Sooo... It's been about a year and a half since I last posted. To quote Inego Montoya "Let me explain. No, there is too much. Let me sum up."

Sharon and I directed the 2008 Christmas Contata at church. Sharon and Stephen were in it and Stephen stole the show with his performace. I was directing lights and sound up in the AV booth. David ran the sound board, Joshua was running lights. We had three people working lights for it and that worked out well. Bethany was in the Children's Choir that sang two songs in the contata. This year there is no contata due to scheduling conflicts for our pastor with his travel schedule earlier in the fall.

Sharon has one class to go to finishing her Associates Degree after the fall quarter. She is also working at the Safelite Autoglass customer service call center in the evenings. Joshua, David and myself were all working a new McDonald's. I've since gone to DISH Network at one of their call centers in Hilliard, OH. The training schedule is killing me right now but it will be over soon enough. I'm still working my regular job but we had a pay cut and overtime has been eliminated. It sounds like we'll be getting raises and bonuses this year (April 2010) as a lot of managers are trying to do something to keep their workers from leaving when things get better. Honda's projections are still showing increases so that means more work for us.

While I was at McDonald's I had to shave my beard but I was able to keep the moustache. I went for a short handlebar style which I did receive a lot of compliments on. I've got pictures around here somewhere. I'll get them all posted showing the changes from the 2008 Contata beard to normal to no beard.

Training at Dish is from 6 pm to 11:30 pm so I get very little sleep during the week. Saturday is about the only free day I have right now. My regular schedule after trainign will give me Friday night and I will only work until 10 pm.

Sharon's car dies a couple of weeks ago and we sold it to a friend at church who is a former mechanic. He's going to try and fix it up for his wife. We bought Sharon a 2007 Hundai Sonata. She loves it.

David passed his Driver's exam today so he is now a licensed driver! Josh didn't make it though and will taking his test again in two weeks. :( Josh is not happy right not about that but he is dealing with it.

The School band was disbanded and now Stephen in playing in the church orchestra. And Bethany has a group piano recital next week at church as well. I do enjoy listening to them practice.

I am going to try and keep up with the blog so we'll see how this goes. I'll try not to go more than 2 weeks without posting. Next post will have the many faces of Jeff on it.

Jeff