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You work well with others and often fix problems quickly. Your romantic relationships are often bungled.

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Good Spirits

I am glad that someone out there has the courage and strength to harbor and sew good spirits in the rest of us that are not as strong or couragous. Thank the Lord for strong willed selfless people that in the face of adversity know that for the rest of us around them need them to show a happy face so that we ourselves can get through a difficult situation. I dont know how she does it. All I DO know is that , if it is possible, I love her more for it. Love you Mom.

Back from the South

I arrived home today after a record setting trip South. Everything went about as good as can be expected but we really wont know anything until Monday evening. By then all parties will likely be home and recoperating. I hope the report comes back rosey. Keep us in your prayers and I am also keeping my fingers crossed for luck. Thank you everyone for your well wishes.

Headed South Tomorrow

Tomorrow I will be heading South. I really do wish that my family can come with me but due to Yuri in school and Yin not having a baby sitter I will make the trip solo. Pilot will be staying until Sunday but I will be coming home Friday night. I dont want to hang around and cause a bunch of work for everyone and I was gone all last week and plan on making up for lost time with the kiddos.

Denial

Not sure exactly how to deal with it. I know I am in it and others are also. When does it seem real? I find myself wanting to stay busy. I haven't slept very well and not sure if I will for a while. I find myself setting around starring off into space and I have that aching feeling in the pit of my gut just like when I first saw the World Trade Center Towers fall. It took about 6 months for it to leave that time and I hope the ache is over soon for the sake of the others involved. Pray, pray and pray some more. That is the only way through this trying time. Please everyone keep our family in your hearts and minds and pray for us all to make it through.

Finally Home

I finally got home yesterday. The trip was pretty good and I feel like I learned alot but as soon as I got the news I couldnt get out of there fast enough.

I am glad a I dont have to make another trip until next year. I really miss the Brando, Yuri and Yin when I am gone.

I have not decided on what my next book is going to be. Maybe Little House on the Prairie but I kind of doubt it. I do believe it is a good read but I like the mystery militart scary supernatural scifi type books. Maybe if Laura Engals was a super secret military astronaught from the future with special ESP and Psychokenetic powers I would be more interested. Thanks for the recommendations.

Chinos to eat

Today at lunch I ate at a place called Chino Bandidos. It is part Mexican, part Chiniese, part Jamacain place. You can order refried beans and pork fried rice with your Jade Red Chicken which is number 7 on there menu. You can make your Jade Red Chicken into a quesadilla or a burrito. They have several different things to choose from. You and have Jerk Chicken and you always get the dessert with your meal. The tried and true nice and big snickerdoodle cookie. Im not sure what culture the cookie comes from but its all good. Check it out. The mascot is halarious.

Ill Be Home Soon

This week has moved along ok. I have done nothing except goto school, sleep, eat & read. As you may have read on my wifes blog I am reading The Da Vinci Code. It is pretty entertaining. I must say it is a good page turner and I hope this leads to anew hobby but I aint holding my breath. The last book I read was Black Hawk Down. It was really good also if you like that sort of thing. What will the next book be????? War and Peace? Who knows! If anyone has a really good page turner please point me in that direction. I Might check it out. Please post your favorite books in you comments....I need all the help I can get.

Day of Travel

Well todays the day. I leave for Phoenix tonight and I am dreading it. I wish I didnt have to go alone. I will miss everyone and also I dont like to drive in bigger cities however this city really isnt that bad. I still dont like to drive. I will probably just pick up food on the way back to the hotel and eat in my room. As Cynical puts it I will become a total lump. Maybe if I close my eyes really tight and make a wish it will all be over. (eyes closed tightly and wishing) Ah Crap.....

Relaxing at Home

Right now I am just relaxing on the recliner and Brando is going to help her mom get a car and bring it back home. My movie options are wide open and I dont know what I will watch. Hummmmm What to watch? Not sure but I am sure it will be good.

Pre trip gitters

I am leaving for Arizona Sunday and I and getting a bit nervous. I have never traveles alone and I am not as nervous as I would be since I have been there before but still I am getting nervous. Now since the terror thing that happened in GB I hope that everything goes smooth and there is no really long lines to make me miss my connections. I leave about 5:30 pm and will get to my hotel in Phoenix about midnight. Hope everything goes smooth.

Surprise @ Home

Today I came home and there was a surprise waiting for me on the table. My wonderful wife Brando called my Mom and got the recipe for homemade tomato ketchup and spent hours over a hot stove canning it for me. When I came in the door I thought she just made another batch of homemade salsa, which is delicious, but to my surprise it was the one and only tomato ketchup. I love to put this stuff on soup beans and eat it with fried bread. It is really really good. Unfortunately after eating said meal I tend to cause a little discomfort in the vicinity around me for some reason. It is worth the discomfort to me. Love ya Brando.

THE EVENT is Posted

Just wanted everyone out there in blogger land to know that THE geocache event of the year is now posted on www.geocaching.com. Here is a link to THE CACHE SLASH FEST 2006.

Geo Mega Event

Tonight we are having a meeting about what we are going to do for the October 21st event. I have postponed posting the event until I know a few more details. I was afraid the Geoevent on October 21st at some time and somewhere check back later would probably not go over well at this time. Hopefully tonight we will nail down the details and go over the lessons learned from the last party. We had a really good turn out this time and hopefully with all the donations from all the different companies that help geocaching we will have enough for everyone to leave with a little something more than a full belly. This is my preconceptions of what the party will be like. The event will start at or around 1 o'clock pm so that we will have ample morning time to get everything ready. We will start with a meet and greet until about 2pm where we will post coordinantes for the 7 or 8 contest caches. That's where everyone will leave and go caching in the near area. In the contest caches will be a container with poker chips with numbers indicating which cache they came from it them. The cacher will pick up a chip at all caches to trade them in on a playing card when they get back to the event. The best poker hand will win the grand prize and then we will have the best Texas holdem hand for a second place winner. This will all happen while we stuff ourselves with eats. We will probably provide tea and hotdogs for everyone and ask that everyone that attends bring a covered dish or desert. After the drawing we will converse around the bonfire and when it gets dark we will have a haunted hay ride that will take us to a local cemetery, where if people are interested, we are going to have a real Ghost Hunter from the Crawford County Illinois Ghost Hunters Society to show us how to do and investigation and how to use some of the equipment. After that we will return to the event and that will wrap things up for the night. Also all through the event we will have drawings for door prizes. I think this will make for a nice event. This is just preliminary and will probably change about a half a dozen times before it is settled. We will also be offering shirts with the event logo on them and also be offering the event geocoin that Pilot designed. The only people who will be able to get a coin will be people who attend the event. I am a little partial but it is an awesome coin. Hope to see everyone there. Keep a lookout for The Cache Slash Event 2006 in Southern Illinois. Happy Caching!

Communication

Have you ever done something that you wish you didn't do, but in the state of mind you was in you had decided in your brain that it was the correct thing to do at the time even though a small part of you knew it was petty and mean?....... Me too.

I am glad that everyone I know is very understanding of me and my faults. Thank God I am Human and that everyone that is close to me knows it. Chalk it up to immaturity. Thank you everyone....