The view from Budapest

I had a great week at our staff conference! I was the “minute-by-minute” producer of the conference which means that I sat on the front row and make sure that everything stays on schedule. Here’s a picture of me at the conference. Next to me is my friend Justin Custer who was [...]

After waiting until last week to get any snow, it has finally showed up in a big way.  We got 2-3 inches last Friday and then today it started snowing hard!!  We’ll probably get at least another 2-3.  The snow sure makes winter a little more bearable.  It is beautiful.   I’m [...]

I finally looked up the application and rules for the Amazing Race and as I had suspected it included one simple line that will keep us out of the running, “Must be a resident of the US”.  Oh, well.  It was a long shot anyway.

Actually I’ve been back from our Area Staff Conference since Sunday and I’m digging out of the piles that built up while I was gone.  I’m part of the way through the 200 plus emails that I received while I was gone (not including SPAM).    It was a [...]

Those of you that are regular readers of my blog (my wife, kids, and mymom), realize that I haven’t posted in a while. I’ve found that whenlife gets busy, the blog is one of the first things to go. Ironically,I probably have more things to blog about when life gets busy, butthat’s how [...]

Valerie & I are totally addicted to the Amazing Race. We can’t get itover here in Budapest so my dad records it and sends the episodes over.He just got a DVD recorder for Christmas so now we are watching them onDVD!!! We just watched the first 6 episodes of the current race [...]

Those of you that are regular readers of my blog (my wife, kids, and my mom), realize that I haven’t posted in a while. I’ve found that when life gets busy, the blog is one of the first things to go. Ironically, I probably have more things to blog about when life gets [...]

Valerie & I are totally addicted to the Amazing Race. We can’t get it over here in Budapest so my dad records it and sends the episodes over. He just got a DVD recorder for Christmas so now we are watching them on DVD!!! We just watched the first 6 episodes [...]

As many of you, I’ve been following the aftermath of the tsunami in SE asia.  It is a terrible tragedy that is overwhelming in its scope.  I’ve followed the media reports as they tell of heroic rescues and stories of grief and sorrow.   What I’m frustrating about is [...]

I wrote this morning that the Aggies had a big test today in Dallas against the Volunteers and they clearly failed the test.  It seems that so many bowl games go this way.  One team gets momentum early and the other team goes down the drain.  I think it has [...]