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So the past few days have prove quite interesting.

It started off with me starting to feel bad on Friday and just escalated from there. All weekend I felt like crap, forcing me not to go to Church on Sunday and missing both Monday and Tuesday of work.

To make things just a bit more exciting, I got to have another root canal on Monday afternoon. After that, I was in a great mood! Jumping into the car, and forgetting that the A/C in the car wasn’t working properly, this is image is what my reality was.

Also on Monday, the A/C unit on my renter’s house stopped working. In the thick of the Oklahoma heat, this is no good. I started calling around to local A/C places to find out that they couldn’t come out and look at it until like Thursday or Friday. Obviously, I couldn’t expect my renter to wait that long so then came the favor calls.

I ended up calling a friend of a friend, and it paid off big time. He was able to get it up and running at 3am. Yeah…that’s right. This dedicated guy came over to my rent house at midnight and didn’t leave until 3am. What a guy! All was good, until…

The next day, during the hottest part of the day too, it failed again. This time, all the refrigerant had leaked out due to a bad valve and they’re back to where they were…hot as hell in the house. Another call, lots of freon, lots of sweat from my renters coupled with their patience; and its cold and working again.

Hopefully it will stay that way.

Not too long ago I lost my father to illness caused by Leukemia. And I’m finally ready to air it out.

The epitome of a fighter, my dad proved to our entire family that you have to be strong in the face of adversity. When the first round of chemo didn’t do the trick, he didn’t give up. And even after the second, third, and fourth rounds… he never gave up. In his five-year battle he even went face to face with total body irradiation and ultimately bone marrow transplant.

After a long, hard battle with the disease his body was unable to take any illness and with one fail swoop of pneumonia his ability to fight it off was completely gone. He passed away on May 21st of this year.

This Father’s Day was a little more difficult than all others as I could not keep my mind from thinking about my father.  All the good times we shared are constantly going through my mind today. And even though I’m grasping for words to express what I feel, I can’t think of anything better to think about.
Love you Pop. I’ll make you proud.