Planes, cars and auto-robots!

So, I don’t know what the weather’s like where you are, but it SNOWED today!  And yesterday. 

What else is new?  Brian got a job, and we got a “new” car this last week!!!  Here’s how it happened…

Since we came back to Washington in July, Brian has kept busy with some various and sundry landscaping/hole digging projects (and Jocelyn’s been nannying kids here and there).  But now it’s cold.  And there’s “nothing” to do.  And that’s great for a few days here and there, but not so great for longer than that.  As we kinda hoped to be back in Brazil (LAST MONTH) and as we aren’t (and Visa stuff will take at least another 2 months), we decided we need to be reasonably settled here (get a job) until it’s time to move on again.  We just barely started praying for a job (and with the help of a friend) within a week Brian was hired at Glasair!  This is a big deal, ‘cuz Brian never did find a job last summer.  And the summer before that after exhausting many possibilities, he went thru a temp agency and spent the summer racking fish!  Funny story—Brian thought that having that fish job on his resume was virtually worthless, but when the hiring-manager guy saw it, he said “if you can work with fish, then I know you can work hard.”  So true :)  

So, what kind of business is Glasair?  Building airplanes!  And this is definitely NOT Boeing!  If you’re interested, check out    http://www.glasairaviation.com/ .  Today was Brian’s first day :)

So that was the job part…. this is the car.  We hadn’t thought ahead to needing a second vehicle for commuting and the like, but Someone else had!  A couple in our church just got a new car and they gave us their old car!  We’re so thankful for another set of wheels, and amazed at the timing of how job & car happened! 

Our little 1990 Ford Festiva!  Thanks so much!

 

In other news…

We went to Schuyler’s VEX Robot competition last Saturday!  Yes, that souped-up erector set with wiring in the picture IS a robot!  Schuyler (with his partner Jordan) remotely control the robot on a playing field with other robots competing against each other to complete tasks (and de-score/sabotage the other teams efforts) to win.  This competition is kind of a big deal—the first place team from the meet got to go to Florida for the finals!  Schuyler and Jordan were in the lead for quite a bit of the meet (ahead of 33 other teams!) but were eliminated in the semi-finals.  They still finished well and walked away with the “Judges Choice” award for their unique and efficient robot design!  Great job Schuyler!    

In other news…

Isn’t this picture cool?  Yes, Brian took it.  Happy Thanksgiving!

In other news…

Remember when I said I’d make up for all the “in other news” sections that I skipped in previous blogs?  This is why there are 3 of them in this blog.  Anyway.

Have you heard of “What’s in the Bible?”  It’s a new DVD series from (the Veggie Tales Creator) Phil Vischer.  We don’t normally use our blog as advertising space, but consider this a shameless plug.  We’ve been thru 4 plus years of Bible/mission training and we both learned things we didn’t know on the first WITB DVD….  I’ve got to get ahold of DVD #2…!  For more info, www.whatsinthebible.com

Thankfully,

Jocelyn (& Brian)<><