John Clinton's Page

1) Sean's health - Sean has had a sinus infection for the past 2 weeks, and is still coughing a lot & feeling terrible. Tuesday he leaves with Team Texas to go to the national team wrestling competition.

2) House / Moving - we are facing challenges in making our transition to Austin, and need favor with our current landlord as well as with the appraiser who will assess our new house, and the insurance adjustor who will evaluate the hail damage on their roof, and the mortgage underwriter, an… Continue

To my beloved wife, Marilynn, on the 20th anniversary of our first (blind!) date: I will be forever grateful that you kept looking "forever and a day" until we found each other. I know it's hard to be apart so much now, but I keep you always in my heart, and somehow you don't seem so far away.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nl5Uog-MDGo

So, we are all recuperating from the flu...seems Sean got it first, he bounced back the soonest, too - but then it got to Marilynn, and I was home because I had a sinus infection anyway, so I tried to care for the two of them, then I guess it was my turn. Anyway, we're on the mend.

And I'm coming up on 4 months on the new job this week, and I've outlasted the horrible boss I had & the new guy seems far more reasonable. In our first one-on-one chat, he said he wanted to bring me on full-time… Continue

Saw this Spanish bumper-sticker: "cuando todo falla jesus permanece fiel."

Translation: "when all else fails Jesus remains faithful"

Great thought!

Recently, I was looking for a favorite quote of Teddy Roosevelt's about the man in the arena, and I re-read the entire speech from which that quote is drawn. In it, I found something I think is relevant for this Independence Day:

"...in the long run, success or failure will be conditioned upon the way in which the average man, the average women, does his or her duty, first in the ordinary, every-day affairs of life, and next in those great occasional crises which call for heroic virtues. The av… Continue