Wed 8/16,1:46pm Good afternoon Brandon, At the end of the night last night I told ShannonJ I was deliriously happy. I had enjoyed the previous hour to no end. It was our annual hydrotube BH2nd ward party. As you know from the text I sent my hometeachees, I expecting lots of good food. Saints were raving about the flavored hot dogs: Cheese, jalapeno, chili but I should have watched more closely. I don’t know how they were made. I spent the last hour trying to look them up, thinking they were purchased but I don’t see them anywhere! Live and learn. Anyway, It had been a long boring day after having biked to FS and indexed and arbitrated so when I got to socialize and eat last night it was a wonderful contrast. I spent time with: Justin S, Darren S, Anthony C, Tim G, Cameron T, Quincy A, Tammy S, Marilyn P, Merril P, Jim C, Charlie M, Allen H, Eric C, Andra G, Steve M, Mark J, Shannon J and joked and laughed and ate to my heart’s content. I split 2 hamburgers on 4 buns and seasoned only with tomatoes, onion, lettuce. Perhaps they were wonderful because I haven’t eaten any yet this year! So glad I went. @@ I was still flying high this morning. So I decided to hike instead of bike to FS! I left at 9:34 and arrived at 10:44. 70 minutes. Here are some things I noticed: - they had river road cut open for installing a new 3ft dia.sewer line, last night. Half of it had already been repaved this morning. Thick steel sheets cover the end they will work on tonight. -I cut through the golf course and their is a new house where I usually came out onto the road. - there are very noisy sections and some very quiet sections. A big truck blew off my cowboy hat at one point. I had to beware of the oncoming traffic’s wind! - I have wonderful new work boots (high top Texas Steer) that I don’t expect to wear out anytime soon. -I might look dorky in them but I have been wearing them loose to ride my bike too. I got a pair of 10.5 and size 11 since Kmart had a $1 sale. $50/per pair get a second pair for $1. :) I wore this style for years as a teen painter working for my dad and through painting my way through college. There is no heel. Just thick flat white cushion sole. - Morningside subdivision was having their trash collected today. -I am so familiar with the roads from riding my bike I knew the turns and roads I preferred to walk. -One beautiful apple tree on 700S has been thinned. Not like the ones/apples I have been trying to use up from the temple apartments. I have about 10 on the top shelf in my fridge. - The FS library is on West Temple and 600 S and 7 blocks closer and less up hill than 200 N and Flood street. -I would be so pleased if I walked here more often. What great exercise it is. Bill Hawkins power walks probably daily. - I asked one old lady how far she was going. 3 miles she said. I responded with 5 when she mirrored/ echoed back the question to me. But 5 in the morning and 5 at night is a bit much. -Lerris has a mountain pony that gave him the worst sore legs and blisters from his new boots, (The magic of Recluse) so I can be tough like him! [THE FIRST BOOK IN THE SAGA OF RECLUCE
With THE MAGIC OF RECLUCE, L.E. Modesitt, Jr. made his impressive hardcover debut, breaking out in wide scope and grand scale with a novel in the great tradition of the war between good and evil in a wonderful fantasy world. Modesitt had been producing fast-paced, slickly-written novels of SF adventure, often compared to the work of Keith Laumer and Gordon R. Dickson. Then, in his biggest and best book yet, he broadened his canvas and turned to fantasy and magic, stepping immediately into the front rank of contemporary fantasy writers.
THE MAGIC OF RECLUCE is a carefully-plotted fantasy novel of character about the growth and education of a young magician. In it, Modesitt confronts real moral issues with gripping force, builds atmosphere slowly and convincingly and gives his central character, Lerris, real intellectual challenges.
Lerris is given the standard two options: permanent exile from Recluce or the dangergeld, a complex, rule-laden wanderjahr in the lands beyond Recluce with the aim of learning how the world works and what his place in it might be. Many do not survive. He chooses dangergeld.
Though magic is rarely discussed openly in Recluce, it becomes clear, when Lerris is sent into intensive training for his quest, that he has a natural talent for it during his weapons lessons. And he will need magic in the lands beyond, where the power of the Chaos Wizards reigns unchecked. He must learn to use his powers in an orderly way or fall prey to Chaos.
Lerris may resent order, but he has no difficulty choosing good over evil. As he begins his lonely journey, he falls into the company of a gray magician, once of Recluce, who tutors him in the use of magic and shows him some of the devastation caused by the Chaos Wizards in the great wars between Chaos and Order of past times.
Lerris pursues a quest for knowledge and power that leads him across strange lands, through the ghostly ruins of the old capitol of Chaos, down the white roads of the Chaos Wizards to a final battle with the archenemy of Order, discovering in the end true control of magic, true love, and the beginning of true wisdom. An epic adventure, THE MAGIC OF RECLUCE, is a triumph of fantasy.] bps, Do you remember when I told you how obnoxious Lerris was for the first 200 pages? His favorite word was “b o r i n g”. Argh! I hated him! But I had hopes that when he turned around I would be thrilled. It happened. I cried as he spent over a year helping a needy family in his first journey stop. He sacrificed for them and showed so much unselfish love. I don’t make a habit of crying in my novels but I allowed myself to feel and rejoice in this one. L E Modesitt is phenomenal! How does he do it? @@ All of the young missionaries here are handicapped. Special Service Missionaries. Sister Chloe Sorensen has received the nickname of Sister Paul Harvey from me. She has a radio announcers eloquent voice. Sister Montague is sister listen. She told me some old folks come in just to break the monotony of caring for a debilitated spouse. I was sitting on the corner next to the front entry and listened to her listen to and encourage and assure and mostly just reflect what one old guy told her over and over for 15 or 20 minutes today. What service! I picked up 4 pieces of trash on my hike here this morning. I patted myself on the back and wondered how long those pieces of trash would have remained? But that is not even in the same ballpark as the good deed/ service I listened to her perform. Wow. How inspiring! Our director always walks like he is in high gear. Another sister at the front desk does it as well. I called her sister speedy yesterday. Sister Speedy Gonzales. I have these names in my brain. Cartoon name in this case.
THE MAGIC OF RECLUCE is a carefully-plotted fantasy novel of character about the growth and education of a young magician. In it, Modesitt confronts real moral issues with gripping force, builds atmosphere slowly and convincingly and gives his central character, Lerris, real intellectual challenges.
Lerris is given the standard two options: permanent exile from Recluce or the dangergeld, a complex, rule-laden wanderjahr in the lands beyond Recluce with the aim of learning how the world works and what his place in it might be. Many do not survive. He chooses dangergeld.
Though magic is rarely discussed openly in Recluce, it becomes clear, when Lerris is sent into intensive training for his quest, that he has a natural talent for it during his weapons lessons. And he will need magic in the lands beyond, where the power of the Chaos Wizards reigns unchecked. He must learn to use his powers in an orderly way or fall prey to Chaos.
Lerris may resent order, but he has no difficulty choosing good over evil. As he begins his lonely journey, he falls into the company of a gray magician, once of Recluce, who tutors him in the use of magic and shows him some of the devastation caused by the Chaos Wizards in the great wars between Chaos and Order of past times.
Lerris pursues a quest for knowledge and power that leads him across strange lands, through the ghostly ruins of the old capitol of Chaos, down the white roads of the Chaos Wizards to a final battle with the archenemy of Order, discovering in the end true control of magic, true love, and the beginning of true wisdom. An epic adventure, THE MAGIC OF RECLUCE, is a triumph of fantasy.] bps, Do you remember when I told you how obnoxious Lerris was for the first 200 pages? His favorite word was “b o r i n g”. Argh! I hated him! But I had hopes that when he turned around I would be thrilled. It happened. I cried as he spent over a year helping a needy family in his first journey stop. He sacrificed for them and showed so much unselfish love. I don’t make a habit of crying in my novels but I allowed myself to feel and rejoice in this one. L E Modesitt is phenomenal! How does he do it? @@ All of the young missionaries here are handicapped. Special Service Missionaries. Sister Chloe Sorensen has received the nickname of Sister Paul Harvey from me. She has a radio announcers eloquent voice. Sister Montague is sister listen. She told me some old folks come in just to break the monotony of caring for a debilitated spouse. I was sitting on the corner next to the front entry and listened to her listen to and encourage and assure and mostly just reflect what one old guy told her over and over for 15 or 20 minutes today. What service! I picked up 4 pieces of trash on my hike here this morning. I patted myself on the back and wondered how long those pieces of trash would have remained? But that is not even in the same ballpark as the good deed/ service I listened to her perform. Wow. How inspiring! Our director always walks like he is in high gear. Another sister at the front desk does it as well. I called her sister speedy yesterday. Sister Speedy Gonzales. I have these names in my brain. Cartoon name in this case.
Wiki: Speedy Gonzales is an animated cartoon character in the Warner Brothers Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons. He is portrayed as "The Fastest Mouse in all Mexico" with his major traits being the ability to run extremely fast and speaking with an exaggerated Mexican accent and also speaking Spanish. He usually wears a yellow sombrero, white shirt and trousers (which was a common traditional outfit worn by men and boys of rural Mexican villages), and a red kerchief, similar to that of some traditional Mexican attires.[1] To date, there have been 46 cartoons made either starring or featuring this character.
A film about the character has been announced by Warner Bros.\ Speedy's first appearance was in 1953's Cat-Tails for Two though he appeared largely in name (and super speed) only. It would be two years before Friz Freleng and animator Hawley Pratt redesigned the character into his modern incarnation for the 1955 Freleng short Speedy Gonzales. The cartoon features Sylvester the Cat guarding a cheese factory at the international border between United States and Mexico from starving Mexican mice. The mice call in the plucky, excessively energetic Speedy to save them, and amid cries of "¡Ándale! ¡Ándale! ¡Arriba! ¡Arriba! ¡Epa! ¡Epa! ¡Epa! Yeehaw!" (Spanish for "Go on! Go on! Up! Up!", although "Ándale arriba" may have been intended as meaning "hurry up") courtesy of Mel Blanc, Sylvester soon gets his comeuppance. The cartoon won the 1955 Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Cartoons).
While Speedy's last name was given as Gonzalez in Cat-Tails (on a printed business card shown in the cartoon), it was spelled with an 's' from Speedy Gonzales onward. Today, the earlier spelling is occasionally used by accident.
Freleng and McKimson soon set Sylvester up as Speedy's regular nemesis in a series of cartoons, much in the same way Chuck Jones had paired Wile E. Coyote and The Road Runner in his Road Runner cartoons. Sylvester (often called "El Gringo Pussygato" by Speedy) is constantly outsmarted and outrun by the Mouse, causing the cat to suffer all manner of pain and humiliation from mousetraps to accidentally consuming large amounts of Tabasco hot sauce. Other cartoons pair the mouse with his cousin, Slowpoke Rodriguez, the "slowest Mouse in all Mexico." Slowpoke regularly gets into all sorts of trouble that often require Speedy to save him—but one cat in Mexicali Shmoes says that as if to compensate for his slowness, "he pack a gun!"[3] In the mid 1960s, Speedy's main rival became Daffy Duck. @@ I mentioned I have been arbing Guatemalan birth paragraphs. The idea of Speedy Gonzales poking fun at Spanish accents fits my sense of humor perfectly. @@ -I have this need to adventure and be in nature etc.. Each day since I got my oil changed Monday morning I am asking myself, Am I going fishing tomorrow? Hiking to FS satisfied that need for today! Adventuring by doing something that extends my abilities and being in nature on the side of the road or on the trail. @@ I gave Charlie M a high five last night when he told me he finalized his SS application and got his confirmation back. Why not celebrate $1500 coming in for retirement each month? Who would have ever thought I would live this long? Our bdays are only 3 days apart. 13&16 July, 1955. We barely qualify to start receiving SS so yes let’s share the excitement! Steve Muir was very curious about it. We blessed his life just by visiting/ joking with him and sitting by him at the edge of the pool last night. He said “Hi” on their bikes in the park Monday night as Molly n I walked by. I was pleased he reached out to me when I did not recognize them. See how we bless each other, Brandon? And there you are turning into a hobo in prison, bereft of all social interactions. Bishop sat by me for a minute last night. I thanked him for all he does to make things like that social happen. Gathering with the saints outside of church are totally wonderful opportunities. Socializing with the saints strengthens us and our testimonies! What a mixed group we are! @ Jim Cox whined about his first wife divorcing him, living on her own for a year, thinking she would get rich and live high on the hog, and then deciding she couldn’t cut it and asking if he would take her back? He is now remarried to Ramona Cox and she is intelligent but particular. She retired from teaching at PVHS this summer. It would be so wonderful to have a unified relationship with a sister saint for all eternity but. . . most don’t survive! You are aware of that with your poor mother aren’t you. Hal Demke has a souring effect on everyone around him when it comes to women. And he sat at our picnic table. @ I wrote this email this morning:
A film about the character has been announced by Warner Bros.\ Speedy's first appearance was in 1953's Cat-Tails for Two though he appeared largely in name (and super speed) only. It would be two years before Friz Freleng and animator Hawley Pratt redesigned the character into his modern incarnation for the 1955 Freleng short Speedy Gonzales. The cartoon features Sylvester the Cat guarding a cheese factory at the international border between United States and Mexico from starving Mexican mice. The mice call in the plucky, excessively energetic Speedy to save them, and amid cries of "¡Ándale! ¡Ándale! ¡Arriba! ¡Arriba! ¡Epa! ¡Epa! ¡Epa! Yeehaw!" (Spanish for "Go on! Go on! Up! Up!", although "Ándale arriba" may have been intended as meaning "hurry up") courtesy of Mel Blanc, Sylvester soon gets his comeuppance. The cartoon won the 1955 Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Cartoons).
While Speedy's last name was given as Gonzalez in Cat-Tails (on a printed business card shown in the cartoon), it was spelled with an 's' from Speedy Gonzales onward. Today, the earlier spelling is occasionally used by accident.
Freleng and McKimson soon set Sylvester up as Speedy's regular nemesis in a series of cartoons, much in the same way Chuck Jones had paired Wile E. Coyote and The Road Runner in his Road Runner cartoons. Sylvester (often called "El Gringo Pussygato" by Speedy) is constantly outsmarted and outrun by the Mouse, causing the cat to suffer all manner of pain and humiliation from mousetraps to accidentally consuming large amounts of Tabasco hot sauce. Other cartoons pair the mouse with his cousin, Slowpoke Rodriguez, the "slowest Mouse in all Mexico." Slowpoke regularly gets into all sorts of trouble that often require Speedy to save him—but one cat in Mexicali Shmoes says that as if to compensate for his slowness, "he pack a gun!"[3] In the mid 1960s, Speedy's main rival became Daffy Duck. @@ I mentioned I have been arbing Guatemalan birth paragraphs. The idea of Speedy Gonzales poking fun at Spanish accents fits my sense of humor perfectly. @@ -I have this need to adventure and be in nature etc.. Each day since I got my oil changed Monday morning I am asking myself, Am I going fishing tomorrow? Hiking to FS satisfied that need for today! Adventuring by doing something that extends my abilities and being in nature on the side of the road or on the trail. @@ I gave Charlie M a high five last night when he told me he finalized his SS application and got his confirmation back. Why not celebrate $1500 coming in for retirement each month? Who would have ever thought I would live this long? Our bdays are only 3 days apart. 13&16 July, 1955. We barely qualify to start receiving SS so yes let’s share the excitement! Steve Muir was very curious about it. We blessed his life just by visiting/ joking with him and sitting by him at the edge of the pool last night. He said “Hi” on their bikes in the park Monday night as Molly n I walked by. I was pleased he reached out to me when I did not recognize them. See how we bless each other, Brandon? And there you are turning into a hobo in prison, bereft of all social interactions. Bishop sat by me for a minute last night. I thanked him for all he does to make things like that social happen. Gathering with the saints outside of church are totally wonderful opportunities. Socializing with the saints strengthens us and our testimonies! What a mixed group we are! @ Jim Cox whined about his first wife divorcing him, living on her own for a year, thinking she would get rich and live high on the hog, and then deciding she couldn’t cut it and asking if he would take her back? He is now remarried to Ramona Cox and she is intelligent but particular. She retired from teaching at PVHS this summer. It would be so wonderful to have a unified relationship with a sister saint for all eternity but. . . most don’t survive! You are aware of that with your poor mother aren’t you. Hal Demke has a souring effect on everyone around him when it comes to women. And he sat at our picnic table. @ I wrote this email this morning:
| Dear HPG leadership, Charlie, Jim, Todd, | |||
Charlie likes age.
I got interested in it as well this last year. I couldn't help but tell him there were lots older than we are in our ward. He couldn't help pointing out the 4 people in line ahead of him that are older than we are. I told him I had made up a list of the ages of the ward members older than me. Those younger are not in the competition! Just teasing.\ Anyway, with that bit of stimulation I decided to type it up this morning. I have access to this information because I include all the ages of the kids on my yearly phone list. So this last year I just asked for everyone's ages as well as the kids. But I like to know who is in the top 10! Yes Jim Cox, you are in the top 10!
-1917
-18 30 Aug Pearl Madsen 1f
19
20
21
-22 6 Jul LaRue Spencer 2f
23
-24 1 Sep Melba Poulton 3f
25
26
-27 2 Jul Elmer Tucker 1m
-8 Dec Ann Sorenson 4f
28
-29 10 Sep Jerene Curtis 5f
-30 23 Oct Nedra Kimball 6f
-31 10 May Jerry Lindhardt 2m
-32 3 Feb Marie Lindhardt 7f
-33 23 Jan Dale Courtney 3m
2 Aug Joyce Oliver 8f
-34 5 Jan Tom Schroath 4m
-35 18 Mar Jerry Averett 5m
-36 3 Apr Audrie Tucker 9f
15 Nov Wilma Courtney 10f
-37 23 Mar Merril Palmer 6m
1 Apr Rulon Bagley 7m
30 Apr Marilyn Palmer
-38 17 Feb Connie Schroath
23 Aug Sylva Bagley
-39 2 Aug Sam Hales 8m
25 Oct Ted Field 9m
27 Oct Rachel Marshall
-40 29 Nov Linda Alexander
-41 30 Jan Bonnie Averett
10 Dec Judy Alman
-42 13 Feb Pat Hales
9 Dec Jim Cox 10m
@@bps, Those are our wonderful Oldies in my ward! Hooray Bloomington Hills 2nd ward!!
8/18 update: I told Elder Merril I liked the perkiness in his step. He says it drives everyone around him crazy. Wife, kids, employees. . . I explained I give everyone her nicknames and mine is Vincenzo. He has a son named Vincent. He laughed when I told him his was Elder Speedy Gonzales! This makes life fun. And more fun!
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