Sabbatical...Gill Grisom

So, I was watching a repeat of CSI yesterday. Turns out that Gill actually went on a Sabbatical this season...funny that he called it that and that he got one this year too. By far my favorite person in the show.
So, how are things going? I'm sort of feeling better, some days I think I'm getting rest and other days I find that I'm overwhelmed with something else in life...recently I find that I'm overwhelmed with all the things that need to get done around the house. I think that main problem is that the 2 biggest jobs I want and need to get done have run into glitches...putting in a shower base ran into issues because, even though we got it in 3 pieces it won't fit through the door and we'll have to take out the window to get it in. And then the dishwasher I'm putting in...well it needs to have power run to it...I thought I could just tap into power from another source but the instructions I've found say I can't do that. There is a line run to this location but its been sealed somewhere in the floor...finding it is a whole new bunch of issues...
Little jobs around the house are things that I would like to get working on...those I can handle and even find fun...its the bigger ones that don't work out so simply that drive me up the wall.

Anyway, enough of that...thanks for your prayers and no I won't use all my time doing a different kind of work.

Dave

Dropping a Bike...

So, I dropped my bike...yes my motorcycle. I was turning a corner and there looked to be what appeared to be water on the road...well I turned and without even a second to think the back tire slid out and I was on the ground watching the bike spark up the road on its side...
I realized that everything else was dry and it must have been a truck that had gone through a car wash and dumped the excess soap/wax water all over the road...
So, I fell.
Good thing for leather and should have had gloves on...

Scraped up my hand and ring which looks like it almost ripped my finger off, and that was about it..although a little bit of a knee scrape and hole in my jeans added too I guess.
I'll try posting pics of the damage to the bike which was actually not all that bad either. It still runs at least.

David Thompson

So, my friend David Thompson moved in with us...He is a big handicapped guy that was the best man in my Dad's wedding and the best man in mine as well.
It just so happened that it worked out for him to move in with us. I have to say that things are going really well. He fits right in with the family!

I guess my questions come out of our recent experiences, strangely enough even though we have a very open and obvious dynamic with Dave, adults are maintaining a level of discomfort for an extended period of time. All of the younger people and youth that have met him have adjusted within minutes but the adults...well its to the extent that we may be losing friends, even being alienated becuase those who would normally call or invite won't because of their discomfort...

My initial response...those people aren't worth it!

Now don't get me wrong, I get the concept that we all need time to adjust and learn the individual dynamics of people with dissabilities but...!

We have hung out with him in public in the past and not had this much trouble...we have had a doctor react VERY strangely...its a long story, but I guess its just not stuff that I counted on. It wouldn't make a difference anyway, we would take him in either way, had we known or not, but its still frustrating, hurtful and disheartening.

Here he is...with Leigha! He gets along great with the kids!

My wife's new tattoo

Just thought you might like to see it!

It represents the trinity, here commitment to Christ and the picture she was inspired with when she chose to follow Christ with everything that she is!