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An unintentional hiatus…………

My apologies to those of you who follow along on this, but in the midst of all the commotion at our home our cable/Internet also had been intermittently down over these past few days. A technician from Comcast was able to fix the problem after about an hour of work here yesterday. Ironically, the problem apparently stemmed from our old cable company (Insight) being purchased by Comcast. Apparently the Comcast signal is a bit more modern or better than the old one, and therefore it needed to be fine tuned or amped up to run all our stuff. I do not understand all that stuff, but I did graciously nod and in turn got our phones and Internet back!

We also still have no floors!! The boxes of flooring were defective and will be replaced, but in the meantime, our house is sans flooring and it is a difficult way yo live. The contractors and the flooring company are pushing the mill to get new stuff up here, but for now it is like being in a construction zone. It just needs to get done.

Other than that all that, I just want to say it feels good to have the ability to post back. I will be writing my sermon today among other things, and posting again tomorrow. You did not miss anything in this little lull other than chaos here. But hopefully tomorrow things will be better and we will get even more back to normal!

I hope and pray you have a great day! God Bless!

Tom+

Some ramblings on car repair……..

About a year ago, we sold my beloved SUV since gas prices (along with the amount I drove) were going way up, and we purchased an old 1998 Volvo for me to drive. It is not just far better on gas, but its value was already pretty low! There is really no amount of driving I can do to effect what we will get out of it in the end……it is probably heading from our house to Volvo-heaven! It is not the best looking car, nor is it the most comfortable I have ever had, BUT it runs and is reliable.

I am however spending a lot of time with it in terms of little things. Yesterday the brake lights had a short I needed to find and a panel of the dash had become loose (thank God for duct tape)! But as a guy who works in an environment where little is tangible, it is nice to be able to “fix” something. It reminds me of my younger days in high school where all my cars needed to be fixed, but now I repair for myself rather to try and impress some girl.

The Volvo and I will be heading to Ohio this week for a 3 day meeting, so I hope I have got it in shape. I don’t have OnStar, but I don’t want you to worry. After all, though a priest, I still am a guy……….the trunk not only has a small tool bag, but also a big roll of duct tape.

Goodnight my friends and God Bless.

Tom+