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Sunday, 21 November 2004


  • Sunday Sunday Sunday, One Night Only!!

    Now see I got you all excited, and I didn't really doing anything exciting to write of.  Now, don't be mistaken, I could have done exciting things, but it could just be that I can't write about them!  I imagine that Rob and Ali could offer some insight as to what such things might be.  Anyway...

    Went to church, went to lunch, went to Fry's (that's the retailer where I get my workout, dancing... two hours worth today!).  The lovely wife whipped up some chicken casserole and then, according to the box, some "Ultimate Dessert Mix."  I would agree that it was quite excellent, but Ultimate with a capital U implies that no dessert could possibly touch its ultimate, err I mean, Ultimate-ness.  We then proceded to watch "Raising Helen"... alot of the movies we rent aren't all that interesting in my eyes.  I have found I usually will watch the first 30 minutes of any movie, and if it doesn't hold my attention by that point, it loses said attention to this computer I currently sit at.  Never more than 30 minutes, never less.  In any case, this movie failed to maintain said attention. 

    Ah well, its time to sleep, good night, loyal readers.

Friday, 19 November 2004

  • Da Club

      
    On occasion, the wife and I enjoy going out to one of Atlanta's numerous clubs and dancing it up.  Now while you, loyal weblog readers (all what, 2 of you?  I need to put up a counter to really see) would likely not find that to be objectionable behavior, this is the bible belt, and the notion that m'lady and I would do such a thing has brought odd looks and/or comments from some of our closer friends.  Not that I am unaccustomed to odd looks and comments from my friends, but these looks and comments were on the basis of us doing something immoral or wrong, not that we were doing something goofy (much more common).

    More background on me: I was raised in a Prebyterian church (actually, I was raised in a house, and just when I went to church when it was time to go to church), moved down to Georgia for school, and joined a Southern Baptist church.  I consider myself an evangelical, I plan on going into the mission field in roughly 1.5 to 2 years once my wife's car and school loans are paid off.  I maintain a conversative stance on most issues, with a notable exception being that my stance on whether gay marriage should be legal goes back and forth.  So there you have it.

    Now don't get me wrong, the club isn't exactly the shining beacon of holiness, people basically have sex on the dance floor, there's rampant drinking and all other sorts of meaningless debauchery.  The fact that this is true is what makes people equate anyone who goes to such places with that behavior, in my opinion.  But shawty and I go to dance with each other, and only with each other, cause its a blast.  Anyway, it always amazes me more of my married friends don't go.  Its a cheap form of entertainment, its great exercise, and you get to dance with a hot chick (assuming you find your significant other hot)! 

    Any comments?

Thursday, 18 November 2004

  • Work

    Been absolutely nuts at work lately.  I sorta have under my responsibilities the body of work that could be described as "everything technical, computer or otherwise, that I know more or equal about than everyone else here."  Two days ago, that meant, the telephone systems, computer hardware, computer software, and all wiring for all of those.  And coincedentally, all those things "broke" yesterday. 

    We had a T1 line installed, and the data service worked perfectly, but the analog telephone lines we had left just went "blehg."  As a result, our offsite location could no longer dial in.  This was about 48 hours ago, and we've tried everything we know of, and still are defeated.  Arg.

    More news as this story develops, as exciting as it is.

Monday, 15 November 2004

  • Wedding

    So I went to a wedding Saturday night.  I thought I had passed out of the phase of life where all my friends were getting married, but one of the wife's friends decided it was her turn.  It was an Episcopal wedding, which is quite different than what I am accustomed to.  The service was 45 minutes long, including Communion.  The program for the service was easily 12 pages long, and it was the complete script of what the Priest and everyone else involved said in it.  Sheesh!

    Not only that, but from what I could tell, the families were totally wrapped up in preparing for this wedding, much much more than I've ever seen.  The bride's dress was made by her mother, and looked like one from any bridal shop.  On the underside of the bottom of the dress, was the bride's family tree, the theatre masks (she's in drama and whatnot), and other important symbols.  The groom's vest had his family tree sewn in it by the mother of the bride as well.  When the groom was a young man, his parents went to England and "purchased" a sixpence (not sure how you purchase money, I don't think I've ever purchased a quarter or a 20 dollar bill) for his wedding day for the bride's shoe.  The glasses used for the couple's toast and the knife for cutting the cake had been used by 3 generations of the bride's family.  Sheesh x2.

    To contrast that, my wedding was 12 minutes long, the program was 4 pages (well, 1 sheet, just folded over to make it 4 pages front n back).  It was also alot of fun =).  Anyway, reception was sokay, and then there was an afterparty... a couple hours after the reception and the bride and grooms... ahem... post-reception marital duties.

    Enough wedding discussion.  Byebye.

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