In Texas

Erin, the baby, and I are in Texas. I am currently writing this from our hotel room using the FREE high speed internet provided by La Quinta. I know that I have been lax in posting lately and hope to fix that soon. I have been so busy at work that I have not even been listening to the radio in the background. This causes me to miss to the news, so I don't commentate on it.

To bring you up-to-date here is a brief synopsis of the past week or so...

Friday, Nov. 19
Erin and I left Mihaela with a baby sitter and joined two other couples from our small group for dinner and a play. One of our friends, Andy, is a faculty member at one of the local universities in the English department so he gets free tickets to the productions. We met for mexican food prior to the show and then went and saw "The Death of a Salesman." It was a great show and fun was had by all.

Saturday, Nov. 20
I worked for MCS and implemented a technology that we had not used before to allow full-text searches of a SQL database and return results in ColdFusion. It has been awhile since I have had to use a new technology to perform a task. It was exciting and refreshing to attack and solve this problem.

We then had dinner at Erin's parents house. They wanted to celebrate her birthday early since we wouldn't be with them on Thanksgiving. They gave Erin a new set of pots and pans, from the Wolfgang Puck series. She loves them. We threw away all of our old equipment.

Sunday, Nov. 21
Went to church (duh!). Then, Sunday night was a big joint worship time with five other churches in the Montgomery area. We had Jerome Williams come and lead worship. Prior to going to that, our small group met and had a heavy snack get together. We then all went over as a group. The singing was incredible and the worship was awesome.

Monday, Nov. 22
I had an all-day meeting at one of our colleges in Birmingham and was out-of-the office all day.

Tuesday, Nov. 23
I was in the office, but had to catch up from being gone the day before as well as prepare to be gone the rest of this week. I followed up on many tasks from my previous day's meeting. After putting in a full-day at work, I went home and helped Erin finish packing. We left about 7:00 PM to drive to Jackson, MS on our way here.

Today
We finished the trip. The trip was very uneventful, which is just how trips should be. We met my Mom and Dad at the hotel. While unpacking the car I spotted some other family members who were staying at the same hotel. We talked for quite a while. Then, we all went to Aunt Prissy's house for dinner and fellowship. Erin, Dad, one of my uncles, and I left early to put the baby to bed. She is sleeping now and that is why I have time to type.

Tomorrow will be a big day as we all get together and eat turkey and stuff. It is also Erin's birthday. I do not have her gift yet. I was waiting on a check I was expecting to come in to use it buy her present, but it has not arrived yet. Hopefully, I will get it when I get back and will be able to go buy her the present I have picked out for her.