Entry 19.5.06

MONDAY - On Friday, my wife and I attended the rehearsal dinner for our friends' wedding on Saturday. We got to meet everyone else in the bridal party who didn't get the chance to join us the week before at the comedy club. We also got to meet both sides of the family. Every single person we had the pleasure of meeting is a genuinely nice person. Saturday was the wedding.

There were small dramatic moments common in almost all weddings, but nothing earth shattering. We had a most excellent time! We weren't at all surprised to have some great people at our table and my wife and I danced a good portion of the evening. I wish my friends well on their marriage.

On Sunday, my wife had a lot of work from the office to do, so I spent most of the day watching movies like "The Land that Time Forgot", "The People that Time Forgot" and "The Saga of the Viking Women and their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent". I'm not kidding! That's the actual title which is longer than the film!

Today, I had to return my tux. On my way back, I picked up some items at my mother in-law's house, bought some graph paper to start creating sprites from scratch again (I have to get back into drawing first!), did a small amount of grocery shopping and picked up my wife's dry cleaning. As I had lunch, I watched Roger Corman's "Teenage Caveman". Afterward, I went upstairs and started to clear paths to and in front of all the areas our security company needs to alarm since they'll be here tomorrow for the installation. I took a break, made my wife a dinner of BLT wraps, saw her off to her nephew's last concert and went back and finished my project. I haven't done anything today to get the studio completed any faster, but it looks good being more open. They'll be here early tomorrow, so it should leave me the rest of the day to get back into the swing of things.

TUESDAY - The security tech was over by 8:10 am. It was interesting watching him install the system. He ran into a few snags that he said were common speed bumps. Being that there was only one guy working on our house, he wasn't done until around 3:25 pm which, according to the time estimated for the entire job, had him finished an hour and 35 minutes early. He was informative and nice to talk to. After he left, I cleaned up a bit around the house and was starting to vacuum when my wife got home.

WEDNESDAY - We're going to have people over this weekend and my wife has been having a rough week to the point she's been getting home late. She stresses that the house won't be clean for guests whenever we have visitors and she also needs to prepare for an impromptu benefit we'll be participating in this weekend as well. To lighten her load, I've taken over the cleaning of the house so all she'd have to concentrate on outside of work would be the songs she's going to sing. I was hoping to have the surround sound system set up since it seemed I had all the components, but it's a bit hard to get the full impact of a good sound system with just a subwoofer. I thoroughly cleaned the living room instead. I didn't touch the studio.

THURSDAY - I cleaned the kitchen (which really needed it!), the foyer, the hall, the bedroom and my wife's changing room. This is the cleanest I've seen any of these rooms! I didn't touch the studio. I was also kindly informed by the company we purchased our sound system from that they've already shipped four packages and we could track them via the UPS site. I think I would have found it useful information if I hadn't already received the boxes this past Monday and Tuesday. I'm hoping the sound system is better than their timing!

FRIDAY - I'm going to do the grocery shopping and run some errands so we're prepared for the weekend. I also need to practice my piece for the benefit and clean the bathrooms. I most likely won't do anything in the studio today either. Another week shot and nothing got done studio-wise. At least I'm not feeling guilty about it since I got quite a few other things done that needed doing.