Hello all you weirdos from the planet blog. Sorry it's been a while since we've "blogged". Sounds a bit like some kind of stomach problem eh. Since we've just moved into our new happening Scottish pad, we were without internet service for a while, but that's all taken care of now so we don't feel totally isolated from the rest of the world anymore. Great to see the Phillies are in first place and not so great to see the dollar going further down the toilet. Lord help us.

Things are going pretty well here aside from the occasional bout of homesickness. We just spent a couple of days at a seminar on briefing and debriefing missionary's this week and were reminded that homesickness is a very common as well as normal part of our profession. Over all, the seminar was great and we can't wait to find our first victims, uhh I mean first dear brothers and sisters in missions to debrief. Seriously, it was incredible helpful and great to put on our student hats again!

As I mentioned before, we are living in our new home but are still awaiting our furniture and stuff to arrive. The good news is it has made it to the other side of the pond and it will be trucked here within the week. It will be great to sleep in our own bed for the first time in five months. By the way, many special thanks to all those who helped load our stuff on the truck, Gehmans, Eagers, Millers, Scott and the Zooks for hosting... you guys are awesome!!! Even if everything breaks, we still love you and appreciate your hours of labor! :)

We are also really excited, yehaa, hip-hip kazam :) to be hosting some friends and relatives at the end of the month and beginning of August. Hmmm, sounds like a potential debriefing situation could come out of that...we'll see.

The weather here has been Scottish, November year round with the occasional glimpse of May. One rare nice warm sunny day here I overheard someone say, "this is about as hot as I can take it, if it gets any hotter than this, I just stay inside". For the record, it was 72 with low humidity.

Well that's about all I have time to share at this particular time. We just wanted to let you know we aren't dead and if you need some briefing or debriefing, let us know.
See ya (Marc)