Phil is wanting to get various youth group pictures enlarged to put up in their classroom around church. Digital picture enlargements can be fairly expensive compared to Wal-Mart’s prices. For example, a 16 x 20″ enlargement costs $16.99 at ofoto.com compared to a 11 x 14″ at $3.96 at Wal-Mart. So I guess I’ll go for all Wal-Mart for now.
My reservations against it are as follows. The enlargements won’t necessarily be put into frames. We’ve displayed pictures on the bulletin boards at church before. Kids tend to scratch out and put a permanent marker to people’s faces they don’t like. I’d hate to spend 4 bucks on each enlargement only to have them ruined by someone drawing on them. Why couldn’t we get some really cheap (but decent looking) frames to go with them? Display them properly. Not like some cheap boyband poster on a teenaged girls’ bedroom wall. But then again it’s the church’s money, not mine, so why should I worry?
One particular kid from church keeps IMing me. First he wanted me to walk him step by step through how to install a favorite peer-to-peer file sharing program. Next he wanted to find music to listen to online. Finally he wanted me to burn a CD of certain songs. All of this was just too much. Borderline annoying. I know that peer-to-peer programs are made to install fairly easily (which is why everyone seems to have one installed on their computer). I am not a subsidiary of CDNow or Amazon. I don’t burn CDs made to order for people. Since it is so easy to do yourself, the novelty of burning CDs for friends has worn itself out.
Lunch with James and Josh yesterday at CiCi’s Pizza. All you can eat lunch buffet for $5. Pretty decent price for what you get. The only problem is that the pizza quality is just not as good as Pizza Hut or Papa Johns. Sausage pizza is also hard to find there. Usually they will tease you with some pizza which will appear to be sausage, but when you taste it, you find it is hamburger pizza. Why would anyone put hamburger on pizza? It’s meat that looks like sausage without the spice.
I guess it might be that time of year where I post my obligatory Halloween entry. It was always a fun holiday. There was always the awkward time in my life where I was too old to go trick or treating; felt staying home handing out candy was too lame; and didn’t feel like intentionally messing up someone’s yard by TPing it. (I still have never rolled anyone’s yard; I guess I missed out) Now I’m content to stay at home and hand out candy. My parents were always stingy with the candy…only gave out 1 candy bar each. On the other hand I throw in lots of candy in to the kids bags.
It’s too bad certain conservative Christian groups have attempted to put a negative spin on Halloween by calling it an evil holiday. Halloween is what you make it. If you’re a satanist and want to sacrifice animals to the devil on Halloween, then it is an evil holiday for you. But if you are Mr. and Mrs. American, who like to dress up your kids in scary costumes and take them trick or treating, then it is a fun holiday. I hate it that I could be considered “evil” in some people’s eyes by seeing no problem with kids dressing up in scary costumes.