A Banana A Day...

I try to eat a Banana everyday. My sisters would not necessarily agree with me about the goodness of the banana taste. I like a banana with my coffee for breakfast.

So today is the last day of the month. February has been a crazy busy month. I've worked a lot, taken care of many patients, played all month on the praise team at church, practiced with "Surf Alternative," played a bunch of gigs with "The Hatchbacks," took a road trip to give away my old car, started teaching two more bass students, and have gotten ready for our upcoming symphony concert on Sunday March 4th. (3pm, Performing Arts Center, North Platte High School, North Platte, Nebraska) Yep, been a busy one.

Tomorrow, I am not on the schedule to work, but... I get to lead a training session for the use of our portable transport ventilator that we use on our patients that are intubated. I have used the vent a number of times. Some of our employees, on the other hand, don't have as much experience with it. It was pretty intimidating to learn to use at first, but now I am pretty comfortable with it. My goal for tomorrow is make sure everyone can be as comfortable with it as I am. It is a finicky piece of equipment with a lot of knobs, readouts, tubes, and alarms that get set off by the slightest things. Theres a lot to learn and a lot to cover.

Heres to a great March.

4 States, three days, one weekend

So on thursday, I decided to drive to Tulsa, OK. Actually the decision was reached on Wednesday night that was where I would meet my friends from Arkansas who I was giving my old Camry to. I got there Friday morning, met up with them, ate lunch together, and gave them my car. Then I got on the Greyhound bus headed for Amarillo, Texas.

That right folks, I took the long way home. From OKLAHOMA-Tulsa to OKC, to El Rino, to Elk City, to TEXAS-Amarillo, to Dumas, to COLORADO-Springfield, to Lamar, to Rocky Ford, to Pueblo, to CO Springs, to Denver, to Fort Morgan, to Brush, to Julesburg, to NEBRASKA- Ogallala, and finally to North Platte, my beloved home.

It was a long ride home, but a very interesting one. I got to meet several people who I'd probably never ever see again in my life and share a bit of my life with them. I got to pray with a guy who was going to see his daughter for the first time. He'd been incarcerated for the past five years and had gotten out two days prior. He wanted to turn his life around and knew he needed to if he was gonna try and be any kind of a father. But he didn't want to talk about spiritual things at all and skipped around the questions as much as he could.

I also read on the trip.
The Bridge to Terabithia- Katherine Paterson
and started The Life of Pi- Yann Martel

The Hatchbacks are playing on Friday night at The Harvest Christian Fellowship church for their Valentine's Banquet. We are playing in Scottsbluff on the 22nd.