"It's a crazy world...

Someone ought to sell tickets."

That would be a quote from the movie Raising Arizona, by the Coen brothers, which I finally got around to seeing today. Kept me entertained while I made myself a big pot of Italian pasta salad to hold me over for the next few days since we have run out of just about everything else.

Had another meeting for my GO trip. I am excited to head to Mississippi. I went to a basketball camp for a few years when I was younger, but never an actual summer camp. It will be enjoyable to experience that and spend a week with a group of kids.

At the meeting we made ice cream. It was basically like a high school chemistry experiment, except it functioned as an ice breaker. Take milk, heavy cream, vanilla extract, and sugar and pour them in a plastic bag. Take this bag and put in a larger plastic back which is filled with ice and salt. Shake for about 20 minutes and you have your own ice cream. It was a lot of fun.

Tomorrow I have to go on my first one-on-one. Meeting up with another person in our trip for dinner. It should be interesting.

Hope everyone got to enjoy the sun these last few days. I know the rain is due in in the next 24 hours, so if you haven't spent some time in the sun you should try to do so at some point tomorrow before you are kept inside for several days.

Board games are ice breakers

Put a group of people together who know some but not everyone in the room and ask them to socialize. I guarantee you that same group of people will be bonded and having more fun 10x faster if you have them play a vocal board game. Take tonight for example - two groups of friends who through apples to apples - a few hours later would appear as if they had known each other and spent time together.

It definitely helps when it is a fun game. Apples to Apples in a large group is definitely just that.

Early morning for breakfast tomorrow. Early is relative though - Ill be getting almost 4 more hours of sleep versus if I would be getting up for work tomorrow.

Go Birds!