A Weekend in the Life
Greetings:
The weekends are ALWAYS too short.
Big things I got done or that remain to do this weekend --
Saturday:
- Scanned in my Hillcrest High School (HHS) Class Picture after cutting it in half, and posted it to Classmates.com
- E-mailed server old HHS classmates and my sister to inform them of this.
- Visit the new BankOne branch at Milwaukee & Ashland, and bought some money orders. (Got short-changed in the process... where do they train these people?)
- Joined BLOGSPOT.com and started my first web log.
- Updated my own website at BILLSLATER.com and created a link to this weblog.
- Joined some local groups at Meetup.com: Chess, LAN Games, Risk, Judo and Backgammon. Hope to meet some interesting people in one or more of these groups.
- Talked on the phone for about an hour with old friend / mentor from the U.S. Air Force who called me after several years of being out of touch. His name is David Higgins. You can read about him on my Mentors web page.
- Went to a movie named "In Good Company," which realistically depicted the types of generational conflicts that occur in the modern workplace. Starred Dennis Quaid, Scarlet Johannson and Topher Grace.
- Dropped off the laundry to be washed, dried, and folded (or hung up).
- Went to a nice dinner at the Luc Thang Noodle Restauarant at 1524 N. Ashland Ave. While they claim to be a Chinese & Thair Restaurant, I think of them more as a Vietnamese Restaurant. It is owned and operated by a Vietnamese family named the Troungs, and they have been there since 1997. I know and love the whole family. After dinner, we always go back to the kitchen, which is half the size of this small restaurant, and greet Ms. Troung and thank her for a great meal. She is a gourmet cook, but she doesn't believe that.
- Afterwards, we walked home and watched the news and part of Saturday Night Live. Amy Poehler was pretty funny dressed as Michael Jackson.
Sunday:
- Watched the Sunday morning news shows about Politics and Current Events. I still think the Iraq War was and is a huge mistake. I voted for Ralph Nader, does it show?
- For breakfast, my lovely wife, Joanna, made a great dish with Polish sausage and scrambled eggs. It was EXCELLENT and the first time she have made it, I think.
- Wrote this, the second entry in my new web log.
- Meeting a new potential protege', Derek Snyder, who is the grandson of a dear friend and former student. His father, Dean Snyder, is bringing him over to discuss ways to work together in a Mentor-Protege' relationship. I am presently mentoring about six people people. Read more about Mentoring Process, my Mentors, and my Proteges at my website. Note that the Proteges Page is really dated and should be updated soon. However, people like the material I have written on mentoring, and it has been used and re-used, nationally and internationally. There is some comfort in the fact that many people like the way I have helped this process along, as well as the people I have helped. Of course, I am eternally in debt to my own mentors, who in some cases, served as surrogate father figures as well as mentors.
- After we talk, Dean Snyder and Derek Snyder will join me for a late lunch back at Luc Thang Noodle Restaurant.
- For the rest of the weekend, I plan some more Chess, reading, and filing of paperwork. I also have some writing to do.
- Then, wrapping up the weekend, tonight I will watch Desperate Housewives and Boston Legal.
Weekends are always too short. We need a U.S. Constitutional Ammendment to create the four-day work week. This would help de-stress a lot of already over-stressed Americans.
That's all for now.
Bill
posted by William Favre Slater, III @ 12:26 PM
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