Thursday August 5, 2010

I was down at the Shrine Center Wednesday evening. We received our new office furniture and the Pote's Office looks much more classy than previous. Because the Pote's Office is utilized frequently for meetings, especially with external groups, companies, community representatives, etc., I always believed it should be somewhat professional and aesthetically pleasing. A new desk, credenza, and chairs, it is now classy. Add to it the increDIBle, heavenly mixture of maize and blue, and now the entire office appears alive.

There were a couple of meetings go on that I took part and found them to be very informative and moves in the right direction for continuing our success in the Shrine.

We are two days away from the Sportsman's Raffle. The tents were erected yesterday, everything else tomorrow and it looks real promising. The weather is going to be great and the camel's milk will be flowing.

By the way if anyone is not busy either this evening or tomorrow night and you are in front of the television, between 5:30 and 11:00 P.M. check out your local PBS channel. You will see a lot of Shriners manning the phones for their phonathon. I will be working the phones on Friday evening.

This evening, the Sterling Heights Annual "Sterlingfest" begins, and I am trying to convince my lovely and talented bride to get out for a while and walk around. She has been very busy, with a long list of items to be accomplished, therefore, I am probably solo.

On a personal note, my sister and brother bought me an Amazon Kindle for my b-day this year, to replace one that was damaged about a year ago. I decided that I was going to take Amazon on their offer of downloading one of their 100 classics for free and read that first. I love to read and literally read several books every month. Therefore, I decided to take a crack at Leo Tolstoy's "War and Peace", I figure it is one book every reader has to read in their lives. I am a quick reader, yet I began this book on June 28 and I finally finished this morning at break. Yeah, I usually only read during break and lunch at work, but still, it took me forever. Was it worth it, DEFINITELY. An incredible story of historical fiction with so many characters and rich story telling. I am so glad that I took the time, however, I am going to read a couple of simple books (beginning with Janet Evanovich's new book) next. I cannot get too complicated after "War and Peace".

By the way, if you are interested in my opinion, the Kindle is awesome and I have no regrets.

See you Saturday