28 May 2006 #0622.html

Sexy Sisters

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Dear Family and Friends,

Welcome to this week's "Thoughtlet."

These words are my personal diary and a weekly review of ideas, beliefs, thoughts, or words that will hopefully be of some benefit to you: my children, my family, and my friends.

"I'm writing this Thoughtlet on Thanksgiving morning, Roice's birthday, at Paul and Kate's house in O'Fallon, Missouri, 26 weeks after the events from a piece of paper with 36 words on it. Expect this Thoughtlet will be particularly short.

On Monday I refer to Johnson faults. I have no idea what this means. Les provided me the data for Tile 28, the next to the last Tile, and I made the maps and gave all everything to Nicolas to finish off this Tile. Bob Mishler called and said Henry Ho is agreement to our proposal for GDC to earn a 3-5% ORRI for going geological and geophysical due diligence for Turnmile on oil and gas fields they are they purchase based on our technical evaluation. I have a note that says "FSI," and I have no idea what has happened on Christian's project back in May. I have a note that days GDC,and I have no idea what I was referring to having happened at "GDC." And I have a note that says "Open Mind," which I'm pretty sure has to do with my work on Chapter 2, and attempting to get this finished and sent to Jan Miller before we left for Europe to take Rachel on her graduation trip.

On Friday I noted that Fred Hilterman will start back at GDC on June 9th. I find this kind of exciting, because I had so much fun when I worked for Fred at SAL (The Seismic Acoustics Lab at The University of Houston). Maybe he can even build bridges so I can work with Richard Verm.

On Sunday I have a note that I Home Taught Dong Liu and Hayden Hudson. I don't remember if my companion went with me or not. He has refused to go Home Teaching with me for some time now. I feel so sorry for folks who get caught up in the thick of thin things and loose the spirit and do not make the effort to honor their priesthood. Oh well!

Maybe these were part of my feelings on Wednesday when I wrote down the theme for this week's Thoughtlet: "Sexy Sisters." The conversation was somewhat surreal, especially since it was with a true straight arrow, George Schultz, the Stake Executive Secretary. We have had several receptionists during my three year stay at GDC. About this time there was a very professional and very efficient black lady that Maureen Callighan could not stand because she drove her crazy with questions. Anyway, there had just been another turnover in the receptionist. George was in talking to me, and he mentioned his wife Beckie is considering going back to work because they do not have a lot of money for retirement. I told him Beckie should apply to be a receptionist at GDC, then he would have a built-in car pool. He told me it would drive her crazy. I told her Beckie could set up a business where she has other ladies from the church who substitute for her on days she did not want to come in, and that I anticipated this could create a nice second income for them. Then he got talking about how it was his observation that companies usually hire eye candy, i.e. really sexy looking ladies, to be receptionists. So I asked him if he didn't think the ladies at church looked sexy. He responded, "I don't think this conversation is appropriate," and left my office. I chuckled to myself as I thought about the concept of sexy sisters, especially since many sisters (and brothers) in the church do not take care of ourselves physically. We might not smoke or drink, but we certainly make up for it eating and especially eating sweets. So it is kind of an oxymoron to think about a concept like sexy brethren or sexy sisters."

Since the 38th week of 1996 I have written a weekly "Thoughtlet" (little statements of big thoughts which mean a lot to me). Until the 43rd week of 2004 I sent these out as an e-mail. They were intended to be big thoughts which mean a lot to me. Over time the process evolved into a personal diary. These notes were shared with my family because I know how important the written word can be. Concerned about how easy it is to drift and forget our roots and our potential among all of distractions of daily life, I thought this was a good way to reach those I love. It no longer feels right to send out an e-mail and "force" my kids and my family to be aware of my life and struggles.

Everyone has their own life to lead, and their own struggles to work through. I will continue this effort, and will continue to make my notes publicly accessible (unless I learn of misuse by someone who finds out about them, and then will aggressively pursue a legal remedy to copyright infringement and I will put the Thoughtlets behind a password).

The index to download any of these Thoughtlets is at http://www.walden3d.com/thoughtlets, or you can e-mail me with questions or requests at rnelson@walden3d.com (note if you are not on my e-mail "whitelist" you must send 2 e-mails within 24 hours of each other in order for your e-mail to not be trashed).

With all my love,
Dad
(H. Roice Nelson, Jr.)

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Copyright © 2006 H. Roice Nelson, Jr.