Greetings and welcome to today's random thought.
Since yesterday was Easter, we had a choice to make. Our church does not have Sunday School class on Easter Sunday so our choice was to go to the 9:30 AM service (the time we were used to arriving at church for Sunday School) or to stay at home for an extra hour and attend the 11:00 AM service. We checked with some friends (and fellow attenders) and decided on the 9:30 service. Being Easter it was of course more crowded than normal but not too bad (until I tried to navigate the parking lot as the 9:30 folks were leaving and the 11:00 folks were arriving. There was an awkwardness earlier too when we were trying to sit in our normal area of the sanctuary and folks that normally attended the earlier service were jockeying for those same spots. It is not anything that we haven't had to do in countless other churches in Easter past. Also, the C&E attenders (Christmas & Easter) don't know the unwritten rules of any particular church since they only come a few times a year. All in all though it was a good service and we arrived home around 11:15.
We had driven the minivan to church which is not normal as we usually drive the mighty Buick. However when we were ready to leave for church we noticed that the rear driver side tire was completely flat. I had put it out of my mind until we arrived home. I had just driven the car the evening before to take my mother to the airport and did not have any issues. The tire was completely flat so something was definitely wrong. I put off taking care of it until around 3 in the afternoon (when the wind outside had died down and the temperature was up to 60°). There was a small screw in the tire so I gave up hope of pumping it up to make a run to a tire store for a quick repair and then set about putting on the spare (joke) tire. Now I do not do many manly things in general but I can change a tire. I am not in danger of beating any NASCAR records for tire changing and I keep it slow and deliberate. But there is something wonderful about doing this task. It seems like a real manly thing to be doing and for a small amount of time I get a rush of man-ness. I even get my hands dirty which is something I do not like to do (and trust me the first thing I did when I was finished was to give them a good scrubbing). Anyway, I have this little joke tire on my car today and will have to work from home today and wait for the tire store to open as there is no way I am navigating highway 121 with that tire on the back of my car.
I was able to get up and do a Spanish lesson in this morning. With the wife sick 2 weeks ago and my mother occupying the room that the family computer is in the last week I have fallen out of the habit of my morning lesson. I will have to be diligent to review the 300 or so words that I know now so there is no permanent damage done.
Well it is time to unleash the dog on the kiddies. She is the best "waker-upper" that I have ever met. Yesterday all I had to do was open the door to their room and the son (after hearing the door crack and knowing what was coming - namely a large dog with a large tongue) jumped up and said, "I'm up!" Anyway, she is whining at their door and raring to go and do her job. Until next time...
Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.
Jon
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