"... and I'm BACK IN THE GAME!!!"

Alright!!!

We are now officially ONLINE!

I am so excited. We had the internet hooked up last night, and spent the better part of the last day catching up. I updated all our programs and checked my emails... wow... I missed a few, because, holy shnikies... there were alot.


Sar fiddled around today, and I think she said she had around 150 emails to go through. Amazing how much contact we have nowadays.

Well, now that I am on a personal computer, I can better blog out surroundings to you. Here are several photos of my ride to work every day. The mountain you see in the distance that is bigger than the others is Pikes Peak.






I am working on the western side of town, almost to the Garden of the Gods... speaking of which. Here is a pic I took the other night of my store. Forgive my crappy camera.


So anyway... last Sunday, Sarah and I went to church at the Vinyard that we've been visiting, (and have decided to attend regularly) and then we helped out at a fall/costume party that the church had for the local community. Lots of candy... enough to last us awhile. And that, my friends, is saying something... actually, before the party, Sarah and I went to lunch at the Cracker Barrel (mmm... chicken & dumplins... mmm) and I got this cool picture below of a cloud enveloping a nearby mountain. It was really cool to watch. We're such newbies.


Well, after that, we went over to a friend from church's apartment, and decided that we could do better than where we were. Our apartment, while spacious, is stinky. And not just to super-pregnant-smelling-a-chicken-fry-in-the-
next-county-Sarah... to me too. Several times a day, the place is filled with the smells of cooking (if you want to call it that) and cigarette smoke. But like, nasty, cheap, left-in-your-cup-of-coffee cigarette smoke smell.

Ugh.

And there are alot of issues with the quality of the place. Our lights, and water have had issues... the doorknob sort of came loose and had to be repaired, and it is super noisy because we're right next to the street.

So for all of those reasons, we've decided to... wait for it... wait for it... yup, move.

But this time to a nicer apartment, and with friends who live here, and the ability to actually see the apartment before we move in, I am confident that we will be able to find something much nicer, and possibly considerably cheaper from what I hear. The apartment complex was moved by my "you guys suck" speech, and will not be hitting us up with any crazy fees. So we are looking again.

Lemme see.

Oh, yeah. Note to all Starbucks partners reading this. Do not. I repeat. DO NOT attach a "Grounds for your garden" sticker to your lower lip. This causes one to lose said skin, and bleed profusely all over your environment. Even if one is busy, and your hands are dirty, and you may be "just" looking for a place to keep the sticker, even if only for a second... do not give in. It hurts alot. And you try to figure out a way to get your lip to stop spurting blood from six different open wounds. It ain't easy mister!

Everyone else, ignore the above comment that my uhhh.... friend did.

Peace.
Jim