What do you do on a snowy Saturday....

Aleene, for one, is making the new (yet to be named) grandson Myung hee a towel set so he will have one like his brother's (Truman). The process is to transform a bath towel and two washclothes into a hooded cape-like towel. (So Amy, act surprised when this creation shows up.)

I on the other hand spent the morning in GR learning how to grade written papers at Cornerstone U. They do a good job with faculty meetings. I sat at a table with some interesting gents. One I have known for a long time (he was adjunct at Davenport) the others were new to me...one guy works at Chrysler and teaches at Troy...the other two are fincancial planners and they teach business classes in GR.

I got a call from the PR person from the Challenge of Children program which I am involved in at Hope on May 19. They wanted someone to go to Ch 13 and Ch 3 to do some live tv promotions. I guess they could not find anyone else available. I agreed and now have to deliver. The Channel 13 gig is first...5:00 on Tuesday, April 26 (yikes just two days from now.) The KZO gig is at noon on May 2.

Challenge of Children has been going on for 23 years. I remember going either the first of second year while I was still teaching. I liked the effort then, but was not back. Now, Pappy goes to tell the young upstarts how to resolve conflict with their kids (slap them upside the head.) Just kidding. I got this gig from OA CDR. I am doing some training there and the Exec Dir thought that I might be able to spin something into a parent child piece. I took it on as a challenge, but have been spending a lot of time on it...that and the up-coming class at Cornerstone have me working hard on things.

I also put together two golf outings this week. I invited three guys from Hart & Cooley over here to play in late May. All three are good (read that, scratch) golfers. I have never had the confidence to golf with this level of player, but they are good natured and jumped at the chance. Bob Schippers is the HR Manager at the Holland Plant; Scott Goward is the Plant Manager (Scott and I worked closely together in the early '90s when he was just coming up through the production ranks); and Bob Bohr who is the IE person (Bob reported to me for three or four years and is/was really good on the links.) I am sure they will humor me.

Then as Bob S and I were planning this I suggested that he and I get our old bosses, Larry and Terry together...so with the magic of email...within hours we had June 10 set for that outing.
I am looking forward to both events.

The HR blog is growing. I have 20 subscribers on Bloglines which Brendon tells me means that I must have about 60 total subscribers, at least that is his percent mark-up he has found. I think Brendon has about 160 subscibers to Slacker Manager. It is fun and it keeps me checking the papers and blogs for material. Once I get to teaching I am sure I will have more to say.

If the snow does not overwhelm us we are going to Hawkshead tonight for dinner with Matulas and Hafers (Sieverts are in IL.) This event was supposed to take place the end of January for our 40th anniversary...too snowy then...maybe too snowy tonight? Tomorrow we go to the Gordon Sumner concert (better known as Sting.) I bought the tickets for Aleene for our 40th way back when she was in Nicaragua...seems so long ago. Here it now is...Sting weekend.