We be rollin'

Well today is 13 May 2009 and it's the twentieth anniversary of the Tienanmen Protest.

So last Friday Dad had me drop him off at the subway where he traveled all the way down to Nathan Philips Square in his Cub Scout Leader uniform to meet the new Commander In Chief the Chief Commissioner of Scouting for all of Canada Mr. Steve Kent. I asked Dad to try to take plenty of pictures since it was a Scouts Only type of thing and they kept the seating limited. So limited that they had 50 spots still available of the 150 seats. Anyways Pops took his digital camera and a couple of AA and a couple of AAA batteries just for safety sakes. Yes we planned ahead. The Lord giggled.
You see at X-mas time Pops gave me his Kodak EasyShare Z1285 High Definition Camera because he used his SDM Optimum points to buy a new smaller slimmer more powerful Kodak AF 3X Optical Zoom M1063. This was because the camera I used to have the HP Photosmart 612 I used to have broke the lens when I fell last fall. Anyways he gets down to the Council Chambers and just as i figured a dead battery. What no one figured because I don't memorize the manuals is that Pops was so glad he got something with a rechargeable battery that it doesn't take standard batteries like AA or AAA at all. So not a single picture and he could not get anyone to volunteer to e-mail him any pictures they would take. Did I hear someone giggling?
Anyways as mentioned yesterday I was handling Dad's e-mail on the weekend and on Monday he had a meeting with a few other leaders a prelude to tonights Group committee meeting. Mum figures that one of the Group Committee members with new powers thanks to Charles Resignation as head of Group has it in for Pops. Now dear old Dad is getting older and is not as capable as he was 35 years ago when he started as a Scout leader. Still Dad is one of those people that me and mum realized that if they aren't doing what they love then zap they start to wind down and die so we want him to continue as long as he can. Anyways this member accused Dad of not planning the activities for the camps and for the meetings for the kids. Well Dad took offence at that since he doesn't do the planning he does the booking and shipping and watches over the kids like a big babysitter. Charles the Akella, the Group Committee head, and the Area head, was responsible of planning for each meeting and events. She basically accuses Dad of passing the buck and being out of date and out of touch. So tonight has left us on tenderhooks.
Okay so that aside William Gibson aka Uberman sends out an e-mail about 1pm today cancelling tonights game (well he said carryon without him except he has the maps) because he was sick. It's susposed to be a head cold not the swine flu just a head cold and nothing else. Sounds like a line from a Monty Python skit. So I get to stay home and get Dad off to Group and pick up Mark from work and keep Mum company during CSI NY. Yippee.
Now Dad is a little upset. You see he saw a commercial for UP the new Pixar film with Carl the old guy as star and now he keeps comparing it to one of the last photos we have of Grampa and says it's an animated version of his Father, So Dad realizes Grampa's picture has some stains on it and I said leave it and he goes ahead and tries to clean it himself. Now Grampa has a white mark where his cheek used to be. Maybe Dad needs an animated version these days.
Oh and me and Mark saw X-Men Origins Wolverine last night and well it's good, to me it's a bastardization to the Wolverine Origin we know and love.
Finally got my 25 Random things about me on Facebook done and the rest of the photos from the shooting are up and not the comments I expected.
Time to go see you all another day.