as much fun as a barrel of monkeys

So I tried using my sewing machine to hem some of Wayne's pants (mental note, he's not length 34...if we get jeans that long I'll have to mend them as well! Who knows why he likes his pants so long that he can completely cover his shoes with his pant legs...). However, I learned something important about my sewing machine. When it refuses to go forward anymore, I shouldn't force it with the manual turn...needles can break in such situations. Needless to say, I need to go buy a new needle before I can finish the job. At least the jeans that worked look good...now I just need to finish the other pairs of jeans.

We had Karl and Angela over for southern food on Thursday. It's a nice luxury to be able to hang out with people in the middle of a school week! Even with helping each other out quite a bit, though, Wayne and I couldn't win at Bohnanza. I guess we'll just have to go back to being mean. :)

Mutual this week was moved to Wednesday instead of Thursday, because that's the day they could schedule a temple trip. They stressed that they were going to leave the Church building no later than 4pm, so you would get left behind if you were late. Amazingly, we had everyone there two minutes to 4. How often do we actually get to start an activity on time?? It was a good trip, and I enjoyed remembering our youth temple trips from Austin to Dallas when we traveled four hours to get there and used to stop at Golden Corral afterwards. Four hours each way was a long time to wear a dress in a car! The youth in this ward were amazed that we traveled "so far" to get to the temple, since they can go to the temple right in their "backyard," so to speak.

Research hit a small snag this week, since one of the tools I needed to use wouldn't compile. It's freely available, but wouldn't compile on the computers in our lab. On Friday, though, I had the idea to try it on a different lab's computer, and it worked! I learned that our compiler was too "new." Apparently these things aren't backwards compatible. How often is it that something won't work on a computer because it is too new?? Now we just need to install an old version of the compiler so we can use the tool I need on our computers.

Friday we rented Corpse Bride. Somehow we missed it when it was at the dollar theater, so we paid a bit extra to rent it. That's one thing to appreciate about Provo...it is cheaper for the two of us to watch movies in the theater than it is to rent them. Unfortunately, we also just missed New York Doll in the dollar theater, so we'll have to rent that one when it hits the rental places too. [Tim Burton sometimes looses that magic he had back in the early 90's. Big Fish was really good, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was good, but there have been a lot of misses in his career as of late. - Wayne]

I think that's about it. Wayne wants to post a scathing review of the book we read this week, so check back for that later. Until then, have a great week!