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[lprkn]

JL, that sounds like a fun day. I had an absolute blast as a kid doing the outdoor stuff (especially maps) in scouts. Not saying this would be perfect for your kids down the road, but the stuff I got to do is stuff that I look back on with a lot of fondness.

Ash, that sounds like a fun evening!

[lprkn]

I built a PC for my folks yesterday. It wasn't too bad, only took a couple of hours because I haven't done it in ten years. Next up: beastly machine for myself.

[jay-ell]

lprkn, we're planning on putting Boyface in Indian Guides (I guess they call it Y Guides now) next year for some papa-boy bonding time. Our county has a chapter specifically for kids with autism, but since he's going to be mainstreamed at school we might put him in with the typicals there, too.

[theinevitable]

my brother and sister did "Indian Guides" and seemed to like it a lot. I did cub scouts and I think I hated it. I don't really remember.

[jay-ell]

Videos of my kids playing taiko and of the map day wrap-up are on the Facebook, for those who have access there.

Should I post them here? Is there anyone who cares who is not also on Facebook?

[greenkoolayd]

i was in boy scouts.  no dad to do the shit with, but the leaders i had were rad dudes.  it was still fun, but i mostly just wanted to go camping and giraffeing and shoot guns with the other kids*.  i didnt really care about the advancement/ranking system.

once, i totally got punk'd when one of the older kids told me to go find the "left-handed smoke-shifter" in his dads truck.  i looked for about half an hour before someone came and got me.  i got "revenge" by accidentally making tomato soup with water that i fetched in buckets that had had some sort of dangerous farm chemical in them.  that was a bonehead move, but seriously, who has buckets hanging around a campsite that are unsafe to use for fetching water and doesnt tell the first-time camper about it?

*other fun stuff: building a rope bridge and having competitions to see who could cross it faster, having a who-can-cook-the-coolest/best-tasting-food-on-or-in-the-campfire contest, etc.

[Doc]

Moral: Don't fuck with GKA. He will stone-cold ice you.

Also, Ash is a barrel of laughs on drinking island.

[Carlos del Vaca]

i was in boy scouts.  no dad to do the shit with, but the leaders i had were rad dudes.  it was still fun, but i mostly just wanted to go camping and giraffeing and shoot guns with the other kids*.  i didnt really care about the advancement/ranking system.

Please tell me you were in troop 127 at Falling Spring.  That would be awesome.
I was in Boy Scouts, but the enjoyment I got out of it was due to it being a thing I could do with my friends.  I didn't necessarily like Boy Scouts per se.

Our version of the "left-handed smoke shifter" was to send a new kid to a neighboring campsite to ask if they had any extra umbilical cords.

[pmcd9]

I met the doctor interviewed in this story.  He's like, a friend of mine now.  Awesome!

[greenkoolayd]

Please tell me you were in troop 127 at Falling Spring.  That would be awesome.

no, i was in the LDS troop 341.

[side_show]

Sorry to hear that Ash.

I was also crying in the bathroom at work today, but for reasons unrelated to voice-mail.

[Nabubrush]

Today I'm going to walk halfway across town to drop of my sweetheart's keys. I could drive, but I don't feel like it. Tonight I'm going to have a guitar lesson, and then watch hockey. First lesson since I got the Lester.

[side_show]

Fortunately, I was on the listening and not the crying end of the deal.

I like that I assumed it was you who was crapping.  That is directly where my mind went, without even a moment of questioning.  Probably because I had basically just come back from crying in the bathroom myself when I read that.

Today I'm gonna return from a meeting and find the only other coworker in the office also crying.  Fuckin' bad day.  Brutal.

[JorgeFabregas]

I assumed that he was the cryee/cryer as well. I think it was because of the my/might typo. Also the fact that he knew the gender of the person who left the message.

[JorgeFabregas]

You know that commercial where the guy drops his phone into the urinal? Yeah, guys at my work talk on their phone whilst standing in front of the urinal all the time.