So we helped Eric (aka Speaker for the Dead) move into a new apartment yesterday. That was a high-level if not epic task.

He was moving out of a 1-room efficiency apartment. It was so small that he wasn't able to pack everything because he ran out of room. We were comparing the size of the apartment to the size of the uhaul we were putting the stuff in. It wasn't much bigger.

The sleeper sofa couch he has is exceedingly heavy, gives you splinters, and doesn't fit nicely through any doorway. Moving that was probably the most daunting task. The waterbed was a close second, but wasn't too bad after it finally drained (via methods that can only be described as 'the hard way').

This brings me to my subject line: I swear the man has more computer-related equipment and spare parts than kevin and I combined at the height of our pc-collections - and that's saying something. I swear we moved at least 7 crt monitors.

His new place is 6 or 7 steps up. Aside from actually having more than one room, it's about twice as big and looks really classy. Like, he might actually have room for visitors.

And he even took us out for pizza after we had completed our mission.

All said, it was a good time.

~PS

So I've been hoodwinked and hornswoggled into being the chairman of the worship committee at church. I didn't even want to be on a committee, let alone in charge of it.

Here's a paraphrase of how it all went down:



In all honesty, I did kind of see it coming. I mean, Toby got me to be a deacon in much the same way. Still, my modus operandi dictates that, until something is explicitly stated, I don't act on/with it.

So yeah, my involvement in the church leadership continues to expand. That's pretty hilarious.

~PS

I finally got the pictures. :-)

Ginger, Sheri and I went out to Sycamore Shoals last monday - each of us with a camera. Ginger brought her film SLR (complete with fun lenses) and let me use her digital and Sheri brought our digital point-and-shoot.

It was great fun, despite the fact it was a little warm still. We had almost an hour of decent light - depending on where we were and what one was trying to photograph.

I've found that I really enjoy an artistic approach to photography (as opposed to merely taking pictures for the sake of having a picture of X). I experimented with some of the nifty functions on Ginger's camera but, despite the fact that I know how most of them work, I don't have enough photographer's intuition yet to actually think of the best settings for a given shot.

Anyway, I posted some small images of some of the shots I thought turned out the best. They're in the Still Life gallery.

I hope I/we get a chance to do that again...

~PS