The kids and I watched LWW last night. It’s the first movie that they actually sat through and watched from beginning to end. That’s quite an accomplishment. Usually they are bored about 1/4 to 1/2 way through and go play. I have to say that from what I remember of the book, it was pretty good.

Doom, on the other hand was hokey at best. I understand it’s hard to adapt a game inspired by a movie (Alien) into a movie, however it could have worked. The saving grace for me was a 5-10 minute period where the movie was filmed like the game. For those of you who don’t know, it’s a first-person shooter. You are looking at the screen as if you are looking out your character’s eyes. That was a great touch, but also the only reason to see it.

Ice Age 2. Well, it was okay. Just another way to make money from a sequel in my opinion, though. Erich was horrible and wouldn’t sit still at the theater. He’s at about 50/50 odds of making it through a movie in the theater. Still, the kids had a good time and that’s what matters.

Emily is grocery shopping as we didn’t want to take the kids to the store acting up. They are supposed to be taking a nap, but aren’t from what I hear coming out of their room. I’m doing laundry and dishes. Yay for me.

It makes Wednesday feel like Monday all over again. My Cards won on Monday, so that ruled. Saturday’s M-Night was basically a flop. Em cooked like a mad-woman and made lots of yummy food. The rest of the Jaycees brought food as well. Plenty of food, but no guests. A maximum of 20 people showed. Maybe 3 were guests.

On the plus side, Emily’s procedure Tuesday went fine and she was given a clean bill of health. Woot.

Nothing exciting to report. This past weekend we stayed mostly at home. It was relaxing to spend time with Em and the kids. No running around like mad to squeeze every last minute out of the weekend. We got a little yard cleanup done Saturday, and Em finished that today.

On Sunday we took the kids to see the “Popcorn Pete” show. It’s evidently fun for the kids as they had no problem talking about it all day Monday to everyone they saw. They were even recalling it to me last night on the way home. Who knew that a stage production of children’s characters could be so endearing. After the show we had ice cream that wound up more ON Amaya than in her.

This week I’ve been working on Jaycee promotional materials. There are a number of great promotional items on the iljaycees.org site. There’s everything from M-night ideas to business cards to mailers. I’ve customized several of them for our chapter and will show them off tonight.

Work is still chugging along. People can’t seem to stop playing with their handsets. It wouldn’t be so bad if they would just not tamper with the programming, but they do tamper with it a lot.

Having Google host my email turned out to be more of a pain than a convenience. While I am grateful for the offer by them after my request, it just isn’t for me. Maybe I was just too stupid to do it. Either way, I will keep danvoyles.us email hosted myself.

Jeans tomorrow at work again. I think I’m getting spoiled. Woo-hoo.

Google came through on the email hosting. I am excited. With Google hosting my email, I don’t have to worry about it taking away from my bandwidth and storage limits. I may actually take the Forums mainstream now.

At work today, I had 6 voicemails and 5 emails awaiting replies. I waded through all but one. The customer was on his way to work and asked me to call back tomorrow afternoon. Other than that, life’s good in the cube farm.

The weather snapped back to VERY cold today. I wish it would either warm a little, a lot, or just stay cold. I hate this back and forth crap.