Hurry up and wait, and how to wake the neighborhood dogs!

Seems to be the most popular phrase, besides 'Take good men and make them better', or 'a system of morality veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols'. It is now exactly 1 month away from my initiation. But instead of going on and on about how excited I am about joining I will let you all in on one of my hobbies. Pulse Jet Engines!!! I build the valveless kind. A true fuel burning, thrust producing engine that has zero moving parts! My son and I built this last version, and man is she loud! I didn't get it officially running but had it popping and producing a beautiful blue flame, as well getting the body of teh engine to reach about 500deg F in about 10 seconds, as an added bonus I'm sure every dog in the neighborhood was also aware of my testing! I don't think I have ever heard them all bark at the same time before! It was the first time I have run one of my engines in my garage, the other two are way too big! The wife got home just as I was wrapping things up, and I tried to impress her with my skills and she literally ran and hid behind her car while yelling at me to stop! Couldn't hear a word!

Sweating Bullets!

Well the day finally came and my soon to be Brethren voted to confer the degree of Entered Apprentice on me. On Tuesday, evening the good men of Mt. Zion #120 in beautiful Chilliwack BC, agreed that I am worthy to receive the light of Freemasonry! My sponsor had told me he would call me after the vote to let me know how it went. I stayed up until 11pm, about an hour after my regular bedtime awaiting his call. No call came, my mind started to race. Was I blackballed, was the vote postponed, was it simply too late and he didn't call out of courtesy. Damn I worry too much. So I called him around 10am; no answer...........right, it went poorly now he's avoiding me, not wanting to burst my bubble so to speak! So all day I wait, no call. 6pm arrives I'm off work, I call. My sponser answers and tells me that he was going to call the next day, keeping me in suspense! 'The vote was a favorable one', he says, 'initiation will be late October!'. I am so stoked! Just wish there was something I could do in the meantime, besides wait! Oh well, color me excited!