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Big pack meeting tonight

As you know I’m deeply involved with cub scout pack 615 right now.  I’m their fundraising monkey, I mean “chairman”.  So I have a number of obligations.  Ben meets twice a month with about eight other boys and a leader to do their Webelos-thing.  They often do some kind of craft/construction/community project.  Likewise, Gabriel meets twice a month to do the same kind of thing.  Once a month there’s a pack meeting.  At least once a month there’s a committee meeting.  There are outings and other pack events that may be things like a hockey game, ice skating, hiking, camping etc.  There’s usually at least one or two of these things per month on a weekend.

You can see how scouts can quickly come to dominiate a household.

Tonight’s pack meeting is a big event.  No, not because its “Skit Night”, where each den performs a skit.  Its because Benjamin will receive his “Arrow of Light” award and participate in a cross-over ceremony wherein he will stop being a cub scout and start being a boy scout.  Its a big deal and I’ve asked Liz to come too despite her having never attended one of these things. 

So that’s a big deal for tonight. 

The rest of the weekend is wide open.

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Advice for the ages

I used to be a carpenter and lighting technician of sorts for the theater in college. When we got really jammed up and something just wouldn’t fit no matter how tried to coax it there was an age-old axiom that came in to play:

“If it doesn’t fit, get a bigger hammer”

Fifteen years later its still sound advice today.

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Party today

My employer is a small biotech/pharmaceutical company. they’re still very small. Today they are having their third annual Groundhog Day party at a neighborhood brewery.

No, they don’t have an Arbor Day party. And no Labor Day party. Not even a Columbus or Presidents’ Day Party.

Why Groundhog Day?

Because they do some of their medical testing on Groundhogs.

( BWAAAHHAHAHAHAHA!!!! )

(I think its hilarious. Don’t get me wrong, I’m sorry the groundhogs had to get injected with Hepatitis, but something was going to be on the ass-end of a needle and it might as well have been a groundhog.)

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Funny guys over at MAKE.COM

Homemade LED shirt…

Moonanite Shirt 2
Moonanite Shirt 1
Craig writes in with some more LED shirt action… -

“After hearing the news from Boston and laughing hysterically my friends and I decided that we needed to make something in response. When hearing about your challenge to make a LED Aquateen t-shirt we immediatly took action. Attached is a picture of the shirt. It is constructed from discarded LED’s found in a server and a spare t-shirt.’

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[via MAKE Magazine]
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