Well, it's been just over a week now since starting the new job and so far things have been going pretty good. The one thing I am noticing is that it is quite physical and my muscles are rebelling after five months of hibernation. I have been doing rough-in wiring in some new houses and this requires lots of drilling holes and climbing ladders and pulling cable. I guess it is the toughest part of the job but is where everyone starts out that is learning this business. I have my own van which I am responsible for keeping well stocked with supplies. With the spring thaw going on here at the moment the worse thing to contend with is the mud. It's everywhere on these job sites and it's just one of those things you have to learn to put up with. Hopefully it will dry up quickly.
It is taking me quite a bit of time to do each house as I am still learning the techniques and seem to be all thumbs at times, but as things progress I will pick up speed as I become more efficient.
I had to take last Monday off to attend a funeral. We tragically lost a good friend of ours a couple of weeks ago. The son of our friends Lawrence & Doris Daher (Lawrence leads the IHS Orchestra ministry which I play in occasionally) was struck down by a car two weeks ago Saturday. LJ was crossing the street in his wheelchair after getting off a bus when a car went through the crosswalk and struck LJ and another woman. He was rushed to hospital where they thought he was in stable condition but an hour later things turned bad and he passed away. Most of us at church the next day were in shock. His mom & dad and family rushed here from Europe for the funeral Monday. LJ had made quite an impression on a lot of people in his 27 years of life and the funeral was a celebration of that. There were several write ups in the paper and reports on TV during the week after the accident. LJ was about to graduate from a network administrator program at NAIT.
Dianne headed to Saskatchewan this afternoon to visit her dad and family while she has five days off so it's just me and the cat until Sandi comes home tomorrow night. Sandi has been taking a break with a friend in sunny California for the past few days. She is just about finished her classes for fourth year and will be graduating right away. She has still not heard back as to whether she has the teaching position in Japan yet, so she will probably just work at Starbucks for a while until she knows for sure

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