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Had a fun lunch with Jesse. I noticed this sign on the new restaurant opening up.

Don’t know about you, but I don’t want a surprise in my rice.

J helped me at the mission with the kids.




Are you smarter than a 5th grader?

Had a hard run this morning. Did 4 miles. Pretty tired afterwards.

Jesse, Ashley and I went to the mission to work with the kids.

We also met up with Aslam and Toby from the North American Mission Board.

They came to experience Eid with us. They also interviewed some of the kids and parents about what Ramadan meant to them.


I liked learning more about Islam and the Koran. I find languages and cultures fascinating!

The little circle shows the number of the surah, or verse.

The symbol at the top shows the chapter.

Eid is the final day of Ramadan when my Muslim friends from Bangladesh stop their fast and have a big party. Everyone really dresses up. Even the kids!

I like the henna tattoos.

They often give gifts to each other. In a way, it seems like their Christmas.

It was fun to hang out with the community. I don’t get to spend time with the parents. I think of them as “Mustak’s Mom,” or “Sanjida’s Dad.” It’s cool to see the family resemblance.

REALLY delicious food!

Excellent fun.


Home now working on admin duties. Sure am glad that I have Jesse to help me with the financial report. He’s such a whiz at the computer stuff!

People think this is true. How can control ever be comfortable?

I know I do!

This morning I worked on more admin tasks.

I’m still transcribing my diary from the One Year Bible. I decided that if I was going to take the time to do that I should do it in a digital format.

So now I’m typing rather than writing it longhand.

I worked out on weights for about 20 minutes. Gotta start somewhere!

I sent off a new mp3 player to my friend in Texas for his birthday. Hope he likes it!

Kathy isn’t feeling that well so she rested this afternoon.

Jesse, Ashley and I went over to Azalea to help with the kids. A few of them came at about 6:15pm when we were about ready to leave. We felt sorry for them so we stayed till nearly 7:30pm.

Tomorrow we’ll celebrate Eid with the Bengali families. It’s the Muslim’s equivalent of Christmas with lots of gift giving.

It should be fun to get together with the families.

I liked this henna tatoo on Nishi’s hands.

Ashley bought Miles a notebook computer for his birthday. His computer doesn’t work.

And if its purified, doesn’t that mean you do NOT put additives?

Now THAT’s a slingshot!

This light bulb was on the cover of Wired Magazine. It’s made of LEDs and uses a fraction of the electricity of regular or CFL light bulbs. Groovy!

Kathy and I had a fun morning at Clarkston International Bible Church today.


I was sad that for the second week in a row our Pastor Phil didn’t speak. I miss his good words. One of our other pastors spoke. He did a good job too.

Kathy loves babies! Did you know she works with refugee babies three times a week?

She does a great job with them.

She got her baby fix today with this sweet little angel.

Came home to rest.

Just recorded a new podcast! I enjoy helping people feel good, NOW!

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Working on admin duties now. I want to go for a run, but when it’s SO hot, I just have to evaluate how good that is for me! Hopefully later . . .

Had a fun day today with some of my favorite people, Carl and Pat Barrington! Carl is the president of our board at Whirlwind Missions and the smartest guy I know. Pat is my doctor and the hardest working person I’ve ever seen! They were great to work with on our trip to Niger, W. Africa.

We had a meeting at Mary Macs to get to know the rest of the team coming from FBC McDonough. They seem like a really good group!

I’m looking forward to this trip back to India to do medical work and share the good news!

Promises to be a challenging trip with sweltering heat, typhoid, Japanese encephalitis and very rural conditions. My kind of place!

Enjoyed spending time with Kathy this evening.

I liked the way the bark was splitting away from the tree.

I worked till after midnight last night finishing up my article for the newsletter.


This morning I went over to Staples to make my copies.

And to the Post Office to get stamps.


Had to take a copy of what I was sending to get the right amount of postage. It only cost another .20 to mail the DVD! Awesome!

This afternoon Ashley, Jesse and I went over to the mission at Azalea. The kids always enjoy helping us do “stickers.”

They also enjoy the doughnuts!


Got the newsletters PLUS the DVDs in the mail today just in time to make it before it closed. Perfecto, baby!

That was really a whopper project. I calculated it took me an extra 26 hours to complete that project over the last two weeks. It was definitely a labor of love!

I actually have fun creating and producing things! Whether is podcasts, photography, articles or artwork!

I have another massive project going on now! Although I reckon this one will take me 365 days (plus!) to complete. You may have heard me talk about my One Year Bible. Kathy gave me my Bible when I turned 30. I’ve read the whole Bible all the way through 23 times!

Whenever anything happened of significance, I always wrote about it in the margin of that day in the Bible.

Over the last decade, I usually write something pretty much every day.

Transcribing that is a gigantic job. I bought a new Journal a few days ago.

I’ve literally run out of room to write. No more margin space!

When we had the fire at my house the ONLY material object I was concerned about was my Bible. So I’m putting all the info in a journal and then I plan not only to take a picture of each day, but also of the Bible.

At home now working on admin duties.

Looking forward to my meeting with the rest of the India Team tomorrow morning.

Hot one today!

Had a wonderful lunch with my brothers Tito and Lester Ruiz! Always great to see them!

We’ve played in the band Cruz together for years.

Don’t get to do that much any more.

Jesse and I took care of other errands. Like picking up a special dictionary for Ashley.

And getting pictures for my visa for India.

And more school supplies for the kids.

And a gift for some of the families for Eid—the end of Ramadan.

And a key and another fan for the mission. It’s still hot!

Before joining Ashley and Kathy to help the kids with their homework.

Some of the kids are less enthusiastic about doing homework than others.
; )

We had a new volunteer, Susan, to help us today. Welcome aboard!

Good times!

Back at the house to work on admin duties.

And to watch Burn Notice! Never too much Michael!

I thought this sign was amazing at Best Buy. There was a pick up truck parked there. Hmmmmmm.

Good day!

Worked on a new podcast! “Repair the Pairs: Love Me, Love You.” This one is really powerful. Just click on the title to listen!

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Had a good run today, did 4 miles. As my Daddy would say, “I got through it.”

Great lunch with Jesse. What a wonderful son! We talked about travel, life and work. Can’t beat that!

Went to Staples to pick up more school supplies for the kids at the mission.

Off to Azalea with the whole family!

LOTS of kids. Glad we had some extra help.

I bought a bunch of new dry erase markers. Darlene gets comfortable when she draws.

Back home working on admin duties.

Today was my last day of taking the Typhoid pills. Glad that’s done!

Had a fun lunch with Jesse and Ashley!


Then over to the mission to work with the kids!

Plenty busy!

Back at home for admin duties.

This bus just looked wrong.

Interesting sticker.

This is supposed to be Thomas Jefferson buying Lousiana from Napoleon.

Interesting proposition.

Take care!

American genius.

Curly (the one on the left) was born on my birthday. Wooo hoo!

A thought to live by!

Ashley started school this morning! I’ll miss her riding along with me all day! Isn’t she gorgeous?!

Had a fun day with some of my favorite partners!

Met up for lunch with Rob Martin from Mobilizing Students and Ian and Ruthie from Huntington Creek. Had my son too! Can’t beat that!

We went to Penang to eat then over to Plaza Fiesta to explore Mexi-Mall!

Dropped Rob back off at his car and visited some more with the Norths. I liked Ruthie’s garden.

Then over to the book store for a while. Always one of my favorite places!

Maybe I need this book?

I loved this lightning bolt picture. The super charged the plexiglass to get this effect.

I was pretty sure about this all along.

Had a BUNCH of kids at the mission today. Sure was glad to have my family to help!

Easy homework? (6th grade)

Jesse caught this gecko while we were there.

Went to Publix on the way home to pick up more meds for my trip to India. This sign was outside their front door! Does it make any sense to you?

Make any sense for a store to say “no trespassing?”

Spent a few minutes at Goodwill looking at more t-shirts! Got some cool with with Hebrew writing on them. Groovy.

Not sure this software will sell anytime soon!

Back at home working on admin duties.

Fun!

Another hot one today.

Sure was nice to have some cooler weather last week.

Odd things I saw today.

As opposed to False World?

This was from the bus going to Mexico that stops at Plaza Fiesta.

I liked this saddle horn.

Spirit of Death on a black horse. Yow!

I always like the baby Jesus models.

Elaborate Jesus.