Monday after a busy weekend

Back here at work on a Monday trying to squeeze in some quiet time to write this next installment for this blog. The weekend flew by and we mostly did work.

Saturday I got up early. Sandy was going to teach (for the first time) Inspiration. 2 teachers showed up. She did a really good job. I was impressed. The technology failed for the first hour. It was very frustrating. The tech who set up the laptops apparently did not test them to find out if there would be any problems. This (the failure of technology when I am presenting) has happened repeatedly over this last school year. I have been to EHS to speak about technology and the equipment has not been set up. I have been to VHS to train on GroupWise and the equipment was not set up. I have been to OGHS to teach on GroupWise and the equipment was not set up.

After the Inspiration training we went back home, worked on CSUSM things, then went to church. Church was good. The pastor who spoke (Chris Brown) did an excellent job of teaching. He illustrated in a way that he always does; very down to earth and entertaining, but but very poignent at the same time. He spoke about how Christ was coming into Jerusalem on a colt and the significance of this time.

Afterwards, Sandy and I came home watched the last hour of The Hunt for Red October and went to sleep. (We didn't have enough time to finish the movie when we started it several days before)

The next morning we got up early to get going out to San Clemente. My sister in law, Sheryl, was going to speak at her church to be comissioned to go on a mission trip to Malawi (East Coast of Africa). She will be leaving in about a week. Afterwards we visited at their house for a bit we left for home at about 2:30. It was fun to visit with them and just hang out. We got to play a game of Sorry which took a bit of time to play as we spread it out over eating and talking. I got to see Jon's work on his bike carrying cases. He's done some good work here. He's taken military ammo cans and converted them to carry gear for his motorcycle. It's amazing what he's done and it's turned out great.

After we got home we planned out some caches to do. We got some caching in and crossed over the magical 200 mark. Woohoo! We saw some VERY creative and clever caches. One was set up so you went to one way point and had to find a long stick with a hook on it. Then you had to go to another waypoint and the cache was high in a tree disguised as a bird feeder. It was hanging from a weight and pulley system. You needed to use the stick from the first way point, and pull down the bird feeder. Very clever. Another cache we did that day sent us on a search to find a missing "dog". The first waypoint was a sign stapled (high) to a telephone pole that said they had lost a dog. The telelphone numbers to call were actually lattitude and longitude numbers. Then we did a few more waypoints and finally got to the final cache. It was near the humane society and it was IN a stuffed animal (dog) and fit the theme quite well. Very impressive.

On other news I survived and apparently did good enough on the audition to play for North Coast Church. I'll be playing there for the first time in April. I'm really looking forward to that. For this first time they want me to play acoutic guitar, but not sing. They've also told me that they may need me to play the djembe (drum) at times as well.