1 Month and 20 Years
1 Month
It's been a month since my last post. Up until a week or so ago, I had no break from translation work. The same old story. Once the avalanche starts, all I can do is ride it out and wait for it to go away. About the time I got to the end of the translation work, Madeira got hit by a spell of bad weather, intense rains and winds. For over a week we sometimes had a telephone connection (and therefore Internet), but most of the time we didn't. When the phone company finally got around to seeing about our complaint, they told us what we had suspected: water had gotten into a junction box. Most of the time the connection was shorted out, and just as sure as I would notice there was a connection, by the time I got the e-mails downloaded and tried to reply to messages, the connection would go down again. I did get some reading done, however, for a change.
There was also a an overnight, two-day trip to Lisbon, followed by a two-night spell of struggles with an unidentified bug. The best medicine turned out to be rest.
20 Years
Marcia, as long-time readers will remember, started out this year learning that she had Hodgkins lymphoma. After about 8 months of chemotherapy, she spent a month on the mainland doing radiation treatments. The doctors say there are no signs of cancer now. Today she flew to Brazil to spend the rest of the year with her folks. José Carlos and Susana will join her on Dec. 18 and return in early January. Yesterday was their 20th wedding anniversary and there was a special service in the church to commemorate the date. Mainly, it was a thanksgiving service for what God has done in their lives this year. 20 years or not, that's always in order!
It's been a month since my last post. Up until a week or so ago, I had no break from translation work. The same old story. Once the avalanche starts, all I can do is ride it out and wait for it to go away. About the time I got to the end of the translation work, Madeira got hit by a spell of bad weather, intense rains and winds. For over a week we sometimes had a telephone connection (and therefore Internet), but most of the time we didn't. When the phone company finally got around to seeing about our complaint, they told us what we had suspected: water had gotten into a junction box. Most of the time the connection was shorted out, and just as sure as I would notice there was a connection, by the time I got the e-mails downloaded and tried to reply to messages, the connection would go down again. I did get some reading done, however, for a change.
There was also a an overnight, two-day trip to Lisbon, followed by a two-night spell of struggles with an unidentified bug. The best medicine turned out to be rest.
20 Years
Marcia, as long-time readers will remember, started out this year learning that she had Hodgkins lymphoma. After about 8 months of chemotherapy, she spent a month on the mainland doing radiation treatments. The doctors say there are no signs of cancer now. Today she flew to Brazil to spend the rest of the year with her folks. José Carlos and Susana will join her on Dec. 18 and return in early January. Yesterday was their 20th wedding anniversary and there was a special service in the church to commemorate the date. Mainly, it was a thanksgiving service for what God has done in their lives this year. 20 years or not, that's always in order!
posted by EP | 4:01 PM | Permalink
1 Comments:
I just wanted to say that it looks like Jose Carlos could be your son, Dad - he looks so much like you in that picture. I know you probably would have preferred for me to say he looks like he could be your brother, but that wouldn't be nice to him...=o)
Your sweet daughter,
Joy
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