on the rim

So, now I am home from Webelos Weekend.  Trading Post is cleaned up, and ready to set up for Pow Wow when I go back on Friday.  Goetz was cleaned out, ready for me to take a bed Friday and Saturday nights.  Like I never have left.  Will this ever stop? Technically, I am done being on staff.  I volunteered for Pow Wow, and as I will be going to Brandon's ward on Sunday for Rachel's blessing, that actually makes it somewhat convenient.  But I did want to write a little more on my time on Staff this past year. I first want to express gratitude to Brandon and Dave, both of whom took a chance on a first year staffer to take a fairly significant role by running the Trading Post.  That was a pretty big job, bigger than I realized. I missed more than a few meals just trying to get everything done that needed doing.  I was only able to get everything done because of Roger. Roger stood in at the last minute, simply because he was available.  He h...

I made it.  Sort of. I am surprised, though I can't talk much.  My throat has been in a constant state of hoarseness for the last several weeks.  Congestion, with no right to whine, I worked in AC everyday, which just made walking outside that much worse. I wanted to be full throttle to the end, but truthfully, I think the tank may have ran out and I just coasted over the finish line.  We cleaned the store today, I cleaned Goetz this afternoon while the rest of the staff had their party at the Legends (some place in KC, never been, nor desire to go) which included that elusive movie ticket to see Endgame (or the movie of their choice) it was a running Wednesday night campfire thing.  Me, I had to work in the store on Saturdays and never got the chance to help my building mates clean, so I worked on it today. So, review for the summer?  Well, technically, it isn't over.  Next week, starting Wednesday (yippeee two plus days off IN A ROW) Webelos ca...

I write with very mixed emotions today. My good friend on Staff at Camp Geiger received his White Paint as a Sachem last night.  I don't have mixed emotions on that, it is long overdue.  The accolades given him prior to his elevation were appropriate, and fitting.  Eagle Scout.  Long term on staff.  Veteran who put it all on the battlefield for his country.  None deserve it more. Part of the mixed emotion is that Week 4 included girls that are Scouts in camp, about a 5th or so of the total number of youth camping.  I struggle with this a little, not so much because I am a sexist pig, but more because I try to understand the mission of BSA by including girls.  BSA has always been about taking young men and teaching them how to be responsible adult men.  That was Lord Baden Powell's vision in the beginning, to have soldiers that knew how to do stuff, and how to take care of themselves.  It is not simply teaching how to tie square knots...