Lost and Found...

Found... One set of SUPER AWESOME completed curtains.  It is my hope that the rightful owner claim them as soon as possible.  May it be noted that the finder's/installation fee is to be set at one dinner invitation ; 

p.s. the curtains I am referring to are on the couch and not on the window behind it.

Sold the Bus

So I had been dreading selling my bus for all these months. It took me about an hour or so to gather and write up all the specs for the transaxle and motor. After I put it online, I went outside to charge the battery to start the motor. About 20 minutes later I got a call from someone who said he would buy it for my asking price of $2000.

God is good.

Now all I have left to sell is the camping interior.

4 posts in one (abbreviated for your reading pleasure)

Here are a couple of things that I have been thinking about.

We have been trying to sell our house for 5 months now. I am assuming that it is not going to happen. We are a little sad to let the house in Bentonville slip away, but overall we are just ready to not be selling our house. One more month or so to go on our contracts.

Genessa has been working very hard for the last 7 months working to settle with our insurance company. Last week she was finally able to settle. This was like her having a third job (job 1- nurse, job 2- take care of Tim) and I am very grateful to her for taking care of this. What a wife.

Through this settlement, God was able to use something that the enemy planned for harm and use it for good. Our plan is to finish our goal of being debt free (except the house(working on that to)). Just for the record, the settlement was not worth the accident and resulting changes. If you had asked me pre-accident I would have said heck yes, but not after going through it.

One last thing. I need to part out my bus that I bought back from the insurance company. In hindsight, I wish I hadn't bought it back. It was kind of like buying myself a job that I can't even stand to look at.

FCC Auction

Most people know that coming in Feb 2009 if you use an antenna to watch tv (as we do), you will have to have a newer tv to get free television channels. A lot of people aren't happy about this. Although I am not excited about paying for a new tv, I am excited about the opportunity that this brings to all of us.

This has made a very large section of the wireless spectrum available and the government is going to auction it. It is expected to get 10-15 billion at auction.

What this means is that someone is going to buy it and use it to provide new wireless services. The people who are looking at buying it are mostly cell phone providers but the one that I am mostly excited about is google. They will likely use it to provide wide spread wireless access that will have a huge range compared to what is available now.

I heard roomers that the government is going to make restrictions that will keep portions of the band available to anyone who needs one. This means that in the future when someone develops a new wireless device they won't have to be a giant company, they can use part of the 700mhz band.

Can't wait to see what happens. The auction is suppose to begin before the end of the month.

YOu can win a bonus point if you can tell me who the person is in the picture.

Things that wake me up

I am often awaken (not sure that is the right word) by grand thoughts, problems, and things we will not understand until we get to heaven. This morning was no exception. Here is what I woke pondering.

I wear a blue shirt and my belly button lint is blue.

I wear a red shirt and it is red.

Yet when I wear a white shirt, it is grey.

I got dibs on asking Jesus when I get there.

Tim

I am free

I went to the ear doctor today (turns out my ear doctor(Dr. Manning) is Becca Mayo's brother(for those of you who know her)) and he took a big hunk of "packing" out of my ear. He said that I am not %100 healed, but that it looks very good. He finsihed by saying that I have no restricktions. So now I can lift whatever I want and do what ever I want.

5 months ago I decided I was going to start swimming, shortly after that, I ruptured my ear drum, no swiming.

Then I decided I was going to start running, shortly after that, I broke my leg, no running.

Once that healed I was going to start lifting weights and running again, then I had surgery on my ear, no straining at all.

Now "I am free to run, I am free to dance" (I don't like that song, but I like the message)

I will wrap up with some updated pictures of my deer. Note the six foot long sausage I made. Good times.
This pile is about half of what my deer made.
IN the oven with my meat thermometer.

Thanksgiving Hunt

About a month ago when Genessa was in Baton Rouge, I got bored and decided to take the hunters education course online.

This last week I got my first deer the night before Thanksgiving out at our land. It was a big doe. Here is a low quality pic. It was fun.

I have surgery tomorrow at 9:00am in Springdale on my ear so be praying for us.

Thanks,
Tim