new video clip of maria posted on the pics page... mostly for Kayleigh and Liam, but the

rest of you can look too. She is growing fast.

as if i needed an excuse to put video on the web. But the real reason I went to the trouble

I have to admit was that I needed to test the video link up to my computer after a system

hard drive crash etc. Everything is pretty much back to normal now it was a good excuse to

get some video scanned in - even if it is a short goofy clip.

Life is good... busy, crazy, but in a good way. I realized that most of my stress is either

healthy stress (hopefully to keep me moving) or it is self imposed by my own expectations.

So all I need to do is get realistic expectations and the stress level comes down to a

reasonable and healthy place. makes sense huh? It seems easy to me, but I see stressed

people all around me - and much of it is self imposed (or culture imposed.) The thing about

culture imposed stress is that for it to really get to you, you have to buy into it... so

if you are a little bit counter culture it actually helps in this case because you just blow

off all the cultural stress with some healthy amounts of apathy toward pleasing everyone

else.

enough simpleton logic for the day. God is the wise one. And he is good. I feel extremely

blessed - despite the condition of my back pain etc. I wont get into that, because complaining isnt worth it, and many people have it way worse than me. It slows me down a bit, but maybe that is ok too.