A Brief Interlude 4: How to Win a Medal

Some of the people who visit my blog may also visit my friend Stew's blog, entitled: A Terrible Loss of Lead and Wealth. If you haven't, I suggest you drop by.  The address is: https://tllw.blogspot.com/   He has some really nice looking ships, and is a generally all around good  guy.  How do I know he's a good guy?  Well, his March 7 blog entry entitled "Shipping disaster" bears it out.

If you haven't read it (and I suggest you do) it tells the story of how his 4-year-old daughter stepped up on his box of sailing ships and sent it flying.  Furthermore, there are pictures of the carnage, so consider this a trigger warning before you go.  The part of that post that I thought was particularly wonderful was when he says:

In a calm voice,  "What did I just say..."

My wife says I'm father of the year for not loosing it.   

When I showed it to my wife and said that I don't think I would have been that calm, she laughed at me.  Then she said that our grandchildren (and probably everyone else) would have run away from me in tears.  I suspect know she's right.

A level of calm as high as Stew's deserves some recognition.  So, I bought him one of these:

Stew earned his and it was an excuse for me to buy myself one, so I'm not completely altruistic here. There's also a homemade (but very nice, IMO) certificate:

No pension though.