I was up until 8AM this morning. No sleep. No naps. Just awake. I went to sleep and got up at 2PM.
We went bowling at Hermitage Lanes at 4:30PM. I drove the rental van on our way over there. No one wanted to ride in the old blue van from 1990. So everyone piled into the rental van. There were a bunch of teeny bopper girls in there who had to listen to “The Party” radio station which plays P. Diddy and Pink. This pretty much solidifies my opinion on the state of American music. No musical sense whatsoever.
After bowling we moved on to the Mt. Juliet Community Center for a free concert. Phil and his friends had a band. They played some good stuff –
- “Ice Ice Baby” – Vanilla Ice
- “Brain Stew” – Green Day
- “What’s Up” – 4 Non Blondes
- “Yellow Ledbetter” – Pearl Jam
- “Undone – the Sweater Song” – Weezer
- “Today” – Smashing Pumpkins
All without any lyric sheets. Cool. I enjoyed Phil’s band much better than “In God We Trust.” Too many oldie hits. After about their 3rd Creed song I realized that this wasn’t my kind of music. Moving on…
We got back to the church building and sang in the new year. 131 people were there. Some from Crieve Hall Church of Christ.
I got some good shots of the fireworks afterward. Surprisingly the Crieve Hall people left almost immediately after it was overwith. Drove off when the fireworks were going off. Hmmmm….
It’s tradition for us to show movies on the big screen. We have a cuss box to sanitize things. The cuss box…(aka the “TV Guardian”). It’s a little box they hook up to the VCR when we played the movie on the big screen last night. It uses the closed captioning to mute out the dirty words in the movie and substitute words like “crud” and “baloney.” So you’ll be watching the movie, then it will mute for a second while the closed captioning pops up with “Oh crud!” It’s interesting someone actually put together such a device.
We didn’t have the cuss box immediately available. So we sent some people out to get it at Phil’s house. It took them a while to get it. All the time I was being bugged by some of the kids saying “Why can’t we watch the movie?” This was semi-constant. I soon grew tired of the question.
The kids stayed around until 7AM. We returned the rental van. Finally got back home at 8AM.