1 Year

Well, today marks one year post-op. It's hard to believe that it's been a year already. I feel great. Everything's healed up and I just have to thank God and give him the praise for what he's done for me. It's pretty amazing stuff.

Since I'm here I'll share what news there's been.

DeAnne's in the job market again. I won't go into what happened here. Let's just say it's nice for the year to done and for DeAnne to have some time off.

Our friends Bryan and Adrienne finally got married. The wedding was nice and I know they're happy to have it over with and be moved into their new house. I was an usher and DeAnne attended the book. If we had met them sooner we probably would have been even deeper in, but it was nice to be a part of a wedding and not really have to do that much. I don't know how many times DeAnne's been a bridesmaid, but I think she enjoyed not having to get up early and get hair and makeup and get dressed and be in a hundred pictures. We were glad to serve the roles we did and it meant that we got to watch and enjoy the wedding. So that was nice.

Other than that, we've just been working. We had a big software upgrade a few weeks ago and I worked probably 70 hours that week. Those weeks are always tuff, but at least it doesn't happen often and it could be a lot worse. What else...Our two year anniversary is coming up in a couple of weeks. Like my surgery, it's hard to believe that the time has passed so quickly. It seems like we just got married. I guess that's a good thing though.

So that's about it. Till next time.

--Paul

Utah!

We're waiting on the ladies to finish getting ready for the day so I thought I would post real quick. The flight out here was fine. We managed to avoid all the bad weather and had two fairly pleasant flights. It's not terribly cold, the elevation takes some getting used to, the air is dry and the time being a hour behind is kind of strange when you're used to going east and being an hour ahead. Sara and Mike also have an incredible view of the mountains all around them. The whole area is in kind of a valley surrounded by a circle of mountains. Anyway, more later.

--Paul

Adventures in HVAC

So a couple of weeks ago DeAnne and I are watching a movie or something and it gets to a quiet part where no one's talking and it just so happens that at that moment the air conditioner cut off. Normally we wouldn't have paid it much mind except for the dripping noise that accompanied the shutoff. Turns out that our inside unit had a coil leak. This normally wouldn't be too expensive to replace, but it the unit was the original one that came with the house. It was 15 years old.

They gave us a couple of options. We could replace just the interior unit for about the same it would cost us to get new coils or we could just get a whole new unit. So we're now the proud owners of a new HVAC system. I'm interested to see what it does to the power bill. It came with a new digital thermostat that's nothing fancy, but it's got to be better than the old analog one we had. Also, our old unit was a 10 seer (what that means exactly, I'm not sure, I just know it's the efficiency rating) and the new one is a 13. It'll be interesting to compare the next couple of power bills to what we were paying last year.

In other news, we're now just a week away from spring break and our trip to Utah to see DeAnne's sister and her husband. She's really looking forward to it and I guess I am too except for the flying. Flying is such a pain.

Other than that, that's about it. If I think of something else, I'll post again. Later.

--Paul