This has been a very busy week in almost every aspect. This Wednesday Yaser left for Kuwait until Christmas. And who did he put in charge? You guessed it. Me. I have my very own team of developers for a few weeks. <Evil villain Imitation>This will do nicely. Yes... </Evil villain Imitation>
It's actually not much different from what I normally do except instead of everyone interrupting Yaser with a question, they come to me and interrupt to ask a question. We have plenty of work to do for the next several weeks so I'm not worried about allowing anyone to slip by.
This weekend I started Christmas shopping. I bought several things, but I have a lot more to get before I'm done. Speaking of which my mom called on Wednesday and told me I didn't need to get her anything for Christmas since she had all she could want. My brother and his girlfriend are going to move from Denton to Abilene where my mom can once again apply her honed "mothering" skills to her baby. I think it will be a good move and maybe Jeff and Sam can find something that makes them happier than where they have been.
This has been a very busy music week for Desiree. We went to a 6th grade band concert on Thursday night because her cousin and several of her piano students were performing. Saturday was a Uke party at her parents house. It's been a while since I have managed to attend one of the gatherings, but since it was at their house, I didn't have a choice on the RSVP. They have stopped telling me to RSVP since every time I ask "Is it optional?" I usually get a prompt "no," but I sometimes get a dirty look. It's hard to tell which I prefer.
The party last night was a "Useless" gift party. For my part I got some gag gifts. Unbreakable bubbles, bar coasters from around the world, a cheap harmonica, and "I love Lucy" Predic-a-mints. What I got in return was a pee-cture of a boy peeing on a tree. (Sorry I had to listen to it last night, you can just roll your eyes and continue. Oh it could possibly be a Pee-caso) Waka Waka Waka! It reminds me of the white elephant party where I brought something fun and ended up with a bag of charcoal.
Among the dozen other things Dezi does she's a choir director for a 1-2 grade choir at her church. This was the big Christmas show Sunday and she asked me to come. I sat towards the front when the little kids came in. Here are some of the more interesting things of note;
- A little boy in front wore a red flannel shirt with a cheetah print head band. He was having a great time making weird gang symbols with his hands and staring at the audience with his mouth wide open, but no sounds coming out.
- One of the other young boys discovered that his mother and the rest of the audience could hear him much better his he stood on his tip toes and sang at the top of his lungs into the choir mic that was right in front of him.
- Baby "Jesus" had had enough by the time the last service rolled around and cried the whole was through the program.
And now I'm back playing with my computer that keeps dyeing every 20 minutes. I need to scrub it and start again, but I'm being lazy and don't want to mess with it at the moment. Some day soon though.
