Cooler Weather

I mentioned when I last wrote we were looking forward to the last of the 90° weather. Well, the weather changed in a hurry with the high and low temps dropping by as much as 20°. It feels like fall now. We switched our thermostat to heat last weekend.

NO MORE LIMP, NO MORE SPLINT. Jenna went back to the doctor for a follow-up exam last Tuesday. He said she has healed sufficiently and allowed her to take off her boot and wrist splint. He also gave her an extended doctor's excuse from PE through fall break, but Jenna later admitted she hadn't turned it in. She had decided to hold it until they played something she doesn't particularly enjoy. Vicki and I told her it wasn't a "get out of jail free" card and to give that note to her teacher.

THE AMAZING BLAKE. Vicki found a really neat magician and invited him to do a show for our Awana club last week. He really connected with the kids well and performed quite a few neat illusions. His show was a big hit.

AS IRON SHARPENS IRON, SO ONE MAN SHARPENS ANOTHER. Last weekend I went to the Middle Tennessee Men's Conference. It has been several years since I attended this event. This year the speakers were Ken Weathersby and Jim Henry. I enjoyed listening to both very much.

PARTY AT THE PITTS. Last Saturday Jimmie and Susanne Pitt had a big pot luck party at their house. They invited the whole church to come and there was a large crowd in their back yard. We had a lot of fun, but left a bit early because there was a cold breeze blowing. I decided to dig out a sweatshirt just before leaving the house which turned out the be the best decision I'd made all day. This wind sort of caught everyone off guard because it had been perfectly comfortable all day. The kids and I even went exploring the woods across the road from the house in shorts that afternoon.

VIOCE ON THE PHONE. We are setting up a computerized phone system at work for automating the calling of substitute teachers when a teacher is absent. It fell to me to give voice to many of the options (such as school names) that will be part of the menu system. While recording these sound bytes I stopped and listened to myself closely after recording "sixth grade social studies teacher" and thought, "Boy, I sound just like Sylvester the Cat!"

Joe