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Dinner at Bob Evans
What I said on the homepage about our trip to Bob Evans was pretty self explanitory. We ended going out on a “date” with some gift certificates and neither Sarah or I liked our dinners. We have always enjoyed Bob Evans in the past without too many expectations, so I don’t know if it is just this location, which would be unfortunate.
They had some interesting looking desert, and I figured that desert may be an option, so instead of getting my regular of Cinnamon pancakes, I went with the Western Omellette. The super part that it was one quarter onions. I am still working on getting rid of them today, oy. Sarah’s “Big Sandwhich” as it was described in the menu had one limp slice of lettuce, one piece of undercooked bacon, two half slices of the smallest bread ever in the history of the world, and then looked kind of like someone was checking it for springiness in the back by jumping on it.
Long and short, glad it was free. Yuck.
Chapman girls come to visit Pt. 2
More photos from the weekend with the Chapieman goils. We hung out at the mall to get out and stretch our legs a little on Sunday before watching the embarrassment that was the Colts season ending loss.
The top photo is right down by the circle with the monument, I was taking a “Making of the photo, photo”. Sarah took Brenda’s photo in front of the Bad *ss restaurant, that has created some stir in Indianapolis for it’s interesting name.
The second photo is in a store that sold 8ft’ in diameter bean bags, but they felt more like one of those squishy pillows underneath so soft and soooo comfortable. Too bad with a nice cover they can run you as much as like $600 for a bean bag. For that much money, a sac of beans had better make me a steak and massage my tushocks as well.
The bottom photo is just the old prosperity one, nothing original.
Chapman girls come to visit
Brenda Chapman spotted this little gem when we were traveling back from some shopping on Saturday. Sitting out in the Denny’s parking lot by our house was a beat up truck that had a huge paper mache blue and white Colt head sticking up with a tiny little body of a certain Patriot quarterback hanging out of its mouth.
Alas, that wasn’t meant to be as the Colts were just shut down left and right. Tom Brady really didn’t do squat, but the defense and rushing game just rolled right over the Colts, eliminating them with a final score of 20-3.
We move into our brand new house
Like I said in the intro for today’s entry, it has been a week to forget, time to look forward to the weekend. Which this weekend is our one week anniversary already, and here are some photos from the move-in.
Right away I thought that it would be a good idea with help down, and if the weather permitted, to fix all of the small things that came up on the inspection so that if we every have to move that stuff isn’t still wrong, and we can fix the problems we created.
Photo one : Dad Chapman is replacing the toilet kit in the downstairs basement.
Photo two : Sarah’s awesome college gal sister takes off the little girl wallpapered butterflies in the “purple” room.
Photo three : Everyone, including my parents, has a hand in setting up Sarah’s desk, which this “purple” room is now her very own office.
Photo four : We did take some time out for fun and introduced our parents to the frightfully delicious Long’s donuts.
Photo five : The left half of my office fully assembled again.
Photo six : The gang putting in our brand new microwave. The Microwave we got as a housewarming gift from my parents. It didn’t fit as things were in the house, so we had to remove a cupboard, move it up, install a plug, and then put in the microwave. It look gorgeous, like it came with the house and a bunch of professionals did it.
Photo seven : Sarah’s brand new office fully setup.
Photo eight : Everyone finally taking a break Saturday after everything is mostly done for some dinner and a movie.
We also got a ton of help and food from Christine, who is awesome. We don’t have photos of her working the stinker, but next time we move, we’ll get her. Which she lucked out, because after four moves in two years, we plan on dying in this house.
Esystems moves into Stutz building downtown
Like I mentioned on the front page, the Stutz building has all sorts of graphic studios inside. It is it’s own community and the building has such character. Originally home to the Stutz, which was manufactured here in the early 30’s, the building is still littered with the cars and even has it’s own museum. In the early 90’s Turner John management bought the property and broke it up into office spaces.
That brings us to today. Some of our competitors are in the building, and some businesses we could outsource some work to. But either way, it is so cool to go around and see all of the offices and how they have customized their workspace, since most of them are artists.
Hopefully when we get settled in I will have some photos from the inside. I know that I love being just a block from the canal walk for running and everything, and I can rollerblade, like I will tomorrow, ten blocks downtown to the comic book store. Plus, the building has a restaurant with great food and a bar, so you barely ever need to leave.
Rose Bowl Party – Michigan vs. Texas
It was a tough game, with both teams playing good at times, and not at others and the lead flipping back and forth. But in the end, by not scoring first and going hard from the beginning, Michigan lost in the final seconds on a field goal, 38-37.
In the first photo, Sarah is playing with a little “play” chainsaw that actually makes the noises and has a little tin ball linked chain that moves around. In the background are two of the Johnson girls, Emily is on the left and she is on break from Concordia Ann Arbor right now. Andrea is on the right and is a Junior in high school.
In the bottom photo, to the left in the red is Paula Johnson, the oldest Johnson girl and right around our age. The guy to the left with the ball cap is her friend Brian. I don’t know much ’bout dat guy. He likes hats.
And then finally, unrelated, but here anyway, is the photo of the extensive Water Damage that we are experiencing at Beech Meadow Apartments here in Beech Grove. Sarah contacted the front desk about doing something about the leak, so it doesn’t get worse because this was the damage we had after the first warm day started to melt the snow on the roof. Basically Beech Meadow Apartments said they weren’t going to do anything about it because “It was too dangerous to send maintenance men on the roof”. They suggested to move everything we had away from that wall and they would come in and basically redo the roof and the wall when the snow was gone.
This is the type of attitude we have experienced for the last six months from Beech Meadow, and I hope that this will benefit someone’s decision out there to not live here unless you want a substandard living space.
David Wray’s Christmas Party
Just for starters, look at the Lightsaber replica, metal handle and real swishing and clashing sound effects included. I thought that this photo, with the limitations of my dinky digital camera considered, was a cool one with the glow.
Oh, and the photo of the three of us is from David, thanks man. But I had a choice with another photo, and I chose this one because that way I won’t get grief from a certain someone about her sleeve falling down. Even though I look like a total loser.
Anyway. Christine and I were invited to this party during the Mid Ohio Convention the last weekend of November. I didn’t at the time know if we would hear back from David or not, but he was true to his word and we got his information about his little Christmas get together about a week later.
However, I had had a heck of a weekend with driving the prior weekend in Michigan and didn’t really feel like driving to Kentucky then the next weekend, and Christine was gracious enough to drive. She was pumped about going, and even though I was a little on the fence, her excitement is pervasive and will envelope you.
We left on time and actually the drive was a little less than 2 hours so that was a nice surprise. We got there five minutes early and we among the first couple of people there, but most of the crowd came soon after.
David’s house is crazy awesome, and not just from a geek standpoint. Two story brick with a basement, if it wasn’t dark out I would have taken a photo. Needless to say that he does real well for himself.
David also is an awesome host. From my personal standpoint, I went being a little nervous that I wouldn’t know anyone and if I would be in an outgoing mood or an introvert mood and how much that affects my time. But from the time we walked in the door he made sure we were accounted for, how we were enjoying ourselves, if we had some drinks, etc. Soon, we saw more familiar faces from the convention and we were up and rolling.
David’s house is immaculate, and I don’t think that it is just a party setting. He is a rare Type-A comic guy personality. He had many of his commissioned art pieces around his house and I even have a photo of one above. That is a Superman by Alex Ross that David actually had signed by Ross. The nice thing about Ross is that he isn’t too stylized, and has been somewhat mainstream (See Oscars from about two years ago) so the general audience can appreciate his craft.
