The line at a store the size of my living room contains more people than the whole of the Gardner Wal-mart.

No one there knows what is so significant about '1987', but I'm guessing that everyone there was born -after- that year.
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The past couple of days I have been feeling surprisingly calm, strong, certain. I feel it when I walk into a room, my presence is solid. People turn to look and smile.

Yesterday I was at school all day for presentations from my fellow students. I could hear myself laughing unselfconsciously. My laugh had a clear sound that echoed through the room. It made people want to come and talk with me during the breaks, ask me my opinion and include me in their conversations. People can feel when you have something say.

I have had a tough week emotionally, and yet I think it is good. It has forced me to work through a number of things that were scaring me. Lingering things that I really needed to put to rest, and I think I am far in the process of doing so. I feel stronger for the process.

I keep typing specifics about the situation and then deleting them. There is such a back story to tell, and I don't want to tell that story here. I guess it doesn't matter, beyond recording that I feel good and in power and in control of myself. I'm happy for that. I feel grounded.

Along with the Mayan Calendar thing, Al Gore has not decreed that the Arctic Ocean will be ice-free in the next 5-7 years (rather than the 20 that the other pundits predict).

I predict that by 2016, we will still have an Ice Cap, and Al Gore will somehow still be respected and not laughed at like the folks that said our oil would be ALL GONE before 2000.

I will point out this article to my kids, and ask them to watch the Ice Cap for the next 20 years.

Hopefully, the new hybrid car trend will kick off along with Home Depot's locally available solar panels, and wind farms, and then I can be wrong. I would like to be wrong. But instead, I wrote down in my planner to point and laugh at Al Gore in 2016. Being dishonest or overly dramatic for a Good Cause is still being dishonest, whether you are Al Gore or Charlton Heston.

Oh, and the heat is now working after two days of not.
And, as of today I have an I-phone. Yeah!

I've seen the Girlfriend a record 4 times this week, and every time, I was in a different scout uniform.

Like my mother, I can get very dedicated to things. (Others might call it obsessed, or addicted) But if I have to be obsessed with anything, Scouting is not a bad thing to be hooked on.

That said, I am really looking forward to the time when I'll be able to step down from everything and let the new parents pick up the torches. My ex once mentioned that scouting was a 'me' thing, which isn't entirely untrue, but it's not something I look forward to doing once the kids are grown and gone. Granted, there are certainly groups within scouting that look to retain experienced leaders... so only time will tell.