Sunday, August 08, 2004

I spent most of Saturday afternoon at my parents. I wanted to install Firefox and Thunderbird on my mother’s computer for her. And she wanted to discuss her tea business website a bit, too. I had dinner over there and then headed home.

This morning was a long one at church. Our missions team recapped their recent trip to Ukraine and we observed the Lord’s supper as well. We didn’t have the full band, just our worship leader on guitar and a pianist, but we had 6 total vocalists and managed some really great harmonies. I was told by a few people that we sounded great this morning, which was nice to know.

After church I had lunch with my parents, then came home for a nap. After the nap I did a little preliminary work on a graphical front page for Mom’s site. It’s the first crack at it, but a start. She wants the whole set of pages revamped, which should be pretty easy once we decide on a final look.

Oh, I got my Java Haven coffee today - whole bean of Mochadoodle and Irish Potato. I ground some of the Mochadoodle and French pressed a cup after my nap - very tasty.

And that’s the extent of my weekend. Exciting, huh?

Sunday, August 17, 2003

I went to a party at LW’s last night. She and her husband have parties all the time. They rent a Moon Bounce for the kids, and the people are a mix of their neighbors and deputies with wives/girlfriends. It was a lot of fun, but I knew that things were just getting going when in a serious rain the guys hooked up the Slip-n-Slide to the hose and started sliding down it. It was a good time. I enjoyed meeting the neighbors I had heard so much about as well as some of the deputies with whom her husband works.

I left at about 9pm, because I needed to be at church at the usual 8am for worship band practice. We didn’t have the full band, just our worship leader playing guitar/singing and three ladies singing. We were having communion this morning, so we had a couple new songs specific for that and they were great. Actually all of the music was great and with the harmonies we worked on we sounded really full, even without the entire band. It was a good time of worship. And the message was good too - our new pastor is going through Acts 2 - this morning was about what it really means to be in community within the church and it was good. I wish our full congregation had been there to hear it, there were some folks that were out that I think could have benefitted from the message. I know I did.

And that’s about it for the weekend. Exciting reading, I know. Tonight’s plan is to blog for a little while and then watch The Mayor of Casterbridge on A&E, I read that book in high school, so I’m interested to see how it’s translated to a TV movie.