Post-Dinner Wrap-Up
Nov. 16th, 2003 10:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
robotech_masterWell, I made the dump cake, and it worked out pretty well. Got a little scorched on the top, but it tasted okay. I took it down to the church about 5:00, and the dinner got started about 5:30. It was actually sort of a "semi pot-luck" dinner—the dinner portion of it was actually catered by Boston Market, whereas attendees were encouraged to bring dessert. The dinner was okay—a few notches down from home-made; I disliked the sweet cornbread rolls they served with it, the dressing had crunchy vegetables in it (I have nothing against crunchy vegetables as a matter of principle, but I just don't think they belong in dressing), and there was no cranberry sauce (unless I missed it somehow). There were about a zillion different desserts, including mine.
The dinner kind of reminded me why I don't really like such events—when everyone was talking all at once over dinner, the noise level got to be such that I just couldn't think—I ended up walking into another part of the church for a while just to get away from all the noise. It was driven home to me how little I really like crowds at that point.
After dinner and desserts, the church treasurer said a few words on how much money had been pledged, there were a few praise choruses, and then they had some families come forward to give "testimony" about reasons to be thankful and such. It was at that point that I collected my remaining dump cake and slipped out; I really didn't care to hang around and listen to families I didn't know, and I had stuff to do. Swung by my brother Aaron's place, in the hope that he might be able to fix the el-cheapo digital camera I have, then back home.
Over the last couple of days I've been watching The Mask of Zorro again, now that I'm able to play the DTS digital 5.1 soundtrack. Finished it tonight. It sounds remarkably good, with a lot of directional effects, especially for gunshots and explosions. It's amazing what a difference the sound makes. Now I just wish I had a bigger monitor or TV set...oh well, that'll come eventually.
Sigh...another weekend gone. Tomorrow, back to the work grind. I don't like to think about it, but that's how it goes.
The dinner kind of reminded me why I don't really like such events—when everyone was talking all at once over dinner, the noise level got to be such that I just couldn't think—I ended up walking into another part of the church for a while just to get away from all the noise. It was driven home to me how little I really like crowds at that point.
After dinner and desserts, the church treasurer said a few words on how much money had been pledged, there were a few praise choruses, and then they had some families come forward to give "testimony" about reasons to be thankful and such. It was at that point that I collected my remaining dump cake and slipped out; I really didn't care to hang around and listen to families I didn't know, and I had stuff to do. Swung by my brother Aaron's place, in the hope that he might be able to fix the el-cheapo digital camera I have, then back home.
Over the last couple of days I've been watching The Mask of Zorro again, now that I'm able to play the DTS digital 5.1 soundtrack. Finished it tonight. It sounds remarkably good, with a lot of directional effects, especially for gunshots and explosions. It's amazing what a difference the sound makes. Now I just wish I had a bigger monitor or TV set...oh well, that'll come eventually.
Sigh...another weekend gone. Tomorrow, back to the work grind. I don't like to think about it, but that's how it goes.