"If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." Samuel Goldwyn

114 today. But wait! There's more!
116 tomorrow.
Some people say that once you hit 100 it's all the same. Wrong!
I came in from working in the garage at 10:00 and the thermometer on the wall said 105.

By 4 a.m. I had the slide presentation for the second seminar in Costa Rica done and sent off to Alonso, and that has me feeling more confident that I'll be OK on preps. Now I'll start work on the sermons I'll preach the two Sundays I'm there and the lessons I'll be teaching to their small groups.

I got the boxes for eight of the 12 drawers made. Tomorrow morning I'll make the other four, then give them all a final sanding and start painting. Because I decided on overlays the drawer fronts will go on last.

I had lunch today with one of the Pathway couples. That was good for the soul. I miss my Pathway family a lot.

We've been watching the Poldark series on PBS. It's a BBC drama based on one of the middle novels in a 12-novel set following the Poldark family from the late 18th century and into the early 19th century. So when last Sunday night's installment ended and the local PBS host said that was the last episode, it left the storyline hanging. It also left my wife beside herself.
"What? WHAT??!! They can't do that!"
She'd gotten into the story. Now she's thinking she has to start reading the novels.

I think I have to agree that our foreign policy (is there one?) under President Obama has not been good for our position in the international community.

Benghazi, Syria (the chemical weapons "red line"), Ukraine, ISIS (today's news infuriates me), Russia, China, eavesdropping on our allies (or at least getting caught at it), Iran....

I'm trying to think of a foreign relations situation that's improved since the President took office.
Oh, wait. There's Cuba, where we're normalizing relations while they hold Americans in their prisons without trial and harbor fugitives from U.S. justice.
I remember candidate Obama saying our image in the world had deteriorated and he was going to reset our international relationships. Then they gave him the Nobel Peace prize. Then things started going south.
This makes me think the next President should have some serious competency in the foreign relations department.
Hey! Hillary Clinton has experience in that department.