Random thoughts and tires

Sitting here listening to PUC internet radio podcast http://
www.puc.edu/pucradio as I try to develop some thoughts at the end of
the day. PUC can proudly say that we are the first SDA college to
offer scheduled podcasting of a campus program of news and info for
the campus and students.

Today was new tires day on the Pathfinder since tomorrow is the start
of a scheduled wonderful weekend of camping. $921 later I have four
new bfGoodrich tires on the machine. I have never in my life thought
that tires could cost almost $1,000. I know, could have put on some
cheep brand but the Craig Theory is that these tires will last long
enough to make the extra expense worthwhile.

On Friday my family is going camping for the first time this summer.
Seems hard to believe but we never spent a night in our camper this
entire summer. Mark and I had our trip to General Conference but we
never did get any camping in. Mark has the day off from school
tomorrow and we are going up to Icehouse Reservoir above Placerville
for a weekend of camping, hiking, 4x4ing and general book reading. I
need to get away after two weeks of getting the late arriving
students into the computers and registered for the fall term. Linda
has been swamped at the Bookstore with the normal flood of students
complaining about the cost of books and supplies for students. Mark
has settled in fine in his school and a day off will be nice.

Mark is now involved in weekly math tutoring after school and he is
more excited about school then I have seen in a long long time. He
wants to go to school, what a wonderful concept. In a couple weeks he
is scheduled to go on a two night field trip up to the Lassen Peak
area for a Science field trip. We are so pleased that he is in a
Christian school that can go on such a trip and present nature as the
Book of God without getting bogged down in evolution.