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This week has been… not the best. not really bad, other than the proverbial door slammed in our faces.
Tonight is good food, playing darts with Carrie, my dad and Julie and spending the night up there. Last night was grilled steaks (a little too rare) and “campfire” with the Freys.
Let’s just say that I’m not allowed directly south-east of Perry square.
I can’t believe that Rick Filippi (former Erie mayor) got off scott free!
All I know so far is that he and his co-defendants were all found not-guilty of using inside info to profit on a land deal… I can’t believe they didn’t do anything wrong here.
I love the Erie area, but this is just one more thing that represents what the idiots that run the city have been doing for years. You couldn’t pay me to live within city limits… at least not as a homeowner.
Today was a long and pretty random day…
It started with the usual Friday 8:30 meeting (not random), afterwhich we headed up to Edinboro for the Campus Ministry Board meeting. The meeting was… okay, I feel like it could be far more effective, but it’s a good start – there needs to be an evaluation aspect of it.
Afterwards Carrie and I tried to get an email address through the computer center, we’d like to be able to take advantage of Facebook if we could get an edinboro.edu addy. While there, we ran into Justin Hoenke while there (random)… we didn’t get to talk long, but it was nice to see him.
Lunch at Uncle Charlies.
At Behrend we split up and asked people to give feedback on the Bono article where he talks about karma vs. grace. While doing this, Rein and I started talking to some people with the Multicultural Council (something like that) and made a deal with them since they were doing a raffle; I’d buy 5 dollars worth of tickets (12). They were giving away 5 different gift baskets as well as a mountain bike; I put one in each basket and 7 in the bike. We sat and talked for a while, there was a taller guy with a large red beard just milling around who refused to talk to me, or even give me his name which was awkward (I later found out he’s the president of Trigon, the LGBT group at Behrend) – to be honest, his appearance and mannerisms reminded me of Big Chris.
Rein and I wandered off to talk to some other people (the conversation there went very well) and afterwards we saw a few people walking out of the building with baskets so I figured I’d ask if I won anything as well.
I won the stinking bike!
There was only one problem… no way to get it home in the Lumina, so I rode it up to dad and Julie’s old house up on Yale (not sold yet) and stored it in the side shed to be picked up at a later date. Let me say this, riding up that hill proved how out of shape I really am.
Carrie and I decided after this to go down to Gannon and walk around to pray for the campus and see who we could run into. While we were there we met 2 girls – Karen and Krissy. Karen mentioned that she was leading a oil painting seminar that night and invited us (even though she new we weren’t students)… sweet.
We went out to dinner with grandma Shirley and headed back for the painting seminar. Let this be known – I painted my first oil painting ever. Nothing spectacular, but I’ll post it here soon.
Then off to Starbucks (at this point it’s 9pm) to meet Jenn and this guy Josh who is going to be an incoming Freshman at Gannon next year. While there we ran into Mike Farag and Shawn… that guy from shows, the one who is super nice… you know, Shawn.
Back home now and tired… the double espresso has finally worn off.
