2007: The ANTI-GREAT....

---Goodbye, Clear Channel. November 5th, rock bottom, not my choice. Losing touch with friends who once saw every day. It sucks.....losing the FRIENDS hurt the most.

---Cleo Strickland (1918-2007): Have a good rest, Grannie; I'll see ya soon.....

---April 16, 2007 in Blacksburg, Virginia. Virginia Tech's darkest day. Needless, senseless....may we never forget, so that it never happens again.

---the battle with depression goes on.....still sleeping some days away (including my 40th birthday and Christmas Eve!!)

---the battle with OCD rages on, approaching the 30-year mark.

---the fact that the Moody Blues concert had to end at some point.

---R.I.P. to Chloe, Rachel's first hamster. :(

---and the hurt of missing people. Never have I had friends just pulled up from under me like a rug, from the standpoint of being able to see and be with them. It's hard, but I heal just a little bit each and every day. :)

She Shall Bring Forth A Son......

.....from myself, wifey, Robbie, Rachel, Cody and Zoe (the cats), Harry J (the dog), and even Peanut (Rachel's new hamster)......

.....we wish you the peace found in the one who was wrapped in swaddling clothes and placed in a manger; the peace which only God can give when we come to the ChristChild, who was born to bear the sins of the world, so that we may be free from our sin, and live with Him forever.