Monday 7:00 AM

 There doesn’t appear to have been a thundering and lightning storm last night.  Either that or I slept through it.

On today’s agenda, hoping to get Twenix bookings (so far, nothing) and shopping at Walmart.  No chance of sub-teaching today: it’s PD day.

And of course there will be many things that I neglect to do.  I am overwhelmed while requiring respite.

Sunday 10:08 PM

 There is supposed to be a Thunderstorm overnight.

It seems that I sunburnt my arms sitting outside the entrance to the Bulk Barn this afternoon.  I thought I was in the shade.

Dumb me.  The automatic garage opener stopped working.  Hoping to repeat the “dumb luck” my brother had when he got it working a previous time, I tried to tap something on its circuit board.  For an instant I had success and had the garage door moving, but then I fried the circuit board.  We’ll have to get a new opener, it looks like.

Bulk Barn

 I have be outside for this shift.  I’m staying in the shade. I have no intention of getting sunburned like I was in Rivers.

This location is super slow.  I may have to pull stakes early.

I have read a chapter of Trollope and of Thomas Merton to pass the time,

A lot of pick ups with loud engines on 18th street.

A strange looking fellow just asked me for a cigarette

The manager tells me it is super slow for a Sunday.  Her theory: people are staying home to work on their gardens.  They had a late start of it, this spring,.

Sunday 9:00 AM Mass

 Father Oliver presided over the Mass.

I saw this in the Church Bulletin:

Can you see it?  I have an Intention Mass this upcoming Friday.

Today’s Mass celebrated Pentecost.  Just before Mass started, a lady asked Mass attendees to say something in a different language.  I ascertained her request, however, only after it was done.  Sometimes, I can’t hear what people are saying from the pews.

Sunday 5:37 AM

 I’m feeling tired today.  Thank God it will be an easier day. I just have a Mass to attend, and a six hour fund raising shift.

To Brandon

 Nice blue sky.

More Virden

 Incredibly, I saw a student from the class I had just sub-teached in Brandon.

To Virden

 The #1 heading West.

Old Virden Train Station.

Virden arena: alternate Wheat Kings rink.

How far Virden is from anywhere.

Do I like Virden?  Yes!!

Reading NGD in Virden:

—El hombre recobra en la soledad aliento para vivir.

—In solitude man recovers strength to live.

—Una idea extravagante se vuelve ridícula cuando

varios la comparten.

O se camina con todos, o se camina solo.

Nunca debe caminarse en grupo.

—An outlandish idea becomes ridiculous when

several people share it.

Either one walks with everybody, or one walks alone.

One should never walk in a group.

Saturday 6:36 AM

 It’s raining.  Hopefully, I won’t be impacted by it at work.  

My agenda today:  8:00 online class, a drive to Virden, an eight hour fundraising shift in Virden, a drive back to Brandon, 7:30 online class.

I’ll be missing the start of garage sale season.  But if it continues to rain, I won’t be.

From NGD:

	—Sólo las humillaciones le entreabren a veces a la
	humanidad las puertas de la sabiduría.
	—Sometimes only humiliations leave ajar for
	humanity the gates of wisdom.

Time for some Nicolás Gómez Dávila

 First aphorism I looked upon today:

—Hell is the place where man finds all his plans realized.

 The second aphorism I looked upon today:

—Stupidities spread at the speed of light.

I can say that I have realized some plans in my life and I’ll be darned if they actually worked out in my favor.  And I can say that I can attest to the second aphorism.

And then there is this from the Founding Questions blog:

…of course observing others’ behavior makes me wonder, reciprocally, about my own. Why did So-and-So do thus and such, which is so obviously stupid and counterproductive? If I can figure that out, maybe I can figure out why I keep doing thus-and-such, which is so obviously stupid and counterproductive…