Wind Burn

My new achilles heel is wind burn. As I mentioned when I moved here it's windy a lot of the time, especially in the cool months. Since I like to be outside this leads to the inevitable wind burn. Short of not being in it, I can't see of a way to prevent it shy of wrapping up all exposed skin. I've actually got it again today after hiking the last two days, once at High Cliff park and today at the state beach. The second was much windier to the tune of 20+ mph gusts. It was nice--no joke. You could have surfed on the waves. At least I know I was outside.

You know you are in Wisconsin when you get a Fleet Farm Christmas catalog in the mail.

This weekend was the first Chippewa Fall Fellowship/Vigil Weekend that I have missed since '97 and first Vigil ceremony since '99. It was mildly tempting to go back to be with the clan, but the 16-hour roundtrip was a great deterrent not to mention that I had work here this weekend and will be back for a week soon. I will admit that what I miss most since leaving (I do occasionally get a bit homesick) is my brothers in the lodge and friends from Scouts--well, my dog and family too. Looking at it, most of the people I know really well are from Scouts. My buddy Chris is the one notable exception outside my family. The downside is that it is hard to not think of Scouting at all when your friends are from there too and it will inevitably come up. Here, of course, most of the people I talk to are related to Scouts in some way and work can take way too much time. There is a chamber of commerce group designed for networking with other young (under 40) professionals that holds hope for meeting new people not related to work precisely. Too bad that most of their events involve happy hour--how do people afford it?

Yesterday I had to get up at 5:30am to go meet a Scoutmaster and then head to Appleton for a meeting--on a Saturday. Yuck. Tonight I'll work on my schedule for the week and send off my weekly paperwork to the boss and probably some popcorn. This week will be really unique since I'll be chaperoning first a Rotary camp event for high school kids overnight Wednesday and then a Den Chief training Friday night at the Railroad Museum in Green Bay. If I am still standing on Saturday evening that will be a good thing.

Time for dinner--even if it does look like bed time--curse time changing.