Wow.

I feel like the last seven days have been one long day. It's been great, but I'm a little fatigued.

Friday 18-Jan I got on the train to Chicago where the next day I helped Devon Church, take apart and reset their sound system. We shifted components around, bought a new component and tuned up the room. Just as important, I brought a line tester and my sister Beverly had the job of testing all of the audio cables. Nearly a full third of the cables had shorts in them.

They seemed generally happy with the results, and we did a sound check for praise team.

Sunday 20-Jan, I enjoyed assisting with worship (bass guitar and vocals) with Beth Hedges (guitar and vocals), and then had the privilege to preach.

It was a productive weekend, and I felt like I was able to make a contribution to Devon. I also had a chance to talk about our mission to the Czech to lots of people.

Then the weekend turned just a little surreal when my 6pm train was delayed until 9:30. Then I fell asleep on the train. When I woke the train wasn't moving. I fell asleep and woke up again, and the train wasn't moving. We pulled into the station about 2am. I'm thankful for cell phones, because I was able to call and wake Marge at home when we were getting close to Kalamazoo.

Thankfully Monday 21-Jan was a Pfizer holiday, but even by Tuesday I was still groggy. Tuesday night I had the opportunity to present our missions call at the home of my high school choir teacher Mr. Barber. It was fun. Afterword, his family sang this gorgeous song that Mr. Barber had written. It made me miss all of the great choir music we had in high school.

Wednesday night, we had my high school orchestra teacher over at our home, and that was a great time. Mr. Marsceau and I have lived in the same town for years, but for a number of years just fell out of touch. I was cool to reconnect.

In the midst of all this I managed to make phone calls and talked to a pastor in Nebraska.

Saturday, it was all day and into the evening on my son's jazz band. The product of that day is at www.shadestunes.com. That brings us to today.

I'm taking a vacation day tomorrow so that I can recoup, and try to catch up on some mission paperwork that is due.

Adam