Snaps

My cute little cousin posed for me when his parents brought him by trick or treating.

I didn’t take this pic today. In fact I didn’t take this one at all so I’m bending my little rule for this blog, but today is my baby sister’s birthday. She’s the big 2-7

Happy bday Kelly!!

I was looking for something to watch last night and I realized that my movies are a mess. I used to have them organized by genre. Maybe I’ll make that a project once I move out of this place.

So here’s a pic of some bricks

I had to get home quick because handyman was supposed to come again to “finish up” with my bathtub so there was no time to go to the store which we really need to do.. So as I waited in the drive-thru at Wendy’s I got to looking at the bricks in the wall and I thought they were oddly random colour-wise and seemed almost “messy.” with their rough texture.

That’s all. Boring I know.

After much fiddling before giving up and handing the camera over to someone with a Mac, we finally got our video from the Grand downloaded and edited.

Here’s an amusing screencap

Go check out getindyknow.com to see the video and sound etc.

So you’re looking at my project for today and most of tomorrow. I’m going through about 45 minutes of audio looking for sound clips from the night in The Grand. Even though, disappointingly, we didn’t encounter anything freaky, the audio turned out pretty funny – at least to us. I’m trying to find stuff that would appeal to a wide audience who weren’t there for the inside jokes and stuff, know what I mean?

There was a moment or two of genuine fear though, at least on my part. I really didn’t like being near The Void, in the dark.

Sorry for the lack of prettier, more interesting photos but the bathroom looms large in my life right now. It’s now day 5,042 of the Great Retiling and so far, this is all the progress he’s made:

I hate taking baths

So tonight was the night some of the IndyKnow team members “spent the night” inside The Grand movie theater. I put ‘Spent the night’ in quotes because in actuality we couldn’t do the entire night because of time constraints and the fact we all had to work the next day. But we were along inside the Grand for a few hours at night and we explored, trying to see if it was really haunted.

This shot is of an area behind the screen in the theater. Some old chairs and scary steps lead to an old boiler/coal room that was pretty freaky.

But we had a lot of fun poking around the place. Allegedly, the place is haunted by an old janitor, and possibly by the ghost of Grand Island legend Wally Kemp. We spent some time in his old office in the basement trying to feel if the room gave off a creepy vibe. We also spent some time in the theater just sitting at the top of the house looking down to the stage area because reportedly a ghostly janitor was seen pushing his mop across it by a woman who used to manage the theater.

Finally we made our way in the dark down to the basement storage areas, told ghost stories, talked about how the place made us feel and showing off our dirty joke repertoires.

A fun night. This Friday we’ll have video and audio from tonight on IndyKnow.

My mom always told me to keep written records of things – especially when dealing with landlords, lawyers or ex-husbands. So here’s my record of the crap I’ve had to deal with and put up with during my whole problem with my bathroom, beginning with the day the plumbers came to fix the leak:

Island Plumbers arrive and stay about 20 minutes. They shut off the water for a bit and worked on the cold water faucet and fixed the running water.

He showed up a little after 2 and stayed til 5ish with about a 45 minute fecking smoke break. He left, telling my daughter to sweep the bathroom floor and he’ll call me when he comes back. The bloody wall is only half done and it’s 7pm. I doubt he’s coming back. This is so freaking ridiculous.

Here’s a pic of how he left it (after I cleaned up):

I hate this place

We seem to have quite a lot of it.

Only 5 people showed up for the movie last night, so Shannon brought home the extra popcorn