Oh July! Where have you gone?
Well, it’s 10:30 at night, and I’m finally writing another post. “Finally.” That seems to be one of the words of the month, along with “accident.” In the past month, my:
- car started sputtering again, a month after it was fixed
- car was then rear-ended (see below for details)
- bedroom wall began to disintegrate and mold from leaks in the exterior/foundation
- work became a lot more hectic
Spoon at 80/35
I did have some fun, though. Over the 4th I helped with the Gateway Church booth at the 80/35 Music Festival in downtown Des Moines. A church member made several stencils of things like the Des Moines skyline and a microphone, and we spraypainted them over pages from an old dictionary. A few people asked if they were pages from the Bible! At first I thought “C’mon, people, wouldn’t that be just a tad sacrilegious?” but I suppose if the stenciled image fit with the passage, it could make sense…. As churches go we’re relatively edgy, but not THAT edgy. I was fairly out of my element, but it was good for me. Several of us won free tickets so I ended up seeing Spoon in concert, a band I’d never heard before and haven’t listened to since. They were decent, I guess, but didn’t excite me too much. I walked home smelling of several kinds of smoke, mostly BBQ, which was appropriate for that weekend. [Read more →]
