Weekly Email

Hi Mom.

Early morning update!  Trying to get a few things done before church.

We've had a pretty wet week.  Rain all day on Wednesday/Thursday, then a beautiful day on Friday, and more rain this weekend.  Pretty much cozied in for it.  Chloe had a concert to go to at school and a sleepover on Friday night and Megan had a birthday party last night.  We had dinner out at Islands Burger with Megan on Friday night and then just watched a little TV.  While Megan was out last night we had fish and chips at home with Chloe and watched Unstoppable.  That was fun - crazy train movie with Denzel Washington.

My grass is growing like crazy with all the rain and I haven't had a chance to mow it this weekend.  That will be fun to hack through with the mower once it dries out.  Doing yard work isn't my favorite thing to do.

We had a quite a few doctors visits with Megan last week.  She thought she broke her fingers on the slip and slide last Saturday - bent them all the way back.  They were really hurting her on Sunday.  So, Theresa took her to the pediatrician on Monday, took x-rays and thought maybe she had a buckle fracture.  So they wanted her to see a orthopedist - got that scheduled on Wednesday.  Lots of to'ing and fro'ing and waiting - only to find.... no fracture, just a shadow on the x-ray.  But badly sprained and bruised.  They gave her a splint and sent her on her way.

I talked to Steve last week.  Sounds like he might have good lead on this payday loans job.  More interviews next week.  I really called to get the low down on Alex's sweet-16 party.  Good report.  They had maybe 70-100 kids out at 'the shack' at Angie's place.  Volleyball, DJ, dancing, chocolate fountain, cake.  Police came out at 11pm because it was pretty loud but they were almost ready to wrap up the party so they didn't give them too much grief.  The party went form 8-11:30pm.  I think Alex and her friend did most of the planning.  So all Steve had to do was show up and lurk around the edges :-)

The hard drive on my Mac Laptop crashed so I've made a couple of trips back and forth to the Apple store.  The first time they thought they fixed it.  But it froze up again.  So, the second time they said they could fix it for $170 or I could go buy my own disk and fix it myself.  $70 later at Best Buy and day to restore it all and I'm back in business.  Good thing for good backups.  Nothing lost.



I have the photo CD from your last letter.  Do you want me to put those pictures on your computer?  huh - i'll have to think about that one - trying to transfer them remotely from here to there.  Next time just put the CD in the computer and let it sit there.  Then I can log in and copy them locally. I did send a bunch of them to the Ceiva.

Interesting article about 911.  That's exactly the situation - old and antiquated system.  But Intrado is working hard to change that.  We have new systems that enable text, video, pictures, etc.  It just takes a time and money to make it happen.

I was sad to hear of Seve Ballesteros death last weekend.  He was fun to watch back in the day.  He could get it up and down from anywhere.

Can't believe the end of school is coming up - just over two weeks to go (5/26).  Pray for little Chloe and finals.  She's doing pretty good this semester.  Math is always a little hard for her.

Calvary just bought some land out in Erie to begin building a second campus (sermon about it).  We planted a church out there 5-years ago and they have been meeting in the High School out there.  This was a good opportunity to take the next step towards our own building.  It will probably be a little while before they start building.  Trying to be good financial stewards and make sure we don't take on too much debt (if any).

That's all I know for now! 

luv u,

Jeff