San Francisco

I can totally see how one could love this city. I am sitting here in a Starbucks, waiting for Shelby and just staring out at all the people just wandering by. Each with their own story, their own job and home and loves and losses. 99.99% of the people don't know the other 99.99% but their paths cross every day. Super interesting and intriguing to me. I could wander around town all day long and just talk to people. That would be the greatest job. I dropped Shelby off and I have already had a conversation with a guy from the Czech Republic who has been in the States for the last 6 months, in San Francisco for the last two, came here from Lake Tahoe, was here on a student visa, hates his job and is leaving to move to Vancouver Canada. I asked him what he was going to do there and he just shrugged his shoulders and said "whatever I can find!!!" Super interesting.

Literally every person and every window has a story. Even just sitting here there is an Asian guy outside on the side walk pretending he knows Karate .......and a guy wearing a dress and dreadlocks just walked by. LOVE IT!!

If you let it, this city breathes mundane, one dimension, black and white, but if you "want" it, there is excitement, adventure, wonder and more colors than the rainbow.




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Starbucks

I love the morning time. Don't get me wrong I love being able to sleep in and lounge in the bed as long as I can, but once I get up and am moving, I love the quiet and calm of the morning.........at least after I get through the Corona traffic.

But one of the advantages of all the traffic is that I have been getting out of the house earlier. No matter where I work, where the overtime takes me, I am able to find a Starbucks and sit and enjoy a blueberry oatmeal with brown sugar and butter. It is relaxing and reflective.

I love these kind of mornings


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A Long Time

It has been a long time. A real long time since I have written on this blog. It is about time that I return to writing. I will attempt to recap and remember some of the events of the last few years. The posts will probably not be in any kind of order but hopefully I will be able to get as much down as I can just for remembering sake...

So hang on.....


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A TRUE Volunteer Fire Department

Found this in a Walmart in Cabo San Lucas. This is a true volunteer fire department.




In case of fire break glass, don equipment, fight fire!!!!!!





The only thing that would have made it any better is if when you broke the glass, a little firefighter jumped out!!!




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The Flight

Had a pretty eventful flight from LAX to San Jose Del Cabo. 30 minutes into the flight we got a huge jolt sideways on the plane like we'd been hit by a car and then calm......later found out the pilots had no idea what had happened and that it certainly got their attention. Ya think!!!!!! Then about halfway through the flight they come over the loudspeaker asking for a medical doctor with his credentials. I had stayed at a Holiday Inn so I stepped up. They thought it was a lady having an allergic reaction and they had her on O2 and were working her up. It was a Hypervent, prone to panic attacks. So I sweet talked her out of the tree and she was fine. The benefit of the whole adventure was that we got to take a picture with the head steward...... I think his name was.... Rob Lowe!!!!!



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Cabo..... Again

We are here in Cabo for the second time and loving it. It is super Fun. I love every part of it. The pool, the people, the food, trying to muddle through the language. Soooo Fun.



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Its Been a While

It has been such a long time since I have blogged last and it is time to get back into it. The next few blogs will be a smattering (is that a word) of what some of the highlights have been in the last 9 months.

It's time to continue the "Journey"!!!!!


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My View

My view from the balcony of
My room.

It doesn't get much better than this !!!


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Cabo!!!

It has been almost 15 years since I went to Cabo San Lucas in Mexico. I have been soo looking forward to this trip, me with all the girls. What was I thinking.




And if it is any indication of the how this trip is balanced out..... Check out the luggage situation.



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The Juicer

Ok, so Jenna and I decided to start juicing, not steroids, but real juice, form real fruits and vegetables. The problem is that we are not really good with recipes. We got the fruit juice down and believe me it tastes awesome, but the veggie juice.......Ummmm...... We almost died. It was like drinking what you could wring out from the bottom third of a compost pile. Not good.

We are definitely going to need Emeril to help us..........BAM!!!!!!!

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50

No way, I can't believe that I made it to 50. 50 years, 5 decades, a half century!!!!!

It was a good day, with visits from family and even though I had to work, I had a good time knowing that I had lived to see the ripe old age of 50


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Graduation Day

Jenna graduated from high school!!!!!!! We couldn't be prouder....really.




Great Job Girlfriend!!!!



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Nicaragua

She wanted to go, she went and she came back....

She had an awesome trip. We have been able to listen to some of the stories and from the sounds of it, this is not going to be the only missions trip my little one is going to go on.



We still can't believe that she ate a fried banana!!!!!
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Boyce Ave

Last Tuesday night we went to this Concert at the House of Blues on Disney Walk. Boyce Ave is a band that I had heard on YouTube and have loved them from the beginning.



Cindy, Jenna, Shelby, and Haley Barnett went and had an awesome time. It was standing room only and the concert was well worth the wait and the crowd. And hanging with Cindy and the girls only made the night all the more awesome.



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The Snow Storm

Our vacation started off with Skiing, fun, movies, sleeping in, Alpine Slide, a great time, totally..... and then the snow started. It was first supposed to be a winter storm, then it turned into the storm of the season, then the storm of the century. In 48 hours it dumped almost 3 feet. I was a blast, an awesome end to a great vacation.






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The Vacation

Awesome. That is the only word that I can think of. I so needed this vacation, to get my life back, to get my sleeping patterns back in order, to hang with my family and love on my Wife.



I got all that and more.

We played games, slept in (late, like 10 and 11am), Watched movies, ate, skied. It was what a vacation was made for. I came back refreshed and ready to go. . . . . On another vacation!!!!!!!!!





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Big Bear

Finally a vacation. I have not had one of these, truly a vacation where I get to go somewhere, away. No time constraints, no stress, sleeping in and fun.

I needed this vacation. Really needed this time away.

And the alpine is a blast as always.

Skiing tomorrow will also be off the hook.


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1 Thessalonians 4:16-18

S - For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore comfort one another with these words. (1 Thessalonians 4:16-18 NASB)

O - These words are meant to comfort. Why? I think because number one we are meeting the Savior in the clouds. It is the rapture, it is the beginning of the rest of our existence, an existence with God. Secondly we meet those who have died before us. We are "caught up together with them". We see them, be with them, fly with them. Totally exciting

A - I need to be comforted by these words when I encounter those around me who have died, that we will see each other once again. And also be comforted by the fact that my Heavenly Father has a plan to get me up to heaven and he is letting me in on it.

P - Lord, help me to live like you are coming today. Give me an excitement to meet you in the sky and to look to my left and right and see my brothers and sisters in Christ. Selah

1 Thessalonians 4:7, 8

S - For God has not called us for the purpose of impurity, but in sanctification. So, he who rejects this is not rejecting man but the God who gives His Holy Spirit to you. (1 Thessalonians 4:7, 8 NASB)


O - God gives us specific reasoning as to why we are called. Simply, he did not call us to be bad but good. To live a Godly life, not an ungodly one. And not only does he set the record straight but also moves the responsibility to us. If we don't like it then take it up with God.. . . no one else. He wrote it. He inspired it. He gives his Holy Spirit to us. If we don't like it, then the argument lies with God not man.

A - How often do I revel in the impurity. Live imbedded in the sins of man. All the time. My argument is not with man, it is not with the words on the page. It is with the one who wrote the book, who sent his Son to die and give us His Holy Spirit. How can I argue against the Creator of the universe. I cannot. I need to strive to live in the sanctification that God provides. Daily

P - Lord, cleanse me from the impurity in which I live. Help me to live and breath in the shadow of your care. And know that my hope and security comes from you. Thank you again for the comfort of your Holy Spirit you send. I love you Jesus. Selah



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1 Thessalonians 2:11, 12

S - Just as you know how we were exhorting and encouraging and imploring each one of you as a father would his own children, so that you would walk in a manner worthy of the God who calls you into His own kingdom and glory. (1 Thessalonians 2:11, 12 NASB)

O - One of the most important phrases in this passage is "so that you would walk in a manner worthy of the God who calls you...." How often do I fit the bill for that. How often am I worthy? How often do I walk in such a way that God is proud of me? I can honestly say . . . not often enough!!!!!

A - If I am to be call a son of God, a child of the Creator, then I need to act like it. I need to represent the name of God by my actions and speech. Not just on Sundays and when I am around those people who are also Christians but especially around those who believe differently or have different values. Thereby they KNOW who I believe in and am a child of!!!

P - Lord, help me to strive to be worthy of the calling to be your child. May those around me me you and your name written on all that I do and say. Selah


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