Happy Birthday to ME!

That's right, today I am 42 years old. Sidebar, Your Honor (wow, is it possible that i am really 42? 42 is old, it is 8 years from fifty, ... FIFTY! It doesn't seem right.) 42 years ago today, I was born ignorant, helpless, and unable to control my bladder. Some would say that not much has changed. What has changed is both wonderful and troubling. The wonderful part is that I have a great wife and kids, a job that I love, friends that I enjoy, and a growing appreciation for this life and the time that I have to live it. My birthday is truly satisfying because of the good season of this life that I am in. I am very blessed by God. The troubling part is that I have more of so many things that I don't want. More wrinkles and bags around my eyes. More hair on my nose and ears (my wife calls me a koala bear), and less on my head. Like weeds on a parking lot, it doesn't seem right that hair should grow on my nose and ears. I spend more time now on hair maintenance than I should have to. I have more pain in my joints. I have more things to do than I have time for, and more bills than I have money for. I have more exhaustion, forgetfulness, confusion about technology, and plaque on my teeth. What I need more of is patience and wisdom. Oh well, maybe next birthday.

What?!?!

What am supposed to do blog once a week? Come on, this was set up to be a quarterly blog. So I blog on Easter, and now it is near the 4th of July so it is time to blog again. Look, it is not my fault that the blogging community decided that normal is blogging like once a week or everyday. Who has that kind of time? Seriously. I can't make that kind of commitment. It takes too much effort, and I am tired from being old and tired. So ok, I would like to commit to a quarterly blog, but I understand from some of you (Heather Earnhart, Sherri Stone, Denise McCoy, Robin Williams) (no, not that Robin Williams, he's funny) that having a blog means keeping up with it. So for my four avid readers (to me, it is avid if you look at this sight once a quarter), I will again promise to keep up with this blog. Also under threat of removing useless items from our website, I have renewed my efforts to blog (as if a quarterly blog is considered useless, look, a hundred years ago people thought a quarterly blog was good enough, but not now). So there. Ok moving on from the whining and crying which I tell my kids not to do, a lot of things have been happening around here besides employees quiting all the time. I will get to all the news next time (Monday, not Labor Day).