I just this morning installed a stats collector on here and it has been put to immediate use. I see that a few folks are finding their way here from blogs4God, via a link posted today. Hello, welcome to my vain little corner. Please excuse the mess. For you, and as a reminder for my friends, this is a rickety little blog where you'll find some ramblings of my mind, produced from any number of paths my mind takes. I heartily welcome comments, thoughts, suggestions, rants, questions, and shameless plugs for your own blog. Please share!
Friday during the day I had very little planned for the evening. I expected to go to the Havard's to jog with Robert-Michael and make some final arrangements for dog-sitting for them. I also made some last-minute plans to briefly join a group of friend's celebrating Allison's birthday, who I've gotten to know recently through a Lenten faith-sharing group. They intended to continue the celebrations later into the evening watching basketball, but I had a number of missed calls from Charles, so I ducked out halfway through. I'm also not much of a March Madness fan, which I know is blasphemy. :) Charles is a neighbor of mine with no steady employment who bikes around the neighborhood and near Notre Dame asking people for money and collecting cans and any scrap items he can recycle or pawn. When I first met him, he readily accepted prayers from me and a few friends, and told us how important smiling is as we parted ways. I've never given him money in the num