I’ve had an eventful few days. Was out sick Wednesday and part of Thursday trying to get over something that had me feeling pretty rough. I think I’m on the upswing now thankfully. Friday afternoon I attended the visitation for Sommer’s parents over in Moulton. Yvette got in touch with me and we and some of her and Sommer’s co-workers met up and went together. It was good to get a chance to talk to and hug her. On my way out I ran into Kyle and Jawana only to find out that Jawana’s father is about to pass away because of a medical condition. Regardless of the circumstances - it still is a hard thing to face up to.

While I fully intended to make it an early evening, Tiffany called to say she was coming into town to hopefully get a dress for an upcoming event she’s going to. I met up with her only to find that the dress she wanted was no longer available in her size. While she was at the front desk trying to find another store that had one, she asked if I would look at some of the other dresses for anything that might look good on her. So… I’m wandering around in the dresses trying to not look overly interested and of course I run into another buddy of mine - Dwayne, a local investment broker. Meanwhile, the girl at the front desk looks at Tiffany and comments “your husband looks lost”. Tiff busts out laughing. Next thing I know, we’re in Huntsville at Phuket, a Thai restaurant having dinner. I had higher expectations of the food and was a little disappointed. I won’t write them off though. I’ll give them another try or two just in case they were having an off night. I was home by 10 so the night wasn’t too late after all.

I had a very domestic Saturday: did laundry, vacuumed around my baseboards and window sills… even vacuumed my speaker grilles on all my stereo gear in addition to all my components. Changed out some lightbulbs and cleaned toilets and tubs. Ended the evening having dinner with friends and some horrific kitchen experiences at O’Charley’s. All I gotta say is that there are some unhappy people working at that place. I’m still going to stick by my opinion that I don’t care for that restaurant much at all - and last night’s dinner confirms my thoughts. On a whiney note, my leather jacket was hanging on the back of my chair. While our waitress was talking to us, she kept her hands on the back of my chair. Guess what? I have dark grease stains on the back of my coat now where she handled it. It’s hard to have nice things sometimes. Probably going to cost me a pretty penny to have the professionally cleaned.

Today at church was unique. I was the only “regular” band member on stage today. Kevin, Brent and I think Will were in Chattanooga helping augment a worship band there at a new church similar to ours. Today’s group was made up of some good folks, we just didn’t have any time to play together as a group except for practice last Wednesday for a short time. During warm-up, I was really concerned because honestly, it sounded bad. It all came together for the most part during the actual performance but I just don’t think we came off as confidently as we could have. We had several visitors today and I hope that despite the bumpy ride, they’ll be back (since it’s really not about the music anyway, right?).

Spent the evening grilling out over at the Burns’. It was all the usual suspects plus Jordan and Evan and Megan and her daughter. We all had a relaxing evening hanging out together having good food and watching Rush Hour 2. That was a nice way to end the day.

LOST - Whoa, anybody watch LOST last Thursday? Holy smokes - this season is off to a GREAT start. I hope it keeps up. I’ve got so many ideas going now as to what’s happening. I could talk about LOST all day… and I have. I’m trying to get Anne sucked in to watching the show. I think she’d love it.