Daily Update

Friday night KA calls, and there was a group of kids going to find food. I'm all about the food, so I was happy to attend. We went to some Italian place in Venice: C&O's Trattoria. I had a gargantuan size bowl of pasta. It was so good. (It was also good the next day for a midnight snack, and Sunday morning for breakfast.) So that was terrific fun, and to round out the night we stopped at Selby to test Allana's cookie making abilities. Not to bad. I 'strategically' suggested hat she need practice, and I could help her judge the final product if necessary (wink, wink). We hung out for a bit, then decided to go when all the girls got tired. So I was dropping jeff off, when we decided to stop by Greenfield. And of course they were still up and at em'. Josh was over too. He ate jeff's leftovers. We all discussed the recent Harry Potter movie in great detail. It was harshly judged, but don't worry we were fair to all. I thought the movie was good, but then hearing two or three points of view from how the book was different, it was ghastly! The director left out major parts of the story, and didn't explain many things well
enough, and changed personalities, and left characters out, etc. I was petrified that the director would do such a thing. I almost shed a tear when Josh said that the same director was doing the next one as well. I then decided to mount a campaign to get him replaced. I don't know a lot of people at Warner Bros. but I soon will. Then I don't remember what happened. I must have gone home.

Yes, thats right, I ended up at home. So, earlier that evening, I called Eddie to tell him not to wait for me/my movie before he put the final set list together cause my movie didn't work (for the fourth straight time). I tried fixing it every night this week, but to no avail. As I got home from work and checked on its status, I was crushed. It didn't work. So, as I got home in the late-evening I discovered that as I re-rendered my movie in a different format, with different settings, and it worked! But to tell you the truth, that just pissed me off more. There was a brief moment when the 'Old-Jim' came out and shared what was on his mind with the computer. It was far past the deadline, and I had already told Eddie to not worry about my entry.

Saturday I was busy all day. I so desperately wanted to sleep in. That option was not on my menu. I had to set up for the Film Festival from 10am till GO-Time. It went well, thank goodness. There was a lot of running around that happened by everyone on every committee. No serious problems that I recall. The only big problems we were dealing with was large- life size Guillotine, mid-evil 'stocks', and the life size Gallows- with accompanying hangman's noose. (oh ya, and the wood that was used was 'borrowed' from someones fence and/or dog house, so there were random rusty sharp nails sticking out all over, and splinters too. not to safe for kids.) We finally finished cleaning up around midnight, then just went home.

At church they announced the new bishopric. All my guesses were wrong (I actually only had one). All the guesses that I had heard were wrong too. Late Saturday night Eric and I had a discussion about that, and he told me he was unable to discuss it further cause he knew who it was (cause he's replacing someone as a second counselor) which just led to more questions by me. They announced them to be: Steve Thomas, Kary Belessa, and Paul Smart. Yes, thats what I said, Paul smart. He used to be in the ward only 3 short months ago. It will be really weird cause he dated most of the girls in the ward, and most of the guys dated her, (or wanted to). ...

That night a small group of us hung out at Fairburn for a little bit, It was Sarah's birthday. We then moved over to Tim's Sky-Box apartment for the bigger group hang-out. The funniest part of the night was finding out about my painting. Jeremy
revealed it to Hubble finally. He couldn't wait. He told Hubble to go over and check out something his mom just sent him (the painting), as Hubble was inspecting
the 'portrait', he asked Jeremy why he had a painting of some 'fat guy'. Then he asked why the guy had long hair like he used to, then he asked why the guy had glasses, then in an epiphany he asked (screamed) if it was him. I think it was just
him and a few of their buddies. The way they told it it was hilarious. I was literally jumping for joy as to how funny it was.

[I'll describe the painting tomorrow for you all, for those of you who haven't seen
it.]

I'm listening to talk radio right now.

Lunch was sponsored by South Street.