Sun Mar 24 00:35:36 PST 2002

A fairly quiet, but fun weekend do far. On Friday evening we contintued the Dungons and Dragons (D&D) game we started last week and overall it’s going pretty well. We ended up in a fairly large battle most of the night before withdrawing all the way back to town. We lost our "guide", but he wasn’t much help really. Jason thinks that has an idea about what is going on. He thinks that the goblin village we nearly invaded is there to guard a tower we saw in the room that likely leads down to the "outcast" who he think guards the tree with the nifty apples and is also the Druid with a large frog who pissed off the villagers. It seems pretty plausable to me, but our ability to wage successful combat against so many adversaries is somewhat limited, which might make gaining access to the tower difficult.

Also saw Blade II Saturday afternoon. It’s an OK movie, but e directing and the writing left somethin to be desired. It falls sort of the original in a lot of ways, but wasn’t too bad. Basically, the story and the director were key elements of Blade, and without them the style and smoothness of the first movie are gone.

I need to make a decision about the couches soon. Phebe has people coming to clean the downstairs carpets, and they can also do the couches when they are here, but at $12 a linear foot, and 12-13 feet of couches, that’s around $150 to clean them and it’s unclear if they will last long enough to justify the cost of cleaning them. On the other hand they are over 15 years old and as far as I know have never been cleaned, so cleaning them might be a good thing to do on principle alone. Even if I get new couches fo rthe living room we would likely hand the old couches off to somebody, and it would be really nice if we cleaned them up a little first…

Sun Mar 24 22:57:02 PST 2002

Fun day. Church was a little odd since many people were off on a mission trip to Mexico. Speaker was from the church planting organization. Found out that "Our Place" is one of their plants, which explains why it hit the ground running and with such a good PR organization. Had lunch (well technically breakfast) with Caroline and Laurie after church which was nice and they invited me to a Oscars Award party later in the evening at Dana’s place. I dropped by home and the Jason, Phebe and I went down to Home Depot. I got the rotary saw that Mom got me for Christmas finally returned and picked up a rake to try and clean some of the dead junk in the lawn out with. Won’t happen untill much later this week since I need at least decent weather and Monday I’ll be busy moving furnature to for the Tuesday carpet cleaning and there’s Bible study on Tuesday evening, plus putting everything back together sometime Wednesday or so.

Anyway, the Oscars party at Dana’s was fun. Lots of people I didn’t know there, but it wasn’t a big deal. Didn’t really expect ‘A Beautiful Mind’ to do quite as well as it did, and while ‘Lord of the Rings’ didn’t do too bad in terms of number of Oscars, it missed some big ones, but it could be that they are waiting for all three to be released so they don’t jinx the other two and also don’t end up giving them Oscars multiple years in a row for different movies that are all done by the same group, and basically the same project, just released in three parts.