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That's right. Someone is on top of things this morning. Aren't you proud of me?

So the end of the week turned out pretty good. Wednesday night the church hosted Ugandan Thunder. They're a children's choir made up of orphans from Uganda and they were awesome. They were really a great blessing. It's always interesting to me to get a taste of how other people groups worship. It's always so different from what we as Americans think of as worship. These kids definitely weren't singing out of the Baptist Hymnal but they were praising God in a powerful way.

We've been on a bit of a movie tear here lately. For a while, we just couldn't find time to watch anything but the past two weeks have afforded us the chance to get the Netflix queue moving again. "(500) Days of Summer" was alright. It was a chick flick trying not to be a chick flick. "All About Steve" was just a chick flick being a chick flick. "Night at the Museum 2" was the standard sequel that's not as good as the first one. It was still fun and kids probably love it, but for adults that actually thought the first was great (like me), the second is a let down. Finally, "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs" was a cute animated movie with your standard life lessons hidden in the plot.

In addition to the rentals, DeAnne and I had a "date night" last night. We went over to Greenville, ate and then watched "Percy Jackson & the Olympians". Having read the book that the movie is based on, the movie was a pretty big disappointment. If you haven't read the book, then it's probably a fine movie but it diverged so much from the source material that we spent most of the time groaning about the changes the movie producers had made. Beyond the unnecessary changes, there were a couple of instances of unnecessary use of foul language that also took away from the movie. So if you haven't read the book, you'll probably enjoy the movie, but if you have read the book, don't be surprised by all the changes they made.

And that's about all I've got today. DeAnne's on her way to Ft. Walton with her mom, so it looks like I'm going to try and get a few things done around the house and hopefully I can get in some good game time this afternoon. See you Wednesday.

--Paul