Now the night is over, morn is drawin near. Do what? If the night is over, morning is already here! That's me, my night, my day all rolled in one.

Luckily I had a pretty good day yesterday. I am desperately hoping that this bug and I have parted company. I went in to the office and had a full day. I thought about it but decided against working the Oasis meal, just in case I am still a "bug" carrier.

It has been very busy at the office, some contracts are being reworked and that has been a nightmare for the owner's wife. The customer keeps comparing contracts from several years back to the new proposals and then screams about the increase. I think part of the problem is that their personnel has rolled over and the new people are grabbing anything they can to reference past agreements, whether it is the most recent or not. Of course the big kicker is that fuel ten years ago was seventy or eighty cents a gallon, yesterday I saw one communicae where one of our contractors had paid two dollars and thirty-nine cents a gallon. Hold on there customer, if you think the proposal of a month ago is bad let us redo it!

I spent the majority of my day catching up. Late in the day I had plans to go up to the fleet shop and begin a list of repairs and supply needs on several pieces of equipment that are out of service. This never happened. I spent a large portion of my afternoon waiting for our computer network man and when he finally arrived we had to go over the networking needs in the new office. He is confident that he can be in and out by Friday. He is a likeable guy but like most computer guys he is so sharp and moves so quickly you wonder how much of what you are saying is getting through. I am going to be out of the office today and I am so in hopes that Deb is going to be there when he arrives to do his thing!

The boss is busy with his seasonal job, out of season. As I have stated previously, he manages the local cooperative gin but spends very little time there when it is not running, unless there is something wrong. The gin has been through almost a month and he was becoming very comfortable with his new found freedom. Tuesday he received a call that the gin bookkeeper's mother was not doing well, health wise, (this situation had been declining over the last few weeks) and later in the day the bookkeeper's mother passed away. The bookkeeper's husband manages the farm store and so my boss is now running the farm store until this situation returns to normal, which may be a couple of weeks. The boss was scheduled to be in Fort Worth this morning so once again I am filling in. I am fixing to finish getting ready and walk out the door. It is a pain to do this schedule but many times I can be through with my day by noon. I will be surprised if I don't experience a little more work variety and get to run the farm store so everyone can attend the funeral Friday. That has happened before. Oh well.

Pray for my day!

FATHER, thank YOU for a good day yesterday. Thanks for getting the worst of this bug by me. I continue to ask that you boost me and energize me to make it through my day. I continue to pray for Krl's health. Please allow her to rest and I ask YOU watch and care over her. I ask for a safe day, a productive day. I pray for all for those needing YOUR gift of healing. Comfort and care for them. I pray for those hurting from loss. I ask YOUR comfort for them. I pray for those of us struggling while searching for YOU. Guide and direct us, draw us to YOU. I pray for our spiritual family and for our leaders. I love YOU and praise YOU!