Daily Update

The weather is shaping up nicely. The weekend was gorgious. I was kind of annoyed
that confrence was taking away all this time away from me and the nice day. I mean
really, I could have gone shopping.

I figured out how to close my window blinds so that not as much sun comes in my room
in the morning or evening. I only care because I'm turning my room into an art
gallery. Some of the paintings hanging on the south gallery wall are being hit by
direct sunlight around 5:30-6 pm for a few minutes, which might damage the color
brightness. The morning light annoys me because it wakes me up 5-10 min. before I
want it to. But hey, that problem is solved.

On Friday I had the chance to hang out at Jessica Johnson's birthday party. It was
a small group. We ended up playing some game called 'scattagories' where a letter
would be chosen and you would come up with words that responded to phrases provided.
For example the Letter M would be rolled and we then had 1 min. to come up with
words that started with M, that also responded to a statement on a provided card.
So if our phrase was 'something in the ocean', our response would be "Murder
Victims". Then you get points if no one else writes what you write. I teamed up
with this chick named Erin. I don't know if we won, although we porbably did, but
we definatly had the most fun. We were the only two to push the limits with subject
matter and words used.

The internet at Jeff's wasn't working, so the confrence signal was really bad. Oh
ya, they don't actually subscribe, they just hijack the nearest neighbor's signal.
So after French Toast, we landed at J.Bean's. There while watching, we drew,
colored, slept, or cooked; depending on the attendee.

On Saturday night, right after guy-conf. and in true Plewe/Rowley fashion, jeff
scheduled an apartment walk thru exactly at the time that I assured Jessica that
we'd be at her place so we could carpool to Renee's party. And how it normally
goes, someone calls or run's into us as I'm trying to hurry jeff out the door so we
can be as punctual as poss., and then we need to explain what we're doing then then
need to decide in 30 seconds if they should come with or not, which takes at least
10 minutes, right Rick. Then at the Potential new apartment, which was very nice,
Kristen called me wondering where the crap we were cause the party bus wanted to
leave. As I was trying to explain our delay, and walk away from the group of
apartment viewers, they kept following me to each of the balconies so then I had to
tell them to stop following me! So then the fun bus finally drove out to BFE to
attend a birthday celebration for Renee. It only took us a freaking hour to get
there. The food was spectacular, and the hot tub was nice too. I backed out of the
euro-style speedo wearing contest, I decided not to embarass all the other guys.

Sunday morning was super-fantastic. We had pancakes at Jessica's place. The only
problem is that Jeff has just found out how spectacular sleeping in can be, so
lately it has been a situation that he hasn't been getting up as early as I need my
pancakes. But I forgave him. The girls made some wonderful food too. oh ya, then
we watched conference. Jessica and I continued drawing on the illustration board
that I brought over. It was fun.

Sunday night was Nancy's birthday.

At work I'm researching Elevators.

Lunch was sponsored by the Corner Bakery

Today I'm listening to European Techno. it helps my 'hurry-up' attitude.