November 22, 2003

Saturday. Min, Jeremy and I all slept in quite late this morning. My Uncle Leo actually came to the house and knocked on the door and rang the door bell and none of us woke up. Min and I headed straight out to go to Frankfort to take Dexter back home. It has been really nice having Dexter here for an entire week. It was very comforting to have a little puppy in the house.

We dropped Dexter off and went out to dinner in Herkimer. After dinner, Min and I headed back to Geneseo. We stopped at Barnes and Nobles in New Hartford on the way and picked up the complete Fawlty Towers on DVD as well as some books. I got a really exciting book about the Mongol invasion of Europe in 1218 AD.

Mouse number fifteen was caught in the kitchen this morning.

November 21, 2003

Friday. Slow day today. The gang came over this evening. Josh, Art and Jeremy all came over for a long night of Age of Empires 2. Josh and Art teamed against Jeremy and I. We only managed to play one complete game. We had to stop part way through the second game because it went until almost 5:00 am and wasn’t going to be over any time soon. So we had to end the game early.

November 20, 2003

Thursday. Lord of the Rings 2: The Two Towers Extended Edition released today. So Min and I went out to Walmart (we took the puppy with us) to pick it up while it is on special. We watched about an hour through the first disc when we discovered that the disc was bad and wasn’t going to play all the way through. So we returned that DVD and got another. So we popped that one in and immediately it was bad too. So we ran back over to Walmart to return that one as well. The third one managed to play all the way through. I really appreciate the extended versions. I like them much better than the regular editions. There is so much story missing from the shorter versions. I think that it is really amazing that they are able to make the different editions with continuing story lines in each edition that continue through each of the seperate editions. We watched the movie and the documentaries. There are a ton of documentaries with the extended edition.

(Update from July, 2006: Apparently when I first wrote this post I had fallen a bit behind and had not mentioned that we were doggie-sitting the Tocco’s dog Dexter. Dexter considered us to be his second family and loved coming to stay with us.)

November 15, 2003

Friday. Today is the funeral. The weather is a lot better today than it was yesterday. People are safely able to travel. We had calling hours this afternoon before the funeral service. Tons of people came for the calling hours today. Even more people came today than yesterday.

The funeral service was really nice. They played recording of mom playing the accordian and singing some of her songs that she had written in the late 1980’s. It was a really nice service. After the service, about half of the crowd headed down to LaGrange for a pot luck dinner.