Christmas 1999
Well, folks. Another year is gone, Y2K is upon us, and it’s time once again to celebrate God’s gift to humanity. No, I’m not talking about myself (but thanks for asking!). I’m talking about Jesus. It’s truly staggering when I think of what he gave up just to live for a few years as a human on Earth. And why? Because we messed up, and he loved us too much to make us have to pay for our own choice. Staggering. To be honest, gratefulness over that one action is my reason for “living a Christian life”. I sincerely hope it can be your’s, too.
And now for the news from our neck of the woods. First, our headlines.
Our first headline is the discovery of a new addition to the Pilkington team. With an estimated arrival date of March 12, 2000, our Y2K forecast will be calling for lots of fun and diapers when the bouncing baby boy arrives. Current expectation is that he will answer to the name of Alex, but I suspect you could call him most any name for a while and recieve the same amount of drool and/or milk curd in response.
Our second story involves the purchase of a second story … house. Yes, the Pilkington’s have moved! They are now the proud owners of a 2-story house in North Austin. The new address is 13302 Bennington lane, Austin, TX 78753, 512 252 7585, kep@acm.org. We are loving the house and as soon as we get things sorted out, perhaps we will post some pictures on the web.
In our last headline, Kent gets fired! That’s right. Canned, sacked, “Don’t let the door hit you on your way out”. Following a tremendous outpouring of work, effort, and dedication on KentÕs part, he was dismissed for political reasons … with a tidy little severence package that will serve as the bonus which he should have recieved for a job well done. Kent was quoted as saying, “I’m gonna have myself a Merry Little Christmas and then turn down the first three offers … just for fun!!” Tim Bobo was quoted as saying, “If I got fired like that after working like that, I’d have a party!” All things considered, I don’t believe it could have been a better, or more unexpected turn of events. Having been fired, Tivoli Systems will be awarding to Kent a performance rating of “3 – Performed as expected”. Go figure.
In the past year, Kent has been working too much, and learning that it’s not worth it. In the coming year, Kent will be finding a better job, developing Janet’s store front, maybe teaching adult Sunday School (currently interrim), and learning how to handle all those things that his landlord used to deal with.
In the past year, Janet has been serving on the church nusury commitee, working with Brittany, and developing her e-business (bbargains.com) in her spare time. In the coming year, Janet will continue with these activities, add a baby to the mix and Òhelp Kent knowÓ what he needs to handle that his landlord used to deal with.
In the past year, Brittany has been learning most of her letters and numbers to 10, singing songs, talking non-stop, playing with her dolls and her cars (putting her dolls to bed in the back of her big’ole Tonka dumptruck), and occasionally bursting out with complete sentances. In the coming year she will be learning about baby brothers, how to say, “Mine!!” while clutching small toys in a death grasp, and generally charming the socks off of everyone she meets (Our unbiased opinion, of course). I suppose she can wait on advanced neurochemistry and Object-Oriented Software Development until next year.