Busy week!

Where to start?  Let's see...

Monday evening was the annual Hendricks County Amateur Radio Society's Christmas dinner and elections.  One of our members has been so bored with our yearly dinners that he volunteered to plan a "real" party for this year, and I must say he did a pretty nice job!  We took over a little restaurant in Avon, IN, that is usually only open for breakfast and lunch.  They catered our evening party.  We had the whole quaint place to ourselves.  Santa Claus was there, with presents; the food was good; and one of our members brought his guitar and some little Christmas carol songbooks, so we sang a few rounds of favorite holiday songs.   It was a festive time...and I was elected president of the club for another year by default.  (No one else wants to do it, I guess.)

Know who else was there?  Megan and Robin and Ryan!  Meg was about to go nuts at home with the children, so she opted to drive down to crash the party.  (Families were invited, so that was not a problem.)  Robin behaved quite well and looked like an absolute cream puff.  Ryan was a bit wound up, encouraged by another youngster who was running around the room, so we had to corral him some.  Both children ate poorly because they had stocked up on the chocolates that were on the table prior to dinner time!

Tuesday, I met with the young man that I will be tutoring after school.

Today after school was our weekly BARC meeting (Bulldogs Amateur Radio Club).  We have four 8th graders that have been pretty faithful about attending, so we are hopeful about getting them licensed and on the air soon.  ("We" is Rick Dubbs WW9JD, the other ham radio operator/teacher in my school, and me.) 

And tonight was the annual Hendricks County Amateur Radio Awards Night.  I was given a nice little plaque again for my work in the county and state.  I don't do what I do in radio for recognition--none of us do--but I have to admit that it is nice to have a time when we can honor our own for the tireless--and somewhat anonymous--volunteer work that goes on throughout the year. 

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Winter weather due tomorrow.  Here we go again!  I hate it when we have this much snow before Christmas.  It makes for such a loooong winter!