At a little after 9 p.m. on a Sunday evening I’m sitting in my easy chair in the family room. Game 7 of the American League Championship Series is on the TV, but Cleveland is trailing 5-2 to Boston. I’ve been kind of reading my book, but until the end of the game, I’m not sure I’ll get much else read, so I’ll blog instead.

It’s been a fairly full week. I’ve been talking with a company in Idaho Falls about doing some business development for them and we’ve come to an agreement. It’s a commission-only position which suites me just fine. I start to get quite busy with this new adventure starting tomorrow. I spent the past Monday and Wednesday in Idaho Falls. I was told that I needed to be at a Church Regional Training meeting on Wednesday evening, but that turned out to be incorrect … it was for the Primary, Young Women, and Relief Society leaders and not for the Sunday School. As a result, I missed an Idaho State Symphony concert. Nina took good care of that, though. She took her friend Cathy with her to the concert and they had a grand time. I came back home and finished my preparation for my Thursday evening assignment.

Thursday morning, very early, we were on our way to Soda Springs to pick up mother and dad and take them to do a temple session in Logan. Dad needs some assistance now in the temple so Nina and I will take them once a month. Thursday was the first time. We were there for the 10 a.m. session, then made stops at Sams Club, Deseret Book, and the Pepperidge Farm outlet store. We left the house at 6:30 a.m. and were back at 4:30 p.m. Enough time for both of us to have dinner and be off to our other assignments: Nina went to the prison and I was off to the Stake Center for Stake Auxilliary Training. I was running the session for the Sunday School.

Turnout for the Sunday School training session was actually quite good. We got home in enough time to see the end of the baseball game won by the Red Sox. Friday was a day for errands and putting Nina’s car in the garage. It’s leaking something and smells like oil is burning. The garage said that the problem was between the engine and the transmission and they would be pulling the transmission out to figure out the problem … which will be at least $700 to fix and most likely much more than that. In any event, it’s cheaper than buying a new car! Both of our cars are paid for and we’d like to drive them several more years.

Saturday evening was the Kinport Branch party. The Kinport Branch serves at the prison and is where Nina is the Relief Society President. The party was a potluck dinner followed by playing games. We had a lot of fun, but came home to find that Cleveland had lost again and Boston had tied the series at three games apiece. I was able to take some solace, however as Notre Dame got clobbered 41-0.

Today I had a speaking assignment at the prison and at our home Juniper Hills ward. I spoke twice this morning, once in the high-security area of the prison and once in the minimum-security area. That’s the first time I’ve been up there on a Sunday and it was good to see Nina in action and to meet some of the women she talks about. The assignment in the Juniper Hills Ward also went well.

Tonight has been very quiet at home other than my shouts at the TV screen. Unfortunately, they can’t hear me. It’s now the bottom of the 8th and Boston has scored and scored again. The score is now 11-2 and the inning isn’t over. It has been fun watching Twitter during tonight’s ballgame. All of the folks I follow who are paying attention to the game are rooting for Boston.

Cleveland is making it easy for me to know who to cheer for in the World Series that starts on Wednesday. Go Rockies!!