Dinner?

 I  just got in a few minutes ago from what I thought was going to be a fairly succinct dinner for the board of directors of this organization that I live at. I've been at the board are on the board for I don't know how many decades. I know I've written about this particular board of directors before particularly in the fact that I was able to get housing when I needed at most immediately and I think primarily from my time serving as a board member to this organization. I've always enjoyed my association with the people that make up the board and we've all been at it so long it's almost like family. Anyway, I knew that they were going to be doing something with a lot of the filming. They actually sent out a dress code for us to comply with to the point that I was so worried that I showed up a little early just to make sure it was okay. They sent out an email saying that they wanted all the guys to wear white shirts and it's sports jacket if they had it but I didn't have any of those eyes lucked out to find a white shirt or at least Melissa found a white shirt and it sufficed. I was totally surprised because the only short sleeved white shirt I have was available and actually clean. In fact I made it through the whole evening without spilling anything on my shirt primarily because it really wasn't a dinner - - well I guess technically it was but most of it was being props for a documentary the organization is filming to celebrate it 60 years of business. So we are just Pawns people taking up space and to be photographed we were the actual board and that's what they wanted but still it wasn't quite what I had in mind. They sa to be there at 7:00 p.m. and they would be taking images of us but this really didn't get going until almost 8:00 if not later. That was not even the dinner it was just the hi hello and how do you do part of the evening. They also had this tricky little thing where everyone had to write something down about the director of the board and what he meant to us to serve with him it was all kind of weird. We finally got to eat around 9:00 p.m. which is pretty late for a lot of us. Steak and shrimp as they promised it was quite a big portion and quite tasty but hardly worth the two hours of trauma that they put us through just waiting around and getting this thing to be camera ready to be filmed when they wanted to film it. There was a lot of starts and stops and actual photographing interview type stuff with different individuals on the board with the director Marion. It was a long night like I said, hardly worth the dinner but I was able to stay intact and didn't spill anything on my shirt and I think I can wear these.  shorts  tomorrow to breakfast…