Sunday, November 04, 2007

A Day

Posted by Reverend Ref + at 9:17 PM

You will note from the immediate preceding post that my day started early. Or maybe it was that yesterday never ended, I'm still not sure about that.

Officially, today started at 6:30 like usual. Did a little work on the church website (since, you know, I didn't have my sermon printout), then got ready for the day. Had breakfast, headed over to the office and got set up for All Saints Sunday.

During the announcements I told everyone to take some time with the paint job and not to make any rash decisions. "Come back during the week a couple times and see what you think."

Service went well and the sermon that I made up from the remnants of the real sermon actually delivered quite well. And after service, all comments about the paint job were positive. I'll sleep well tonight.

At 10:30 it was off to the next service. We got a late start, had to make a stop by the dump on way up to VC and had to fill the tank since Mrs. Ref chose not to put any gas in the car yesterday. "It was okay when I left Missoula."

Got to church late, rushed the set up for service (no altar guild today) and only forgot one minor detail that The Kid rectified for me. Had a short coffee hour before blitzing back to Sheridan for a 1:30 discussion on the end of the world.

That was followed up by a vestry meeting at 2:30 which went just over an hour. Then a meeting with my soon-to-be former treasurer and home shortly after 4.

Turned on a game and took a nap. Sermon to be posted when I find it.

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7 comments:

~**Dawn**~ | 4:04 PM, November 05, 2007  

Turned on a game? A New England-Indy game perhaps? One that ended oh-so-well though I did not breathe for about 25 (football) minutes?

I love All Saints Sunday. We split up one of my favorite hymns (For All the Saints) through the whole service, since it has so many verses. I can still hear my Gram singing it in my memory.

Reverend Ref + | 7:40 PM, November 05, 2007  

Actually it was Seattle-Cleveland. I woke up in time to watch Seattle tank in OT. grrrrrr

~**Dawn**~ | 7:44 PM, November 05, 2007  

Ahhh. I was rooting for Cleveland in that game. I have Kellen Winslow & Braylon Edwards on my fantasy football team. ;-)

Reverend Ref + | 7:53 PM, November 05, 2007  

I played a fantasy team once while in seminary. I didn't do so hot. Partly because I really didn't get into following it properly; partly because, well, it's hard to tell your seminary professor that you didn't write your paper on the theological aspects of buildings because you were too busy trying to figure out which running back to play against which defense; and partly because there aren't any fantasy refs.

I mean, how cool would it be to get points for the number of correct holding calls made by the umpire, or points for correct illegal contact fouls?

So the fantasy thing, not so much. But everyone needs a hobby, and I think it's way cool you enjoy the game.

So . . . Pittsburgh or Baltimore tonight? I'm thinking Pittsburgh.

~**Dawn**~ | 7:59 PM, November 05, 2007  

I hold my own. Not too shabby for a girl. ;-) I will tell you that if they included refs, yesterday's crew in Indy did *not* do very well. Ridiculously heavy on the pass interference calls, including one offensive pass interference call that even the talking heads couldn't justify with their 42 different replay camera angles.

I am thinking Pittsburgh tonight too. It's raining. Baltimore isn't doing much on offense in good weather, never mind the sloppy conditions I've been seeing on the pre-game nonsense, and I think McNair is starting tonight, and the conditions seem to have him feeling a bit uneasy. Unless Big Ben turns the ball over a lot, I have to give the home team the edge.

Reverend Ref + | 8:11 PM, November 05, 2007  

I obviously didn't see the game, so can't comment on the crew. But I will say that when it comes to blown calls by the officials and correct rules interpretation by the announcers, there's no contest -- the refs are wrong far fewer times than the announcers are right. Yeah ... so I'm biased.

Every announcer should have to officiate at least two games before being allowed in the booth.

Okay ... enough of the soapbox.

Pittsburgh because they've got home field AND they're doing that whole 75th Anniversary thing tonight. Ghosts of teams past and all that.

This has been fun ... real-time blog commenting. Tonight's a bar night, so I'll see if I can't watch it there. Enjoy the game!

~**Dawn**~ | 10:58 AM, November 06, 2007  

I *never* side with the announcers. There are games when I come very close to watching without sound so that my ears will stop bleeding. But in this case against Moss, I don't see how it was possibly offensive pass interference. I don't think *anyone* interfered. But this particular crew is known for making an inordinate amount of pass interference calls, especially against the offense. There were two other pass interference calls made against New Englad that I totally agreed with but this one was... I don't know what on earth they based it on. Oh well. Didn't matter in the end.

How about those Steelers last night? I didn't expect a blowout!

Real-time blog commenting works well now, with the addition of that little check box just below where you type in your comment that emails you when someone else comments after you do! (Holy run-on sentence, Batman...)

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