September 21, 2005
On Monday Joy found out that she had been given her second job offer. I didn’t blog this right away, nor did I tell anyone, because I wanted Joy to be able to tell all her people herself. This is the job that Joy really wanted, and she is thrilled that she got the offer. I am too. It came with a few suprises that totally floored me. Had I known that marrying this amazing girl would have been so lucrative… I probably would have messed the whole thing up. 
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September 19, 2005
I have found that you can learn a lot about people and interpersonal relationships by watching or even participating in the relationships of others. This is one of the great reasons that it is good to have friends that are friends with each other. It brings out more about all the people you know.
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September 18, 2005
Last night Mike and I went to Blockbuster to find a fun game to play while we hung out for a while. I told Mike that it could be his choice, but if he couldn’t make up his mind we should rent NCAA Football 2006 because we were going to watch the Gator game at 8:00, and it might be fun to pregame by playing head to head Tennessee vs Florida.
He chose Lego Star Wars for the XBOX because he wanted to see what it was about and see if it was any good.
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September 11, 2005
I have spent many hours thinking about Hurricane Katrina, Disaster Relief, Aid of all kinds, and emergency management in general. After travelling to different coutnries for month-long missionary trips throughout my childhood I came to the opinion that helping people in great need had much less to do with a lack of resources than with a problem of logistics. Now that it has been two weeks since Katrina made landfall I am beginning to transfer this line of thinking to emergency management as well.
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September 9, 2005
At church this past Sunday Joy and I signed up to donate time and goods to the Relief effort. So we were happy to receive an e-mail a few days ago telling us about one of the first ways that Joy could help as an organizer/coordinator — Data Entry!
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September 9, 2005
In the last few weeks Joy has been home a lot, because she doesn’t have a job just yet (she’s gotten offers, but she is holding out for “the one”) and she is new to the area so she doesn’t know a lot of people here. Oh, and she was sick.
During all this time she had a few complaints about living with me in Orlando. One of the most frequently occuring complaints was that I don’t clean up after myself as much as she would like. The place isn’t tidy enough for her liking, and she feels like she is always cleaning up after me.
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September 5, 2005
In the first hours after Hurricane Katrina I wasn’t paying much attention. I knew that the hurricane was big. I heard that it caused great damage, but I thought that it would be a hurricane like the three that came through Florida just last year or any other that I have experienced from living in Florida for the past 23 years. I did think that Katrina would be worse due to unpreparedness. I did presume that the flooding would be worse since New Orleans is mostly below sea level. I didn’t think the damage would be this bad. I didn’t think that this many people would be unable to evacuate or simply choose not to evacuate.
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September 5, 2005
I have been having problems with unwanted solicitation in the comment section of my blog. It has really gotten out of hand. I have mt blacklist, but it doesn’t seem to block the flood of comments. Too many times this past week I have signed into my blog only to see more and more of these unwanted comments. Then I set to deleting them all, which takes a good deal of time. By the time I am done I don’t even feel like blogging. So, today I thought I’d write a little complaint before I started to fight the problem some more.
If anyone has any good suggestions you can e-mail me or even leave a comment. An end to this would be appreciated. Then I can finally get back to writing again.
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