I need more hours in my day. Specifically, I need more early morning daylight hours. When I got up at 3:30 this morning it was 90 degrees and we were still more than two hours from sunrise. I need to work on the truck but the garage temps after 10 or 11 a.m. make that all but impossible unless whatever I'm doing is in one place and I can have the fan blowing right on me.
So before sunrise I work on prep for Costa Rica sessions. After b'fast I work on the truck for as long as I can, then find things to do inside. No problem there! I've got my office almost packed with all the books in boxes and most misc. stuff sorted and boxed. Late this morning I went to the wood shop and made the drawer fronts for the storage bed. Got them sanded this afternoon.
Still no word from Home Depot beyond the order confirmation they sent me. I'm waiting for the second one that says the slides have shipped.
In the afternoon I go to Starbucks for a cup of java and more prep work, and from there to the gym. Home for dinner and collapse. If I make it to 8:30 it's noteworthy.
The push for completing the truck and CR prep is obvious. The bed project needs to get done because we don't plan to take our current IKEA bed with us. The bedroom in MoHo isn't big, and our tiny house won't have any room for a dresser, so drawers under the bed are key. I don't have a table saw anymore (sold it when we moved out here) and the shop's radial arm saw makes crosscuts a lot easier. So getting the bed made now makes sense in several ways.
Tom Brady did not know about the deflation of footballs, Hillary Clinton did not keep classified govt. emails on her private server, and I did not drill out the flow restrictor on the kitchen faucet.
Wowza!
The first seminar I'm doing in Costa Rica is a 3-night course with two sessions each night, drawn primarily from my book. So as I'm doing my prep for each of the six sessions I sit with my book open, using it as the basis for my outlines. There won't be time to cover everything, and the last few chapters will be left out completely, but because the Spanish version of the book will be made available to them it works to take this approach.
What's weird is to note how things have changed since I wrote the book 20 years ago. The content is unaffected, but some of the illustrations and idioms feel dated. And I think the culture within evangelicalism is significantly different than it was in 1995. I realize as I read some of the chapters that the church is far less concerned with theology now than it was then. Christians don't care much about doctrine and objective truth; everything now is relatively shallow, egocentric, and geared to what gets us through today.
I'm curious to see how the church in Costa Rica compares, and if the same shifts are taking place there.
In a conversation with a couple of our neighbors this morning we talked about how quickly the house would sell. (Everybody within three miles knows we're moving to Oregon this fall. It is, after all, Sun City, where tongue wagging is about the only exercise most of these people get.) When we talked to our realtor in March the average house took 72 days to sell. After hearing these neighbors' anecdotal estimates I came in to check online. Sites disagreed, but the average seemed to be about 60 DOM. If that's the case we might list after I get back from CR. We'll see what the realtor says. She's good and we trust her judgment. But that would take some of the time pressure off.
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