And the sun came out...

I saw the sun today for the first time in about 3 weeks. It was glorious. When I got my car I had of course put my sunglasses in by habit which was good as the light was bright. It's nutty just how much a lack of sunlight can affect you. I didn't notice any vitamin deficencies, but I was most certainly getting to be cranky. A few days of even only partial sunshine would be great.

Thank goodness the 2005 Scouting year is over effective Friday. It had a rather odd ending. We spent the week chasing parts for a new unit and thought it was all put together and sent it in. I got a call Friday from the office saying it wasn't kosher since the youth apps were not signed by the parents since it was a neighborhood afterschool program and had a verification letter from the director there. I also discovered that he did not and would not put in the charters for the two afterschool programs in since the funding had not come through. What was odd about that is that we are more than financially stable, tried hard to find funds and have several areas that it could very reasonably be handled under. This ended the year 4 units less than I had projected and three were because the boss wouldn't put them in.

It's really weird having gone from arguing against having units and kids entered at CVC to arguing for them to be entered here. The office here seems unduly paranoid about membership fraud. Being vigilant is one thing, but this is nuts. If there was one thing I learned about this at CVC was the exact letter of the law on what was legal. Not to mention that I wouldn't submit something that I was not comfortable with. The last phone call on Friday with him was unpleasant and was the longest venting that I have heard from him thus far. I think it has something to do with having two open field jobs and my supervisor on maternity leave for at least the next six weeks. This will be an interesting back drop to my review with him. I am aiming for a strong Marginal or weak Expected at this point.

Also in the wide world of Bay-Lakes, I went to the OA Annual Dinner today. It was dull. The lodge chief is not a very good public speaker. There was no spontaneous singing. I was accosted about my sash having its moose pin and legend on it, by the Scout Exec no less. They also seem to have a weird idea about the Founders' and Vigil Awards. These usually, in my understanding, are awarded to a person with the Vigil first and Founders' later. The standard here seems to be the exact obvious. The immediate past lodge chief is still a brotherhood member, but received the Founders' today and one of the Vigil recipients was a past lodge chief and previous Founders' recipient. This baffles me. They have their own traditions, yes, but that doesn't mean I have to like them or keep me from encouraging members from my chapter to lobby vigorously for change. "..We're gonna have a revolution, hey, hey, heyyy..."