Today was a nice slow day at work. I didn't come in until just before 11AM. I spent most of the day working on video editing. Andrew focused on finishing up the light cues, which was really nice because I didn't have to focus on that at all. I don't think he enjoys it as much as I do, but sometimes I get so busy in a week that I just have no creative energy left to write a bunch of light cues.

While I was capturing some video for a project, I passed the time by cleaning up my desk. I had been using this really small (and really quite useless) dvd player that was hookd up to my VTR. I liked having a small console player but it would only play maybe half of the discs that I put in it. For a lot of discs, it would never load the menu and would give me the "waiting" symbol forever and never do anything else. So, I finally decided to replace it today. I didn't have an extra player so I just took my favorite one from Room 113 that I like to use a lot. I guess I'll have to replace that one soon.



If you look closely, you can see a green goblet with "Jojo" written on it, sitting on my desk. I made that myself back in December 2007 when my friend Mike from Florida came to visit. We actually made 4 of them using Christmas glasses and sequin stickers from Wal-mart. I always thought it'd be fun to have a "chalice" to drink out of, even though it was really just a joke. We had fun making them though and it made for some fun pictures back in the day. Now it mostly just sits on my desk and I drink out of it every now and then.


Around 1:30pm, I went and got a quick lunch from Salsarita's, which is right next to the church. I ate a small quesadilla at my desk and then went back to work. Andrew left around 2:30pm and I stayed a for a few more minutes and then left around 2:45pm to go home. I probably could have stuck around but I felt like I'm starting to come down with this cold that is going around my circle of friends so I thought I'd just go home and lay down for a while.

When I came home, Tim was still in bed asleep. When he gets sick, it always hits him hard and he needs sleep. When I get sick, sometimes I hardly notice it until it's almost over. We're just different like that. I laid on the couch in my living room for a while watching tv classics such as "I Dream of Jeannie" and "The Cosby Show". Then, I did some laundry and took a shower.

I woke Tim up around 5pm so that he could shower and get dressed and ready to go to the Salamone's house for dinner tonight. Frank and Susan invited us over to celebrate their son Zack's birthday as well as to just hang out, which I thought was nice.

We got to the Salamone's house around 7pm. Susan was still setting the table when we came in, so Tim and I helped with that while waiting on Frank to get home from work. We had lasagna and salad for dinner and it was great. We also had some sweet potato cake which was really good. I had never had that before.

Frank, Susan, Tim, and I played this game called "Sequence" which I really enjoyed, even though Tim and Susan beat Frank and me twice. Tim was surprisingly good at the game. We ended up staying at the Salamone's just talking and hanging out until about 11pm and then I enacted my role as "the closer" and we said bye and left. Tim was starting to yawn a bit and was tired after having been sick for most of the week, and Susan was starting to come down with a cold too so I figured there was no need to stay super late. Nobody likes a guest who doesn't know when it's time to leave, anyway, and if there's one thing I'm good at, it's knowing when to get out of somebody's house. Haha.

I stopped by Jack in the Box on the way home because Tim really wanted a milkshake. When we got home, we both watched some tv for a while. That was pretty much my day. Sometimes I feel eloquent and full of words, other times, not so much.

Be sure to check back tomorrow. I'm going to be posting a "best of" post, with links to some of my favorite posts from the past year of blogging. And it will be my last daily post, so I guess I should make it a good one.

Later,

Joe