While he was gone. Part 1.

 So Ken went to Australia for three weeks with work.
They were three pretty busy weeks on the home front.
While he was gone...
Skip got a medal...

And an award...

And another one...

Um... and another...

And a second medal...

And a trophy...

(yeah, like you didn't already know his name wasn't Skip...)
On the way out to the car after the ceremony, he turned to me, while juggling the trophy, medal, and various award papers and pins.
"The sound that this medal makes when it clinks against the trophy is hurting my ears:

Yeah, first world problems, dude.  First world problems.