Monday Musings - If you build it, use it!

While it is not the healthiest thing in the world for me to eat, during the week when I have some time between work and a meeting I stop for fast food. I'm trying to be better about this, but sometimes it is just convenient.

Anyway, as I drive through some of these places, I find the following:

• A single window where you both pay and receive what you ordered.
• Two windows, one where you pay and the next window where you receive what you ordered.
• Two windows, one you drive by because it is being used for storage or just isn't used at all, and the second window where you both pay and receive what you ordered.

It is the last one that bothers me the most. Because seriously, if you have renovated your establishment and added a window somewhere, whether it is the first window or the second one, it was built for a purpose - to be used! Not to be a storage area. Not to be constantly closed. Not to be constantly passed by. It might help with long lines in a drive through. Maybe it won't. But seriously, the addition of these windows whenever they are done are probably paid for by someone within the business, be it a franchisee or corporate. I wonder what they say when they see the newly build window never used - or worse, being an area to just store supplies! 

And don't get me started on places that have 2 drive through lanes, 2 drive through orders being taken at once, to only be put into 1 lane to pay for said orders and then receive the food. I'm sure that is to aid with quicker orders being taken but more than once someone who just HAD to wait in line ahead of me even though I had clearly completed providing my order before they did had to specify what their order was because the person at the window thought it was my order they were getting.

Pondering the need for 2 drive through windows...

Merging is an Ongoing Journey - Not Yet!

I guess I have something else to write in this series. So maybe I'll keep it around but it may not be a weekly entry.

Pretty Tree in the PUMC Parking Lot 10/16/2022

So, yesterday I had an opportunity that I haven't had in a very long time. I got to work with the youth in the church. One of the adults who works with the youth was doing a day on music and asked if some of us from choir would assist.  It was a lot of fun - and there was a lot of hidden musical talent in the youth in both instrument and vocal forms!

It has been a number of years since I worked with a youth group - probably at least 10 years. But it was a great experience. And it was fun, not just because of the subject but because of the youth and the other adults who were there. There is a mix of time for fun and time for learning and stretch breaks which lead to fun, and of course, a snack!  And we were invited back, not to talk about music but to just be part of the fellowship.

While I can't make it back for the next week and I think the following week they were meeting early for the CROP Walk for those who wished to participate, so it may be a bit before I get back. But I'm definitely considering it!

Merging is an Ongoing Journey - Should I Let this Go?

The moon above the church 10/6/22

It is no secret that I have been struggling to blog the past couple months. Some days on Monday I just don't have anything new to contribute to the ongoing merging journey series. I mean, things are still going on. My journey continues. But I don't feel like it necessarily needs to contribute to its own blog entry. And then because I don't blog on Monday it leads to no thoughts on Thursday or a feeling like I shouldn't share thoughts on Thursday because I didn't post on Monday.

So here is where I'm at.

I'm not going to give up blogging.

But I'm thinking it may be time for this series to not be so frequent.  Maybe instead of a random thought on a Thursday, if something comes up related to the ongoing journey, I should post it on Thursday as my thought and just go from there.  Sometimes I feel like in the past I have almost duplicated efforts because my thought on Thursday would have been just as good as a journey post. Except that I didn't want to wait for a Monday.

I don't know.  It is just something I'm thinking about. So that I don't feel so remiss in my postings.