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I went with my trainee pool to the Harz mountains for teambuilding. It was fun. I love teambuilding events. I got to be the project leader for the last task, building a rope bridge. The way it worked was that our group was divided into four groups. Each of us recieved information about a different part of the task and nothing else. My group learned about the ropes. We learned how to tie the knots so the ropes could be attached to the carabiners and from there to the trees and such. Another group knew how to attach something to the trees, another group, how to attach the harness to a pulley system, and the last group learned how to use the belay devices to tighten the rope. We had a meeting as a group to figure out how to build the bridge, to collaborate our info and formulate a plan, etc. Then we started working. I managed the project and one person thought I did a good job. The rest, I don't know. I thought I did ok. Obviously there were things I could have done better, but, oh well. I was actually just happy because one guy said I had inspired and motivated him to continue when he thought we could no longer accomplish the project. That delighted me. Anyway... it was cool.

This is a backlog, but I will put it here anyway. My cactus has been relatively stagnant with the lack of sun we have been having here. So one day it was just starting to bloom (see last entry) and the next day, it looked like this.















Thats freakin awesome. Supposedly, this cactus is supposed to grow to the size of a small soccerball. I think that every time it buds like that, there there is a lobe that seperates and I think that it fills out and makes those things like you see there, the two halves of a sphere with two halves of a sphere inside with the stem. I think it just keeps splitting and growing. That would make me happy.

Talk to you in a few seconds when I start writing the next entry.