God has really blessed me with a steady stream of activity this year. I am not happy when I am idle.

I am having trouble sleeping and I decided I should write to help clear my mind. With school starting this week, I thought of the dreaded first paper of the year required each September in grade school. I'm sure everyone had this assignment each fall, write a report of your activities over the summer vacation. So, if any of my grammar school teachers are reading, here it is, one more time:

What I did this summer.
This summer was filled with new jobs, moving, trips and weddings.

As school let out, my small business (shameless plug) started work on the largest contract we have received so far.

Move 1: helped Cody, one of my college roommates, move into my house.

Trips 1, 2 & 3: Three back to back trips to Austin in about a month. One bachelor party, wedding and a cousin's graduation. Approached by, interviewed with and offered a new job with the Texas A&M Libraries Digital Initiatives. Put in my two weeks at the Computer Science Department.

My bike was stolen from campus which under normal circumstances would get me down but the same week, I started my awesome new job. In the excitement of the transition, I barely took notice.

Trip 4: Over the course of a week, I drove Brian's truck to Dallas to pick up my brother Steven at the airport, we drove to Arkansas to visit our grandmother, drove from there to Georgia where we meet up with the family to see our brother Brian graduate from officer candidate school at Ft. Benning, flew back to Dallas to attend my roommate's wedding, flew back to College Station early enough to make it to work on time Monday morning.

Trip 5: Spent four days at a terrific house on the shore of lake Travis over the 4th of July. We were not able to get on the lake because the water was too high. Since when do we have problems with having too much water in Texas? Sometimes irony sucks. I still had a great time with my friends but it would be a lie to say we didn't wish to be in the boat. No wake boarding this summer...

Trip 6, Move 2: Dave and Emily returned from their honeymoon. The three of us packed up all of their belongings into a twenty-four foot truck, Emily and Dave's cars. We finished packing and hit the road at three in the afternoon and set off for Colorado. Driving through the night, we made it to Wichita Kansas on the first leg, slept a few hours and then set off for Colorado. We moved everything in, spent a day in Loveland and Ft. Collins then I flew back to Houston on the red eye. Brian picked me up a midnight and drove me back to College Station on his way to his first post at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma.

Trip 7: Left work mid afternoon to drive to Dallas for a wedding and to see a couple friends.

My brother got engaged!

Traded in the old junker (suckers) and bought a new truck.

Moves 3, 4, 5: This month, Shaun, my cousin, moved into my house, moved a co-worker across town and helped my cousin, Randy, move into his new dorm. Finally, this past week, I stumbled into the best freelance job I have ever had. 'whew