7:00 AM – Wake up.
Lay there sleepy-like for a few minutes.
Jessica asks, “Are you going to go to the store and get the ammunition I need before going to work?”
Forgetting that I’m tired I got up and showered and headed to Albertson’s.
Buy the ammunition, which you can get at most stores in Texas.
Fill the gas tank in the Stratus, noticing gas prices have jumped nearly 15 cents per gallon.
I think that the price jump has to do with the Democrats’ caucus.

8:05 AM – get to work a few minutes late.
Seems like those few minutes late happen more often than I’d like.
Gotta work on that – though I stay later than 5:00 PM Monday-Thursday to make up the time.
Start reading Email, quickly run through RSS in case there’s something worth noting.
Then, open the newsreader and secondly Trillian.
Note: Don’t open yourself to the distraction of IMing unless you have to.
IMing is like a time sucker.
Only IM when you’re ready to do nothing or are on a ‘low work level’ day.

9:00 AM – finally done with the ‘information filtering, get started on some WorldClient (WC) work.
WorldClient is generally my focus with the exception of various other little tasks, but WC is my life at Alt-N.
Bugs are evil, we must destroy them all if at possible.

12:00 PM – Have lunch with Charles Baker.
Charles is a friend from my Tyndale days.
We like to talk about music, theology and life in general.
He and I always seem to connect near instantly, I am grateful for that.

1:20 PM – Starbuck’s.
Charles loves coffee, but since his heart issue, he’s stuck with decaf.
I should have thought about that when I ordered my regular soy-latte with a
shot of sugar-free vanilla (not that caffeine is always good for me anyway).
Charles and I talked until just after 3:00.
No matter what the problems are in life Charles and I always walk away with, “The Lord has blessed us in this, even if we don’t understand it.”
That’s what scripture teaches and its good to have a friend to walk through that with.

3:33 PM – Check the mail as I come home.
After I got home Jess tells me that Abby has been a hand full today.
Not a big surprise, Abby is a climber now, she’s stopped walking and running, everything must be climbed, I blame Gymboree, where she learns about climbing.
Fortunately Abby’s down for a nap so Jessica and I get some time to talk.
Jessica was wiped out from Abby and is still recovering from her sickness earlier this week (energy wise, other than that she’s 100%).

4:00 PM – Oprah’s on, Jessica watches it to see Jennifer Garner (who turns out to be the last guest and for 5 minutes only) and to rest.
I start cleaning up around to help my exhausted bride.
Abby wakes up and Jessica calls her dad and talks for 35-45 minutes while I try to watch Abby and clean at the same time.
This is of course a reminder that Jessica can multi-task and I cannot.
Women multi-task so much better than men (usually, that’s a generalization).

6:45 PM – Take my tired wife and energetic daughter out to dinner to help Jess relax.
Call Dave O’Hara to see if we can stop by the hospital to meet Mekena after dinner – he says Yes!
Eat dinner as fast as possible after being seated, and then order dessert for Jessica to go.

8:05 PM – Head to the hospital room and knock on the door.
Come in to see a beautiful little girl in her proud daddy’s arms.
Dave is an excited dad (appropriately so) and his little girl looks tiny in his large arms (Dave’s brother Shaun O’Hara plays for the Cleveland Browns if that tells you anything).
Mekena is truly beautiful, she’s a sweet little girl who cries quietly.
Her mom comes out from the little hospital bathroom looking wiped out, but happy to be a mommy.
Darlene went from 0-60 (fully dilated) in 3 hours – that’s fast!
Dave said he got about 30 minutes of sleep at a time and kept waking up to check on his little girl – I did that with Abby, too.

8:30 PM – Head home.
After sitting and chatting with Dave and Darlene we headed out.
I wanted to stay and talk some more but I had to keep thinking of them, tired, having to take care of the baby, and a nurse came in to help with something, so I thought it was time to go.
We got home, put Abby to bed, and then caught most of John Stossel’s report on the top 10 lies, myths and things people believe
It was pretty informative, and I generally didn’t have anything to believe.
I can’t believe that people don’t know most of what he said, because it’s things I’ve already heard.
However, he really debunked much of what the media has propagated along side radical special interest groups like the environmentalists, liberal gun control groups, and the educators of our school age children.
I heard some of the weird stuff from my college environmentalism teacher.
The thing is that most of what they taught was imbalanced and not backed by research and facts.

However, this is not a typical day, and should not be considered normal, unless you consider every day is different, so normally they’re different.
Study God’s word, that’ll make this day better, in fact, that’s what I’m going to do next.

Happy Birthday Rusty Cobb!

Mr. Rusty Cobb, drummer extraordinaire, is 25 today.
He may be getting old with time, but if you see a picture of him, it’ll always be from when he was younger.

Resting in Him,

Randy Peterman