Busy week

We visited St James Lutheran Church here in Redding, CA on Sunday and met a bunch of neat people, including Roberta, who invited us to lunch at Cheescakes Unlimited and hooked us up with many events at St James to be a part of this week. These events include a confirmation class last night, a ladies' brunch on Saturday morning and a fashion show on Saturday morning. I'm pretty jazzed about the fashion show idea. Someone will be getting back to me this morning to see about going in for a fitting at Macy's today. I hope it works out that I can do this. We're definitely having a good week.

The rest of the week looks like this:

• Tonight - Bible study at St Paul Lutheran in Red Bluff, CA
• Friday - Missions Conference booth at Redding Christian Fellowship
• Saturday - Fashion show and ladies' brunch at St James Lutheran for Eshinee while Rob mans the booth at the continuing Missions Conference, evening service at 6PM at Trinity Lutheran, also here in Redding
• Sunday - 8:15AM service at Trinity Lutheran

And that's the week for us. Next week, hopefully on Monday, we head north to unload our stuff in Bellingham and establish residency there.

Tooth

I have a weird wisom tooth thing happening and I need to find a dentist. I've been looking half-heartedly for the last bunch of months but now it has become a necessity. Insurance websites are nigh-on useless. I went to Cigna and found hundreds of dentists but I have no way of knowing if any of them are any good. Yuk. Trying to find a dentist is nightmarish for me. They always want to do their own x-rays before they'll even talk to you and they always want to do what they want to do, when they want to do it. You'd never know that it was my mouth at stake. The last 2 were tough for me.

I'm looking for minimalist (rather monitor a suspected cavitation than fill at the slightest shading on the x-ray) and a holist (doesn't insist that mercury is perfectly safe in an amalgam filling). Anyone in Washington state have a dentist like that? Let me know ...

On I-5

I'm writing this in the car but won't be sending it until later. Today,
we've been on the road since just after 10AM. Spent the night in Paso Robles
with the Stevens, Rob's pastor family from Eastminster in the days of his
youth. We've been on I-5 most of today, hence the blog post title. Had lunch
at the Apricot Tree restaurant somewhere along the way. Found my favorite
dried apricots in a dried fruit store near the restaurant; the dark, tangy
kind, not those chubby, insipid apricots. Gotta look up sulfur dioxide (a
preservative in dried fruit) to see if it has any harmful effects.

Our newsletter went out on September 6 so the people who signed up to get it
in the last week won't be getting the most recent one. I'm going to do up
little packets of past letters to send them, catch them up to date on our
lives this year. I'm trying to decide if I have the initiative to pull
together a Veith website, a timeline of since the wedding. I've done one
every now and then ... before the free web-hosting shuts down and I lose all
that work (every time!). This time, I can host it on the LBT server so it'll
have some longevity. I just think, what if people are curious about what
we've been up to? I know I google people all the time, old school pals,
former co-workers, extended family. I google myself at least as often,
making sure my cyberface is clean. So far, so good.

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Clueing up

We had a few more meetings today but we're done for the day. Sitting in Underground coffee house, online. Just had some really yummy blackberry cabernet gelato; not only do I love gelato but it's probably better that I don't get coffee at this hour.

Local photography student was set up here at the coffee place, taking photos for a series called 25 strangers. Used Rob and I for that. 2 photos apiece; one smile, one silly face. She'll send us a link when she uploads.

Tomorrow, we hit the road for Paso Robles on our way back to Redding.

Kelli in Japan

Just got an email from a friend of mine from YWAM Tyler, TX days; Kelli. She's teaching English at a junior high school in Japan, just starting this week, if I understand correctly. One of her students featured her in a webpage ... too cute.



Kelli is one of my world-favorite people; so many of those in my life keep bipping around the globe. Rarely in the same place with them these days. Cherish that when it happens.