Another Nice weekend.

It's Sunday and I'm currently typing this from the library. I just had brunch with the Skidmores - Sarah was back for the weekend which was nice. I was supposed to have dinner with her before she went back to college, but that did not happen so it was nice to catch up with her and see how things are going. She seems to be doing well at the Kansas City Art Institute and maybe if I have some free weekend, I'll make it over to visit her in October. Later this afternoon, I'll be helping Charlene with student supper. She had signed up with a couple of people and I guess they need to get some tables moved and ready for the students. I do not have anything going on today so I volunteered. That's kind of one of the reasons why I'm at the library instead of being back in my apartment. Since I'm already out, it does not make sense to go back and forth.

I have to say that overall I had a pretty good weekend. After work on Friday, I watched a couple of movies that I borrowed from the library. I finally watched Schindler's List in its entirety. Talk about a moving movie and a powerful soundtrack. That's a classic for sure. There were other movies I saw but Schindler's List stood out for me.

I was planning on getting up early to watch Liverpool on the TV, but was awakened by my neighbor blasting his music at 5AM. You got that right - 5AM. Normally, I would be unhappy, but because I had planned on getting up at 5:30AM, it really did not bother me too much. What was disappointing is that the Liverpool game was not shown. Instead, they showed Australian football. Aargh ... talk about frustrating. So, I had planned on waxing the car after the Liverpool game but ended up getting that started at 7:30AM. It was a cool and crisp morning and for me, just perfect weather to be waxing. It took me an hour and a half to get it all waxed and I was happy with how it turned out. By the time I got done, the sun was just beginning to shine on the car so talk about perfect timing. I then went to the library and caught up on some reading materials. Nothing too exciting. Later in the afternoon, I watched some football on tv - both American College Football and British Football. They ended up showing the delayed telecast of the Liverpool game so I caught a little of that. That evening was the opening of the On Stage Classical Concert Series at the Art Center. I was pumped for that and the group that performed was the Mozaique Chamber Orchestra. Most of the people who made up the chamber were faculty at Drake and DM Symphony players. It was a very good concert and one of the pieces they played at the same piece that was played at the Drake faculty concert last Monday. I did not mind listening to it twice because I liked that piece. That was definitely a great way to end a Saturday evening.

Don't have too much going on this week. I'll be headed up to Ames for a play on Friday and I hope to meet up with two of my former religious education students. One of them is Kevin's daughter Colleen who just started her Freshmen year at Iowa State. I'll be fun to see how she's doing there. Next Sunday, another classical/jazz concert series begin so I'll be looking forward to that too. During the week, I don't think there's too much going on. Oh, the young adults will be going out for dinner at this tapas restaurant and most of them have not been there before so it'll be nice for a big group of us to go there.

That's pretty much all the news from me. It was a nice weekend and I can't wait to see what this coming week/weekend holds.