No Problem!

I got back from Dallas just fine. Bryan did invite me fishing one evening, and I caught one 12" bass.

I have now been indoctrinated in how to give away David Gochman's money. Academy has a "no problem" policy. We take care of our customers. If each store spends half a million dollars per year on advertising for customers that might come in the store, then it's no big deal to spend some money on the customers who are already in the store. We believe that most people are honest, and so we treat our customers as if they are honest. If someone takes advantage of the system, it's on them, not on us, and they will continue to buy things at our store. If we are stingy about our return policy, we might make people mad and they might not continue to buy stuff at our store.

The natural turn is this: what if the church had a no problem policy? In some ways it would be a mess, as there are clearly things that really are problems. You can't just "no problem" everything. In other ways, if we accepted people as generally honest, and didn't hassle them in their dealings with the church, maybe we'd have a few more long term customers and a few less disgruntled former customers.

I managed A's on my first two papers for Childers. Will they be enough to keep me afloat?

Bow season is upon us, and I have no place to hunt. The place I do have requires that the landowner be there also, and he's in South America.

The fish are still around. I caught a few bass the other day, and broke off one about 5 pounds when he wrapped my topwater around a bush.

The family is doing well. The boys have school pictures today, and Jared got a new buzz haircut. He's cute.

We also bought the boys a swing set. We thought about it for Christmas, but someone put Christmas in the middle of winter, and so we thought we should get it when they could actually use it.

That's about it for now.