Daniel's Summer Blog

For all of staff week as well as the first ten days of campers, there was no hint of rain, just unbearable sun beating down on us all. That all changed Thursday, which turned out to be something a a harbinger of doom. It rained briefly on Thursday, and then camp was treated to an awesome display of Mother Nature's power with a loud storm full of cloud to ground lightning strikes and deafening claps of thunder. The tower staff holed up in the laundry closet which offered us fairly good cover and more importantly a good view of the storm which lit up the sky like Miroslav Klose. The rain forced us into the Hadar Ochel for Kabbalat Shabbat which helped the acoustics, though made it quite crowded and difficult to move around, even more so to daven. The rain continued intermittently on Saturday and Sunday with a another particularly spectacular downpour and lightning show on Saturday night. Now on Monday, the rain slowly begins to drive us insane as camp has turned into mud and there is no more lightning, so camp proceeds as usual, only far wetter. On the other hand, it was raining when I rolled out of my room this morning which allowed me to wear my rain boots all day, receiving some compliments, some insults, and one attempt to steal them.
My day off coming up is proving to be a bit complicated, but I hope it turns out to be three grown men going to see Cars. We will see.
I continue to marvel at my friends who are my age or close getting married, it really makes you think that I might be maturing into an adult. Thankfully my rain boots protect me to some extent from all that.
USA Soccer is a joke, I wish Israel had made it, because they could have ruined some people, if not make a name for themselves.
Just when I thought I had abandoned programming forever, I appear to have been vaading with Gesher alot lately. I have countered my hindering voice of dissent and jokes with actual helpful input for their programs.
Next time: Random thoughts
I can't be Token anymore.