A Week in the Life of Your Favourite Blogger...

• Heather and I drive our friends, Werner and Mary, to the airport – they’re on another cruise.
• Another long-term friend is our guest for dinner – the conversation lasting late into the night.
• An eighty minute Skype conversation with lifelong friends of ours, who live in the Province of Québec.
• A ninety minute coffee with a somewhat younger friend – who bills himself as “Winnipeg’s friendliest undertaker.”
• Intense study of financial statements, committee reports, and a hundred pages of other materials, in preparation for the Annual General Meeting of the Manitoba Medical Services Foundation (MMSF), where I’m a member of their Board of Directors.
• The MMSF Annual General Meeting itself.
• A haircut.
• Intense study of another bunch of material – this time preparing for a meeting of our diocesan Board on Canons and Rules of Order (“canons,” in case you didn’t know, are the by-laws of a Christian denomination).
• Heather and I are dinner guests at the home of fellow-members of St. Margaret’s church.
• The meeting of the Board on Canons, for which I had been preparing.
• Heather and I attend the annual banquet for Manitoba Blue Cross and MMSF directors (Blue Cross being a major sponsor/supporter of MMSF).
• A three-hour lunch with a member of the clergy – something of a mentoring relationship.
• A social evening at the home of friends.
• A whole day without appointments (praise and thanksgiving offered to Heaven) – correspondence gets partially caught up; housework gets done, after a fashion.
• On four separate days I also manage to get in an hour’s practice on the clarinet – having in mind that I will perform a couple of numbers in public, next Sunday, June 5, at St. Margaret’s.