From the Ashes

I have once again been inspired to continue my musings. Let me explain what has been going on this summer...no time for that let me sum up. Susan broke her arm on the playground some time in June. She was quite the trooper. She had a sleepover scheduled that night with two of her friends. We all figured for morale that we should continue with the sleepover. So her friends went with her to the hospital and when they all got home they acted pretty much like normal tweenage girls. Of course one of them had a new bright orange cast and the other two kept talking about how broken her arm looked in the x-ray. Of course the broken arm put an end to Susan's running for the summer. She was told to rest for a few weeks so she could heal quickly, which she did. When the cast came off 6 weeks later we just never go back into the running. I lost the itch myself and haven't been in ages. I went a couple times over the summer, but I am definitely no longer marathon material. There were three camping trips. One with just John, once with the two girls and once with the whole family. There must have been more, but the rest all blurs together. This past weekend we took the training wheels off of Becky's bike. We took bike's on our last camping trip and she was the only one with training wheels so I think that was her impetus to finally ask. We went up and down the street several times with me holding on to the seat. Let me tell you she still needs work on the balance, but her speed is not a problem. She continually asked me if I was going to keep holding on and I told her yes each time. Then I let go. She went a glorious five yards before veering off into the neighbor's lawn, crashing to the ground and bursting into tears. Becky was really mad at me all the way back to our yard. I might have exaggerated a little when I told her how long she had been riding by herself, but when she looked at the sidewalk where she had ridden she stopped crying and got a smug look on her face. She was still done for the day, but it bodes well for next time.

On the work front we are going to relocating to a new office soon. I will finally get my own office again and we will have a real IT Server Room with temperature control and everything.