The weekend update.

Saturday was a good day all around. I kicked off some domestic duties first thing in the AM so that I could spend the majority of the day in relative leisure. Saturday is my only REAL discretionary day as if I don't plan anything for it, then I actually will have nothing to do! Watched the F1 qualifying to see how the field would be lining up for Sunday's race. Congrats to Jenson Button of BAR Honda for his first ever pole position! I'm really happy for him. He's a good guy.

Headed out to get a can of electrical contact cleaner to try and remedy some noise on a volume control knob on one of my electronics. Found what I needed at Lowe's and came back to work on things. My folks took off around lunchtime to head down to Bessemer where my dad will be teaching at a church in the morning. Took a nap then spent most of the afternoon working on drumming stuff. Watched a good bit of TV also. Stayed in for dinner then called it a night.

Got up bright and early Sunday to watch the F1 race. There was excitement all over the track! All in all it was an enjoyable race. Michael did win again as usual but the drama behind him is getting pretty interesting. After that, loaded up my stuff and headed to the church. Got set up and plugged in the new IEM system. Heavy E hung off of my transmitter and shared my in-ear mix. His was the first IEM receiver to come in for the rest of the band. It's a different model running on different frequencies but it does have the very cool option to run in a wired mode. I just let him hook to one of my loop out connections and he was live live all the way live. The rest of the IEM system for the band should be here by this time next month so I'm sure that will be much appreciated, especially by the vocalists. Speaking of vocalists, Eli and Amber did a great job this morning. Everything went really well, the music, the message... everything.

A big crowd headed over to Logan's for lunch. It was here we discovered that Kailyn would COMPLETELY FREAK OUT when she saw crutches... Brian "The Gimp" Baer had underwent surgery Friday for a heel spur and needed crutches to get around. Kailyn came unglued at the sight of them. The weather took a serious downturn while we were eating and it was POURING outside. Went home and tried to watch some of the Talladega race but my eyes got heavy and I took a nap. It was the best nap weather... raining and gray outside, cool and quiet inside. After waking up, it was time to cruise over to the Burns' for our weekly small group meeting. Lot's of folks there! The Morgan's, The Baer's (well... Brian and his attachements), Chuck, David, Eli, Kyle and Me. Pizza was the cuisine of the evening - it was good and filling. Watched some TV then shared prayer requests. It's during this time you become thankful for what is/isn't going on in your own life. It also puts problems in perspective. Got some folks going through some tough times for sure. Wow.