So I heard a statement not too long ago about how bad the world is.  How full of sin and wickedness it is and how it continues to get worse.  While I could never deny the sins of the world, it made me wonder how bad the world was thousands of years ago when God flooded the world.  So the question arose in my head – we must not be as bad as they were or God would have found a way to start the slate over again right?   Not with a flood of course but some other sort of cleansing.  Or are we reprieved from destruction due to grace?

Kara got to come home early yesterday which was great!  I told the kids she was taking us out for lunch but then I ended up paying for it – yes I know it’s all the same money pot but I had to harass Kara about her getting the glory and me getting the bill.  Afterwards we went to Academy to get some new shoes for Kara – she and some of her Relay friends are going to start training for a marathon – 5K or 3.1 miles.  Side note – don’t you love that you can type “convert 5K to” in Google search and without hitting enter you get the number of miles that 5K is?  And since you did not hit enter there is no record that you are too dumb to know the conversion until you tell everyone about it on your blog.

Afterwards we got a new hot water heater for KMAC’s house and a new toilet for our upstairs bathroom.  KMAC’s hot water heater has only been out for 2 days and I felt bad but Saturday was the first day we could get to it.  Our upstairs toilet has been down for weeks – one morning I had water dripping on my head and we determined that it was the upstairs toilet.  I am not allowed to mess with plumbing as we have discussed before and this is the first time Kara has had to buy one for replacement.  Julie is coming today to help her install it and I hope that is the only problem.  If it is in the other plumbing then I might cry.

Then we went bowling – real bowling.  Blaine did not really want to go bowling but they both ended up having fun.  Kristen and Blaine both scored higher than Kara.  I think Kristen bowled in the 70s, Blaine in the 60s, Kara in the 50s or 40s and I got 108.  I had 99 in the last frame and got to bowl one last time due to the fact I got a spare in the 10th frame.  So it was barely over 100.  Strange that we do so well on the Wii – the Wii Remote is not nearly as heavy as a 14lb ball.

After bowling we attempted to install the water heater but I was too close and my plumbing jinx-i-ness (bad luck?) prevented it from not leaking.  So Julie will help Kara get that working as well I am sure.

I got our managed services software upgraded to the 7.0 version yesterday morning.  I now get to move on to the next phase which is getting the reporting software installed and working.  Needed a separate server for that and did not want to use that capital but broke down this past week and got that process started.  After that and before Kara got home, I bought the kids their first Bibles.  They were oddly excited about it – especially Kristen who loves her pink Bible so much.  Blaine got a red one – I would have preferred the green or purple one as it was better for his age but I did not want it to be an issue so red it was.

WOW – I did not realize I had this much to say.  I could probably say more but I want to read a bit before I start breakfast.

Well I have a big client interested in Managed Services which is awesome.  And George has a prospective web client – a big one.  Very exciting stuff.   I am already tired – Kara is going out of town tomorrow for a school and it will be a fun weekend.

I am reading a book…several actually.  One of them is called Suffering and the Sovereignty of God.  As I am reading about how God in the end controls evil and allows it to happen to us, I decided that I have to agree.  Like the story of Job in the Bible, God allowed Satan to do those things to Job.  I am also reading The Abolition of Man on the Kindle and a book called The Mark (which oddly is this thing with a bunch of paper bound together – I remember those things from when I was a kid).  This book (Suffering and the Sovereignty of God) and a book I recently finished called Apprentice have both been very thought provoking.

Well on a different note, Kara was out of town all weekend.  This weekend later than normal as she will not be back until after 9pm tonight.  She was in Dallas for more Relay For Life stuff.  The kids and I worked at the office until noon on Saturday and then played all afternoon.  Sunday was fun because we had Texas shaped waffles for dinner.  Yummy.  Normal shaped waffles just taste blah after eating Texas shaped waffles.  Almost time to read them their Bible story and call it a night myself.  They really are exhausting.

Well I surprised the kids today with McDonalds for lunch.  Kristen gets to lunch 5 minutes before Blaine.  She said you wanted to surprise us.  I said yes.  She said I won’t tell Blaine.  It’s not like I have a cell phone and can call him.  Too cute not to share.

Kara made gumbo tonight.  The best she has ever made.  The only problem…I didn’t buy any potatoes at the store so I didn’t get potato salad in my gumbo.  It feels as if the rain has not stopped in forever.  Rain, rain, rain, mud, rain, mud, rain.  It feels like I just moved to a rainy part of Texas from a dry part of Texas and yet I have not moved.

I have an insane computer that will not work for me.  .NET error.  Error 1603.  Install Error.  MMC Error.  All the Google searches for those errors have “solutions” but none of them have worked for me.  It seems that everything else is going relatively OK.  Even better if the rain would stop.