Last night at the Cub Scout Leaders' meeting, the current Cubmaster for the Pack (i.e., node 0 on the cub scout leaders org chart) announced that she will be stepping down at the start of the new scouting year in September and she was putting a call out for someone to step up to take her place. You may recall, two and a half years ago, I reluctantly answered a similar call for an assistant den leader position because: a) I knew no one else was going to volunteer and b) if I was going to be involved with a program that I had, at best, ambiguous feelings towards, I should be in a position to help steer the program, which, in retrospect, was a good call. I've had fun and my sons have had a rich scouting experience so far.

But, this turn of events was not anticipated. So, here I am now, the foul-mouthed, atheist Cubmaster.