The 'ups' outweigh the 'downs'...

First the 'downs': I drilled all day today and was just about to celebrate when our newly designed swivel failed on me. Monday I hope to have the designer come to the drill site and see if he can make an adjustment on it.

UPS! That's not the delivery service; that's things that are UP!:

• The Good Seed kids: Fabi, Mauricio, & Angel came home with unexpected report cards today and each of them were outstanding! Excellent, excellent grades...PTL!
• A couple at church bought Mauricio a guitar and are paying for lessons for him. We only need to get him to the lessons and they even bring him home. He is really excited and the guitar is beautiful...it's not a toy; it's the real deal.
• All of the children are really doing much better now that there are less of us packed in here. Attitudes are improved, fights and noise levels are reduced...they're doing quite well.
• Joyce asked the kid's tutor to stay an extra hour and we slipped out to Power Chicken and woofed down some very good shrimp! Date night.

We are supposed to get hit with Tropical Storm Matthew at 8 in the morning. Actually the track has it passing right over top of us. Just about everything here has been cancelled or is closed tomorrow.