National Onion Rings Day

Maddie has been accepted to Gainesville University of North Georgia, or GUNG maybe?  One could say she's "GUNG HO," which here in the US means she's enthusiastic, eager or energetic.  In China, where the phrase originated, it means she's simply "industrial cooperative."  Regardless, she's at GUNG, and not DUNG quite yet, which beyond being an acronym for Dahlonega University of North Georgia, has an entirely other meaning.

Anyway, she's excited about that, and today we decided to drop by with a few more questions, specifically some directed at financial aid.

How funny that their entire office was decorated - at one point completely overboard, I might add - for Star Wars.  There were Star Wars items all over the place like Christmas decorations.

We talked for a while and Maddie's got some forms to fill out and so on, but we're moving forward.  I even asked about finishing up a few classes myself, something I'll have to see another advisor about soon enough.  Maybe.  

Anyway, while we were out, we were sure to drop by a few locations - we got lunch at Zaxby's which does not serve onion rings, by the way.  Desperate for onion rings, we went across the street afterwards to Burger King, and yes, there we got ourselves a few orders of onion rings.  And why this obsession with onion rings?  

Today is National Onion Rings Day!  We made sure to stop and celebrate this important, landmark holiday with some proper onion rings.  We were almost as obsessive as the Onion Ringwraiths!  

Tonight Maddie had taekwondo, and the Edges are back from their holiday - no, not National Onion Ring Day.  They're back from vacation, and they're well-rested.  Maddie drove us over there to taekwondo, and while we were there, the rain just suddenly started pounding the area.  It was a super heavy downpour.  And then, just as suddenly, it was gone.  We've been seeing a lot of deer in the area on the way home.  We got back, and I had a walk to finish:

That's right, I finished the Mt. Everest climb today, and I did so while watching another guy ski down Mt. Everest.  This one was more recent that the Japanese team's effort in the 1970's, and I'm not sure how much of the mountain was actually skied down, but the idea was that basically he climbed to the top and went to the bottom entirely on skis.  One may ask the very important question:  why?  I have no idea.  Anyway, it's been great education and a great theme climbing upwards in the Himalayas, learning about the surrounding mountains, the culture the process of climbing up Everest with sherpas and so forth.  I've always been fascinated by this climb, and the idea of the beautiful desolation up in a place where you can be away from everyone else.  The lack of oxygen part is probably one big reason why.  And the cold.  It takes a special type of person to do this sort of climb, that much is certain.  I was just happy to do it all virtually.

Moving on, we read tonight after watching a few Clone Wars episodes.  The Braves game was late, so we didn't catch all of it, but it's okay as they're in this offensive skid lately, not collectively hitting the ball anywhere near as well as they were earlier in the season.  Hopefully they can shake themselves free once more.  They're still in first place by a decent margin, but they're not making it easy on themselves.

We read, and then said our prayers tonight, and after that, it was time for some sleep.