This has been a full weekend. There was a work group from the UK in Warsaw this week, so Friday afternoon we did a team building event and went out for pizza at Rocksteady and bowling afterwards. I hadn’t bowled in years, I don’t think, but I held my own anyway. We all did 3 games, and I bowled something like 125, 109, 132… or something like that…. Just enough to be in the middle of the pack. Imran from the UK actually took first place in the series.

Also Friday evening there was a trivia night (fundraiser for a youth group trip to a conference) at the church, which was really well attended. Beth and I didn’t have a team, so we just joined in another table that was also short. Alex got together with some of his friends and formed a team themselves. They made sure to specify that phone use was prohibited during the event, and it was divided into some 6 rounds of 10 questions each, none fitting into a particular category, except getting progressively trickier. We wound up in a group with 2 other couples, but we were the stars of the show haha… we only missed a few questions over the whole course of the event and ended up in first place so we took the GOAT trophy. Alex’s team came in second place (it had been their only goal to beat me). 

Saturday I got up early and ran 10 miles. That’s the first time I’ve hit double digits this early in the season, I think. I think the bike riding has kept me in better running shape over the winter than I usually get. Anyway, later that evening Beth and I went to a Symphony of the Lakes concert at the Wagon Wheel. I’d been really interested in the their spring concert “Music for Movies” because I assumed at first that it would be John Williams…Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Jaws, E.T., Jurassic Park, that sort of thing…. But it was not. They did a series of classical pieces that have been featured in movies over the years, like Amadeus, The Mission, Charlie Chaplin movies, etc…. stuff that you normally don’t think of as movie music. But it was a good show and we both enjoyed it. SOTL is good, but they’re no New York Philharmonic. Interestingly enough, there was also a movie trivia event in the half-hour before the concert started. Of some 25 questions about movies, We only missed 2 or 3 obscure ones. However, we didn’t win, but I’m not at all convinced that the winning team wasn’t looking up answers on their phones (there was no announcement prohibiting that, but I assumed it would be understood). 

Also this week: I took the Santa Fe in to the shop the get the brakes done. The car has started shaking when braking from high speeds. Seemed like classic warped rotors or something like that, and it was…the front brakes were just about not even there, and the rotors needed to be replaced too. At least it was common stuff so they had it done in half a day. So the car rides much smoother now and we’re set back by around $600, ouch.