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Here’s yet another gallant steed on the Great America Carousel. Part of both my famous statue and machinery series.

Went home early from work today – feeling sick. I don’t know if I’m coming down with something or I’m having a stronger than usual reaction to pollen and dust in the air. But I do know I haven’t been feeling well. Sigh.

Otherwise, nothing going on. I started reading Mark Levin’s Liberty and Tyranny this afternoon, right before my nap. So far so good, although I suppose it did help me with the nap. I think it’ll turn out to be a good book, though.

Made a few more callings for Young Women camp this evening. These last few callings are the tough ones. I’m getting some refusals and a whole lot of people who have to think about it. Most of the callings until now have been accepted immediately. Which I like. We’ll get it staffed, though . . . somehow.

Today’s toilet news: they’re getting easier to find.

See you tomorrow.

Here’s a rather frightening sight – skulls. Dozens of ’em. Found in an ancient cave? An ancient monestary? The Roman catacombs? Naw – Great America.

Nice day. It rained early, although I didn’t see it. My car did, though. Sigh. Work was fine. Commuting was fine. Everything was fine.

Spent the evening working on Young Women Camp callings. Made some progress.

The weekend will be incredibly busy. Saturday from dawn to late at night will be spent at the youth COPE activity. Ought to be fun. Hard work and fun, that is. Sunday will be normal. Meetings and YW camp callings. And rest.

No toilet news, but I do have disgusting news, so that counts: I think I’d rather have asthma.

I also discovered the second unluckiest person in the world today (right after the first unluckiest, reported here earlier): Pregnant Woman Hit by Car While Fleeing from Bear. Now that’s unlucky.

See you Monday.

Here’s LRN2 learning how to make cheese. Picture taken during the (duh) cheese factory tour.

Happy birthday to my brother Chris! he and his SO were at our house yesterday. It was nice to see him again and meet her and her two kids. It was a very pleasant day.

Warm weekend. Downright hot yesterday and again today. The pool was marginally warm yesterday – enough so that the kids went swimming while the adults enjoyed sitting in the shade and talking for quite a while. Very relaxing day.

Saturday was nice too. LRN2 and I cleaned the pond filter and washed and waxed my Honda, which now looks wonderful. We also went for a couple of rides in the newly-shocked and -tired Suburban – it really rides nicely now. Huge difference. You really don’t notice how bad things have gotten until you get them fixed.

Normal day at work. A little bit of work and a lot of meetings. Even more meetings (and even less work, probably) tomorrow.

LRN1’s still working on his summer work decision. He has a pretty good offer (at least financially) in Salt Lake, but I don’t think he wants to be there all summer. the job would also require him to coop there during the school year, which would be a little bit difficult. On the upside, he would be making pretty good money for a student and would be definitely working professionally.

He owes them a decision tomorrow. I’ll be interested to see how it turns out.

He’ll be home tomorrow, in any case.

There’s toilet news today! Warn your children.

See you tomorrow.

Here are LRN2 and LRN4 and a few of their new friends about to be swung to nausea-inducing levels. I didn’t ride. I took pictures. They seemed to enjoy it, though. Strange. Picture taken at Great America.

Well. Busy day. Got the shocks for the ‘Burb. I checked into exact replacements for the Bilsteins that were on there from the factory and they were either extremely expensive or mail order only. I ended up getting a set of KYBs. Behold . . . the MonoMax:

What a thing of beauty. Hopefully, it will keep the new tires from rapid degradation, like the previous set. Speaking of which, I got new tires too. They’re Michelins and seem like they’ll be really good too.

Anyway. Also worked a few hours and spent some time preparing my talk. Still need to wash a car, clean the pond filter, and whatever else was on my list yesterday. I’ll figure it out.

Congrats to LRN1 for his job offer! We were pretty sure it was coming, but it’s nice to actually have it in hand. I hope he at least hears back from the Apple guy so he can make an informed decision.

Of course, he may want to consider this opportunity instead. That’s way better than Monkey Man.

No toilet news, no food violence news. The world is safe. See you Monday.

Here’s your favorite cartoon character and mine. Photo taken at Great America, and featuring a rare cameo by your favorite blogger – if you can find it.

Once again, the weekend’s here. and I have lots of plans. Possibly the highest priority is finishing preparations for my Sunday talk. I have the general ideas ready and just need to organize them (link warning: video of a very bad – but short – speech). But it needs to get done.

Probably have to attend a couple of work meetings via telecon tomorrow morning.

Need to buy new tires for the Suburban – I discovered last night that one of them is completely worn out, so now’s the time. I also need to have new shocks put on, since the old worn-out shocks are what caused the premature death of the tires.

Around the house, the pond filter needs to be cleaned and a car needs to be washed. Pretty much any car will do. They’re all filthy.

Then there are the preparations for my brother’s possible visit. He just sent me a message saying he’s not sure whether he’s coming at this point. Hope to find out soon.

There are numerous Young Women Camp callings to work on, of course. Need to make real progress on that front.

Plus relaxation, of course.

Is that enough? I think so. It’ll have to do, at any rate.

Talked with LRN1 this morning. He had a third (I believe) interview with the company in Salt Lake City. It seems quite positive for him at this point. They want him as a co-op rather than in intern. That seems attractive to him because it makes him an integral part of their ongoing work, rather than someone temporary who does busy work. It will be interesting to see how it turns out.

Any food violence out there? Just this: Spaghetti-O’s smell like death. Pretty chilling.

See you tomorrow.