Nate and Mandy (BGSU grad friends) came over today. It was REALLY nice to see some friends from school around. Nate and Joel were bonding in this picture.

I have been on a super-busy course of life for the past few weeks. If I have not been communicating well (yes, this means with you), then please excuse me. I really want to see you all over. I think it will be time for a party within the next few weekends.

We had the big ol' fundraiser dinner dance at Zoar over the weekend...as well as youth group stuff and such. It has been quite a work load. I am doing the dissertation during lunch hour and I think it is almost there. I still cannot get this stupid RAID setup working on my computer. Now I think the controller has gone bad. The car is doing well. The Detroit trips (twice a week now) are going well. I actually get a genuine 36 mpg on the hignway in that thing...and it is going to kick over 200k this week. I had a basement system group over this saturday. This stinks...we buy the house and the walls start bowing in. It looks like we will be dumping 1k-2k into the walls that we were not planning on having to spent. Then EVERYTHING in the basement will have a lifetime guarantee.

I have to get up at 6 tomorrow to drive to Detroit...Joel is sounding like he will be wound down in a few minutes. Time for bed (sleep has been scarce lately).