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My great aunt Mary passed away this Friday. I would appreciate you all keeping her in your prayers.

I spent Thursday and Friday this week at home tending the house and watching over my siblings while my parents take a vacation, something I don't recall them ever having done before. I think I did an ok job keeping things in order, as when I handed off responsibility to my sister for the weekend, the house was still standing and the number of siblings present was within two of the number when I started.

We averted a minor incident on the sternwheeler last week. A five gallon can of diesel had rusted through, fortunately while we were around to spot it. The puddle was working its way towards the water when it was found. About halfway through cleaning it up, I realized that based on the location, we could have saved ourselves the effort by simply not telling the smokers on board about it. One of them was bound to take cigarette break eventually. I've also apparently become the go-to volunteer for VCR repairs, but that's another story.

Soccer has seen a lot of high-scoring games lately. The three University of Portland games I've been to were collectively won 17-2. My team followed up on our 5-1 win with a 4-0 win last weekend. Today's game was a painful 0-7 loss. For unknown reasons, only nine players showed up as we faced the top team in our division. We fought hard, however, holding them to a single point in the first half, scored before our keeper showed up. We tried to keep up the intensity and even out the score in the second half, but with a two player deficit, no chance to rest, and then one more player leaving the field with knee pain, eventually we reached our breaking point in a big way.

We're currently 5-3 and listed in third place out of ten teams. I expect this loss will drop us to fourth place with two games left in the season.