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wow - i actually got an e-mail request to update!

wellll - let's see - church went very well on sunday - that is i was quite happy with my sermon. (it was on the call of abraham in gen 12. - how we are inbetween people living between the promise and the reality)

today i am trying something new - lifestyle change - i used to work out after work but i find that that is my prime time to play with adam before he goes to sleep so today was my first attempt at working out in the morning. every other time i tried to work out in the morning i would try running, then i would get sick and then quit in discouragement. so for the next month instead i am going to walk uphill on the treadmill for 20-30 minutes every morning from 6:30 - 7:00. today was not bad but i probably have to eat a better breakfast - the alpha bits don't seem to cut it.

adam has a cold and is now dripping from both ends - this morning when i picked him up out of his crib he had dried snot all over his face - poor guy!

had lunch today with a new guy from church - patrick - quite a fine young man from the states who now lives in van. we went to earls which has become my new regular haunt. i think i go there just out of convenience - the food is not amazing but its just really easy to order something half decent. they had a very good lobster pasta in a white whine/champagne/tomato sauce - only $15! i think i'll take felicia for dinner sometime this week.

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