A Different Sunday, a Good Sunday

Several things about the day were usual:
• Evelyn and I were at church a little after 8:30 to do our fourth-Sunday stint at the Welcome Center.
•  We attended the 9:00 service and heard an excellent sermon based on the era of the Old Testament Judges, based on that chapter in The Story. Trevor DeVage did an excellent job of summarizing 330 years of history and challenging us with the cycle of sin, oppression, repentance, and deliverance that characterized the behavior of the Israelite nation at that time.

But more things about the day were unusual.
• We sat during the second service with our friend Alan Guttman who's been coming to my Thursday men's Bible study for years and  Sunday-morning church for weeks.
• After 2nd service we ran to the VA hospital emergency room on Vine Street after receiving a text from Shirley Wuske saying they didn't come to church because Terry decided to go to the hospital with chest pains. We got there just in time to visit and joke with them before he was discharged. (They decided it was just muscle pain, not a heart problem.)
(We had gone through the drive-in lane at Wendy's and grabbed fish sandwiches on the way to the hospital.)
• Then we left the hospital and drove to Eden Park in plenty of time to see the 2:00 performance of Pride and Prejudice at Playhouse in the Park.
It was excellent! We had bought tickets with the gift certificate Evelyn's colleagues gave her as a going-away gift when she retired from full-time teaching last spring. This play was her choice from the current season, and I was glad to go with what she wanted.
We had good seats and thoroughly enjoyed the production.

This beautiful setting was used in many creative ways to contain the various scenes of the play. These
two butlers lit the candles on this chandelier in the 2 minutes before the play began.

After the play we used a Living Social coupon to grab some dinner at Mount Adams Bar and Grill. I had their bean burrito, and Evelyn enjoyed the chef salad. Then we split a piece of Graeter's fudge cake with ice cream for dessert.
We were home in time to relax in front of 60 Minutes and some other TV, along with catching up on Facebook and then getting ready for the work week just ahead of us.

Commercial Success?

For some time I've thought it would be fun to do voice-over work—for commercials or educational projects or talking books, that sort of thing. I've done some of that off and on through the years here at Standard, and maybe this would be a fun pursuit come retirement.
So when I saw a class offered at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park that included instruction in doing voice-overs, and when I saw that my schedule for the 7 Monday nights was open this winter, I decided, "Why not?"
Well, the main thrust of the class is acting in TV commercials, although the instructor said we'd spend the whole session tonight on voice-over work.
He gave us a script to memorize and have ready to record last week. And then he said to develop a different premise for the same script and have it ready this week. I decided to try to record myself as a practice run this morning. (I FINALLY figured out how to use the iMovie program on our computer.)
So, would you buy a calculator from this salesman? Probably not. But you can't say I'm not willing to put myself out there and give this a try!