It'sa Me Mario!

I never gave this much thought, but this answers the question "where does mario go when he falls off the screen?" I guess the movie Tron wasn't too far off in its suggestion that the characters that we play lead real lives and when we kill them it has some adverse effect on the characters "lives". Interesting I think. Well, I gotta go play some Call of Duty 4... No harm in that right?

Norm!

So the dust has begun to settle some after this long past few weeks and I thought I should post something up more cheery. 

#1 I mentioned I got a new computer (I think). Its a MacBook Pro and I love it

#2 Did I mention the new computer?

I have had more time to get some of the updates up on my blog and the boys blogs, but still plan to do some more. It is much easier now that my screen has a bit more "real-estate" and I have more room to work on things. Also we have an internet Cafe' at the state building that I work in and on my lunch break I can go downstairs, sit on a couch and get my "tech" on in silence. I'm still in the process of getting our pictures sorted, but got most of them back up and running online for all to see. I should be getting some more recent ones added and posted up pretty soon. I have a 3 day weekend so on top of getting the taxes done I should be getting some of that stuff up soon.

Excuses are like... You get the point

So I haven't been very active on the blogs lately. Which means most, if not no one, will read this. It is late and I'm tired. A lot has been going on but as the title says we all have excuses. I guess since this is technically my bathroom wall on the internet I can list some of mine.

- We have now moved into our own place... this takes time and energy away from blogs

- Our internet took awhile to get hooked up... Though this hasn't stopped me before

- Our kids have been sick... Who hasn't had sick kids

- I thought it would be fun to install vista on my new computer and wiped out every piece of data I had collected for the past decade... just another speed bump.

I truly did have big plans to get my blog and the boys updated and I still plan to do that (hopefully tomorrow) but our world took another spin. Some of you know the Newell family. A link to Logan Newell's blog is on the right if you haven't. Their family has been going through some tough times again.

Ben Logan's dad is in the hospital awaiting a heart transplant that is his only hope for survival. Logan had an MRI and the tumor is still growing and they plan to start Kemo in 3 weeks. This alone would cripple most families, but while all of this was going on John Newell who is Ben's dad suffered a heart attack and now rests across the hall from Ben at OHSU in a coma. 

Needless to say updating my blog has been on the bottom of my list. Life takes on a new meaning when death seems to be all around. "But they aren't your family" you may ask. Oh, they are family. We may not have the same blood in us, but we are as family as you can get. All this to say I would ask anyone reading this to lift up this family in prayer. Its one thing when we are asked to cast our cares on God with something we think we could handle on our own. But that verse takes on a whole new meaning when there is absolutely nowhere else to turn.