June 6

It was a great weekend. My daughter’s graduation/going away party went very well. There weren’t as many people as the last party, but it was still very fun. Like always, my wife said that we would only serve food from 4 – 6 or 6:30, but people were eating all evening. We had a bunch of food, so it wasn’t a problem. My daughter’s godfather showed up. We haven’t seen him in like ten or fifteen years. He’s married now and has a fourteen year old daughter. There was loud music and dancing. We stayed until about one in the morning, but the party still went on until about three. We usually stay until the end, but we were watching the baby so the kids could drink and not have to worry. (Kids doesn’t mean kids, my son is 21, but they’re still my kids) They were supposed to stay the night, but they didn’t. One of them drove home. My daughter and her boyfriend were staying the night also. I went in the morning at 7:00 to pick them up. Her boyfriend had to be home by 8:00 so he could participate in the People’s Fair downtown. He was representing their high school at the sidewalk art portion of the fair. Anyway, when I got there, I found the boyfriend and another graduate that stayed over, but I couldn’t find my daughter. I had tried calling her before I left and along the way, but she wasn’t answering her phone. So, I looked all over my brother and sister in-law’s house and she wasn’t anywhere. I woke up her boyfriend and he didn’t know where she was. I was growing a little concerned until we found her several minutes later down in the basement. She has a basement room at our house, and she must have gone down there automatically. She found a bed off in the corner and was sleeping on it. She has less than a week to go before setting off to boot camp. So, she is spending as much time with the family as possible. We’re going skating tomorrow and we’re going to try to get them to Eliches Six Flags before she goes. We’re going to get my youngest daughter a season pass and they come with coupons. There are a few coupons to get someone in for free. Hopefully she can do that before she goes.
The Rockies were flip flopping in the win column over the weekend. We lost yesterday, but we won the day before. The game is still going on right now and it’s the bottom of the 8th. The score is 1-0 Rockies. Hopefully we can keep that lead for two more innings. We’re still in third place in our division, but the margin isn’t that big. We need to get a few more wins under our belts.
I get to see some of the preliminary drawings tomorrow for the graphic novel. I’ll finish the outline for it tonight so that I can give it to him tomorrow also. It looks like it is going to be three graphic novels with the last one a little longer than the others. The first one is looking like 40 pages. I’m up to the 35th page right now. So, I should be able to get the last five pages cranked out. I’ll probably finish the outlines for the other two and keep them until all of the artwork is done for the first one. I don’t want to overwhelm him with work.
It has been incredibly hot this last week, so we broke down and bought a portable air conditioner for the window. I hope it works because it gets reallllllly hot trying to sleep in the daytime.
The game is coming down to the wire, so I’m going to post this and start paying more attention to it. I’ll put Fleetwood Mac, Foreigner, Boston, and Rush in the playlist after the game and get that graphic novel finished.
-Thom