Saturday, January 1, 2005

The morning found me sleeping in a little. But I was up before everyone else, eh? We worked on 'Corrie's' car a little in the morning - put the exhaust on and almost finished before we had to head out to the next paragraph.

This was another Christmas day for me. The Friesen's got together today for their Christmas bash. I was warned that it was going to be louder than I could bear, and it just about was.

After taking a few pictures for them all, and leaving a JPG copy for them, I headed home. Not feeling the best, but not too bad.

Sunday, January 2, 2005

At church, I sat next to Bob. All I did was ask an innocent question- "So, what are you having for dinner?" Bob said, "Why don't you come over and find out?" So I did, but he claims that I invited myself over for dinner. Which was not un-expected (I mean for Bob to twist the truth like that!)

So, after dinner with Bob and Betty, Rich and his family and Randy, I stayed and talked with them till after supper. Came home and that was it for that day.

Saturday, January 8, 2005

Was able to get the first DVD Proof Master made today. It never ceases to amaze me as to how many things can go wrong in one of these productions. The DVD Authoring program says that a file is bad, but it doesn't tell you which one. So you delete the one you think it is, then try again. Over the course of time, you find it, then re-render it and try again. Nope. Then I got the brilliant idea of starting the authoring process again (import the file from scratch.) Worked like a charm. Oh, well. that's experience for ya. Now I'll have other ideas next time I run into a 'problem' file.

Went to Wetaskiwin for the weekend. Helped John get a load of firewood - we went to town to get his father's truck (empty bed, w/ plywood sides up). Then we worked a little on the car.

Ended up going to Camrose after supper to get an oil filter, so we could finish things up. Took it out on the road for the first time, really. Drives straight and true, tight. Seems to be a good little car.

Sunday, 9, 2005

Went to church there at New Sweeden, and then Boston Pizza after. Sat around the stove till it was time to take a sleep. Fasba, then we dropped the car off so it could be inspected on Monday. Drove home at night - it was only -30°c for the trip home.

Thursday, January 20, 2005

Drove Barney and Derek up to Edmonton, for Barney's preliminary office visit before cataract surgery. On the way home I was able to stop and pick up the car and bring it back with.

Monday, January 24, 2005

Today I went w/ Roger to Calgary to drop off the Gleanings Mailings. We stopped at Staples on the way back.

At night helped Al in building a shelf for the new sound board - and re-arranged some of the equipment there.

Tuesday, January 25, 2005

Took the day to set up / film / tear down for a short video shoot - that will be used in the promo for the DVD video.

In the evening, I set up some of the board - and got Brent and his team setup for practice.

Wednesday, January 26, 2005

Moved in to Roger & Renee's place for a while - house sitting - as they are gone for a month or so.

Friday, January 28, 2005

Very foggy day. Drove to Calgary to drop a skid of books heading to the UK. I packed this and did the paperwork for this shipment this week.

ReNEWal meetings at church today and this weekend.

Monday, January 31, 2005

Burned DVD #3 and 4 today. But read tomorrow's line-