Fired from volunteer service!!

Busy day today working with the Red Cross. I head up the investment subcommittee of the finance committee. We had a meeting for the subcommittee prior to the regular meeting, so it ended up being a four hour trip altogether. Interestingly enough, I was told at the finance committee meeting that no one from the finance committee was returning to the finance committee at the September meeting, because it was just passed down from the national office that all finance committees of local chapters will be made up of board members from that chapter in the future. At first I said, fine; it's not like I was getting paid or anything. Then I thought, everything we did on the finance committee had to ultimately be approved by the board, so now they are going to really have to be leery of group think since they are going to be doing the work AND approving their own work. Yikes. They want me to stay on to head up the subcommittee, but homey don't play that.

Afterwards, I hit the gym, running my two miles and then lifting some weights. By the end of my workout though, it was 4:30! Then I had to get home, have my afternoon coffee and make up for lost time. Ugh.

If you didn't see the Cubs game, they were killing Colorado 8-3 going into the ninth. Colorado scored 6 (six!) times in the ninth to take a 9-8 lead. Nice job Bob Howry. Technically he only gave up three of the runs in the ninth after Scott Eyre had already given up one and had let two more guys get on without getting anybody out!! Howry obliged Colorado by serving up fastballs over the heart of the plate to allow not only the two guys on base to score, but three more runs. Ugh. Fortunately, with two outs and one on, the Cubs got a single and then were the beneficiary of an error before Alfonso Soriano (0-5 up to that point) hit a single to right to score two runs and pull it out. The place went crazy!!!

Hey, Stephen Colbert just did a bit on the killer sand story which I reported last week. Ha!!

In honor of me being fired from the Red Cross, I pass along these pictures which were just sent to me this evening by coincidence. Subheading for pictures: "The reason why you are escorted out after being fired as opposed to just finishing out the day."*






























*Thanks Pop.