My Journal and Diary
2025
January
Saturday, January 4th, 2025
Weekly Update
Hello my friends. I don't have a lot to report on this week.
Well, actually, as I typed that I thought to myself, "Yes, you do!"
Alright, there are some updates, I guess. My birthday was on January one, so I turned 56. How can I be 56?
I mentioned over on X.com the presents which I received. My wife bought me some amazing birthday presents this year! I received two books, one a daily devotional using writings by the church fathers, another entitled Early Christian Writings by Penguin Classics.
She bought me a very fancy pipe lighter with an integrated pipe rest and pipe tools. It's very cool.
She also got me a neat leather strap style bookmark with a Franciscan medallion on one end and a cross on the other. Right now it's keeping my place in the Early Christian Writings book.
Oh, she also bought me two cool tee shirts, and a pair of wool long-johns. I also got breakfast in bed!
My daughter Rose got me four pairs of super-warm socks and 3 bags of Pork Rinds. My son Lucas got me a book entitled Foxe's Book of Martyrs (along with a 3D printer pen which I couldn't get to work). Grace got me three bags of flavoured pork-rinds!
I'm the most fortunate man in the world!
For New Years Eve we hung out with my sister and her husband, my mom, and a mutual friend. We didn't make it to midnight.
As for the rest of the holiday week, I've been taking it pretty easy. There have been a few crises, like computers not working, software that wouldn't install, client websites going down, this site not processing PayPal transactions correctly, stuff like that. Ugh, technology.
Oh, and I also taught music just one day this week.
By the way, a very kind person has decided to cover the studio fees for the artist who is singing on my next track. I've got a raw version recorded and sent to her, but I haven't received anything back yet. Soon, I hope!
Thanks for your prayers and your friendship. I'd love to hear from you!