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Order a shirt (or two, or five) and Wear Red on Fridays – Support Your Troops! Check out the new polos – Sugarcat is modeling one at the top of the page, and it sure looks good. I’m ordering one for each of us, and then I’m going to send Sue our picture.

I probably won’t be able to post over the weekend – got some projects to finish up and others to get started before a certain young lady shows up.

I feel such a sense of peace since leaving the cabinet industry – my stress level has gone way, way down. That has the side effect of mellowing out my view on life, also – which means there aren’t so many obvious observations to make. However – I am sure you will be hearing from me again on certain, unuversal subjects (hint: drivers in Phoenix).

Through my brief job search period, I knew and kept telling everyone here and elsewhere that God has everything under control. I still know that, and I want you to understand that. It’s not something proven empirically, it is a step of faith in every way shape and form. Want to know more? Drop me a line.

I appreciate all you readers, every single one, even if you haven’t joined the Great Big Wonderful Baby Pool. If you have, I appreciate you even more.

God bless you all, Wear Red on Fridays, and get in on the Baby Pool!

So, Paul at BlogMad has the Great Big Wonderful Baby Pool mentioned on the UCP (User Control Panel) for all the Mad Bloggers to see. He also mentioned it on his own blog and kicked in more credits for the prize pools.

In other news, I have embarked on a new career – I am a Senior Account Executive with a national wholesale processing service. I am selling credit card processing at wholesale prices (the same prices that banks and other third party processors get, before they mark them up and pass them on to the businesses) and also financing the terminals. I believe that at this point in my life I am past being a cabinetmaker. Having worked my way up from the bottom, and working in every position possible (except owner), I have left that industry. I don’t think I will miss it, because I can still work on projects in my home shop.

I stopped over at Wear Red On Fridays and was surprised, and humbled, to see that Sue had taken my suggestion and actually assigned it to a shirt. I had mentioned that the name needed to be in line with the other designs (Rolling Thunder, The Patriot) and thought something along the line of “Lightning Sharp” would be nice … and there you have it!

I’m headed for bed now, so ya’ll be good.

God bless you all, Wear Red on Fridays, and get in on the Baby Pool!

I posted yesterday, bemoaning the fact that I didn’t have a lot of entries for the Great Big Wonderful Baby Pool.

Then, I had a brief brain storm, and emailed Paul at BlogMad Control: since I was offering BlogMad credits, could he, possibly, give me a bit of a mention on the UCP announcement scroll? I didn’t want to ask him to do anything untoward, so if he couldn’t help out I understood completely, and I would keep trying to drum up interest on my own.

Well. Paul wrote back, after looking over the Great Big Wonderful Baby Pool, and agreed to mention it on the UCP. And on his blog. And kick in another 500 credits to the basic prize. Plus another five credits per entry (which will go into the consolation prize pool). AND, he congratulated me on becoming a new father! How’s that for cool?

Paul, I can’t thank you enough!

So: The first prize is now at 806 BlogMad credits and the consolation amount is at 109 BlogMad credits. Not a bad haul for guessing when our daughter will be born!

Why didn’t I think of that sooner?

God bless you all, Wear Red on Fridays, and get in on the Baby Pool!

Well, there seems to be a lack of interest in the Great Big Wonderful Baby Pool – which means that, considering the current entries, that Jarhead John is most likely going to win.

I think there are people out there who don’t know enough wbout the pool – so click on the link at the top of the left column and follow the instructions – let’s not just hand this win to John!

God bless you all, Wear Red on Fridays, and get in on the Baby Pool!

Ooh-Rah. Semper Fi. Happy Birthday to all my Devil Dogs out there in Blogland.

God bless you all, Wear Red on Fridays, and get in on the Baby Pool!