"In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world." –John 16:33

Day: October 10, 2023

Happy 31 (official day)

I am very grateful to be married to Lorena. The picture at the left was taken in 2009 in Raleigh, shortly after the kids started college at Wake Technical Community College. It is mind boggling how fast the time has flown. One of the things for which I am most grateful is how much we still love to do things together and how much we are on each others’ side. Probably the greatest constant between us has been our efforts to keep Christ first in all of everything we do. We do not always succeed, but we work at it consistently and if there are measures of what is good in a marriage, this is number one for both of us.

Woo-hoo! Ph.D. paid in full!

I am grateful to my professor Troy at University of Nebraska–Lincoln for having funded the tuition and fees for my Ph.D. studies. It was especially kind of him because they were much higher than normal due to the fact that I do not live in Nebraska so he had to pay out-of-state tuition. In addition to that, special arrangements had to made because I was a full-time student with a full-time job enrolled as an on-campus student, but taking all my classes online. Every semester there was a hiccup with the tuition due to these special circumstances. The hiccups never got ironed out until after the Payment Due Date so we always got accessed a late fee which had to be waived after it was demonstrated that it was the fault of the financial department. The last semester held to form. The last late fee was waived yesterday. The only thing left now is to wait for some commencement instructions to arrive via email and to attend the commencement.

Thanks again, Troy!

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