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Christmas gift suggestions:

To your enemy, forgiveness.

To an opponent, tolerance.

To a friend, your heart.

To a customer, service.

To all, charity.

To every child, a good example.

To yourself, respect.

- Oren Arnold

Ctrl+Alt+Del

Sometimes I wonder why I did this to my family. I mean, I am a logical thinker. I do not think with my heart before I think with my head. And now we’re living in 300 sq ft of mobile hell. Looking back, we probably could have made it without selling the house (which we did about a month-and-a-half ago). Spy Dad got a substantial raise about a month ago. My business is taking off, albeit in the town from whence we came.

Oh hell.

We live by a really busy highway now. It took the life of a man today. A man on a motorcycle died about a half mile away, and now he will probably be buried in the cemetery across the road. We lost our rescue mutt three weeks ago. We tried to keep him in. We built him a nice big fence, but he dug out every night and crossed the road to the cemetery. I’m not so sure what the attraction is over there, but curiosity kills more than just the cat.

I really miss him. But even though we cared for him for the past year-and-a-half, I never felt as though he belonged to us. He was a free spirit. He was about as independent as they come. GadgetGirl asks me every day when he’s coming back even though I tell her that he went to be with Jesus.

She asks when Jesus is going to give him back.

Where is a time machine when you need one?