Lots to talk about from the weekend. Lets start with Saturday. Matt, Chris and I went to a co worker's house to help cut up a tree that had fallen in her yard. We had it done within an hour so Chris and I went out to the Delpra's for a couple hours to play paintball. I was 3/3 playing him one-on-one so we headed back to my house so I could do some homework.

We decided to go back out to the Depra's for more paintball, some hobo dinners, and a nice bonfire. Dan, Chris, and I played paintball while the food was on the fire. They were playing against me, but couldn't find me. After dusk they finally yelled for me to come in to eat. I figured they were going to ambush me once I started moving through the forest. But I assumed incorrectly.

We started with an ad lib Lord's Day celebration. We still need to get the words from someone. But Daniel Dobson, Me, Chris, Dan Delpra, and Matt had a great time. We ate all of the Hobo dinners and had a few beers and made the fire huge and just had some great fellowship.

Chris, Matt and I drove home and called Kurt to see what he was up to. We went down to Mulligan's pub to chill out with him and Missy and have a few beers. We walked back and Chris, Missy, Kurt, and I started cooking a pizza. Kurt left on his motorcycle and came back 10 minutes later screaming my name from outside. We went out to see what had happened. He was just all bloody and obviously hurting. A Dog had run out in front of him down the street and he dumped his bike trying to miss it. I rushed him to Sweeds praying over him as I drove. After MRIs and cleaning out his wounds it was 6am. A dentist had been paged to come in and temporarily cap his teeth and didn't want an audience so Chris and I left to go to Mass at 6:30 but they ended up not having it until 9am so we went back to our house to wait for Kurt to call to pick him up. They called after the dentist was done so we went and picked him up. Chris and I ended up sleeping all day Sunday and missing Mass. Long story short Kurt is one lucky guy with lots of road rash and some busted up teeth. God was looking out for him.

Having numerous issues with friends. Why are people so dumb? I can say that because I am one of them. I have learned a lot of the lessons life has to offer, and they were all learned the hard way and many times twice(I am a slow learner). My friends are going through the same things I did. Even me telling them that they will get burned won't change their minds. I know that I would not have listened either if I were in their shoes, because I didn't. It just kills me to watch because I know the hurt that is in store for them.

The only thing getting me through it all is God's grace. Prayer and the ear of a friend is all I have to offer now. Lets hope it is enough.

Not a whole lot going on. Well, I should say not a whole lot of exciting things going on. I started school again on Tuesday. It is nice to start a new class with a "fresh start", I think my attitude towards the end is kind of "blah...", mostly due to procrastination on one of the papers and it sets this standard throughout the rest of the class. It felt like I was on vacation over the past week even though I was still working at Sweeds. Weather sucked though so I didn't get any good fishing in.

Our household has been under major spiritual battles in the past few weeks. I was reminded by Steve that the devil does not kick a dead horse, so we must be doing something right. Either way I finally broke down and decided that we need some outside help with getting on track from experts in "the field of householding". The details need to be worked, but basically one or two guys from another branch of POP will be joining us for a while to get us on track. My initial resistance to this was spurned by the thoughts of how our situation seems more complex than SB or Dinkytown. First, problem we only have 3 to 5 guys at this point and we all work different shifts. Having a small number would seem at first glance less complicated, but it is actually more complicated. If one or two guys are not there the household consists of one person. Second problem is that the houses are owned and operated by myself and Dan. We both have different ideas on certain household rules and circumstances that cause conflict. Third, we have individuals who are not underway living in the houses. They may be thinking about going underway and do participate in all household activities, but the fact of the matter is they are not underway. In any case we have proven to ourselves over the past few months that we just can't do it on our own, so we will outsource.

I have kind of fallen out of the rhythm of school-run-work in the past week. I have found if I am not so busy that my head might fall off tend to get lazy, thus I have not been running with any consistency. Last night I gained two running partners though! Chris decided he wanted to start running. Steve(after reading Ultra marathon Man) wants to get into the habit of "10-mile Tuesdays" after the men's group meetings.

Sparked off a conversation with Steve, I think I might take a Certification program at RVC this fall in Basic Construction. We both agreed if we could do it all over again we would go to Architecture school. I am going to go hit up the library tomorrow to get a book on graphic design.

Steve, Trey, and I went up to Devil's Lake up in Wisconsin on Sunday. I had never been there before. It reminded me of Colorado. There were lots of boulders to hike around on. We did a little rock climbing, etc. It was some well needed headship. Steve and I get so busy that we tend to space our meetings over a month or two. Speaking of Steve, I will be picking up extra work as a driver for him over May and June to deliver plants for the greenhouse in Dundee, IL. It's a bi-weekly gig, so I figured what could it hurt?

Tried to get my taxes done at HR block today. I couldn't find my W2 for Walgreen's so I we have to wait until Friday for them to fax it. I am looking forward to my first big tax return. I think I will use it to pay off some student loans and some of my mortgage.

Wow, I guess I really am busy.