Even though it's evidently really old, parts of this concept are new to me. I'm wrestling with the idea of an omnibenevolent, omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent God. Perhaps they can't all exist at once, but these are such abstract concepts, so studying about it in the Bible that deals with things with more concrete concepts, images, and stories is difficult.I'm leaning more towards the idea that the definition of omnibenevolent is messed up. I don't think we are ever promised an omnibenevolent God anyway.

Just got over a sickie weekend. I kinda think we are still recovering from Tough Mudder a week ago, I will post pictures from the professional photographer following us around when I get ahold of them. I think I have mud in my lungs. No just joking, but my asthma has been going crazy, so maybe not a joke. But just kidding, it's not that bad. But seriously, I've been using the inhaler a lot this week. But it's not bad.

I gave Nishadi a cold over the weekend, she missed work yesterday but now feels better than me today.

We're so close to getting a house, it would be a real let down to get this close to the house we want and something happens. Even if it's still our decision, something could happen. But we're close to closing in less than a month.

I guess I should go even further back than the house. The only reason we can look for a house is because Nishadi got a job at Mustang. Her office is about an hour's drive from my office, so we'll live somewhere in between and each drive about 45 min or so. That's the plan anyways. 

Boring Fantasy Football - Please Ignore

I am leading both of my leagues in total points scored. I am 5th place in the 12 team league. Also I am 5th place in the 10 team league.

All Is Right in the World

Last week I flew to pick up Nishadi, moved her (our?) stuff into a trailer that will meet us in Houston tonight, then drove her car back to Kingwood.

I'm not sure the all the best ways to use my new smart phone, but this map seems pretty cool - my locations from Aug 27-Sept 9, 2013. Some highlights - the flight to LA, the drive up to Bakersfield, and then our route back. We met up with some of my family in Malibu, LA, and Amarillo. Also, the coastal drive, Venice Beach, hiking in Palo Duro Canyon, the Sand Diego Zoo, my drive to work and back, and a round trip to College Station for Nishadi's career fair all show up. There were stops we wanted to stay longer, and lots of stops we wanted to do but couldn't but will do eventually.

Also, this is generally my daily round trip commute:

Please don't stalk me

2 Months Left!

Now I'm sitting at my desk at work but I just got back from Vegas this weekend. Didn't lose too much money, in fact the only time I got in trouble was when I won money, and I tipped too much.

If anybody in Houston needs a good chemical engineer let me and Nishadi know!

Another day

I miss my friends, family, and my wife especially.

However, today marks the halfway point between getting married and the planned date of Nishadi moving back to me - 3 months left!

Married Life

So supposedly some of the most stressful times in your life are planning a wedding, switching jobs, and moving, and Nishadi and I went through all of those at pretty much the same time. I'd have to say the most stressful thing is living 1500 miles from your wife, but maybe that option wasn't included in the study. We made a long term decision to get married even if in the short term we are separated by distance for a little while, and I have no regrets about that.

The best thing about the upcoming week is Nishadi coming in town after a week of not seeing her. The best thing about the previous week while she was gone was that I presented Conner his Aggie Ring, and I couldn't be more proud of all the hard work he's already and will continue to put in. Since it's been done twice in our family now we have a Davis Aggie Ring Tradition. Congrats Bro!

Blessing in Disguise

I've spent the last several years hating that I hurt my knees. I used to love sacrificing my body to dive and slide and land hard and collide if it would help my team win whatever stupid pick up game I was playing. That all changed in 2009 when I was looking up while running full speed, and planted on my left leg to jump at the same time some kid hit my knee to the side. My knee swelled up and hurt for a while, but I didn't get any diagnosis after the swelling went down so it could have either been a torn ACL or just a sprain - either way I didn't take care of it. About a year later I was playing flag football on my hurt left knee, which resulted in me tiring out my right knee. I tried to plant as hard as i could on my worn out right knee, and it just popped.

I was so sad. As much as I loved playing stupid pick up games, I knew they would never be the same now that I couldn't jump or turn or run near as fast as I used to. I hate it. Even after two surgeries and rehabbing them, my left knee is probably at 90% and my right knee is probably 75% of what they were before. So now I'm probably like 70% total capacity of what I used to be. I used to pride myself that I could be competitive without arguing or cussing or other douche things competitive people do, but now how can I do anything competitively.

So I spent all these years hating my stupid knees. So what could make me thankful that I destroyed both of my knees?

All of this is due scrutiny cause my memory is generally terrible but this is the best recollection I can do: Me and Nishadi had dated for a few months in spring 2010, then broke up that summer when we were long distance. We were still long distance the next semester when she had a coop, but we talked and hung out when she came in town still. We started dating again when she was done with her coop. So what does this have to do with my knees? I hurt them that fall while we were separated. While I was sitting on the bleachers, unable to play, watching my team play, it was really hard for me. I called Nishadi while I was really sad and wanted to talk to somebody and Nishadi was the one I wanted to talk to. Come to find out, Nishadi was getting tired of being the one to call me, and had just decided she didn't need to hang on to an ex that much. So if I hadn't hurt my knee and given reason to call her, I may not have called and possibly wouldn't be so fortunate to be with Nishadi right now?

After my surgeries, every time my knee tweaked or twisted and hurt, it just made me more frustrated. But now anytime that happens, it's just a reminder of how lucky I am. It just threw me for a loop to realize this injury I've spent so much time regretting, should actually be one of the things I am most grateful for.