Pay Up Kwame!

It’s been a week since my last post. I better get something up here before people start throwing things.
This has been a fairly uneventful week. Each day this week all I could think about, on my drive in, was how I don’t have to do this much longer. The only problem with those thoughts is that it makes the drive in feel so much longer. I think I’ve already got one foot out the door. The only thing keeping my in the proper frame of mind to focus on my job are the two people I am training to replace me (that’s right 2 people are replacing me). They keep asking me questions and asking me to review stuff with them. So I still remaining focused, for now anyways.

Tuesday evening a bunch of us from work went to Mr. B’s for dinner and drinks. It was supposed to be a time to catch up with a few of our people that have been transferred or on TDY assignments. But most everyone that I hoped would be there bailed at the last minute, so it was me and a bunch of the ‘new’ people on the team, including the two that are replacing me. It was a good time, and I still got home in time to watch Oakland University win their play-in game. I just hope they can give UNC a solid game today before being thrown into the 16 seed heap.

Wednesday I had church and choir. As I was leaving work I got a phone call offering me great seats to that evenings Pistons game. Apparently they were tenth row. Mark would have gone nuts sitting that close to the action. But, it had been about three weeks since I’d gone to choir and we have Palm Sunday, Good Friday, and of course Easter Sunday to rehearse for (6 services in all). So I made the responsible choice.
An interesting thing happened during church. It was the final Lenten service and the new pastor, Pastor Timm, and one of the deacons were conducting the service. Our Senior Pastor sat right behind me. Normally I would think it doesn’t really matter much who is sitting around you during service. But I found myself very self conscience, and thinking to myself ‘why do you feel so self-conscience about this?’. I don’t know, it was just weird.

Thursday I picked up my taxes. Once again the City of Detroit owes me $7. Pay up Kwame, that’s my lunch money! Also on Thursday I was able to watch some college basketball, as the tourney officially started. I watched a pretty entertaining Nevada – Texas game. I didn’t get my picks done in time to join any pools this year. In fact I didn’t actually finish them until after the games had started. But Derek, you’ll be happy to know that I was honest and didn’t look at any results until I was done with my picks. Surprisingly, as of the time I went to bed last night I was 8-0. Of course I missed all four late games and still haven’t checked the results of those.

Tonight could be rather emotionally draining. My small group is getting together to watch the original version of the ‘Passion of the Christ’. We’re starting a short Bible study based on the movie. That movie is pretty intense, if you’ve seen it you know.
In other news relating to my small group we have decided to name ourselves. It will help with promotion and bringing new people in. Anyway, I have taken the reigns on administering the vote. The four nominees are: ‘Called 2 Belong’, ‘Faith Works’, ‘Fellowship of the Mat’, and ‘Wisdom Seekers’. I’ll fill you in on the outcome once the polls are closed.

That’s about it for this update. I don’t have anything too exciting planned for this weekend. My bowling season is mercifully winding down, only three more nights of suffering.