D'Lo - It was a tough weekend for me emotionally. I learned that a friend of the family had passed away to cancer. I attended the funeral services on Saturday to represent the fam. He and my dad were good friends when I was lil. We would always arm wrestle and my goal was to beat him eventually. His family would always go with us to CP, and T-O back in the day. His family was always welcomed to come over for turkey on Thanksgiving Day. I'm thankful that he was able to see his son graduate high school last year. He loves his son more than anything in the world. His son would use to come over when I was a Raider, and we'd play SNES everyday. The funny thing was that I could recite each passage read at the service, let's see Psalm 23, Ecc. 3, Romans 8, and John 14. I had the honor of being the last car, so I got to put all those orange flags on my car. I think the only thing I am upset about myself with is how his son does not play sports. I remember when he wanted me to teach his son how to play basketball back then. I pushed him so hard as if it was me, and it had an inverse effect. Lastly, it was wierd seeing an old flame at the place which is why I like to keep a low pro. Well until my Aunt J, announced that I was here. May the Lord look over his family and forgive us all of our daily transgressions.

The only other thing I am upset about is today's CBC meeting. I felt like those on the hot seat were playin Dodgeball. We're like throwin numbers out when we don't even have a clue which direction we are going. We talk about attendance being down, but then we don't discuss the reasons. I mean, seriously where the GG did some of the people go that I use to see 6 months ago? Plus, ya look around the membership meeting and I think I was the youngest one there. One of my MOH boyz, brought up a good point about who was the last person the came to CBC as a newcomer then became a member? I arrived here 6 years ago, and now pretty much everyone is gone from the crews that I was with. Going by today's attendance, only the B-Hater and myself are the lone warriors left. Enlarge Our Territory, eh, like I was once taught we need to focus on the seats that are filled first. I just feel like we lost touch of that, otherwise people would still be here. Someone brought up a good point too, directed at the leadership, do they really know the church's needs? I'm gonna see if I can start up some sort of E-Side membership meeting only or something. There needs to be some serious things addressed besides the invisible budget/consumer credit. Well at least I finally got to 2nd something in the meeting.

R.I.P.
H.M.
1937-2006