"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."