--I went from stage 4 metastatic melanoma to cancer-free in 3 months via 2 lung surgeries & 2 rounds of high-dose immunotherapy @ M.D. Anderson
--some on tidefans were regular prayer warriors & PM-encouragers for me during that summer from medical Hades
--exiled, jr. did very well in his 1st semester of pharmacy school
--exiled, jr-ette graduates from HS this year.
--mrs. exiled & I celebrate 25 years of marriage next June
--I celebrate the 20th anniversary of my 30th birthday next May :biggrin: (normally, this would be a bummer, but see 1st point above)
--I have a great job that I love
--mrs. exiled does too
--my duties on our church's pastor search committee ended last summer with the hiring of an incredible preacher, who's all of 30 years old. (ours is a very large church that would normally hire an older guy...this guy we hired is awesome and is very popular)
--once jr. started pharmacy school, his tuition went up around 60%. Various scholarship things happened such that the out-of-pocket costs remained about what they were. That was an amazing experience!
--my alma mater's football team went 12-2 this season, when I had predicted them to go about 8-5
--Auburn imploded this year, fired a good coach, & replaced him with an ijit
--I found a great Deep Purple Greatest Hits collection that includes one of my fave DP songs ("Gettin' Tighter"...Tommy Bolin vintage) @ Best Buy for $5.99
(one of the great things about getting old is one's music can usually be found in the cheapie section...)
--in just a couple of weeks, my country's presidency will change hands without tanks rolling in the streets, executions, reprisals against ethnic groups or anything like that. What's more, the outoing president will join the other 3 living former presidents living in peaceful retirement.
--God is still on His throne.
Wow! I was already feeling pretty good about this day...Now I'm much better!
