Nice Christmas

Well, I have been blessed not to be called out on reserve yesterday or today! I thought for sure that I would be called out today with all the open trips that had to be covered but I must be living right because everyone on the reserve list above me got called out and I was the next in line but all the trips got covered. Dodged a holiday bullet there!

I have however been assigned a trip for tomorrow. It is the 3-day Quito, Ecuador trip. I fly down tomorrow night and spend all day Sunday there and leave on the red-eye flight back Monday morning at 12:30 a.m. arriving in Atlanta at 6:00 a.m. I will get the chance to go down and attend church with one of the families that I baptized. Don't know if I will go with Ligia Diaz to the Colon Ward or with the Armas family to the Iñaquito Ward.

Over flying Topeka

This morning I flew directly over Topeka at 36,000' at 4:10 a.m. I was on a red-eye flight from San Diego to NYC/JFK. The flight plan originally had us south of Topeka but ATC gave us a more direct routing and I flew directly over Topeka and Forbes field. I have flown 50-100 miles north or south of Topeka several times criss-crossing the country but never directly over it. I was somewhat nestalgic as I sat there contemplating how lucky I am. I thought to myself, "If someone told me in the late 1970's as I was in high school that on Dec 21, 2009 at 4:10 a.m. I would be piloting a Delta B737-800 overhead I would have thought they were crazy."

Just thinking how lucky I am to do what I love.

Thanks, Jeanne!

Do or Die for Chiefs

After reading the GHSA rules and regulations I do not understand why it is that the Chiefs are in a do or die game tonight. As I read the rules we have already had a season that qualifies us for the state playoffs but we are told that tonights game against Sprayberry is a do or die game.

Winner goes to state playoffs and loser is done for the season. The advantage we have is that it is a home game and our three running backs are all healthy for the first time this season. We have always had to get by on just one or two at a time.

Wish us luck!

WINDOWS 7

Got Windows 7 installed on my laptop today. Also bought an external drive to back up the info on my laptop and two desktops. Got to keep better track of this stuff. Almost lost some photos of Shawn's games due to a software issue yesterday.

WINDOWS 7

Visited Johnny at Hospital

As many of you know our dog Johnny had calcified deposits in his back discs and had to have surgery. Dispite how this video looks, they say Johnny is expected to regain full use of his legs. May take up to six months though. Anyway stay tuned for his progress.

Long Kick

Shawn was asked to long kick after a fourth quarter touchdown. He kicked it out of the endzone from the 40 yard line. Notice the weather that he did this in and the praise of the coaches when he returned to the bench! If you look carefully you can see him hopping up and down after the kick while he goes back to get the tee. He knew he had done well.