Keeping my peeps up to date

One: Turns out that I’m not as impressed with Perplex City as I had hoped to be. Sure the puzzles are tricky, well some are. I’ve done about 20 out of the 15 I have. Some were easy and others took quite a while to work out while others are, I believe, beyond my meager mental skills. But I don’t mind that. What bothers me is that there’s supposed to be this “immersive” aspect to the game – where the game begins to intrude on reality and I just don’t see how that’s supposed to happen. All I can see right now is some activity on the forums and a slow, third person update of the main plot and story line. But it hasn’t sucked me in. So I am giving up which is disappointing. I was looking forward to it and thought it would be great. It is not.

Two: My in-laws came up over the weekend and made off with their dog, Meggie. We liked having her and I think she’ll make a great addition to their family. But we’ll miss her.

Three: Benjamin is close to finishing off the requirements for his Webelos badge in cub scouts. I think he can do it by the end of this week so when we have our first big pack meeting in September he will receive a whole slew of badges for his work over the summer and I think it will really make him feel great. I hope he keeps with it.

Four: Last night I went to a Cub Scout leadership training meeting on selling popcorn. See, the cub scouts are selling popcorn, just like the girl scouts sell cookies. They use it as a fund raiser and the fall is their big fund raising time of year. I am the fundraising chairman for pack 615 so I had to go. It was ok and I was home by 8:45pm anyway.

Five: I have a lot of yard work to do. I have to mow and trim the grass. Clear out the weeds and trees from beside the garage and out of the canyon. I have to clean out the store room so I can build some shelves to store the Cub Scout’s popcorn and candy. Well, its not just for them. Its also so I can make better use of that space. Eventually I want to move the door to the store room to the back of the structure to prevent water from getting in. Then I would turn it in to a game room or a rumpus room or something. I would, of course have to store my crap somewhere else. In a shed maybe. And maybe reserve the back half of the room for a workbench that would be good for all kinds of things. But that’s a long term plan.

Six: I had a very busy morning because I had an auditor in asking a million detailed questions. Fortunately I think I came out of it smelling like a rose. I just get very tense when I have to defend my work, you know?

Seven: The kids are going back to school next week. Tuesday I think. Gabriel’s birthday is that following weekend – 10 days from now, I guess. He is having a LaserTag party. What could be better for a nine year old boy? Really. Nothing. Most of the kids are looking forward to some focused swim lessons that we have signed them up for. The YMCA’s lessons, which they have been taking for years haven’t prepared the kids as well as I would like. There’s a vo-tech school not far that has a good reputation for teaching kids how to really swim. So we signed up all four kids for an 8am to 9am time slot on Saturday mornings. I think it goes for ELEVEN weeks! Ben has said he doesn’t want to go. I overruled him and encouraged him to look forward to the post-swim McDonalds breakfast that mommy promised. He says he would prefer to sleep then. What’s funny is that he doesn’t sleep at that time of day on Saturday’s anway! So he’s coming.