BenSpark Family Adventures

Last night Allison and I went to see Ellis Paul and Antje Duvekot at Circle of Friends in Franklin, MA. We got home rather late so I was unable to pull together the pictures to post. I got up this morning and got them ready before Mass. Now I have them on Buzznet and have added the thumbnails here to this post. The show was alot of fun. It has been long enough between shows that I could really appreciate how much further Antje has come along in her stage presence and confidence. Her storytelling ability has also gotten better and more interesting. Her singing was fantastic as always. I still think that Pearls with the send a little grace ending is way too long and drawn out. But it is one of my favorite songs. Antje also played Long Way and that was the first song of hers I had heard that on WERS. Ellis had some new stories and a new song or two. He is still so awesome and the show was sold out. There were 350 + people and he kept pointing out how quiet we were. Folks were quiet but th...

Photo-A-Day #575 11/04/06 Today Allison and I went to See Ellis Paul and Antje Duvekot at Circle of Friends in Franklin, MA. The show was great and ran till 11:00pm. We got home about 11:30pm. I have tons of photos from the show and tomorrow I will put together a nice gallery and add them to buzznet for you to see. For tonight here is the Circle of Friends Mural that was behind the stage. We may even do a little He said / She said thing with the review too.

Here by popular demand (that’s you, Andy) is Allison’s photo-of-the-week. It took me an hour and forty minutes to get to work this morning. A good 20 minutes of that was rolling from the second I got on the ramp from Route 1 to 128 until I was able to get off the highway a mile and a half or so later onto 109. Seriously. Then another 25 minutes to get from 109 to Newton Centre. An hour and forty minutes.

Photo-A-Day #574 11/03/06 Today I spent almost the entire day working on the Marketing Day videos. I am beat. I’m almost done. Then I can get back to real work, work. But I am having a lot of fun with the videos. My Cars diecast car collection is now complete. I found Sarge today. Cars toys are filling the shelves for the release of the Cars movie on DVD next Tuesday.

Here is another installment of He Said – She Said TV. My Name is Earl – Roseanne guest starred on this episode and it was rather funny. I loved the little girl at the convent when she deadpanned about being forced out of her home by a pack of starving dogs. Then when she asked Earl if anyone on her list wanted a daughter. Earl and Randy’s uncomfortableness around the words “I love you” and Crab Man’s love for Mr. turtle. The show continues to be excellent and incredibly funny. I loved Randy in the candle room and the voiceover from Earl about blowing out the candles because he thought they were birthday candles. The Jesus grill cheeses that looked like Earl. The show is priceless. My Name is Earl – I have to agree with Drew, Roseanne was a riot! Crab Man and his turtle was too cute! But the best was Randy with the prayer candles – I laughed so hard at that scene. The Office – Just when you thought that Michael couldn’t make you any more uncomfortable he goes and proposes to his girlfri...

Today I spent a lot of time working on the videos for the upcoming Marketing Day. One of the videos I am working on is a music video set to the tune of Justin Timberlake’s Sexy Back. That song is stuck in my head and will not get out for weeks to come. Marketing day is on the 17th and I don’t know how much more I can take. We’ve got some real fun stuff planned for the day and I am really looking forward to everyone seeing what is in store, especially the videos I’ve been working on. I’m learning all this great stuff from Adobe Premiere Elements. Things I can apply to future projects of my own. Maybe some Vlogs later on. Who knows. For now, you can watch the video and the song can be stuck in your head too.

Photo-A-Day #573  I bought this pepper about a month ago. It was green then. I wanted to make some sort of sauce or glaze or something for a spicy chicken dish. I never made the dish. So the pepper has just been hanging around the house shriveling up. It was laying next to some avocados that are beginning to look like prunes but the stem of the pepper curled so I hung it from this planter. It is probably not a smart thing to leave this there over night. Some furry paws may decide to climb up and try and attack the pepper. Of course, once the boys end up taking a bite they will be sorry. But then they’ll be mad at us and pee on the couch again. We are up to $60.00 in couch cleaning fees for the cat pee cushions. Now the boys have three litter boxes because the vet said they are getting territorial and one of the boys may be preventing the other from using the litterbox. So now they have two to use and one to visit on occasion, like a vacation home. When the first peeing of the cushi...