“The Fool, with all his other faults, has this also, he is always getting ready to live”

The Coconut had a nice group of two runners (Winehouse and Captain Steubing) one early bird runner/rucker (Whoopee), four ruckers (Stagecoach, Betamax, Short Sale, Hunchback (and Scrat)), and one runner/walker (YHC).

We talked about Betamax’s trip out west where his rental van had 4 miles on it when he picked it up and over 2500 (or was it 3500?) miles when he turned it in.

As we were discussing Bison and beavers, we saw an actual bird of prey attack another bird in the front yard of a home and it was awesome.  #whenanimalsattack

We returned for Q-Source and were joined by Maybelline.  Hunchback’s ask for the Zamboni driver to not clean the floors of the Teeter on Sundays at 0730 lasted about two weeks.  Last week the dude cranked it up at 0745 and this week he was full on no mufflers at 0730.  Brutal.

The current Q-Source book is John Maxwell’s “The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership” and we covered chapter 9.  (Thanks to Whoopee for letting me borrow the leader’s copy) The lesson was on the Law of Magnetism.  “Birds of a feather flock together”.  Who you are is who you attract.  People tend to attract others of the same age, attitude, background, values, energy, giftedness, and leadership ability.  If you are a scoundrel, you will likely attract other scoundrels.  Don’t be a scoundrel.  People who are 7’s in leadership will likely attract 5 and 6’s instead of 2’s and 3’s.

We also talked about the Scorpions album “Animal Magnetism” and Hunchback shared a podcast on whether the CIA wrote the lyrics to the Scorpion’s song, “Wind of Change” to help take down the Soviet Union.  (I am on episode 3 currently)

Also, I reminded the former WWF fans that Lord Alfred Hayes used to advertise for Coty Wild Musk cologne.  “Let the essence of animal attraction work for you”.

Prayers for Turtleman’s family and John Angell.

Praise for Maybelline’s mom’s test coming back “good to go!”

Reminder Hunchback will receive clown car folks from First Presbyterian tonight at 6PM to clown car to McLean for Turtleman’s visitation.  Great work this morning at the convergence led by Gastone and great words by Gastone, Short Sale, and Whoopee reminding us of the kind of man Turtleman was and where he is now (Heaven).  Turtleman’s son William joined us for the workout.  He is now known as Doogie (aka Doogie Howser, MD).

Make every day count.  You don’t know when or what your future holds so live every day like it matters.

“Putting things off is the biggest waste of life: it snatches away each day as it comes, and denies us the present by promising the future. The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today. You are arranging what lies in Fortune’s control, and abandoning what lies in yours. What are you looking at? To what goal are you straining? The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.”

– Seneca. On The Shortness of Life

Roscoe