random notes on my adventures

So while I was in Florida I met up with Jamie Luke, he's an older English gentleman. I met him a couple years ago when I worked at the bagel place. Anyway, we've stayed in contact over the years, he'll actually be back in England when I'm there, and hopes to meet up. Well! He told Jennifer and I as we ate lunch with him on Monday, that he has no heirs, and if that stays the same, he's going to leave his stuff to us. How weird is that? It boggles the mind.

As I drove through the western panhandle of texas, I stopped at a gas station. I was cleaning the bugs off my windshield as a truck pulled up next to me. I thought nothing of it, really, until later down the road when that same truck passed me. In the hours that passed, we played leap frog, until we got to the split off where I-25 goes north. I went north, and he continued on into Renton NM. So I said to myself, guess that's where he was headed. Probably 20 minutes later, I see him fly around the curve behind me, and pass me. I laughed. Well, not much longer he decides to give me his phone number by writing it on paper and putting it in the window. I text him. We text for the next 2 hours, he's headed to Colorado Springs on a whim from south west texas. He asks me to let him buy me dinner, just for the company. I hesitate, but then I agree. It's a great story. Dinner with a stranger, not a date, just asking for company, so I agreed. He's young, early 20's, an industrial electrician- hoping to get sent up to Alaska for a job that makes $68 dollars an hour, plus $200 a day stipend for room and board. Sounds like a pretty nice job.  We enjoy our dinner and head off our separate ways.

I go to worship practice Saturday morning at the church. The surprise, the delight, and the love was overwhelming. Marv asked me to say a few words at the care center when we go a little later on today. Everyone asked about Micah. They miss him and love him so much, it's endearing. Gary pulled me aside. "Do you mind if I ask you a personal question?" "No, of course not."  "Are you still in love?" "Oh, 100%. I can't seem to stop." he nods happily. "But now is not the time for it, and I can't focus on it. We have to do life apart right now." He nods again understandingly, but you can tell he's just delighted. I sigh inside. Oh well.