19 April 2010

I got my medical back courtesy of the FAA! Cool, off to work I go on Friday...or earlier. Not much else to report. I'm cramming for a Logos 4 course up in Montreal in May, and getting ready to go back to work since there is a new weight and balance system since I last flew. It's going to be a busy week that's for sure. A busy month of May as well. I'll probably be gone 20 days or more. Feast or famine.

I just heard my wife from the kitchen say, "I DID eat a LOT of cheesecake this weekend."

5 April 2010

Yet another day off in my continuing quest to discover the source of chest pains I'm having. A looming FAA physical on Friday. We shall see what happens. God knows.

Matt and I went to Easter services yesterday and then were invited to the Hixson's for Easter dinner. That was MUCH better than macaroni and cheese. Mike's father and mother came and we had not met them before and Luke was home from Chicago with his fiancee. It was a lot of fun and the food was excellent!

Cherie and Kelly in Florida with Campus Life until Friday or Saturday.

20 March 2010

Cherie is in Texas helping Badger move. We tried to get Kristen and the boys down to him yesterday, but the plane was full. They were the only ones who did not get on. I guess God wanted them in Michigan a few more days. Getting into DFW on Saturday and Sunday from anywhere is just not possible. Ugly.

16 January 2010

Off to clean the stables this morning with Cherie, then hopefully some drumming practice this afternoon, maybe a couple of NFL games this evening. Going to be a full day.

I both swam AND biked yesterday and while the knee didn't feel great, it feels okay this morning. Icing it up after biking or running helps a lot. In fact, icing up a lot of places helps a lot. I'm like a broken down old pack mule, game but decrepit.

Ben home this weekend for work. Kelly off to work this morning at the Catholic retreat center in Dewitt. Matt at an all day training session for Campus Life helpers. Life is busy.

14 January 2010

I have an outer ear infection, so I called in sick for my next 4 day trip. So far I don't have any pain, so if you can have a "good deal" illness, this is it. I meet with Tim Lambert today and then go out to the stables with Kelly and Cherie, then home. Fairly warm today—in the '30's.

Redeeming Black Friday

A day of collective national insanity. Kelly and Andy were off at 4.30 am to hit Walmart, more to experience the insanity than because they were looking for anything specific. Cherie initially planned not to go because she is on call for Jack (Kristen should have the baby any day now). However, by 5.30 am, the pull was too strong, she called Sue and they are off to enjoy standing in lines talking to people and shopping. I just can't get a handle on that.

Cherie says that it is a great day to meet and talk with people (the shared misery of standing in lines) and who knows where the conversation might lead. It is a chance to be an aroma of life to life to strangers. Pretty cool. Redeeming Black Friday. I like that.

8 October 2009

Day number three of vacation, and how quickly it is going. It was kind of a busy day yesterday, although I really didn't have much to get done. In the morning I practiced drums and then Lambertini came over for lunch as we started the book, One Heartbeat Away. Cherie and I went out on a date for dinner (Outback), then to Paneras for coffee and a crash course in using the iPhone applications. We came home and watched a surprisingly good Hallmark movie before going to bed. I ended up awake until midnight because I couldn't sleep.

Kelly worked until about 8 p.m., and Nicole Confer came over and ate pancakes with Matt. Pretty normal day, I guess.

Today we go to Mitch McAllister's funeral. Mitch was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's disease about 5 years ago. He just got through the earliest phase which is characterized by anger and mood swings. His wife found him when she arrived home, on the living room couch, dead. I have not heard how he died yet, although everyone suspects a heart attack. A death of natural causes would be a severe mercy from God, as C. S. Lewis once put it. Alzheimer's is a horrible disease and early onset is perhaps the worst form because it lasts so long and is such an incredible burden on the caregivers. It was good of God to take Mitch home early. He was a follower of Christ. He is in heaven. We will see him again. May you rest in peace, Mitch McAllister, until Christ returns.

29 September 2009

Another normal day on call. Got up. Did my devotions. Spent most of the morning studying 1 Peter 3.1-6, where Paul gives instructions to believing wives. Waited around all afternoon for our treadmill to be delivered and then put it together, not to mention taking a 2 mile run on it. I was home alone for the evening. Cherie was out with her group of high school girls; Kelly was with Andy, Brie, and Andy's brother; Matt was at Waverly for Campus Life. I ended up going to bed early.

Off to LAX this evening; then a redeye to TPA, and back home Saturday evening.