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Found this gem while waiting for WordPress 2.5 to extract Saturday morning. My Dad and my Brother are engineers. Never owned a cat. The result? Laughed myself silly.

- Sean

Saturday

I woke up at 8:30am Saturday with the expectation that I would spend 2 hours updating my blog from WordPress 2.3 to Wordpress 2.5, then I would spend the rest of the morning writing about how easy it was. Instead I spent the next five and a half hours scratching and clawing my way through the WordPress 2.5 install. It wasn’t difficult per say, it was just looooooong. I left the process with a headache and no inclination to write.

One of the sure fire ways to rid myself of a headache is to take a nap, which I did starting around 1:00pm. Jenn and I woke up from the nap around 4:00. Had set up to hang out with Tom and Brandi Brown from 4:00 to whenever we all got tired, so needless to say we were running late. Got to Tom and Brandi’s around 6:00pm.

The four of us went to a small, family owned restaurant called The Pasta Bowl. The truly amazing thing about The Pasta Bowl is that the italian food served there is actually made by Italians. I can’t even begin to describe how fresh the food is, and how wonderful the staff is, at The Pasta Bowl. If you are in the mood for friendly authentic Italian food, and you aren’t up for the drive to The Hill, then you can’t do much better than The Pasta Bowl. Check out their website for more info.

After an amazing dinner we drove around for a bit then hung out at Tom and Brandi’s visiting until we all were yawning. Jenn and I finally crawled into bed around midnight.

Sunday

Woke up late…again. This time we didn’t make it to Church in time to set up. That frustrates me as we are still a portable church that has to set up and tear down every week and I don’t like letting the other members down. On the plus side I did get to sit at the back during the service and learn how to use the new MacBook Pro we use for putting music lyrics on the screen. Additionally I got permission to to take the MacBook home to learn how to use Pro Presenter. Unfortunately I couldn’t take it with me when we left church because they were still using it for a fellowship event after church. I had to make arrangements to pick it up later that evening.

After church it was off to Game Stop to pick up our pre ordered copy of Mario Kart for Wii, which we still haven’t played yet, and then off to Illinois for our friend’s son’s birthday party. We hung out, ate BBQ, watched the birthday boy open his presents, hung out again, then headed home. Had to stop by Jason K’s house to pick up the aforementioned Macbook Pro. Jason and his Wife Laura invited us to sit down and chat. We ended up spending a wonderful evening laughing and swapping stories with them. Didn’t fall asleep until almost 1:00am Monday morning.

All of that to say that my weekend was packed and I didn’t get a chance to do any writing. I will try to get something down tonight. I wonder if I will have time what with Mario Kart calling from the Wii in the living room.

- Sean