...Venom 5K

I finished that Yellowstone virtual marathon, and while I march along on the treadmill, I'm usually watching something related to the medal I'm going for.  That being said, I realized I haven't seen the "Venom" trilogy yet and was wanting to catch that.  So I had fun last night and made up a "Venom 5K" run through Central Park at night!

And when it's all said and done, here's the virtual medal for finishing the race - which is of course when I finish that last movie.

And of course when finished with the daily exercise, you have to wash up with some Venom soap, right?  Of course right!

We'll have updates in a bit, including these topics:  ... clobbered again, classes, practice, no production, Route 66, ... updates coming soon...

Booberry Puppet

We now have a complete set!  I brought in the Booberry box to the office and we were having fun with the puppets in our Zoom meeting. 

Look what we saw on the way home - it's the girls' Ghostbusters hearse!  It's actually not one for a funeral home, but this one shows up in the area around Halloween.  Oh, and speaking of costumes, look who we ran into this morning:

This is Jerome!  Of course, Jerome is a raptor, one I met quite some time ago, who now lives in our prop room down in Braselton.  Mom and I went down there this morning to start scavenging for Christmas production costuming.  I snapped a few pics while there.

We had a good day.  Tonight we saw the Braves win, crushing three two-run home runs over the course of the night to win with a comfortable margin.  They're not far from sealing up a playoff position, and then of course winning the National League East Division.  The game got us worried at the beginning with a costly throwing error, but things got even very quickly with that aerial assault from the Braves.  

One thing we discovered tonight:  the wall behind those famous vines in the outfield at Wrigley Field is not padded.  Which is to say, outfielders cannot - or at least should not - do leaping catches up against that wall.  This happened a few times tonight, and I had no idea how perilous it was after all these years.

We read tonight, more from the History Monks and their interesting adventures - they'e somewhat like the TVA.  It's been good.  Afterwards, it was time for prayers, and sleep.

Coyote vs. Acme

Today we went to the theater to see a movie that has an amazing story just to get it to the theaters in the first place.  The movie itself sort of mirrors the story, a "little man" vs. "big corporations" vibe, but it's so much more than that of course.  It's a nostalgic and sometimes emotional trip to visit some of these wonderful characters, and really it's one of the best movies of this sort we've seen since "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?"  It was really, really good.  I'm so glad this movie got released, and I can't imagine why it was made and just put on a shelf just to save the company money.  Weird.  But public outcry got this movie released, even though by a different studio, and I'm so glad it was released, as it's one of my favorites this year, a surprise really.

So I'm getting to work on a steampunk themed series, and here's a great logo for it.  I've got some messages done from 2020, things never really used before, but now I can get them enhanced a bit.  That's been fun working on this.  Also finished:  149 psalms!  I have 149 of these psalms set to music now, different styles and all really cool.  It's been a small passion project over the last year or so - it's taken a while to do each one.  Why only 149 though?  Because Psalm 119 has something like 180 verses!  I'll have to figure something out for that, just because I'm a completist.  In 1998, I discovered a 151st psalm when we visited the Dead Sea Scrolls in Israel.  So maybe that one's next.  Anyway, for now there's a 149 of them, and that's pretty cool.  I might be sharing those soon.

Okay moving on, tonight the Braves lost to the Cubs, mainly because the Braves were trying to one of less reliable pitchers some playing time.  For the second time now, this pitcher didn't quite work out.  We'll try again for a victory tomorrow.

Tonight we had some pumpkin spice tea which was super yummy.  Picked that up from Aldi's!  Really good though, nice and seasonal. 

Maddie had a big day at college today, and then tonight was over at Edge for taekwondo.  She got home to do some homework, of course, and then later tonight we continued with our book "The Thief of Time," which we are really enjoying.

It's been a decent day, but now it's time for prayers - and some sleep.  Goodnight!

One More at the Chapel

Maddie took this photo this morning at the Chapel.  It was where we were this morning for one more service, another morning at the Chapel for the kids.  Here are a few other pictures she took:

We had a great time over there, and it's a unique time that hopefully won't need to happen again, at least because of flooding.  But here we are in the Chapel, and it's such a nice-looking place.  The acoustics are weird, but a change of atmosphere is nice.

When we got home, Mom had made us a really nice meal.  We had a salad that was made from our hydroponics lettuce, and with that was spaghetti and those gluten-free cheese rolls, the kind you can get at Red Lobster.

The Braves got a taste of their own medicine this afternoon with a late-game blow-out, but they certainly trounced the Phillies this year otherwise, and it looks like the Braves are certainly on their way to a division title.  The "magic number" is dwindling, as is the number of season games.  

Tonight we had a Ghostbusters double header, watching a couple of good movies, the one from 2016 and "Afterlife."  It's generally agreed that "Frozen Empire" isn't a great movie and not really necessary for a Ghostbusting marathon.  

I remember in high school how we learned in Language Arts that "busting" wasn't a proper word so much, and the preferred term was "bursting."  This was for general dialogue, but nevertheless, for a week a few of us kept asking, "Who ya' gonna call?  Ghostbursters!"

Okay, we closed out the night with some reading, and then prayers, and then sleep.  Gotta' get up early tomorrow!

Virtual Finish

Yay!  I finished the virtual walk through Yellowstone, or at least the lower loop.  It's been so great walking through the park again, although just virtually.  I've been to Yellowstone about five or six times I think, but it's certainly been a long time.  This time around, it was just super cool doing all these virtual trails, watching POV hiking videos of all the spots I remember visiting before.  

The Braves had a huge blow-out win today, and those are always fun - if you're on the right side of things.  More fun was that it was against the Phillies, who are hoping to dethrone the Braves for the Division Title.  That seems a long-shot at the moment, but there's still plenty of baseball to play in the season, although that's dwindling down now.  

It was raining today in the morning and a good bit too - we got a good dousing.  But things cleared up nicely towards evening.  Maddie was out there this morning, but she went to taekwondo safely and did a lot of work with Team Edge as always.  They're getting reading for a competition upcoming - I sort of lose track of things, but it's a lot coming up.

We went out for ice cream today using that BOGO card yet again to get Blizzards for Maddie and Mom.  Maddie was doing homework all day, so that was a good break for her.  I was working on KidPak set-up as we're back at the Chapel tomorrow.

It was a nice day.  We'll get some rest tonight though.  We read from our latest book, said our prayers, and got some sleep...

5787

Today is year 5787, and it's a bit of a tradition for us now to watch a ministry channel this time of year that sort of analyzes the meaning of the numbers for fun, and draws a message from that.  The message for 5787 is "Enter His Rest," which doesn't sound too bad.

Here's a tradition we don't miss out on: Mom had apples and honey set up on the table, and you can see the smaller-sized shofar there.  Yes, we blew that one instead tonight, and of course we had the honey there to add a measure of sweetness to our new year.  There was a bit of spice as well - one our way back from Tennessee recently, we stopped at the honey store there in Rabun County and picked up some bottles, including a spicy honey for Maddie.  

She was trying this one tonight, and it was a little much for Mom and I.  But Maddie didn't think it was too bad at all.  She's sort of left me behind on her tolerance of spicy stuff - does that mean it's something that you can develop a certain immunity to?  I'm not sure.  But she's definitely on a different level of tolerance than she used to be.  Either way, it's not the best thing to add to apples, perhaps.

Today was an eventful day, of course, given that it was 9-11.  It was actually twenty-five years ago that our nation faced the disaster of our generation.  Surprisingly, a lot of the younger generation born about that time doesn't really know as much about the events of that day, and even worse, there's plenty of misinformation out there.  One thing that may be overlooked is the unity I remember - we really were the United States for a little while there.  I hate that it takes a tragedy of that magnitude to bring about such unity, and there's somewhat of a taste of that today with programming and memorial services.  We were watching a good bit of that ball game after 9-11, the one where President Bush threw the first pitch in New York's game vs. Atlanta.  And of course we were listening to all kinds of stories, some of them I hadn't heard before - there are so many stories from that day.  

And speaking of ballparks, tonight's Braves game may have been one of the most exciting games of the year!  We're talking eleven innings - in fact, I thought I read somewhere that the game ended at 11:11 in the 11th inning, and the scores combined were (6+5) 11, and of course it was on the eleventh.  The Phillies were ahead all game long until the very end, and the Braves tied it, and then the Phillies got ahead again in extra innings, and then the Braves tied it... and then the Phillies got ahead again, and then... not only did the Braves tie it up again, but Drake Baldwin got the walk-off hit for a huge, huge victory.  Kim got another astounding hit - he's delivered some massive hits.  But so did Sean Murphy, and Austin Riley, and Matt Olson... the whole team was delivering key hits at huge moments.  Fall baseball is great - but what a long night.  The game was already delayed because of rain, and yes that was a lot of rain for us all.

Maddie drove home just after all the rain, having her night at taekwondo.  Fridays are long days for her, with classes early, a lab class later on, and then of course taekwondo at night.  She was over at Nate's in between, which helps of course.

It's been a fun day.  We didn't read tonight - the game was so late - but we said our prayers, and then it was time for some sleep! 

More Things With Faces

Maddie's bag was sitting there, staring at us during dinner tonight.  We always laugh at those pictures of "things with faces," and this is one that cracked us up.  

All kinds of meetings today, that sort of day.  It looks like we'll be at the Chapel with KidPak the next few weeks as they continue to work and reconstruct the KidPak area after the extensive flooding.  Again, it's really awesome that more damage wasn't done.  We were very blessed.  

Maddie did have her taekwondo tonight, but not school this morning of course.  So yeah, definitely a nice morning to sleep in!  But there's homework to do today, and she's been on top of that as well.  There are some competitions coming up and a lot of activity. 

The Braves avoided a sweep against Tampa Bay today, winning this afternoon against a really good team that's definitely going to the playoffs.  Tonight we waited for Maddie to get home so we could continue our "Ghostbusters" series with the second movie in the series.  And you know something?  I like this movie more each time I see it.  I remember when it first came out, because I'm old.  But I still have that plastic cup with the "Ghostbusters II" logo on it, and I remember going to see it in theaters - along with all the big summer movies that year.  I know it's not everyone's favorite, but we like it, and yeah, probably better than "Frozen Empire," which I think we've only seen once.  Anyway, we kept the ghostbusting going tonight, and of course we'll get to the other movies soon enough this fall season.

We're reading "Thief of Time" now from the Discworld, just getting started.  But we've met DEATH and those nasty Auditors.  It's going to be a fun novel to go through, one I've read a good while ago, but like some of the other stories, I can't remember all of what happens yet.  Should be an enjoyable read though.

After that, it was tie for prayers, and some sleep.