It's been a bumpy ride

I'm back in North Carolina finally, after an interesting few days. To start with, I found out soon after arriving in California that my trip was a complete bust. Apparently the boot camp for which I was traveling was moved to August, and nobody managed to update the wiki page or tell me so. It's not my money, so I didn't really mind, but it still sucks to have gone through a lot of trouble and a lot of company money for something that ended up being a nothing but a working vacation.

I spent much of the Lord's day visiting Micah and Vielka and tooling around the city while I waited for their church service to be over [I ended up at the first service, they hit the second one]. I finally got good picture of the Golden Gate bridge; I've repeatedly either forgotten my camera or arrived too late in the day until now. Tuesday evening I was able to hang with Jay and Anuja, who were out of town until the day before.

The real piece-de-resistance happened monday afternoon when I apparently lost my phone in the parking lot while leaving the building. On returning to the scene it was nowhere to be found, and after searching exhaustively, I'd given it up for lost. Turns out someone turned it in, apparently during the scant minute or so before I returned, and the secretary had it all along. After recovering it the next day, it was a definite load off. God is good.

I will give serious thought before flying out of Las Vegas again. For the third time in a row, I think, I've ended up sitting proximate to a child making a big disruption. Adding to that bad weather in Raleigh which diverted our flight back to Greensboro, we arrived about 2 hours late, causing me to miss my second straight rehearsal for the Brazil trip. Needless to say, I'm glad that's over.

Tomorrow's going to be an interesting day, for more than a few reasons-- rest from a trip, continuing mental headaches with a project at work, being back in the office for the first time in a good while, and that's just the stuff I'll talk about. Here's hoping it goes well.

Trust in the Lord with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding
in all your ways acknowledge Him
and He will direct your paths