Highlights

This post will be pretty random, just some highlights from my last week.

On Wednesday night I did NOT have clarinet quartet practice. I like playing and getting some use out of my old Selmer, but it felt good not to have an obligation that took up my Wednesday night. Plus, half of practice consisted of Teri, Charlotte and Patty just gossiping about local musicians I knew nothing about. So I would just sit there with this half smile (Miracle of Mindfulness, Tich Naht Hanh anyone?) on my face wishing I was at home watching Law and Order.

Thursday night was the Canaries baseball game. The Canaries are the local semi-professional-Northern-League-something-or-other Sioux Falls baseball team. The Old Courthouse Museum just created and installed an exhibit about baseball in Minnehaha County (the county in which I live and work). We included history on the Canaries and sponsored their game this past Thursday so they gave museum employees and friends/families a bunch of free tickets and a box suite. It was a pretty cool set up. In the box they had a little kitchenette which included a small fridge where Paavo, on of my co-workers, stored his cups of beer while he went to the restroom. I asked him if he thought his drinks might warm up too much in the minute it took him to use the bathroom and he said they certainly would. The room also featured leather chairs and couches, a TV, two tables and chairs as well as an outside seating area right above and behind home plate. Kellie and Dustin had different seats at the game, but they came up to join us later. Good times.

The game got rained out, but that didn't phase the SHM (Siouxland Heritage Museum) employees and friends/families. We just moved on inside and kept the party going. It was never really about the baseball game for me anyway. The problem I have with sporting events is I never manage to get invested in the game. I watch for 10 minutes then I get distracted. I try to get back into things, which takes a few minutes, but I always end up getting distracted again so I never really know what's going on. Thank goodness they have scoreboards or I would be completely clueless as to what was going on. Even though I have this problem I still like sporting events because of the atmosphere and I usually attend them with people I like so I get to spend time chatting with those people and it's all good in the end. Anyway, Jeremy and I left the party early because his grandma was at Sioux Valley Hospital suffering through periodic strokes. It is good that we went, but it was kind of sad for him.

Last night Kellie, Dawn, Justen and I were all up for camping. Acutally, Justen was the most up for it. He had been planning, packing and purchasing all afternoon for the event. I am glad he was so excited, he injected some vigor into our tired group. He also fell out of his poorly crafted chair twice which was very entertaining for us. It rained last night and Kellie's big ass tent held up well - no one got wet. This morning it started raining again so we headed back to Sioux Falls for the day, but they are going out again tonight. I have be a bartender at the golf course for a function tonight so I won't be able to join them. Too bad, but the bartending thing could be interesting.

I rode with Justen on the way home from Palisades State Park and he had to stop at work for a minute. Justen claims he is a pilot for Business Aviation and flies cargo to various regional spots. He is often full of shit so we never really knew whether or not to believe him, but he knew the code to the Business Aviation building so I think he might be telling the truth about this one. He showed me the planes too and that was pretty cool.

Schrag ... OUT.