So whats happened since the last time I blogged?  I suppose there have been a few things worth mentioning.

At work I finally had to deal with a situation in which a co-worker was constantly wanting to buy Rx medication from me or have me join him during lunch to smoke pot.  Despite the constant reminder that I am not interested in any of those activities he persisted until I was unfortunately forced to do something about it.  After that I was temporarily pulled into another contract to assist on a project I knew nothing about.  The expectations were that I would come in and instantly fix everything.  Additionally it was assumed that I would just work non-stop with little or no consideration for petty things like sleep.  At one point I simply put my foot down and said enough, well see how well that move bodes for me in the future.

Aside from work my friend decided to divorce his wife in the pursuit of happiness.  In the interim he is staying with me until his wife is finished moving out of the house.  Oddly enough now that he actually lives with me I see or hear from him less than ever.  Most nights he is pre-occupied with more important things, but such is life.  It was an interesting change to get used to having someone else live you but for most part I hardly remember he is there.  There has been a bit of back and forth about whether he would sell the house or keep it but most of that has been ironed out now.

I can't remember the last time my father was around but its been a while.  He came over with the rest of the family a while ago and pretty much acted like a child.  I'm not sure what his problem was but he hardly said two words to me.  Every 10 to 15 minutes was interrupted by him reminding everyone that he would rather not be there and would like to go home.  Since that day I hadn't heard from him.  I called him on this birthday but got no answer.  Yesterday he called and acted as though nothing ever happened.  He wanted to tell me my grandparents were coming down and to invite us to a cook out.  I wouldn't say that I am really upset with him because I just really don't care.

We started RCIA classes recently.  Overall I am enjoying them though I feel like sometimes they meander along seeking a direction.  My mother didn't seem to take too well to the idea of me being catholic but she didn't protest too much.  Her religious beliefs could best be describe as attending the Church of A&E and the History channel.  Its an odd mixture of space aliens, reincarnation, and a myriad of gods including "the god".  In the end it doesn't really matter what people think.  I'm doing this for me.

Diving has been a lot of fun recently despite a few set backs.  Someone walked off with a rented tank of my air on my Gilboa trip, but in the end they returned it to the shop.  It still caused a bit of stress until it showed up.  Other highlights of that trip included loosing my mask (someone found it for me) and throwing up underwater (which was actually kind of fun).  My dive buddy sort of petered out on me about half way through.  I still have Bill to dive with and I did have fun at the France Park scavenger hunt.  I only got to do one dive however.  After I got out of the water the first time I was so cold I had to change into dry clothes.  The underwater pumpkin carving is coming up but I don't know if I am going yet or if I even want to.

My brother-in-law is wanting my wife and I to do some work for him and he is coming over sometime next week to do some video work.  I've been working on finishing up the basement but its a lot of work and slow going.  Meanwhile my wife has began her nesting stage of pregnancy and has begun addressing an agenda of her own.  Patience is my focus lately as I try to let things roll off of me.  Things have a way of being resolved whether we worry about them or not.  I'm just not sure if that classifies as faith or apathy.

So as you can see not much has happened lately, just more of the same day in and day out.