Miscellaneous

My trade wars ship was destroyed. I got impatient and thought that JT Wingalmostman was still in the sector when, in fact, he was totally dead. You probably have no idea what I'm talking about and it doesn't matter...but, man, I really liked my ship. It had transwarp drive and everything. :-(

Work has been intense lately. Schools about to start and everyone's freakin out to make it just right. There are so many things that we do that really irritate me (see last blog entry). But, it is what it is.

We have no dollars and things have been tight...but good in a way where you deny yourself and rely on each other and that sort of thing.

Miscellaneous:
Family time is fun, olympic basketball team is doing well, olympic soccer men =bad, garden is producing nicely, wife got a funny haircut...but it'll grow back, just not fast enough. Laney got a cute haircut. Water heater has been working for a while since the boy saved us money (blog about it below), Dishwasher will hopefully be doing better since the maint man repaired something on it. I got a birthday present from my mom, returned it since I already had one and bought a real nice trunk for the van. It's a hitch attached plastic carrier thingy...nice....Kids are loving the box it came in and having a ton of fun in it. Fence blew over and I don't know how to fix it...I think I need some kind of masonry screws or something since the fence posts are filled with concrete. My office is a huge mess. OH YEAH..get this...

Well Sunday (last Sunday) was my debut as a member of the worship team. Some of you may know that I am now a drummer. I have played guitar for years but there are already 2 guys on guitar...gee, 3 would be monotonous. So, they wanted a drummer, I want to drum...perfect fit. Well, we are having a rather bad time since I really can't hear anything. I can't hear them, I can't hear me..it's not a good thing. Well, the 1st few songs I really kind of struggle and I'm starting to sweat...Then, we start playing "I Love You Lord". GREAT HYMN....horrible song for drums. Well, I try this thing on drums where I decide to "build it up" and play the first verse without a snare..then 2nd verse add a rim shot...the 3rd verse I am really going to come in strong and add the snare and bass drum, etc. Just as I start slamming these drums, I realize that APPARENTLY, the worship leader said something to the effect of "just our voices"... nice... Well, I couldn't just stop because it would appear that we didn't know what we were doing...so, I did the next best thing, panicked. I stopped playing everything except the bass drum and high hat. I don't know if you know the song but, they were trying to do it all feely like and hold different words like, I loooooooovvvvveeeeee you LLLLOOORRRRRDDDDDD. I mean, I butchered it...It was impossible to play to it...But I wouldn't stop! Stupid. Anyway, then we were supposed to go sit down. I did my best not to make any eye contact on the way to the pew. I am sure I'll be asked revoke my church membership...