Happy New Year, a little late.

Now that year-end close is done and I can breathe a bit I should post another rant. And since I’m being called out by Derek’s mom I guess it’s time to get back into the swing of this blogging thing.

The biggest change in my life recently is the dog. It’s been an interesting couple of months. There has been many funny moments, more than a few frustrating moments, several moments of breakthroughs, and a few moments of wanting to through him through the nearest window.

It’s been fun watching him experience the effects of gravity when he unknowingly hurled himself off the edge of the deck onto the ground below (luckily only a foot and half drop). It’s been fun watching him learn that snow is not only fun to chase it is actually very slippery when trying to turn corners in a full out sprint. He is still trying to figure out why he can see through the glass door but he can push his head through it. This one doesn’t seem to be sinking in quite as quickly as the other lessons.

I’ve cleaned up more than my fair share of feces off the kitchen floor. I’ve been awoken at 3am more the past two months than ever before in my entire life. I have found myself scolding him like my parents used to scold me. Only, the look on his face is different from the one that I’m sure was on mine. He looks like he’s thinking ‘don’t you know yet that I don’t speak English?’.

I’m still looking forward to the day that I can say he’s house-broken. Likewise I’m still looking forward to the day that he stops using me as his favorite chew toy. It’s kind of interesting taking him for walks. He acts like everything is like a new discovery, even though we have already passed four other fire hydrants, and 40 or so mailboxes, and many dozen shrubs and trees, on this walk and yesterdays walk and all the previous walks.

Let’s see, the other big thing in my life right now is the FaithWorks group. I’m leading my own small group, which actually kicked off yesterday. I’m responsible for heading up the organization of the FaithWorks Union, our once a month gathering. I need to start lining up speakers, so if you know anybody let me know.

With my crazy schedule the last couple months I haven’t been able to bowl with my team. It dawned on me this weekend that I hadn’t bowled on league night since before Halloween. Remarkably my team has held on pretty strong with a constant stream of subs filling in. Going into this weeks competition we were in third place, four points behind the leaders, and playing against the second place team. We ended up splitting the points with them (4-4). We were all pretty happy about that.
Another random thought here....it dawned on me the morning of December 23rd that I forgot to send out Christmas cards this year. I bought them, printed off my list, nad then forgot about them. So if you didn't receieve a card from me, and you normally do, don't take offense. Yet another example of my poor memory.

The Hall of Fame inductees were announced. I echo Derek’s surprise that only Bruce Sutter got in. I really thought that Rich Gossage and Jim Rice would make it. I think you could make a strong case Bruce Sutter, but him alone?

I guess that’s it for this time.