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Friday, October 21, 2005




Who needs snow! Grab your sled and slide down the nearest hill of dying grass.

Ad on her 7th birthday, 2005

Update on Ad

Ad is doing great. The stitches came out a couple of weeks ago and the little scar by her eye is healing up nicely. Last Tuesday we took her in for her second CAT scan. Everything looked great, well, except for a hunk of metal stuck up in the nasal passage. Upon the advice of the Doctor we are leaving it in for the time being. The body has probably started to seal it off with a fibrous tissue. Because of the way it is situated there doesn’t seem to be too much chance of it migrating. The doctor believes it may cause more harm and trauma to take it out at this point. So unless she develops allergies or a plethora of sinus infections we are leaving it in. We do have another CAT scan scheduled in three months just to check everything.

Due to some questions I should mention that piece of casing is in her nasal passage behind the nose, not in her nostril or any wear you can see it. She plays and acts her normal little self.

If you click on her picture you can see the small scar below her left eye.

Tuesday, October 18, 2005

The consequence of sin

Sometimes after you have confessed your sin and have been forgiven you are left with the consequences.
There seemed to be more problems than was anticipated at first. Spy wear, ad wear, viruses, deleted programs (oops!) I seemed to have it all. It was cleaned up. Set straight. Sent home. However, when I went home I was unable to get on line.
After many phone calls to our service provider and our local computer repair shop Terry came through for me today. The twenty-five minutes he worked on it, with me standing over his shoulder, seemed to fix the problem. He used his magic disc. He even carried the CPU to the car for me. Wow, what a guy! Thanks Terry!!!


If you’re a technical person it had something to do with the "win-soc" do-hicky.

I told this to Em and she asked if it was some thing like the thing she made at VBS last year that hangs outside and flaps in the wind. "Uhhhhhh, quite possibly," I replied.