my grandwather was a blackjack

I had SO many potential plans for this weekend. I felt a little stressed even. Among the other things Ying (Leslies labs tech) had invited their lab members and Noel and Liz to his cottage. And I decided to leave the stress and all the other plans and tagged along with Leslie.
It was a super nice day. We did some canoeing, walked around in the wilderness, ate some wild (?) rasberries, had an amazing dinner with BBQ chicken and beef and salads.
At the BBQ I wanted to tell the others the story why I don't need tongs to remove hot items from the BBQ, because my grandfather was a blacksmith (In Estonia we have a saying that if youu grandfather was a balcksmith, then you are resistant to heat. And if the grandfather was making glass, then you are see through and you can stand in front of others). But for some reason I messed up "blacksmith" with "blackjack", and the entire story went "to the forest".
And then we played a game, where a person had to make the others guess the object/word by drawing it on the board with their eyes closed. Lots of fun. Even though we made it home at 10 instead of planned 6, it was a super nice day.

Friday: we (BMIGSA) threw our last BBQ. It was nice. The weather was perfect. But - we didn't get as many people as expected. So we ended up in 60 leftover burgers and 60 hotdogs and 30 veggie burgers... Plus bread and cookies and a ton of mustard. So we decided to return it, since the stress levels are getting higher and we don't have time. So the saga started close to 6 - we had to make it to Leslies, check the address, take the car, go to the lab, pack ALL the meat and bread (it was HEAVY!), carry it to the car, drive to the store, load it to the cart, stand in the lineup. And then, when they told us "black on white" that all this is going to garbage, we couldn't do it. We just couldn't throw out ALL this perfectly good food.
So we did all this backwards - took all the load back to the car, then the meat to the lab and the bread to Leslies freezer. And we need to throw one "post-last" BBQ. It is extra work, but at least we have made the world a little better place.
We got back to Leslies when it was close to 9. Since 4 was in down from Calgary, he came over, we had a bit wine and chatted to catch up. He has only been away for two month and a bit, but it seems that so much has happened in the meanwhile.

Wednesday and Thursday night I was volunteering for the animation film festival. The worst organized festival in my opinion. For the first night they had 8 volunteers to serve about 30 people (we were at the registration). Nobody gave proper training, everyone did things as they wished or knew the best. Also so many registrations were messed up (old company names on the name tags, no tickets etc). And we had no power to help them. And the person who was supposed to have power, she just didn't care. So - I don't recommend volunteering for them.
One funny coincidence was that one of the other guys volunteering was a biochem student.
Oh, and I also purchased a new Terry Prachett book - illustrated. There are some awesome dragons in there:)