Life from Kessle Lane

Become the BEST

I am a Bama fan. I am a Bama fan to the core. Just a few weeks ago, the Tide won their 14th National Championship in a totally dominating fashion. LSU only crossed the 50 yard line one time the entire game and was shut out for the first time in BCS history. It was the third consecutive national championship for a team from the state of Alabama. the Tide won it in 2009, Auburn in 2010 and the Tide...

With….or without….you

I am guilty. This year it seems like, Christmas has not only come faster than ever before, but it also seems like it has been totally missed. This time last year I had seen A Christmas Story at least 8 times, Elf at least 4 or times and various other Christmas movies multiple times. By this week, we had been to several church Christmas programs including an amazing production at Woodstock First Baptist...

Never Once

Today is Thanksgiving, 2011. As usual, we spent it in Douglasville with Steph’s family and will as usual, spend Christmas with my family. There are a lot of people talking about what they are thankful for. Steph even asked me on the way home tonight what I am thankful for and of course I said the safe, textbook answers: “I am thankful for my wife, my family and second chances in life.” What...

Driving up I-75

This morning, I woke up sometime after 6.  There was a light around our bedroom door which was unusually closed. That meant Stephanie was up which also was unusual but the past24 hours had been anything close to usual or even remotely closed to what we expected. Yesterday started with great anticipation. After all that was the day we would see our child and hear a heartbeat for the second time. That...

Apostles and iPads

Lately I have been challenged at work to once again set up mobile technicians. Techs would go out, do their work,  log in to our system using iPads, get the customer to sign the tablet and print out their receipt.  Sounds easy but technology isn’t quite there yet to make it as easy as it sounds. However, using a specific app, and a specific printer with specific capabilities, I was able to...