Hello all:

First of all, it has been a while since I posted. I have been pretty busy, and my usual time at work that I can spend doing some blogging has been spent training people and dealling with issues instead. When I’m not at work, it feels like Sara and I are usually doing something with the church. This is good…I like to be busy, but it leaves little time for blogging (or anything else). I planned on reading a couple of books this summer, and haven’t done very much reading…. I’m hoping that things will calm down, but I don’t think they will.

My apologies to everyone about three-quarters of the comments going straight to the spam bucket. I was getting TONS of trackback spam, so I installed Spam Karma…which doesn’t handle TB spam very well. In the process of trying to fix the problem I messed it up. I will be working on it over the next couple of hours to try and fix the problems. As far as I know I “restored” all of the legitimate comments.

Finally…I’d like to ask for prayers. I’ve applied for a promotion at work. However, this isn’t just any promotion. This one includes a house…which will be behind a gate, in an area closed to the public by the Feds, and my office will be on site at the house…. and it also includes a pay raise, the supervision of a couple of people during the summer time, and being the person in charge of this area for public safety purposes. Its one of the most exciting opportunities that I’ve ever been offered. From what I’m told I’ll probably get it, but one other person applied. Could you please pray that whatever is within God’s plan for us is done in this situation.

If I do get this job and we move, it may put off me going back to school full time for a year or two longer. The house is Sara’s dream house and we went to go look at it when it went up for sale. There was no way we could afford to buy it…even though we dreamed of buying it and trying to get me assigned to work in this area full time because of its close location to our of the areas that we protect…and then my employer bought it… and put out this promotional opportunity.

So anyway…if you could spare a moment, please pray.

-Clarke