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Well this just sucks. My iPod has been acting up the last couple of weeks and it officially crapped out on me the other day.  So I now have a perfectly useless 20gig iPod….  On the plus side, they guys at the Apple store said they’d give me 10% off if I recycled it.    In the mean time Stephanie and I will be sharing our 30gig video iPod.

haikus are easy
but sometimes they don’t make sense
refrigerator

No you didn’t miss read that and yes, the title has the words “Macbook” in it.  That’s right folks, I now have a Macbook.  An early birthday present from my beautiful wife.  This is just the first of many Macbook posts so stay tuned.

That about sums it up.  Not much has been happening at the Casa de Kerr.  Steph and I are just skating along right now and to be honest, it’s kinda scary.   It’s one of those feelings you get when everything is going well and yet you feel like somehow your the butt end of a bad joke.  “Ok guys, you got me.  Now come on out, joke’s over.”  Don’t get me wrong, I’ll take it and run a marathon *Lord willing* with it, it’s just a little scary.  All in all though, we’re doing great.  My “new” job is going great and so far I’m loving it.  Obviously my blogging and website tweaking have cut down a bit but as I tell my mother-in-law, “it’s all good.”

So far so good.   Last week was all orientation and getting acquainted with the company.  USAA was recently rated on having the best benefits and I have to say, it’s the truth!  Even though this is my second week at USAA, it’s kinda my first week on the job.  I’ve got my first task and I’m looking forward to finishing it up in record time ;)  The only down side is that I can’t check any email or website until I get home.  I am working for a large financial institution so it’s understandable.  Sucks, but understandable.

Recently I accepted an offer from USAA and will be working for them starting on July 2nd as an IT Programmer Analyst.  Basically it’s a fancy title for programming nerd/geek guy.  Final Support has been a great company to work for and some of the best co-workers one could ask for.  So it is with some regret that I leave them.  However, I feel that USAA will provide me more of the challenge that I’m looking for in a work environment with the opportunity for growth.  I’m ready to make the switch and get to it.

It’s on!  Some friends of our and us have been picking on each other the last few weeks about who’s going to “domino” first.  In the last few months we’ve had more baby showers and births than I can count and we’ve been holding out.  So, in good humor Bo and I have been making sly comments about the influx of babies and who’s going to be next.  Example, while in Guatemala we would sneak pregnancy testers into each others bag and make comments when we saw new mothers walking around.  We’ll, Bo won the battle tonight in flying colors.  After our little social event we, a lot of people including Bo and Katie, all went out to Alamo Cafe for dinner.  Bo got the waitress to bring me a little desert and have a few waiters sing “Happy Father’s Day” to me because I just found out that we were expecting.  ***No, we are not expecting at this time.***  Priceless is the best way to describe it.

Bo, I am declaring war on you my friend.  I shall get you back!  Just you wait, I shall get you back!

Joshua 6:20

When the trumpets sounded, the people shouted, and at the sound of the trumpet, when the people gave a loud shout, the walls collapsed…

Ironic isn’t it? A story taken from the book of Joshua that happened some 2500 years ago and yet here I am about to tell you a similar story. I went on the Guatemala mission trip not knowing what I’d be doing or what to expect. I went knowing that God had something in store for me and I would just have to trust him.

I’ve been described by many who really know me as “a big teddy bear but I wouldn’t ever want to be around you when you’re angry” and “a big strong man with a big caring heart”. Both descriptions are accurate if you were to ask me however at the same time, like most men, I have my wall. This wall is similar for most men in the way that we don’t talk about our emotions, struggles, pains, weaknesses unless it’s with that someone who we trust. This trust is no ordinary trust either, it’s a trust that most men only share with one or two people in their lifetime. This trust is powerful enough for us to let our guard down willingly, something that many wives out there would kill for.

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We’re back from our trip to Guatemala. I would have made this post but I was soooo tired. I’ll have a full post soon about the trip but checkout the Outboundguatemala.com sight for a collection of our posts. Also, I’ve uploaded my pictures to my flickr account.

Go to outboundguatemala.com and check it out.