"They told us how to feel, but we just feel numb"

A good day. A day that was much different than expected. I went to a funeral of a 96 year old man who was the greater at my church since long before I was born. He greated everyone. And knew everyone by name. The story goes that when he was first asked to be greater and head usher, he worried that he wasn't good with names. He prayed about it and that was no longer a problem. Obe Foley. In recent years he always asked me about baseball during the summer even though I didn't play anymore. I may have mentioned once or twice that I didn't play, but normally I just said that no I hadn't hit any homers yet.

After that I took Dr. Doyle Lucas out to lunch - to Hacienda actually. I decided in the last couple of weeks that I wanted to take 3 professors out to lunch, my treat as a thank-you. The first two were very nice. Good conversations. Good friends.

Then, instead of going to work, I stayed around the School of Business for a couple of hours and did work there, before heading to Lisa's in the late afternoon. While I thought I was going to Greek's Pizza in the evening with some of my B-Friends (B. for Business), Jared had to back out and Dave failed to answer his phone so I decided I didn't really want to pursue it too much, and ended up spending the evening with Lisa eating ice cream and watching a movie. It was great. The movie was Must Love Dogs starring John Cusack playing Jake - yes pretty much the same Jake he played in Say Anything. The script probably called for John Cusack playing Jake Lloyd. The ice cream was Ritters. The company was Lisa Ann Rogers, my wonderful and beautiful fiance.

Every day holds new promise. Time to go to sleep and get ready for tomorrow's promise.