Welcome back to the land of the living. What are your summer plans? How was your school year? When are you going to be working in the NBA, so we can see you on TV? Come on Mark, tell all!!

Wow. Never thought I'd get my own, personal, topic. (Well, at least not until I was taking as many meds as Padgett!) Of course, when the other discussion on the board is fencing, I guess anything is possible . . .

School is done (finally). For those of you who keep up with my away messages, I passed organic chemistry (still trying to figure out to whom I should write the check . . .)

For the summer, I'll be working at the Naval Research Labs in D.C. Hopefully, I'll be going to the J.B. Caldwell camp down in Daytona with a group from my school's intramural league - if anyone else will be there, let me know!

NBA - I doubt I'll ever get there, and I'm not so sure I want to. I may, however, give the Mystics a call to see if they need someone for clock/shot clock/book for WNBA games. If so, I'll let you all know.

Okay - enough about me. I'm officially turning this into a "What are you doing this summer" topic. Basketball-related events are encouraged, but feel free to share anything.

Okay, and since I started the thread, I'll go second.

I'm attending three camps, running a camp, assigning a league and working about three or four others. Won't be attending any WNBA games this year :(.

I'm sending a cargo container full of a car and bunch of computer parts to Kenya.

I'm running a peacemaking children's program.

I'm attending a family reunion over 4th of July.

We will have two Japanese girls visiting for three weeks.

I'm spending two weeks with my granddaughter, and a few hours with my daughter.

I'm sending my wheelchair-bound sister to "camp" -- a real camp at the beach where they have a bonfire, and volleyball and everything. Simply unbelievable!

And in my spare time, I'm hoping to spend a few hours cataloging my hymnbook collection (over 450!), and I might begin writing my long-awaited book on race relations.

...and I'll be doing it all backwards, and in high heels (except the basketball...)

[Edited by rainmaker on May 29th, 2003 at 02:48 AM]

Wow! All I'm doing is washing my socks. But I am doing it in high heels. Maybe I'll try doing it backwards, too.

I'll be trying to get my grandmother off crack.

I'm gonna spend all summer running errands for Dan's 82 year old grandmother. Backwards and in high heels.

Saint Juulie fer sure!!!

Don't forget her beef, jerky...or is it Don't forget, her beef, jer,ky...

In this day and age I hope you have check with Customs/Dept. of Homeland Security on shipping computer parts out of the country.

There was a skit on the old Electric Company show that emphasized the importance of punctuation. A kid was before a judge, charged with illegal fishing. The arresting officer had the sign in court that said:

"Private Property
No Fishing Allowed"

The kid said the sign said:

"Private Property? No! Fishing Allowed."

I'll be at JB
 

Dexter, I'll be at the JB Caldwell camp. I'm going the first half (Sun - Wed).

Larks - VIT

A loooong time ago I had this dialogue with a friend at work:

"Hey, hand me a screw driver"
"Philips?"
"No, flat head."
"Who you calling flat head?"

I've been waiting all these years to work this into a conversation.

This isn't exactly the same, but it almost fits. When my son was 5, we took him to a restaurant for his birthday. I ordered him a grilled cheese sandwich. He started crying. When I asked him what was the matter, he said "I wanted a boy cheese sandwich."

Cute!

When my older one was about 3 or 4 or so we went down to a local playground that has a nice pond. Of course, it also has lots of geese. So we're driving home, the kids are asleep in the back of the car, my wife & I are gossiping. I happened to say something like "your sister has sh1t for brains". Later we got to talking about the pond, we were surprised that there were so many geese there and what a shame they made such a mess of the whole area. Suddenly we hear from the back seat (yeah, you guessed it):
"Those geese have sh1t for brains!"

For those of you that have been around a while, that's the one who threw out my box of stuff 3 or so years ago. But he's getting his, they gassed him today.

I'm planning on attending the JB Caldwell camp this summer also. Not sure which week yet.

They gassed your kid? :eek: Please tell me I'm misunderstanding this . . .

Nope, you got it right. In fact, I happen to know that at least 63 kids were gassed by the US government this afternoon. And you won't find this news on the NY Times.

The little scientist in my head is intrigued . . . any clues?

USMC RD PI SC

I'm going to spend all summer trying to keeps little Danny's grandmother ON crack. :D

United States Marine Corps
Recruit Depot
Parris Island, South Carolina

About 6 years ago, a former associate who worked for me, sent me "Good Luck!" gift when I changed jobs. It was a fake grenade, with a #1 attached to the pin, mounted on a plaque. The sign said, "Complaint Dept. Take a number." He mailed it to me!!!

I never got it! :D

Okay, one more post in this thread for me! :)

When my youngest son was three, he accidentally locked himslef in the bathroom. I came to the door, turn the knob, and discovered it was locked. "Oh sh!t!" You guessed it! Form the other side of the door, I heard "Oh sh!t!" :D

That brings back lovely memories of when I was gassed in boot camp. We were required to unmask, state our name, rank and unit. Well, I did that and hadn't felt anything yet so I added one of our motivational sayings. That's when it hit me. They threw me out of the back of the hut where there was a walking track where everyone walked it off. A buddy of mine had to walk me around it because I couldn't see because of the burning eyes. Every pore burned and I was slinging snot and slobber everywhere. Good Times! Good Times!

Am I not understanding this because of my anti-military Quaker background? I mean, is this a military thing?

Thanks Tony, she's just so much more fun to be around when she's on the stuff! :D

Yep, sounds like Grandma on crack all right! :D

Look at it as on the job training in a controlled environment. Conceptually not much different from student teaching - if I'm to believe what teachers tell me, anyway.
:)

Jeez - my Grandma's only on cat food.

Gotta make the social security check last the whole month somehow!

Well after solving the SARS outbreak by Arbor Day and the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict by July 4, I hope to have the whole world hunger thing sewed up by Mid - August to take some time off to concentrate on the hidden scourge "Seniors On Crack".
Just officiated the National ACE tournament here in our fine city.
Will be hitting the Mid/Deep (I forget which) camp in Charlotte next weekend.
Finished with our Spring League and a local youth ministries league.
Will go to our Association camp in July and August.
Hope to go to the state camp in July
Work our universities team camp in July.
Not much to do in August.
Go to Vegas on the 23 - 27 to teach a class. (No not a gambling class)
Paint the inside of our house. This is supposed to be a "We" project, but in this instance there is an "I" in "We"
Stain the decks.
Wash the cat
Ramble aimlessly on this board.

Well, you've accomplished the last item in your list! ;)

Of course, that's the easy one.

Might I suggest you stain the cat & wash the deck?

BTW, good job on the SARS & Mid-East thing, but that Seniors on crack is gonna be a real toughie I suspect.

See, OatmealQueen? I'm no saint -- there's lots of folks on this board (thanks, fletch, for giving an example) who accomplish a lot more than I do in a couple months. They are just too busy getting things done to bother braggin'.

I'm starting to regret broaching the subject . . .

Been there, done that. Hated every minute of it!!!!

Fletch - you must be a teacher. My wife works for the city high school (guidance office) and she is off the whole month of July. Actually, she is "off" most of the time. :D She also plans for "us" as in "me" to do a lot of painting this summer.