Wednesday

Yesterday was a weird day. Sitting in a small room all day listening to the Sibbitt hearing was mind-numbing. I tried to read and do some other things, but I couldn't concentrate, even though I could tell you word for word what the cross examination words were going to be. Some of you are probably wanting to know more details about yesterday. It's really hard to describe. What I said in my last post really sums it up. I guess the hearing ended about an hour after I left. Nothing significant was said after I left, and really nothing all day was said that changes anything, best I can tell.

There was a lot of Orange County talk yesterday, of course, and the casino money was mentioned several times in the context of school funding. Hearing about the casino made me think of my only visit to it. It was a couple years ago. The kids got Kedra and me a night in the dome for our 25th anniversary. We had a nice meal and then walked to the casino. We had no interest or intention of playing any of the games. We just wanted to have a look.

When we got to the entrance, it was noisy and bright and full of flashing light. We decided to not go in, so we went to wait for a shuttle bus to take us back to the dome. While we were waiting, we noticed that there was valet parking for casino customers. The valet was really dressed up in very nice clothes. He parked a really nice car or two. Then something happened that cracked me up and made me kinda sad at the same time.

A really old car pulled up. It was rusty, dented, dirty and not in good shape (Yes, just like what I would drive). This old car pulls up to the valet stand and out of the car comes two rather large people in sweat shirts and sweat pants. They hand their key to the valet and head in to the casino to, I guess, watch for their ship to come in. Maybe you had to be there, but it was something to see.

Today is the long day, but I think I am ready. I have had a cold since Sunday, but it is not getting any worse. I missed running yesterday, so today I need to try find the time to crank out 10 miles. I found out that I am not going to Indy this week, so that really helps with my time crunch.

I have really enjoyed studying Mark 13 this week. I wish I would have had a little more time with it, but I think I understand it fairly well. The challenge, in part, is comparing it to Matthew 24 and, especially, Luke 21.