day off, and I packed most of my stuff in the early morning while my wife had visiting teachers over. My wife joked about all of the stuff I have to take in order to go on a scout camp. I have my C-Pap machine that needs a battery and an inverter, and then for my comfort I put in an over sized cot as well as a camp chair (unfortunately the over sized cot was of no use because of the size of tent we had). My wife and I went to a nice lunch together and then, after arriving home, just cuddled up on the couch.
Soon after the kids arrived home, I had to go over to the church. Glen (the scoutmaster) was a little bit late because he couldn't find the key to the scout shed. There was five boys that I stayed with while we were waiting for Glen to arrive. He got there, we loaded up and we left. We went to the Jordanelle Dam for the camp. We could tell it was going to be a chilly night. There was still a little bit of snow on the ground (although it wasn't all over). We had the boys set up camp and their tents and get dinner going. My patrol (the Rams) had a simple dinner of chicken sandwiches (with precooked chicken breast) and the other patrol had foil dinners. Glen made himself two dinners and then offered me some of the second one (which I gladly took). We mostly hung around the camp fire because it was so cold outside of it and just gabbed and ate. We roasted some marshmallows and stayed up until around 10:00 (I actually stayed up till around 11:00). I had two sleeping bags and used one of them to help cushion the hard ground. I don't know what it is, but the older I get, the harder the ground seems to get.
During the long night (I didn't sleep all that well) my nose piece on the C-pap machine completely got messed up and I had to run to the public restrooms (in my long-johns) to try to fix it. I finally got that fixed and went back to the hard ground to try to sleep. I don't know what the temperature got down too, but there was a little bit of ice on any water that was around (so it went down to at least 32 degrees Fahrenheit. We got up and almost immediately took down our tent. We also had the boys take down their tent because three of them had to leave early, leaving us with only the two boys (Dallin and Chandler). While cleaning up the camp (there was supposed to be an inspection - which didn't happen) I was reminded of when I was a boy as I watched a few of them struggle with some of the things with the leaders gently urging them on. I remembered that I used to hate it when they would tell me exactly how to do things and yet, as an adult I see the wisdom in what they had done. I used to be one of those that didn't know what it was that I was supposed to do.
We went over to the flag ceremony and found out where we needed to go for our service project. We went over to the day use side of the Jordanelle Dam resort so we could prune trees of any shoots that were under two feet of the trees. We did this for about two hours, but we finished everything that we had to finish. The only frustrating thing about that was that they had told us to bring rakes, shovels and wheelbarrows. Thank goodness the ranger came around to us and had a couple of clippers to use.
We were able to finish everything and arrived home at around noon. I was a bit stiff but it wasn't too bad. That's really about all that we happened.
Over the rest of the weekend, my wife and I discussed our daughters birthday which is coming up this week (Wednesday). We pretty much decided on the sewing machine and were able to get a beginner one that we think is pretty good for $200. That's more than we wanted to spend, but we don't want to get one that will be lousy. We picked out a Bernette which is made by Bernina. I certainly hope our son was correct on what our daughter wanted for her birthday. I had asked her a bit about it and she doesn't seem like she will be adverse to it. Well, that's about it. I have nothing more to really say than I have already said.
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