Jolene's brother went home to be with the Lord on Monday. He took his own life. Please pray for us and the family as we alternate between sorrow and praise for God's goodness through all.

--Joel and Jolene

Stevenson, Jon, Jr. 33 of N. Wildwood, was suddenly taken on October 22nd to be with his Heavenly Father and his Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.  A 1992 graduate of Wildwood High School, Jonathan worked at various businesses in the county, most recently as an administrative assistant at Crest Community Church of Wildwood Crest. Beloved son, brother and uncle, Jonathan is survived by his parents, Jon and Marian Stevenson, sisters Jeni Richline (California), Judi Boyd (North Jersey), Jolene Harrison (Delaware), and brother Jeremy (Pennsylvania); nieces Sabrina, Jessica and Julia, and nephews Jared, Joshua, and Isaiah. Services will be held at Crest Community Church 5901 Pacific Ave., Wildwood Crest on Saturday at 2:30pm.  Friends may call at 1:30pm.  The burial will be at Tabernacle Cemetery, Erma, NJ.  In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Hope Pregnancy Center, PO Box 767, Rio Grande, NJ 08242 or the Christian School Scholarship Fund, Calvary OP Church, 119 E. Rio Grande Ave, Wildwood, NJ 08260.

So if I were to provide an accurate picture of what I've been spending time on, it would include Stargate SG-1 seasons 1-9, Stargate SG-Atlantis Seasons 1-2, Alias seasons 1 and 2, and George R.R. Martin's series "A Song of Ice and Fire" books 1 and 2.  Along with a little tiny bit of work around the house, and a whole lot of ignoring the lot of construction work in the basement.

Some poker on Thursday's has occurred... I think I'm net -$10 or so for all the weeks I've played, but it's just for fun anyway.   Personally I'd rather play D&D but I can't manage to get an invitation from my friends yet..... argh!!

I've contacted the ICCM, no, not the 1st or 2nd hit in google, this is the Int'l Conference on Computing and Missions, to see how I might assist them I'll likely be getting together with a local group shortly for some assistance based on that contact, we'll see.

God has been good to me and my family.. I got a promotion at the bank recently to Vice President # 4985703. and Sr. Engineer.

This house has been great and we are so blessed. Jolene and I are so thankful for how God has blessed us and our marriage. As Jolene has mentioned we are planning on homeschooling the kids come fall, so we'll see what opportunities that opens up for travel and visiting with me being able to work virtually anywhere...

I had an enhancement surgery in my left eye yesterday. It was faster than last time and seems to be less post-op pain, maybe because they had to carve out less of my eyeball.   Should bring my left eye closer to being 20/20.

We've made proress spackling the office and I ran speaker wires. I think we're ready to drywall the ceiling, which technically you're supposed to do first, but whatever. I bought a circle attachment for my rotozip, should make the holes for the recessed lights easier. It won't help me put them in the right place any better, but we'll see how that goes.

I got my new system internals for my main computer. It's a 2Ghz Core 2 duo, 2GB RAM, 7900GT video card. Now I can play "Oblivion" at good framerates and "Titan Quest" is super quick. I haven't even loaded up any of my older games, I'm too sucked into Oblivion -- one of the best games I've ever played.