The Cheat Pumpkin, LAN Party 2, and Godspell

I don’t have any pictures to post of this yet, but I will update this post as soon as I take some!  Last weekend a few of us gathered over to the Haney’s to do some pumpkin carving.  I had printed off a stencil of “The Cheat” from homestarrunner.com, and proceeded to carve my pumpkin in his likeness.  I think it came out pretty darn good, and The Cheat currently resides on our front steps.

Last weekend I also got together with co-workers for “LAN Party 2.0”.  We met at Bob’s as a last hurrah before his house is sold and occupied by new people who probably don’t want strangers and network equipment strewn about the house.  We actually set up the teams in two different rooms this time, but it was still close enough so that you could hear the anguished cries of the other team (and they could hear ours…).  I arrived later than I had hoped as I got lost and spent an hour driving all over Missouri (when I hit “Lone Jack” I knew I had gone too far) and left earlier than I had hoped to get to my first night of rehearsal with the Band for Godspell.

And rehearse for Godspell I did.  This is how I spent last week:  Work until 6, drive to First Church, play drums until 10, go home, wash, rinse, and repeat. After several consecutive days of not saying more than “Good Morning” to my wife, we went out for a cup of coffee together one afternoon.  Friday night was our opening night, and Julie, Crystal, and Brad all came last night.  Both times it has gone really well, and even though I have only put in a fraction of the time that the cast has, it has been worth the temporary hiatus from my normal schedule.  Doors are open again this coming week on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights!