FINALLY got my computer back on line!\u00a0 Spent hours last night installing programs.\u00a0 Still haven’t finished.\u00a0 Wasn’t able to get on the blog.<\/p>\n
Yesterday Ashley and I had a great time.\u00a0 We went over to the Gwinnett Detention Center to get the rest of Jesse’s stuff.\u00a0 In particular we wanted to get the Life Application Bible that I sent him.\u00a0 There were a LOT of letters!\u00a0 THANKS to all of you who sent him a greeting!.<\/p>\n
We also went by Stone Mill Church which is where my brother Tito Ruiz is the Pastor.\u00a0 I purchased a new djembe for his worship team and took it over for them to use this weekend.\u00a0 Hope they like it!<\/p>\n
Then over to the Mall of Georgia.\u00a0 We spent most of our time at the Apple store.\u00a0 Ash had a problem with her Mac with the Windows side of the programs.\u00a0 We had to go to Best Buy to purchase the Office Suite and reinstall that as well as the Vista operating system.\u00a0 All those disks were lost in the fire.\u00a0 Bahd luck.\u00a0 Took about an hour and a half to get everything running again, but now she’s her usual high speed self!<\/p>\n
We’re still upgrading her clothes to a more mature, professional look.\u00a0 She’ll be starting Georgia State University in the fall, as well as making presentations to churches for Whirlwind so it’s a good investment for her.\u00a0 Our supporters have been SO generous to us!\u00a0 We really appreciate the outpouring of financial help for our family!<\/p>\n
The bad news for me was that the two programs that I had almost completely edited for the Palmers were NOT on the backup.\u00a0 I still can’t figure that out at all.\u00a0 I’m really careful with stuff like that especially with projects that take a long time to complete.\u00a0 Pure spiritual warfare.\u00a0 I was really bummed out by having to redo everything, but that’s just the way it is sometimes.\u00a0 I spent hours reinstalling all the editing software and got the initial bed of the video laid.\u00a0 This morning I got up early and started laying in the cover video.\u00a0 I made good progress, but unfortunately they really needed the project this weekend.\u00a0 I sent them the only thing I had which was the DVD I created for Cathy Palmer and Terry Earl.\u00a0 It least it was better than nothing.\u00a0 It really frustrated me.\u00a0 I NEVER miss deadlines.\u00a0 But sometimes, things are just out of your control.\u00a0 You just have to take a deep breath and do the best you can with what you have.<\/p>\n
I had a great talk with Jesse’s psychiatrist this morning.\u00a0 He feels like Jesse has made great progress and that we can take him out of the hospital Saturday after one more family session!\u00a0 Terrific!\u00a0 He was in the hospital for six days, which is about the average for most patients.\u00a0 He’ll be going back for outpatient care every week to make sure that his medications are working well or if they need to be adjusted.\u00a0 The brain is a very powerful and delicate instrument.\u00a0 It takes time to fine tune.\u00a0 The doctor is very optimistic about his recovery.\u00a0 Apparently, if treated properly, the recovery rate is over 90%.\u00a0 Please keep praying for that!!<\/p>\n
Kathy and I had a fun afternoon.\u00a0 We rode our bikes from Avondale to Midtown Atlanta!\u00a0 That’s over 18 miles!\u00a0 It was great fun.\u00a0 Atlanta has a system of bike trails that go from Midtown all the way to Stone Mountain!\u00a0 That’s about 20 miles one way.\u00a0 It’s like a triple wide sidewalk that has a dashed line in the middle.\u00a0 It was really a lot of fun.\u00a0 I took a bunch of pictures.<\/p>\n
Another of the programs I had to reinstall was Photoshop Elements.\u00a0 I use that to compress the pictures before I upload them to our Photo Gallery hosted by Smugmug.\u00a0 I’ll add pictures to the blog when I get that online!<\/p>\n
Thanks for all your prayers for our family and for Jesse in particular.\u00a0 God is still in the miracle working business!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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