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Here’s our cruise ship at the pier in Haines. Looks kind of lonely there, doesn’t it? Surprisingly, they don’t get many ships there. Most of them go a little further away to Skagway, which is also supposed to be a nice town. I’ll bet it’s a lot more touristy, though.

Yet another normal day. Sunny and warm. Worked and came home. The Loyal Readers did what they do. Nothing to see here folks; move along.

So we’ll end prematurely with the latest shocking food violence news: a chili heist! This may be worse than stealing a Big Boy statue.

See you tomorrow.

Here’s a great hammer. I want one of these things. You got your tack claw, your hammer, your wrench, your lifter, and your ice axe. And it’s all made of convenient cast iron! I can’t imagine anything better. Photo taken at the world-famous Haines Hammer Museum, of course.

Normal day again. No complaints, no explanations.

We’re sitting around watching The Mouse that Roared. It stars Peter Sellers and tells the story of the bankrupt tiny European nation that decides to declare war on America so they can immediately surrender and then get foreign aid. The only problem is that they win. Funny movie, and it was followed up by the equally funny The Mouse on the Moon. Good fun and highly recommended.

So let’s have today’s mystery good news. I swear I had absolutely nothing to do with it.

See you tomorrow.

Here’s a bunch of hammers in Haines’s famous Hammer Museum. It turned out to be a really cool place, strangely. They have more hammers in there than you can shake an . . . um . . . hammer at. Highly recommended to future Haines visitors.

No, not this Hammer museum. Although that looks like a good one too.

Rainy weekend, which is unusual around here this time of year. We enjoyed it. Managed to wash all four cars, three of which are still clean. The Suburban’s WAY cleaner than it was before, too. Didn’t get much accomplished otherwise. LRN4 and I took LRN2 and his friend Josh up to Lodi for a fireside on Saturday night, and we went to the nearby Velvet Grill and Creamery. It turned out to be a nice little family restaurant and ice cream emporium. And their tomato soup was delicious. I had fish and chips (good fish, overcooked chips) and LRN4 had a great baja burger and the aforementioned soup. We’d go there again.

Also managed to prepare my priesthood lesson on time and under budget. I think it went fairly well.

Normal day. The trains ran on time, fortunately. They were pretty crowded because of the rain, thus proving my Friday prediction of empty cars to be slightly inaccurate. I claim the rain exemption.

Had a nice evening home with the family. Also a nice family home evening.

We have more monkey-related job opportunities for my Loyal Readers – underwear stealing monkeys. Just stay away from the cactus and you should be fine.

See you tomorrow.

Here’s LRN4 on her Alaskan ATV. She got a bit dirty too. We sure had fun, though. Pretty scenery and a fun ride. At least I thought so, anyway.

Rough, rough ride home tonight. The locomotive broke down in Pleasanton, which turned out not to be pleasant at all. They tried to get it working right, but to no avail, so we had to wait until the train after ours got there, wait some more while they hooked the two trains together, and wait even more while the train went about half as fast as usual. They made us get out of our train at the station and wait out in the hot sun for about half an hour, and then we had to crowd in with the other crowd in their train. Took four hours. Sigh.

But the weekend’s here and nothing can stop my fun. Maybe a little work too. At the very least I have to prepare my Priesthood lesson. And the Suburban is truly filthy.

Speaking of the Suburban, the new brake lines arrived yesterday. Maybe I should take the time to install them. We’ll see.

LRN2’s out at his friend Josh’s house this evening. LRN1’s out eating sushi. And LRN4 is working on a new comforter for our bed. It’s looking real nice.

And we’re just finishing up watching The Trouble with Angels. Hadn’t seen it since I was an uncouth youth. It’s no better now than it was then. The most depressing comedy I’ve ever seen. Not recommended.

We’ll end tonight with some food-related violence. Sort of. Stay away from the fridge.

See you on Monday.

Here’s your Blogger (the person, not the oft-broken-but-apparently-working-just-fine-right-now service) during the rest stop on our Alaska ATV adventure. Got a bit dirty.

Another busy but uneventful day. I held an all-hands meeting with my people to talk about our near future. The news wasn’t all that good, but I think people appreciated knowing the program’s status. I’m certainly glad they know now. I think everything will work out fine, but we have some pretty big challenges in front of us.

Uneventful car, train, and car rides on both ends. The trains have been pretty much on time (only late on Massive Meeting Tuesday afternoon, as always, for some reason) and not overly crowded. Ridership is most definitely down since gas got cheaper a year or so ago. They’ve dropped the extra cars they had added to the trains and the crowds are still relatively small.

Not that I like crowds of any size. I’d really prefer a private train car. Hmmm. Must add that to my Christmas list this year.

The weekend is already upon us tomorrow. I need to prepare a Priesthood lesson for this Sunday and a Sacrament Meeting talk for the following week. Both of which I’m doing as a stand-in for other people. Not that I mind. Much.

So let’s have some long-overdue toilet news: Don’t break one, whatever you do.