Stopped in Missoula for the night—but all in all it was a good trip, but VERY windy.

Thanksgiving!

Getting ready for tomorrow…

Just hanging out.

Spend the day shooting several hundred rounds, qualified on the M16, some full auto, and 9mm. Fun day - thanks James!

Drove from CDA to Syracuse, UT—took an extra hour or so because of the road conditions (and being stuck behind snow plows a couple times in Idaho.) No problems on the trip, though.

Started this weekend with Robert helping hook up the heat pump. Sure is nice to get that done! Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning was spent hooking up Tom’s main water supply. The ya-hoo’s that did it originally 10 years ago put galvanized to copper, which increases electrolysis, which eats the iron out, making holes, and very high water bills. When finished, I had 1” copper to a di-electric union to galv. tee (feed the sprinkler system) to 1” union to 1 1/4” plastic that fed the house. Had it apart 4 times and to town 4 times (2 of which was because of a defective T) and 9 hours later we were all set. Didn’t need 2 unions there, but was nice in the end!

Thursday and Friday was spent trying to get 3 subtitle tracks to work with Scenarist (our $5,000 + $900 upgraded DVD authoring program.) It’s an easy fix, once you know it. But I don’t have a service contract and tried everything I could think of to make sure it wasn’t something I was doing wrong. In the end, it’s working fine. 12 discs missed the can.

Just some shots for the day. Men’s breakfast at church then helping a friend get some firewood for the winter—from another who is building a house.

Here’s some of the weekly troubles that plague my large projects:

On Mondays I’m on phones, so the day is often broken up by phone orders, questions, and the like.

Tuesdays seem to be a hap-hazard day for some reason. One reason is we have an office meeting from 9:00 to 10:00, which breaks up the morning (but is a good thing to do.) Then lunch (another good thing) followed by a full afternoon, of about 4.5 hours. But the breakup does break up any concentration on the project at hand.

Wednesdays I pack for Lloyd, as he has the day off. Perhaps a couple hours’ work, but the constant thinking and seeing orders come in and wanting to get them out as soon as possible tends to put a damper on this day. And as Russ will remind you, it’s also trash day.

Thursday and Friday are ok. And Saturday, too, if I don’t have any outside work to do.

Today is Thursday, 3:00 pm. So far this week, I’ve not been able to get to my DVD Re-author project (putting on the Spanish Subtitles.) Been doing thing like:

1. Inventory
2. Man the phones (Monday)
3. Quote requests for The Lamb reprint
4. MERGE forms for mileage to Canada
5. Thank you’s to supporters
6. Fixing broken links on the GoodSeed website
7. Take out trash
8. Pack orders (Wednesday)
9. Order more envelopes
10. Print / fold TERM brochures
11. Approve print job for ATP English book and WorkBook
12. Finalize files for ATP book / WorkBook
13. Zip, upload, send files to print house
14. Organize Dutch Stranger files to send

Maybe, just maybe, I’ll be able to work on that project tomorrow… but I’ve heard that Time will no longer tell.

Did the cooking today… 2# of spaghetti w/ 1# ground beef, 1.5# (dried weight) pinto beans, and 4 (dry) cups of rice. Should be enough for 36 some dinners! Not all in the same pot, mind you, but bagged up and in the freezer.

Earlier today I turned down a tree job—just not enough time to tackle the project these days.

Friday, drove up to Canada w/ a load of books. Dropped them off at the office, then out to see the Kary’s. They were just finishing harvest when I got there, which was good and bad. Good because the harvest was done, bad because I didn’t get in on all the pictures that could have been. Drove home the next day (Saturday) to be able to rest up on Sunday…

Just a 20 min. part of the drive to our CDN office. Through Radium and some of the mountains. (For those of you who may never get out this way : ) Its best if you go full-screen and sit real close.

Today my long-lost skid came in. I contracted a company to pick it up from Seattle, who in turn dropped it off at another company (second) to deliver it to me. But instead, they dropped it off at another (third) trucking company, so the second couldn’t find it. Eventually, they realized the third company had it, so they had to bring it back before the second could deliver it. This is the third time I’ve had a skid lost in transit—something that seems odd to me…

Packing up to head north tomorrow. Looking forward to heading up again!

Sam and Lindsey’s wedding day!