UNMANLY?

Yesterday Inklings and I went to the graduation of two of our grand daughters. That makes three of our seventeen that have now graduated from High School.

We were told that the graduation was to take place at the Marriot Center at BYU and we needed to be seated by 7:30 p.m. We left home early enough to have about an hour to find a building on the BYU campus that neither of us had ever (to our knowledge) been to.

We arrived and decided to eat dinner before going to the graduation. We stopped and ate then started out with plenty of time to find the building and where we could sit. We drove easily to the junction that took us to the Marriot Center. Traffic was terrible. I told Inklings to roll down the window and ask someone where the Marriot Center was. She refused to do that so I continued up the road. Off to the right we could see a huge building but could only read center on it not the name (BYU needs to fire it's forester because the trees obscure the name - on all the buildings). So we kept going up the road looking at how to get into the parking lot to see what the building was. There was a traffic cop waving all the traffic past the drive way into the building so we went on up the road to the next entrance. We pulled in that entrance, drove over close to the building and parked the car. We still couldn't read what building it was so we walked over to where we could - YUP - first try - the right building. I told Inklings I was really, really glad that we didn't do anything unmanly - like ask directions.

We called our son and made arrangements on where to meet them and had a lovely evening watching the girls graduate. CONGRATULATIONS GIRLS - WE LOVE YOU.

Just as the ceremony started I got a call on my cell phone (on vibrate) - they were reporting a fire on the area I am responsible for so I walked up the stairs (LOTS OF STAIRS) to take the call. After a short discussion I told them to call one of my employees and tell him I wanted to let the fire burn but that he would have to check with a couple of specialists to see if it would meet the criteria for using the fire to meet resource objectives. I also told him that I thought I'd see him in the morning if we decided to come home otherwise I was comfortable with him taking care of it.

I was pretty proud of myself - THAT IS THE FIRST TIME IN MY CAREER THAT I ACTUALLY DELEGATED A FIRE TO SOMEONE ELSE AND STAYED AWAY. Maybe I really am ready to retire. MAYBE