This week one of my co-workers and I somehow got onto the topic of Catholic confession or "reconciliation" as we called it when I was a third grader going through the sacrament for the first time. Boy, that was the way to get a shy kid to curl up inside when he'd done something wrong... make him go tell a priest that he'd messed up. Mom and Dad brought that one out occasionally. After that talk, I realized that this weekly post unearths that old choirboy concept. Reflect on the ills, seek penance. Life's been better for it!
We lost our soccer game this week against a good team on penalty kicks. We played well, gave up no goals in regulation, and two of our guys (not me) missed penalty kicks to create the final result. Sports losses shake off easily enough nowadays, but I wish that I'd given a pat of encouragement on the back of the teammates who missed.
While socializing with a co-worker at a baseball game this week, I let myself poke fun at a non-present guy from the office. Fortunately he changed the subject. Unfortunately I wandered into the same turf a couple days later. It had been a while since I'd dipped into that cookie jar of false humor and cheap self-esteem. Time to get back on the wagon.
Intern Emily made a good impression on the directors of the department during her final presentation of the summer. If she joins us permanently after December graduation may she have a long, productive and satisfying stay!
Paulette had another breakthrough in her project to upgrade our policy projection system. She gets to announce it next week, and during our 1-on-1 weekly meeting we got into all kinds of development possibilities. Lately all kinds of options have been opening up that could boost our employees' careers, and with more thought from Tina (who had a tough week and conquered it) and others there could be a new wave of optimism toward our future prospects.
This week was the statewide Kiwanis convention, and I'd expected Dena's tender-heartedness to sweep her up into a thousand pieces of overlooked minutae as her club played host to hundreds of out-of-town guests. But happily, she was mostly undisturbed and we were able to enjoy a quiet date night on Friday, and another leisurely day yesterday. Today she's out shopping... it's just been a peaceful weekend for her, thankfully so for the last one of her 30's!
Simply looking for a convenient starting time, we chose the Wehrenburg Galaxy theater to see the movie on Friday during its large-screen showing. We didn't realize that large screens were so expensive... $12 a person! Fortunately, the projector malfunctioned and had to be restarted twenty minutes late. I say fortunately, because management handed out refunds in the form of a complimentary ticket to us all. So the next big-screen movie is on the house, so we'll see two big-screen movies for an average $6 ticket. Nice!
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