It's a little before 7 p.m. and I'm sitting at Paradise Bakery because:
a) there's no place to sit at home.
b) I needed food NOW
c) I am way too whooped to heat what Pam left for me in the fridge
d) Even if I did heat it, there's no place to sit to eat it.
I did a stoopid thing. I got the underlayment down, the door moldings back cut and all the tools set up to install the flooring. Then I got cocky. I was so sure this was going to be a snap that I went to the golf course and played the short course. After a month off my game needs some work and the weather was unseasonably cool this morning (read: in the high 80's when I left the house about 8:30).
I was home at 11:30 fairly disgusted with how I played. Wasted time. So I got right to work installing the flooring, eating my sandwich as I worked. I quit cold a little after 6 p.m. because I could not work another minute. Totally hit the wall.
The good news is that I have about 3 pieces to go. The bad news is that they're up against the far wall, and so have to be ripped down to 1.75", an unpleasant task when done with a hand saw. The wise thing was to leave it until tomorrow. To continue was to risk making a dumb mistake and screwing something up.
Have you ever noticed how far down the floor is? It's all the way at the bottom! I think I did 1,000 deep knee bends today.
So tomorrow I'll finish up those few boards and then install and paint the shoe molding all around the perimeter. It will only take an hour or two. Then I'll put all the furniture back...after it's all been thoroughly cleaned.
I can only conclude the Democratic Party has consigned Arizona to the ash heap when it comes to elections for the next decade. First they sued the state over SB 1070, the law that makes it against state law to be an illegal alien here. Then last week the Sect. of State, Hillary Clinton, sent a document to the U.N. outlining what the U.S. Govt. is doing to protect the rights of people living here. One of the things cited in the document was the Fed's suit against Arizona. Gov. Brewer went OFF on Sect. Clinton for implying to the U.N. that Arizona was persecuting people with a law duly passed by its citizens.
But wait! There's more! Yesterday the U.S. Dept. of Justice sued two Phoenix area community colleges because they have required additional paperwork from students seeking enrollment who are not U.S. citizens. The paperwork aims to determine if they're in the country legally, but the Feds have decided that requiring that paperwork unfairly targets them. Huh??
So do they want Arizona to secede from the Union? Because they're close to creating that sentiment here. Regardless of what one thinks of this state's actions re. illegal aliens, those actions came from a frustration with a lack of action by the Federal Govt. Clearly, there would have been no motivation for the people of Arizona to act if the feds were doing their job at the border. So instead of stepping up the administration seems intent on smacking Arizona upside the head in every way imaginable.
I'm eager to get back to it at Pathway. First it was two weeks of (wonderful) vacation. Then, two weeks for (very appropriately) focusing on missions. This Sunday we'll return to our four-part series on the Disciplines of the Christian Life, with the last one, Faith. This two-week installment will look at its roll in the believer's daily walk. In Foundations we're nearing the end of our series from Genesis 1-11, and this week we'll ask the question, "Does it make any difference if I believe in a local or universal flood?" Or, to put it another way, can I be a uniformitarian and have a biblical system of theology? (Hint: the answer is found in 2 Peter.)
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