Cold Queso

The reports of my blog’s demise are greatly exaggerated.

Ten things that have happened since I last blogged (in chronological-ish order):

1) I got a new brother-in-law on September 16. My wonderful sister-in-law got a husband. He likes sports and video games. From my perspective, it was a match made in a heaven. A really beautiful wedding. And unlike our wedding day, Sara and I actually got to eat.

2) A few weeks later, we got more good news. Sara’s brother gave us the news that he was engaged! His bride-to-be also likes video games and plays a mean game of h-o-r-s-e. My in-laws and future in-laws are rad.

3) In early October, I participated in a two-week evangelistic series. Our team met at the Holiday Inn for 13 straight nights for a couple of hours each night. It was a rather grueling schedule, and really out of my comfort zone. For something that I got talked into doing, it actually proved to be quite enjoyable. I met some good people there.

4) In the midst of the meetings, Sara’s parents came to visit. We were hoping to show them our spectacular fall foliage, but we had an unseasonably warm autumn and most of the leaves were green. We took a trip out to Erie, Pennsylvania and strolled the beaches of Presque Isle State Park. They also helped us out a ton as we transitioned to our new apartment.

5) I was chosen to evaluate a school…in April…in Bermuda…for three days…seriously.

6) We sold our house and moved into an apartment. This sets us up nicely for a return trip to the west coast next year. It also makes my commute much shorter–from 50 minutes down to 10. Sadly, it makes Sara’s commute about a half hour longer. Way to take the bullet for the team wifey.

7) On aforementioned commute, Sara was the victim of road rage or road idiocy when a trucker smashed into her back bumper multiple times and then drove off. Fortunately, she was/is okay, but it shook her up quite a bit. The car wasn’t damaged too badly. Unfortunately, though she did get the license plate number the authorities weren’t willing or able to deal with it since the plates were Quebecois. Blame Canada, indeed.

8 I nearly killed myself playing a game of touch football by carlight with some church members. Seeing the ball wasn’t as much of a problem as seeing my teammates while trying to cut across the middle of the field. Despite taking a shoulder to the neck, it was my old man leg muscles that hurt for days.

9) Last weekend, I spent most of the night in jail and little kids threw pies at my face. A sadistic ritual known as the Fall Festival that, to this teacher, seems far more evil than Halloween.

10) I fell off the wagon for about a week with my exercises, but I’m back up to 100 pushups and 300 situps a day for 3 days a week. We’re still a little ways off from the “flex and your shirt rips all over” phase, but it’s a start.

I don’t know if anyone reads this blog anymore, but now that I have internet at the apartment and am slightlyslightlyslightly less busy, I will try to dip at least a couple times a month. Viva la Queso!