A Day at the Beach

One of the people in my office was on vacation last week, so I had no time for random thoughts. My brain is just now catching up.

First things first -- I have a friend who works for the MDA (Muscular Dystrophy Association) in Charlotte who is looking for volunteers to help with the telethon on Labor Day Weekend. They need people to work the phones, etc. If you are interested, please email me or leave a comment and I will put you in touch w/ my friend.

The weather report said we are done (for now) with the temps in the 100's. Yay. I never thought I would be excited about 93 degrees.

Had dinner with Matt & Michele Friday night at Red Robin in Ballantyne. They have good burgers but it's not a good place to go if you want a quiet dinner. It is however a good place to go if you want to hear the Happy Birthday Song five times. The Finnster is 10 months old!

Had dinner at Jen's & Joey's Saturday night. The food was incredible but we were surrounded by evil princesses. Debi and I discovered we like dates (the food, not the mating ritual). Got to see the progress on Jen's kiln. It's way cool. I can't wait to see the finished product and the pots that come out of it.

I tried to throw some mugs today. It seems I was not in the zone. Everything I threw was a disaster. I think the problem was that my clay was too hard. Well, that's my story anyway. I decided to just move on to other things. I made handles for some mugs I threw a few days ago. Even that went a little wonky. Of the four handles I made, only one of them seemed to be just right. Some days it doesn't pay to get out of bed.

I finally got around to updating our football pool for the new season. For those unfamiliar, it is quite an impressive spreadsheet (MATT, WAKE-UP). To all the pool parts - I emailed it today. Let me know if you didn't get the email.

The girls wanted to take an imaginary trip to the beach today. Although it was a chilly 93 degrees, Debi and I joined them. It was quite a site -- the four of us in their little blow-up pool in the back yard. I'm REALLY glad there were no paparazzi around.

Debi and I realized we missed another presidential debate on TV this week. Even Tivo can't keep up with these debates. Anyone know where I can find a schedule of debates that will be televised?

I think we're going to the arts & crafts festival in Blowing Rock this coming weekend. I hear it's a pretty good festival (and Jen will have a booth there selling her "puffy tiles"). Anyone want to come with?

No ranting about world events for now. I'm way too relaxed after a day at the beach w/ the kids.