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Breakfast For Lunch Thursday Rundown

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Happy April! I hope your month is off to a great start. The second quarter of 2025 is underway so either stay on track or get back on it depending where you are at. Let’s begin with the Thursday rundown.

Spa Date – For our daughter’s birthday party, we opened up Sloan’s Salon for an afternoon. A week later, Sloan had the chance to get pampered at a real salon. Our dear friend, Fidela, took Sloan on a “girl’s afternoon” to the Coeur d’Alene Resort Spa. In addition to getting manicures, they also walked the pier, ate lunch, and visited the toy store. It was such a generous and special way for Fidela to celebrate Sloan. And she did all this while pregnant! Which reminds me, please pray for Fidela that she continues to have a safe pregnancy and pray for her unborn baby.

Fidela spoiled Sloan with a special spa afternoon.

Free Concessions – My former place of employment has made a big splash this week. The Coastal Carolina University athletic department recently announced it will offer FREE concessions items during the 2025 football season. We are talking free hot dogs, popcorn, nachos, and soda. Dubbed the CCU Kickoff Meal Deal, fans will be able to order four free items at a time and will be allowed to go through the line as many times as desired. Perhaps the timing of this announcement was the most ingenious part of the whole thing. Because CCU announced the promotion on March 31, people speculated that it could be an April Fool’s joke. Nope, it is totally legit—but the speculation added to the buzz.

When I started working at CCU, Brooks Stadium still had green grass and a fraction of its current capacity. It also didn’t offer free concessions. It will be interesting to see how it all works out.

Breakfast For Lunch – On Tuesday, our EWU marketing and communications team hosted a potluck during the lunch hour. Everyone was told to bring their favorite breakfast item. Let me tell you, my colleagues went all out and brought some delicious fare. As for me? Even though I have felt extremely burned by recent modifications, I couldn’t help but bring Costco muffins to the party.

Can you see my muffins? This was before most of the other food arrived. That’s my boss, Eric Limburg, flipping chocolate chip pancakes.

To Catch A Killer – While browsing Netflix for a movie to watch on Sunday, Sidney and I selected “To Catch A Killer.” The film is from 2023 and it stars Shailene Woodley, who I like, as a Baltimore police officer. When a mass shooter murders scores of people at multiple events, an FBI special agent leans on Woodley for her insight. When Sid and I talked about the movie during dinner the following night, I told her I didn’t really like it. She asked why. I told her I didn’t really know. But as she pressed me, I mentioned it was really dark, a little hokey, and just not very clever.

Although I like Shailene Woodley, I wouldn’t recommend “To Catch A Killer.”

Keep Scrolling – Many of you know that I try to end these rundowns on a humorous note and tonight I have the opportunity to do so. My friend, Lindsi, shared this four years ago but it still makes me laugh because it 100% resonates with me. Whenever I submit an online application that requires my birth date, I find the “year” field defaulting to something like 2007. Alas, this requires me to scroll back quite a bit to find my respective birth year. It is funny and concerning at the same time, but, believe it or not, sometimes I feel a pinch of pride mixed in that I have lived to this point.

This “Price Is Right” meme resonated with me.

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This is going to be a record April for the Resers so I have to sign off for now. Hope you have a great weekend and thanks for reading! Don’t Blink.

Toweling Off…I Mean On

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Back in high school, there was a coach from a rival basketball team with a peculiar signature “look.” Whenever he coached, he would always droop a white towel—one that was meant for players to wipe sweat from their faces at timeouts—over his shoulder. Mind you, this was during the days when coaches actually wore suits so this particular “accessory” always stood out.

To grab another memory from my prep years, our PE teacher in weight training required us to bring our own towel to class. This was mandated so we could use it to place on equipment while performing reps and to also deflect our own perspiration while exercising.

I think both of these influences—although the latter one more so—had an impact on me after I graduated from high school. Why so? Because since the nearly 20 years since I left Mead High School, I have always brought with me a towel to the gym that I constantly droop over my shoulder while I work out.

I always bring a towel with me to the gym to use while exercising

However, to be fair, the towels I use aren’t the athletic ones the high school basketball coach would use. Rather, my towels are pretty much whatever I can get my hands on. Some are hand drying towels, some are car wash towels, and others are promo items I picked up from events. So you might ask the following question: Do they do the trick?

My response would be, what trick? If you meant do they keep me cool and keep sweat at bay, I would say kind of. While they do help whisk away sweat while doing cardio, my weight lifting routine doesn’t leave me soaked and thus a towel isn’t absolutely necessary for that purpose.

Instead, I use a towel at each gym session for two other more obscure reasons. The first is that it helps me mark my territory. I can indicate that I am using a piece of equipment by sprawling the towel on whatever I am using. But when you use the gym at 3:30 a.m. like I do, let’s just say marking your territory isn’t always necessary when you are often the only one using the facility.

The more prominent reason for my dedicated towel use is what my wife terms “my OCD.” I simply like the comfort and familiarity of a towel drooped over my shoulder or in my hand at all times. I guess you can liken it to how a toddler becomes attached to a blanket. After exercising that way for 25 years, it has grown on me. I feel out of place and awkward when I don’t have a towel at the gym. If I somehow forgot to bring a towel with me, I will turn around and go home to retrieve one if I haven’t arrived at the gym yet.

So at the end of the day, I am very similar to the high school basketball coach. At one time we probably had functional reasons for our respective towels, but eventually they became more of a personal comfort than a practical necessity. Don’t Blink.