Would you like a lemon in your water?

So I'm sitting down at my PC after a hard days work, getting ready to download my AVG FREE anti-virous software when my cell phone buzzes (I still had it on pager mode from when I went to church that night)...The caller ID says Smoothie King (a.k.a. work) so I answer. The voice on the other end says..."we have a major problem." Not exactly what you want to hear. "We have no water / water pressure." Now here is he rest of the story 1) I get the water co. number from her 2) I call the water co. and for like a minute there are computer voice prompts asking me if I want spanish words and the computer voice even takes a moment to explain about how there new automated system is so easy to use...all the while my business suffers because we can't make smoothies without water...3) I finally get a real person and they tell me that "they" are doing the spring hydrent flush and we will be without water for 15 - 30 min. The water co. guys says that I should have known that they were going to do this because the water co. posts the schedule "maybe in the newspaper" he said. Do you know the hydrant flushing schedule in you area...OF COURSE YOU DON'T - NO ONE DOES! 4) I call the store and tell one employee to call the Subway that is behind us to see if they have water and tell the other to take some petty cash down the block to fetch a pale of water from the kwik-e-mart. She calls me back and says that the kwik-e-mart doesn't have any water 5) Anyway...I jump into the truck and race over to buy some water at the Payless...I pull into my parking space and suddenly realize that I don't have my wallet. See I didn't put it in my pocket because I was just going to go to a youth leader meeting later that is just down the street from my house 5) I scrape up just over $2.50 from out of my truck and front pants pocket. 6) I buy 3 gallons of water and run to the store. While on the way to the store I call the store back to see if their had been any changes and as I explain that I'm on my way with water she asks why I'm bringing water...she had got some at the kwik-e-mart - they had water to buy as we discussed but not water in their pipes...I had not taken it that way. 7) I get to the store and find out that kwik-e-mart water is about .50 cents more per gallon than Payless water. Anyway this story takes place at night so by this time Smoothie King is like 15 min. from closing and we're limping along on the jugs of water. 8) I call the water co. back to see what's up and now they say they have an unconfirmed main break somewhere and that it will be 6 - 8 hrs. What's great about the situation is that the main broke about 1.5 hours before we close which gives them their 6-8 hrs. to fix the problem while we are closed at night instead of the break 1.5 hrs. before we open in the AM and then the hrs. would take a huge chunk of our next days sales. If you are still reading this, Sorry I've bored you with all the details but it just goes to show how you can go from just sitting there doing nothing to an emergancy in like 5 sec. God is in control (and I'm very thankful for this) and I won't worry (to much) about what I'll find at Smoothie King in the AM. Next up...pics of my niece at Easter if I can figure out how to post them and a maybe some Passion Play pics. Good day!

So I'm Grizzly-Adams-like right now because I am acting in the Lafayette Passion Play. I know it is against Smoothie King policy to have facial hair but since I'm in charge at this Smoothie King and the eternity of peoples' souls are at stake...having the beard for 6 weeks is a risk I'm willing to take. Smoothie King is an avenue in which I can spread the good news of Jesus Christ...that life has a purpose...that there is a heaven to be won and a hell to be shunned after we die. And if Christ doesn't come first we will all die. My grandmother has a saying...She says, "Ain't none of us going to out of this world alive." More to come later...I've got to go...