Week of Aug. 8, 2004

Week of Aug. 8, 2004
Saturday, August 14, 2004
This has been a good week. Last night was the opening ceremonies of the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece. Scott and I hosted an Olympics Kick Off party at Meadow Park. A number of people came, mostly men. Bill and Kevin (high school friends) were among them. Though there was much heckling, I appreciated was excited to watch the lighting of the torch and the opening drama. Many of the places I saw on my trip were shown during the opening video montage (sans scaffolding) with voice over by James Earl Jones. The drama depicted the history of the Greeks, with men and women portraying some of the works of art that I studied in college and saw earlier this summer. Scott and I made some Greek (and non-Greek) snacks, including honey walnut cake, mini spinach phyllo pies, gyros, muffalettas, Olympic cupcakes, and Ambrosia almond crunch snack mix.

I continue to make progress on my comic book. During the party, I “inked” the drawing above. Today I colored it with Adobe Photoshop 5.0. This full panel page has been the most complex so far, as there are about 20 characters seen. This week I’ve also added a commentary I wrote on Acts 17:16-34, and a “behind-the-scenes” tour of the process of creating the comic book. So the total number of pages/slides as of this week is around 45.

During leisure time this week, I went to the Columbus Museum of Art with Mom, then later that night Dad meet us and we saw Mama Mia! It was really, really good. Scott and I went to COSI (Center of Science and Industry) on Wednesday. They moved to a new building since I was there last. There are some Disney-quality exhibits.

I think that’s all I can think of at the moment. I’m sure I’ll think of more things later… Oh, here’s another interesting tidbit. After I got back from LTS/LutherFest, I sent in a roll of film to be developed. Since I got my digital camera, I rarely use my film camera. I got the prints back this week… There were some on the roll from the first day of our spring break trip!