First thing first: weddingphotos.

Second, update on relocations.
This is from an email I wrote earlier tonight. I'm tired and when I'm tired, I get lazy and slip into parenthetical bliss (ie self-indulgent rambling) far too often.

"Well, today Stacey and I rented a U-haul and moved all the big (as in, won't fit into the car even with the back seat taken out and lubricant applied to the nearly crushed object) stuff. Our landlord and one of his contractors were out there putting on some finishing touches on some window screens. He said that he scheduled an appointment with the inspector (the final one!) for Monday at 3pm. So...Lord willing and the roof don't leak (because while we live by a creek/river, the Missouri River in fact, it would still take quite a rising for us to be affected) or whatever else, we'll be able to actually stay there and such on Monday night or Tuesday (depending on how soon the water gets turned on). We'll be sleeping on a sleeping bag and blankets the next couple nights but we've got good things in sight so it makes things easier. We still have a number of things and miscellaneous items to move from both places, but the corner is turned.
Speaking of moving, a lady in our church named Linda is moving this next week...tomorrow's her last day. Her husband got a job as a principal in a Christian school waaay up in Minnesota somewhere up near the Canadian border. She and her husband both go to our church but she a lot more regularly...she's been very involved in our little choir (another gentleman just joined the other two of us so at least there will still be 3), is on the parish council, and was head of the Christian Education department and also taught the younger kids (which as far as Sunday School is concerned, is almost always just one little boy named Phillip) and occasionally filled in for me with the older kids. Stacey's going to take over her Sunday School duties (she's very excited about this and her high-level CEF training will be put to great use, hopefully we can get more kids coming) so it's kind of cool that the two of us are basically the Sunday School (well, not adults) teaching department, but Linda will definitely be missed. She's a very good friend to Stacey and myself and, obviously, a very important part of our church. Anyway, things do go on and we all have our seasons. Some little church way up north there is about to be very blessed, I know that much.
Anyway, please pray for safety and acclimation on their behalf..."

Right now I'm watching a Music Choice hour program of Nelly McCay.

I was watching the Cubs, who mounted a lovely 9th inning rally against the Houston Astros. Unfortunately their bullpen has made a habit of blowing leads lately and it happened again.

Funny what shows up here when I'm in a writing mood but my head hurts and I know I've no more creativity to offer as long as we're partially moved. I have half-thoughts wafting about up in there but lack the energy to really do much with them but mumble, nod, and emit the occasional definitive "HMM." The job has a big effect, admittedly, but I'm trying to whine less and look around more. I recently took one of those "what kind of job should you have?" tests and while I didn't feel like plunking over the $15 just to find out specifics that I probably already know, it said my job match type is one in which I can be "creative and analytical." They're right and we all, I mean I and my boss and my co-workers and my wife and my friends, we all know it. The question now is to figure out how to get there.

Other things I could write about, just to do it...
*The Cursive (and Criteria opening impressively) show the other night
*The breakfast sandwich the Perk Ave. Cafe makes with eggs, cheese, hashbrowns all mixed together and placed in an English muffin
*Alvarado's, an incredible and inexpensive truly authentic Mexican joint (well, they have several) here in town
*How exciting it is for Smile to finally be formally and officially released
*My recent delve into reading Kafka and wondering how I never read him before now
*Why 8 inches is an appropriate size for a sub-style sandwich (6 inches too short, 10+ too long!)

Here's something. This commercial on is about how the cable company is SUPER because they sponsored a bunch of kids from the Boys and Girls Clubs to go to the Cox Classic. That makes no sense to people not from here, so let me explain...they're taking a bunch of inner city kids to go watch a local golf tournament. I suppose it's nice that they're at least not oblivious to the community, but pointless "philanthropy" doesn't seem much more desirable. Treating inner city kids to a golf tournament, giving homeless people tickets to amusement parks, bestowing upon the toothless to a T-bone steak, the record labels sending 800 copies of the same cd to libraries (this really happened recently)...it's like expecting a president and vice president in bed with oil companies to allow anyone but their pals to set oil industry regulations or do much of anything about health standards when their campaign benefited from millions donated by junk food industry executives.

It's now 10pm and my body is sore and I'm not going to get much farther without becoming absolutely unglued in my ramblings, so there you go.