Josh Saddler

So we grabbed my wife's sister earlier tonight and I took us all out to see "Rush Hour 3", a very funny movie by the way.

When we got back, we just left our car parked out on the street, instead of taking back our assigned spot elsewhere once my sister-in-law left.

A few hours later, the police knocked on our door -- a drunk driver totaled our car and lightly damaged 3 others, including his own. He's in jail, our car is completely destroyed. No one was hurt, and we seem to have retrieved our important stuff from the car too, minus some of my wife's teaching supplies.

And this is after I got severe whiplash 1.5 weeks ago from riding the rollercoaster, followed by a viral + bacterial infection in my left eye which I think I finally recovered from yesterday.

My wife says bad things happen in threes, so the car being totaled was the third. But, shall we not accept the bad along with the good from the Lord? He gives, and He takes. It is not for me to close my hands tightly around any blessing He gives. If He wants us to have something for a time, then I need to hold out open hands. When that time is up, I need to stay faithful and see what He gives next. When something is taken, it's because He has something planned for me next. I'm thankful that He has given us this situation -- I'm waiting to see what He does next and what He wants us to do next. I think it's teaching me that I can rely on Him for any need. My relationship with Him should be active participation. I want to learn more of Him, grow more in Him.

Wait and see.

Anyway, dealing with all the stuff may or may not cut back on time for Gentoo. We'll see. At least I had a nice smooth Gnome 2.18 upgrade earlier today. Hint: as leio and dang said, be sure to run revdep-rebuild -X for the expat upgrade. You'll need to run dispatch-conf after the whole merge anyway, as well as another revdep-rebuild just to make sure.