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Bobby’s Daily Digest for 2008-12-24

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Bobby is thankful for not being a Detroit Lions fan!
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Bobby is getting WAY too big a kick out of this blogging thing. I give credit to WordPress for the SWEET software. Of course, to HostDango.com for the SWEET hosting!
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Bobby wishes everyone a VERY Merry Christmas! Now get off of Facebook and pay attention to your families! (-:.
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No sacrifice, no victory?

Ok so it SOUNDS lame and corny and all of the above but I like this.  It was done by a youth leader for a camp he helps out with.  Not to mention, I like Toby Mac’s music and this song is particularly good.

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Snow! At least for now. (-:

There’s this phenom going on right now here in Seattle.  I heard from someone that it hasn’t snowed like this here in something like twenty or thirty years.  Wow.  That’s a bummer.  We’ve gotten a pretty decent little amount of snow where we’re at, nothing like the north end of town (Everett, Marysville, Arlington, etc) but certainly enough to throw the city into a spiral of chaos.  I used to think it was funny when the entire area went into this lock-down mode when a flake fell from the Heavens.  Yeah, not so funny.  Everyone gets overly tense.  There are cars seemingly flipping themselves over on the major freeways.  People drive 10 MPH everywhere they go.  It’s more frustrating than funny.

For now I’ll sit back and enjoy the heck out of it with Isabelle because she enjoys it when I pull her up and down the ice-covered-with-snow-on-top street and when I push her down our driveway on her sled.  From what I hear, it’s not going to last much longer.  Hopefully it sticks around for a white, if not semi-white, Christmas.

-Bobby :)

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A large change in scenery, half the time.

How does that even make sense?  Pretty easily, I ‘spose.  I’m currently living with my family in Seattle and was just awarded a job working on the North Slope of Alaska (Prudhoe Bay).  What this means is that I’ll be spending 6 months out of the year here and 6 months out of the year there.  2 weeks on / 2 weeks off.  Not a bad deal although the time away from home and family and all that goes with that.  On the other hand (henceforth: OTOH), there’s that whole “job security” thing.  Who’s to argue with that?

So for two weeks out of the month (I think a Friday to Friday rotation, or “hitch” as they call them) I’m up in the Great White North (GWN!).  Quite the adjustment to make.  My commute, which I love to complain about, goes from 90 miles a day to about 5000 miles a month.  Oddly enough, I’ll spend FAR less time commuting.  :)  I’m looking forward to the challenge of working in the conditions, just not looking forward to being away from my family for two weeks at a time.  I worry about the girls (especially Isabelle).  Sarah sat next to a guy who’s working up there who has a family and he described it as “the best thing that has ever happened to his family, after the transition period is over.”  Well how long does THAT last?!

To sum it up?  Anxious.  Nervous.  Happy and confident in the decision.  Can’t wait.  :D

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Up and at ’em?

Ok, so I’ve got this installed and going.  I will say, I like this FAR better than having a ‘blogger.com’ account or something like that.  I highly recommend this to anyone who blogs with any regularity.  It’ll even import posts / comments / whatever from an existing blogging account.  Slickness!

Anyhow, now that I’ve got this going, I’ll spend some time spiffing it up.  If anyone wants to kick the tires on one of these blogging accounts, let me know.  :)

-Bobby :)