Well, I normally don't post this often, but I just had a very interesting lunch. So, I go down to the hotel bar/restaurant and I order my lunch. I eat my lunch and I'm waiting for my bill. Well, all this time there is a man sitting at the bar talking up the bartender(a woman). He gets up from his seat and walks over to me and says something along the lines of "We know each other." My response is "Do we?" He then responded with, "My name isn't Dewey." At that point I thought he was just playing some bar game with me, you know, like a word game where he drops little clues to get me to say the key phrase that wins the game. Well, I think I was wrong. It appeared to me that he had been drinking for a while and that he was very upset about his job situation. Anyway, what I want to ask is that people say a prayer for my bar friend. I don't know if he knows what he is going to do with the rest of his life. Based on what he said he had just lost a pretty good job opportunity and now doesn't know what to do. So, anyway, thanks.

This is shaping up to be a very active off season for me. Here I am again, uprooted and moved into another country for a week. I'll get an oppertunity to meet new people and discover a culture that is at this point a mystery. Of course, the whole driving the on the left side of the road is really messing with my mind. I'm glad I didn't end up getting a rental car. Pretty sure that would have ended poorly for everyone involved. So, right now I'm reading this book about the cash flow quadrent. The chapters I'm reading through now are detailing different types of investors. So far the book has been eye opening about some of the ways I think and act with my money. Next week, after I get home, we plan on working out a budget. In the past, every time we have tried to write up a budget the ends have not met. Because of these unbalanced budgets we have mostly just winged it every month and somehow things seem to work out. Well, this is not good enough anymore. When I get home we are definitly going to list out all of our debt and all of our spending. We can't know where we are going if we don't know where we are beggining. Also, we plan on growing our wealth, not just our incomes. This will involve becoming educated investors who understand how growth of assets vs. growth of income. It is going to be long road, but we will be able to give and provide for more and more people all the time. I'll admit I have the selfish ambition of not ending up on the 45year plan and instead am looking forward to the 3-5 year plan. I'll also admit that once our debt is paid off we plan on living inexpensivly and supporting missionaries, orphanages, adult education, along with other things that I don't even know are possible yet. It is going to be an exciting adventure and I'm looking forward to it.