Work: Inside the Office

This is inside the office where I work out of. There are basically five rooms in our office building (which is actually a double wide office building). There is the supervisor's office, the driver's room, a small conference room that is also uniform storage, the manager's office, and the kitchen.

This is the supervisor's desk. All of the supervisors share the desk so no one has their own individual desk. This is where we dispatch and deal with paper work. Most of all this is where payroll happens!This is the supervisor's office. This is the view from the door way. It is really not as messy as it looks in the picture. On the file cabinet on the right you can see the flag has been brought it and is folded correctly. In the corner is the laser jet printer and our copier. Underneath (hidden by my chair) is where we keep lost and found. It is amazing what gets left on a bus and it always ends up in the office.

Work: Old Glory

One of my responsibilities as a supervisor is the flag. Whenever I work in the mornings I raise the flag around sunrise. Whenever I work afternoons/evenings I get to lower the flag close to sunset. I actually consider it a privilege to raise and lower the American flag.

Work: Who and What

As many of you already know I am a driver/supervisor for Paul Revere Transportation. I work at the Grand Canyon in northern Arizona. This week I am supervising and then we are heading out for a few weeks on a trip back home to Texas.

When I supervise management gives me a jeep to drive. The beautiful red color makes it really obvious whenever I am around. Makes it hard to sneak up on anyone!
Whenever I drive this is what I get to tool around in. Our buses are 40 feet long and in the summer the air conditioning is very nice but this time of the year (the dead of winter) the heater works great. Nice buses!

Chicken Fajitas!

A few nights ago we decided to have chicken fajitas for dinner.

I took some boneless/skinless chicken breasts and fired up the grill. Winter grilling never scared me! For seasoning I use black pepper and Lawry's Seasoning Salt.

While the chicken was grilling my wife was inside getting the refried beans and guacamole ready. The cheese and hot sauce was ready and pretty soon all that was needed was the meat.

There is nothing like the finished product hot off the grill, still sizzling from the juices and the hot grill.

We sliced the chicken into strips to put onto our tortillas.

There is nothing like the finished product.

Texas Bar-B-Q in Flagstaff

We had to head to Flagstaff yesterday to do some shopping. The cupboards were getting pretty bare so off to Flag we went. For lunch we were headed to the NAU campus (Northern Arizona University). Rumors of a Chick-Fil-A exist online. On our way to the campus we saw the "Savior Of Flagstaff," Big John's.

We became familiar with Big John's about two years ago. Big John's sits up in a parking lot with his trailer and smokers and sells Texas Barbeque out of it. (Yes, it is totally legal and incredible). As we drove by it was hard to resist. But we did and off we go to NAU, for Chick-Fil-A.
Finding Chick-Fil-A was a disaster. We wondered around the campus for a while and could not find the cafeteria area where Chick-Fil-A was suppose to be. It is amazing what happens when you turn on the wrong street and realize that where you are driving is no longer a street, but a walkway! We gave up and just followed our noses back to Big John's. It wasn't really hard to do.
These guys work hard on Friday and Saturday making some of the best food in the area. The guy in the black shirt is chopping up some fresh brisket for chopped beef sandwiches, which is just what we ordered.
This is what you get when you order a chopped beef sandwich from Big John's. This thing is so big that you cannot pick it up with your hands. Thank God for forks! Extremely tasty!

So Long To Christmas

A few days after Christmas the decorations came down and we began to put things away. As much as we all enjoy the decorations it is always a relief to get the house back to normal. The tree is out of the way and is no longer the center of attention. The extra lights are gone, put away to fight with for another year.

At times I will miss some of the music and the excitement and the anticipation, but Christmas is a lot more than that. Christmas is not about the music and the excitement but it is about the anticipation of Christ. As a Christian I want to live in the anticipation of the second coming of Christ. I want to look for his coming as I go about my daily life, as I read and watch the news, as I listen to the events that are unfolding in my life time. I want to be able to say with the Apostle John, "even so, come, Lord Jesus!"

One Extra Present

I wanted a new coffee canister really bad this year. I found one at a store recently and my dear, wonderful wife went back and bought it for me. My wife gave it to me before breakfast and I instantly filled it up with coffee. It has been a great gift. [Thanks honey!]

Christmas Morning At My House

Christmas doesn't start very early at my house. Once everyone was up we opened stockings.

My stocking consisted of Michael Roe's new record "We All Gonna Face The Rising Sun," the new Star Trek movie, a $25 Itunes card, and 2 Nestle Crunch bars.

After breakfast we opened presents. I got a Martin Guitar t-shirt, a Martin Guitar coffee cup, three excellent book (Lost Boy by Greg Laurie, Chosen But Free by Norman Geisler, The Man God Uses by Chuck Smith), two cds (Bob Dylans' Christmas In The Heart and The Concert For the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame) and a dvd of the Rock Hall Inductions.

It was a wonderful time of good food, being together and celebrating the birth of our wonderful Savior, Jesus.