Today's readings sure hit home.  There have been and are times when I feel overburdened with sin and question being worthy of His love.  Thank God that he understands and forgives us of our sins each and every day!

I guess the readings didn't even need any homilizing, as we had a diocesan video preparing us for next Sunday's CDA Appeal.  Imagine my surprise when I see my old friend Matt as the seminarian chosen to speak about how the CDA helps pay for seminarian education.  I'm so proud of him.  He truely is a holy man and I pray that he'll do well in his chosen vocation.  When I ran into his sister at the Mary Mother of God vigil, she never even hinted that he was in seminary!  Wait until I tell my mother, she'll be happy, too.  Their whole family is a great example of Christian love.  It seems very fitting that he should become a priest.  Yay, Matt!

Well, I still have a load of stuff to catch up on here in cyberspace.  I'll keep in touch. 

"A man chooses to have an emotion about the largeness of the world: why should he not choose to have an emotion about its smallness." -- G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

First off, thank you all for welcoming me back.  I've missed y'all as well.   

With a whole quarter of a year gone, I'm not quite sure where to start, what to skip, et cetera.  So I think I'll just mention the past as it comes up and otherwise start afresh here. 

As mentioned previously, my 30GB harddrive died back in November.  My mother lent me her 1.5GB harddrive, but that wasn't big enough to handle Windows 98SE, the minimum OS my network cards need.  So, I had a typing machine with which I could save to floppy and print elsewhere if needed.  A week ago yesterday Steve brought me his spare 17" monitor because it was wasting space in his house and he knew that my monitor was old enough that it needed the lowest resolution setting available in Windows.  That got us talking about my computer, and Harley was kind enough to give me his spare 20GB harddrive to get me started.  In popped my XP Home Edition, and I was stopped again!  My new motherboard shares 32MB of my SDRAM, which my previous motherboard did not.  So BroadJump wouldn't OK my computer to install my Cox modem.  Luckily, Wayne was able to dust off some an old 64MB of SDRAM he had laying around and here I am.  So make sure and thank Harley, Steve, and Wayne the next time you run into them.  Without them, I'd likely still be without access. 

Last Sunday, I had one of my best showings in the Arizona Proving Ground.  I won both of my games before the final round, and ended up in second place overall.  Unfortunately, I didn't get my starting Feng Shui site until my sixth or seventh turn and I was unable to catch up from there.  *sigh*  Travis won again, all because of a bad shuffle and cut.  Next Sunday is a Whirlpool of Blood rather than a Final Brawl, so that will be a more even playing field.  That's usually a two-edged sword for someone like me.  Wish me luck.

Well, I have lots of E-mail to catch up on here.  I might post again later today depending on the time.  It's good to be back!

"All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth;  tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death." --G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy