Well, the winds of change have once again swept through my life. Dawn and I are no more, and never to return. I do not think that we can even really be friends again. Perhaps in a stand-off-ish kind of way, but what is the sense in that? She dug my heart out with a woden spoon. Thankfully, it has been done to me before, so the feelings and emotions that I am going through right now are not new or unfamiliar to me. I know what to expect, and I am prepaired to deal with the healing process that is inevitable. I do wish things had turned out differently, but such is life. I got a good laugh out of the finger towelette package at Hooters (yeah, I go there for their hotwings!) It said 'Tis better to have loved and lost.....MUCH BETTER!' LOL! I really needed that! Although this sucks, and taking the promise ring back to the jewelers hurt terribly (I was going to give it to her when she moved up here, to let her know that I was always going to support her), I have taken a step back and reevaluated where I am in my life and where I am going and what my new goals are for the next couple of years. This has been good for me, gotten me re-focused. Well, I sold my old truck yesterday. I showed it tuesday evening, and wednesay they were here with the cash. I've only had that much money - real, american cash - in my hands once before....damn, that's a neat feeling. It was really cool, because I bought it for less than I sold it for. I bought it in 2002(?) and put like 60,000 miles on it, and sold it for 500 more than I paid for it!! YEAH! It kinda sucked, watching my old ride pull away. There are A LOT of memories in that little pickup truck. But, I decided that there will be many, many more in my new one. Tubeing trips on the Guadalupe, trips to the heliports in Louisiana, and, well, yeah, it'll be broken-in to it's hearts content! LOL! Also got about 95% of the equipment that I will be using in the Ukraine crated up and shipped yesterday. Shoulda been done with that at like 11am.....didn't get started until 2pm. UGH!! I hate stupid truck drivers! It was nice getting it in the truck though, we were short-handed, so instead of just watching it happen, as per my job, I had to get into the trailor and use the pallet jack to move all the crates. It was really nice to have to work so hard that I broke a real sweat....that was such a good feeling. I also bought my luggage on tuesday!!! I got SUCH a good deal....The store price was like 30 bucks more than the internet price, so I took in a printout of the webpage, and asked if they'd match it and they said sure....then since I was at JC Penny's, I applied and got a Penny's card, and got another 10% off of it. Ended up getting a 300 dollar set of luggage for like 110. WOOT! Also Picked up a couple of money belts that I really liked.....One of them strapped to my calf.....perfect for wearing under my coveralls! Thought for the day: "Faith is one of the forces by which men live, and the total absence of it means collapse. - William James Ya'll take care, and God bless. Riggy