Xbox gaming time.

So every gamer has these times where RL takes back over. Right now is one of those times for me.  Without anything being said by the wife or any external pressures the other night I moved my 360 from my gaming room to my bedroom.  Which only means one thing, it is now a media center and not a gaming console.  I still enjoy playing halo, but in the next three months of my life I just don't see any room to play much, or at all.

    August will be filled by getting ready for the school year and taking some vacation.  Once I get started on Masters I am not sure if that will totally kill my desire/time to play or if it will force me to play some to keep my mind balanced.  Either way between a week and a half of vacation then a work trip I see August as already gone.  Then comes the big thing.

  

 My wife and I are going to go on a trip to Mali Africa for two weeks at the beginning  of October.  We will be serving at a women and children's hospital there and Mali has the highest death rate in all of the world for women and children during childbirth. So there is a lot of need in Mali.  Often families will have to choose to let an infant die, because in order to pay the US $10 for medical care they would have to watch their other children die of starvation.  Our heart is really broken for Mali and we consider this a vision trip for us because depending on how the trip goes we may end up moving there for good.  So a lot of my time in September is going to be eaten by preparing for that trip. Then once we get back from Mali we will be celebrating our five year anniversary and spending every waking minute with our Daughter who will have been with Grandma for two weeks.  Here are a few recent shots. Yes she can rock climb all by herself and yes she can solve the rubiks cube.  Well, one of those are true.

So basically I already see August, September, and October as gone.  You all know how November and December are those two months will be gone in an instant.  Then that brings me to January and February which signifies a huge work load for me, thats just how the beginning of the year goes for me.  So basically I feel like right now I won't have a chance to breath until March.

It's one of those things where I am not complaining or view any of this busyness as negative, but I just am seeing how far and long I have to swim.  Now I see the distance and I am going to have to hold my breath and dive into it. I am sure I will still be around the site quite a bit, but I just know it is going to impact my gaming.  So anyway I have vented and now you know.  If any of you are interested in helping support or pray for our trip to Mali PM me your address and I will send you the info letter.