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04 November 2001 - 12:03

gym night

It has been five nights since I've slept in a bed. Three nights on the living room floor with the masked heeler weren't too bad. Carpet and quiet.

But Friday night was not restful.

Friday night was spent on the hard gymnasium floor of the Coal Mine Town recreation center. With over 45 boys and young men, and perhaps one other adult leader (the other leaders wimped out and slept in the carpeted aerobicize room...without the distractions of youth).

Lights went out at midnight. But the flashlights were still active til almost 2 o'clock. As was the massive pillow and sock fight.

I apparently brought the only laser.

At 02:45 I awoke to find someone snoring about a foot from my head. He wasn't there at lights out. Or at 2 o'clock. In fact, being one of a handful of adult supervision in the room, nobody bedded down within five meters of me. But this sound snorer had apparently been drug across the floor and deposited here by the door.

At 03:38 I awoke to the sounds of two basketballs being hurled blindly back and forth across the entire darkened gym like low level Scud missiles.

A quick shout derailed that catastrophe.

With combatants resorting to using small, hard candies. Pretty sure one of the Iraqi wanna-bes was one of mine, and found out one of the artillery launchers on the other side of the gym was one of mine, too.

We got our revenge. Reveille was 06:15. And we kept them busy, with no nap time, until 15:00.

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