Dave's Daily

Monday, November 27, 2006

Thanksgiving Leftovers

As mentioned in my last post, we went to our old church last Wed. (Nov 22nd) night for a Carman concert. It's always fun to go to concerts there as you can get up close to the stage and actually "see" the performer instead of having to sit in the nosebleed sections of stadiums. It was a good concert except for the fact that the sound guy had the sub woofers turned up WAY to much. I felt beat up when the night was over. I like loud concerts as much as the next guy, but since the sanctuary of the church isn't "that" big, no need to have the sound cranked the same as an open air stadium....

Thursday was Thanksgiving day, and we all went over to my sister's house for the big meal deal. We had extra guests with some friends of our family came as well. We had a house full of love going on. :-)

Two of my nephews came back to my parents' house to spend the night as all of us guys were getting up early for some Black Friday shopping. We spent some time Thursday night online scoping out the B.F. ads and decided upon heading to Circuit City. I wanted to get a 2 Gig Flash Drive that was on sale. We got there just before 5am and of course there was a long line. We didn't have to wait long as we got in pretty quick after the doors opened. We found the flash drives and my dad and I both had one in our hands. We checked out the big screen TVs too and I even got interviewed by a local TV station which aired a piece about the early shopping. Getting out of the store was a different story. The checkout lines were LONG and SLOW. After waiting about what seemed like an eternity, we threw in the towel, put the flash drives back and left. My dad went back to the store later that day, but they were all out of drives.

We came back home after our shopping endeavor and didn't really do much the rest of the day as I was pretty tired.

Saturday we got out all of our Christmas stuff, and put up the tree. It's not all decorated yet, but we're getting there. The weather has been so wonderfully warm lately that it's hard to stay indoors. That's about to change pretty soon as a cold front is headed our way. Bummer. I also got a bush trimmed up by our kitchen window so that it'll let more sunshine in during the winter and I also got a couple of tree branches cut off that I have been meaning to remove.

Sunday was the normal church activity day and another wonderful day weather-wise.

Back to work and school today, and it always seems hard to get back in to the routine after some time off.

Blessings!

Tuesday, November 21, 2006

The Game is On!

This past weekend saw the releases of two new video game systems; Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii. Lines were long at all the stores and it just seems crazy to me, but some people live for that kind of stuff. One person even got shot waiting in line when thugs tried to rob the people. The guy refused to give up his money and they shot him! Thankfully he wasn't killed. Sony should give him a PS3 just over that ordeal. I will just patiently wait until the bugs are worked out and when stock is plentiful. :-)

On Sunday (Nov 19th) I had to come into work early (4:45am) as we were doing an operating systems upgrade on our mainframe. It went very smooth for once, and I was out by 7:15am.

Our family will be heading up to my folks for Thanksgiving this year. The dinner will actually be held at my sister's house. They have a little more room for everyone and all the kids will have more things to play with there too. I'm looking forward for a little time off from work too.

Our group here at work are taking turns working until 5pm. Management has stated that two people from every group has to stay until 5pm for support coverage. My supervisor is one of the two and the rest of use take a week at a time. This week is my week, but I got the lucky draw that it's a short week. Also, since I came into work on Sunday, I get to leave early on Wednesday. :-) Bonus!

Going to a Carman concert Wednesday night at my old church. It's free too, so can't beat that! We'll then be staying overnight at my parents' house. Then we're staying an extra night so we can do some shopping on "Black Friday." I'm not planning on getting out early to fight the crowds though... That's just insane! :-)

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone out there...
and Blessings to you and your family!

Tuesday, November 14, 2006

The Talk

This past Saturday (Nov. 11th) I sat down with my 11-year old son and we had "The Talk." You know the one about the "Birds & the Bees," "The Facts of Life." It's the day I have dreaded for the past 11 years. :-) Actually it wasn't too bad. We had a book about the body with pictures and it make it a lot easier to describe what goes on in our bodies. I mainly decided to do it now because he had a few friends at school that have started talking about a few sexual things and I wanted to make sure he was getting good information instead of what 11 year olds were picking up from TV and movies. I also did it because on Sunday night (Nov. 12th) we had a chance to go to see the Christian music artist TobyMac in concert. This concert was part of the Pure Excitement tour which featured speaker Joe White. Most of his talk was about staying pure sexually, etc. and I wanted to make sure my son understood what he was talking about. It was an awesome concert by the way.

Last Friday (Nov. 10th), I had the day off from work due to Veteran's Day, so, while my son was in school, the rest of the family and I went to our nearby bigger town and did some more Christmas shopping. We met my dad at the mall for lunch and then headed over to Toy's R Us. We also make a quick visit to Circuit City for look around. :-)

My sister and her husband celebrated their 18th wedding anniversary back on Nov. 5th. Congrats to them!! I've also got three nephews that have a birthday (2 are twins) this coming Friday, Nov. 17th.

This Friday is also launch day for the new PlayStation 3. I know there is probably no way in the world to get one this Friday, but I'm hoping for at least my birthday in January that there will be some available by then. Plus, it will give me a chance to see if any initial launch problems with the system pop up by then.

Next week is Thanksgiving already... I can't believe the holidays are already upon us...

Blessings!

Wednesday, November 01, 2006

All Saints Day

Well, it's not a holiday that is celebrated too much in the U.S., but Happy All Saints Day anyway. :-)

I'm still not updating my blog as much as I'd like, but life continues anyway. I took off work last Thursday (Oct. 26th) as my son was out of school that day for Parent/Teacher conferences. For some reason, nobody at home was getting along that day and I think I should have just gone to work that day. 'Nuff said.

Last Sat. (Oct. 28th) the deacons & wives took the pastors and their wives out to dinner for our part of Pastors & Staff Appreciation month. We all took the church bus to a buffet place out in the middle of no-where. It's only open on Fridays and Saturdays from 4:30pm to 8:30pm. But man-o-man, the food is out of the world! The desert table is unbelievable! It's probably 30 feet long and had over 50 kinds of deserts such as cookies, cakes, pies, cobblers.... drool! We all had a great time visiting on the bus ride and really enjoyed the food too! :-)

On Sunday night, at the church we had a Pastors and Staff Appreciation Ice Cream Social. I worked with a few of the other deacons and some others to come up with the entertainment. We had sent out a questionnaire to all of the pastors and staff to answer all kinds of trivial questions about themselves. We took the answers and came up with a Jeopardy type game. I created the game board in PowerPoint and we projected it up on a big screen. We had "Alex" as the host with contestants: "Dolly Pardon," "Reba" and "Cher." They had all the answers, but came up with some funny stuff. We had a great time and the staff loved it.

Tuesday was Halloween, and our church held their annual Fall Festival Hallelujah Night which is open to the public. This year they added a motorcross stunt team that performed. They did some pretty cool jumps high in the air. Since the weather was pretty nice for once this year, we had a pretty good turnout. My son dressed as Luke Skywalker (episode 4) and my daughter was a princess.

Tuesday was also Payday, so that was a nice "treat" too.

Blessings!