It’s official. I am now the proud owner of JoeyDay.com. I completed the purchase about an hour ago, but as far as I can tell the domain isn’t working yet. As soon as it’s up I’ll be moving my whole site over there. I may leave Qangaroo.com up for another month (with a message and an automatic redirect to JoeyDay.com), but I can’t keep it up for too long since I’d have to continue to pay for the hosting.

From what I understand, Janene’s Granny is doing better. She is on a new medication that seems to be working. They may be discharging her tomorrow, but we are still not sure. Janene and I will be visiting her later tonight. I want to thank everyone for thinking about her and praying for her. Please continue to pray with us that she can have a speedy recovery and that this new medication will not cause any further complications. 

Janene’s Granny was admitted into the hospital last night. She’s been bleeding in her digestive system and began vomiting around 5pm Friday night, and still hasn’t stopped (as of noon today) despite being given nausea relief medications. Doctors are worried that her blood is too thin, but because of her history of strokes, it is careful work to thicken her blood without going too far.

Basically the reason I’m telling you this is to ask all of you to please pray for Granny. Pray that she can be comfortable and sleep in the hospital. Pray that her doctors will have sound minds and a keen understanding of her medical needs. Please pray above all that God’s will can be done, and that He will show Himself in this trying situation. In my experience it is after these hard times that one can look back and see that God’s hand was working in ways that were never expected. Pray for miracles to happen. I know that they can and will. 

I hope everyone had a good Christmas. I sure did. I got all kinds of cool stuff. Janene gave me a Michael W. Smith CD and a very nice shirt to wear to church (her sisters got me a matching tie). Santa brought me the Lord of the Rings Extended Edition DVD, along with the Back to the Future Trilogy on DVD. I also got a thing called a ThumbDrive. It’s made by Memorex, and it is a small plug and play USB device that holds 128MB. It will be nice for transporting files back and forth between home and school. I update Qangaroo.com from several different locations, so being able to keep it on the ThumbDrive will make things a lot easier. So I guess now you can ask me, “Is that 128MB in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?”. 😊

I hope no one thinks I’m going off about all these material things because they were the best part of my Christmas. The best part was being able to spend it with my friends and family. Steve and Merissa came home for the weekend and we’ve been playing games and watching movies all week. I’ve also been able to hang out a lot over at Janene’s house with all of her family doing the same. Janene’s Granny is a riot!

Anyway, it looks like 2003 is right around the corner, eh? When I look back on all that has happened this year I have to conclude that this has been one of the most important years I’ve ever lived. I’ve made some decisions this year that will carry me through the rest of my life. I can only hope that 2003 will be half the year 2002 has been. 

Merry Christmas! I’m putting this entry up at 10pm, and I realize my holiday greetings may be a little belated. I was spending quality time with family and friends, so I don’t expect that anyone will think me less of a person for not getting it up sooner. I want to take this opportunity to say Merry Christmas to all of you who read my site. It means a lot to me that you check in on my life from time to time.

I hope all of you were able to take a few moments on this day and honestly reflect on what we’ve celebrated. The meaning of Christmas is not wrapped up in family and friends, a spirit of giving, and peace for all men (although I wouldn’t suggest for a moment that we shouldn’t think about and celebrate these things on Christmas). The reason this time of year exists is not so we can give gifts to one another, it is so we can celebrate the greatest gift that was given to us—the gift of God’s Son, Jesus Christ. I hope and pray that we can all come to know Him better this Christmas season. God bless! 

ContentWatch released it’s newest product today—EmailProtect. EmailProtect will block objectionable material from entering any POP email program (such as Outlook, Eudora, Netscape Communicator, etc.). It also has a very powerful rules system to handle junk mail. I’m really anxious to put this program on my computer.

Working during the day is a little different for me. I guess it’s just because I’m not used to working eight hours straight. I’m ready for Christmas now just so I’ll get a few days off. I just got off the phone with a guy who shouldn’t be allowed near a computer. You know how they have background checks when you want to buy a gun? Well, they should have IQ checks when you want to buy a computer. I guess I don’t really mean that—I’m just a little frustrated right now.

Janene and I spent last night with my family decorating the Christmas tree. My dad wanted to do it the way he used to when he was a kid. We threaded popcorn onto dental floss and made green and red paper chains. My dad even covered our tree-topper star (what else do you call that?) with tin foil so it would look more like the cardboard star he had as a kid. My mom does our tree different each year, and she’s good at making it look really nice. It’s kindof strange to see such a makeshift tree, but it was fun putting it together. We got some good pictures when we were all done. I’ll have to see if I can convince my mom to let me post them here.