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It's been a long time since I made a serious update, and I'll be disappearing for all of next week, so here goes. In part the lack of activity is due to a busy final session at sorting_elite. Then there was Hogsmeade. In part the lack of posting has been competing with mari4212 for computer time in the evening. And finally, it's due to living a boring life.
So, what's new?
Work I never post details about my work, because I work as a consultant for other firms. Some of my work is covered by attorney-client privilege. Other work eventually makes it into the public domain when it finally gets submitted to a regulatory agency. Most of the time, my company and I are providing confidential advice to companies considering the purchase and acquisition of land. None of them would be really happy with having me share about what I do, no matter how circumspectly. Occasionally, there's some fascinating things that come up when we in the environmental world try to mix government regulations with health science and with the physical world, but even sharing that might compromise a strategy we will be using with one of our clients. So work stays off limits.
church We suspend adult Sunday School for the summer, so there;s really just the regular experience of attending services on Sunday - when I can (see family below). I am working on some posts about where my denomination is going on the issue of recognizing the ministries of gay Christians, or else splitting over the issue, but they're not in any final form yet.
family My kids are busy with their own lives, which takes a lot of time out of our schedules. Our oldest daughter is busy planning her wedding next year, but most of the fun trips are made with my wife and with mari4212, who gets to be a bridesmaid. She's been doing most of the squeeing about the wedding plans on her journal, while I watch our youngest daughter. There's been less posting of daily life now that mari4212 is at home for the summer. Middle daughter (the disabled one) just spent a week at camp, so Mari, my wife and I actually got to sit down for dinner for the week. She usually gets so distracted by other people that she doesn't eat until we leave, and she is far more interested in what is on other people's plates than what is on her own. This makes family dinners around a table difficult. Youngest son is working at a Scout camp this summer, and gets off at about 11 AM on each Saturday, and has to be back to camp by about 11 AM on Sunday. He doesn't have a car, so I get to make at least one trip out to camp and back each weekend. We've been able to make at least a few car pool arrangements, but it's been on a weekend to weekend basis. Any time I have to take him out on a Sunday, I miss church as well.
Boy Scouts Two new Eagle Scouts in the troop, or they will be as soon as they pass their Board of Reviews in the next few weeks. We're also getting ready to go to summer camp next week. I'm also helping plan an interdenominational service to celebrate the centennial of the Boy Scout Movement on August 1st.
fandom I did go to Order of the Phoenix, with mari4212, my son, one of Mari's friends and her dad. A good time was had by all. We're leaving in about half an hour for the book release party at our local bookstore. There's been some careful scheduling of the book rights. mari4212 will start reading as soon as we're home, and will probably have it read by noon tomorrow, when my son arrives home from camp and starts to read it. He will probably have to take it back to camp with him, but since this is the week I'll be there with the troop, I'll recover the book and get it read by the time I come back. We'll be living in tents, with no computer access and no Internet access either.
I firmly expect that the community will be almost silent for the next week or so, unless all of the Hogsmeade entries get dropped for voting. So except for a few comments back and forth this weekend, I'll see you all in a week.
So, what's new?
Work I never post details about my work, because I work as a consultant for other firms. Some of my work is covered by attorney-client privilege. Other work eventually makes it into the public domain when it finally gets submitted to a regulatory agency. Most of the time, my company and I are providing confidential advice to companies considering the purchase and acquisition of land. None of them would be really happy with having me share about what I do, no matter how circumspectly. Occasionally, there's some fascinating things that come up when we in the environmental world try to mix government regulations with health science and with the physical world, but even sharing that might compromise a strategy we will be using with one of our clients. So work stays off limits.
church We suspend adult Sunday School for the summer, so there;s really just the regular experience of attending services on Sunday - when I can (see family below). I am working on some posts about where my denomination is going on the issue of recognizing the ministries of gay Christians, or else splitting over the issue, but they're not in any final form yet.
family My kids are busy with their own lives, which takes a lot of time out of our schedules. Our oldest daughter is busy planning her wedding next year, but most of the fun trips are made with my wife and with mari4212, who gets to be a bridesmaid. She's been doing most of the squeeing about the wedding plans on her journal, while I watch our youngest daughter. There's been less posting of daily life now that mari4212 is at home for the summer. Middle daughter (the disabled one) just spent a week at camp, so Mari, my wife and I actually got to sit down for dinner for the week. She usually gets so distracted by other people that she doesn't eat until we leave, and she is far more interested in what is on other people's plates than what is on her own. This makes family dinners around a table difficult. Youngest son is working at a Scout camp this summer, and gets off at about 11 AM on each Saturday, and has to be back to camp by about 11 AM on Sunday. He doesn't have a car, so I get to make at least one trip out to camp and back each weekend. We've been able to make at least a few car pool arrangements, but it's been on a weekend to weekend basis. Any time I have to take him out on a Sunday, I miss church as well.
Boy Scouts Two new Eagle Scouts in the troop, or they will be as soon as they pass their Board of Reviews in the next few weeks. We're also getting ready to go to summer camp next week. I'm also helping plan an interdenominational service to celebrate the centennial of the Boy Scout Movement on August 1st.
fandom I did go to Order of the Phoenix, with mari4212, my son, one of Mari's friends and her dad. A good time was had by all. We're leaving in about half an hour for the book release party at our local bookstore. There's been some careful scheduling of the book rights. mari4212 will start reading as soon as we're home, and will probably have it read by noon tomorrow, when my son arrives home from camp and starts to read it. He will probably have to take it back to camp with him, but since this is the week I'll be there with the troop, I'll recover the book and get it read by the time I come back. We'll be living in tents, with no computer access and no Internet access either.
I firmly expect that the community will be almost silent for the next week or so, unless all of the Hogsmeade entries get dropped for voting. So except for a few comments back and forth this weekend, I'll see you all in a week.