Life is good. Happy Birthday Wayne.

Thank the Lord for antibiotics. I'm glad that my phone already has this word in its predictive dictionary.
I've been sick and I have never been more glad for penicillin. Being ill made parachute hard and has lingered painfully for the last few weeks after since my first dose wasn't strong enough and my second dose came with doctors orders to take the dang pills on an empty stomach.

"(ONE hour before food or TWO hours after)"

I aren't complaining though, from what I've read having tonsils out as an adult sounds like 4 weeks of throat-death.
My pills are a retro reddish brown, the colour might make a nice jersey.

Tonight I watched march of the penguins between disobeying orders and stealing food that should interrupt my medicine. Penguins are pretty loyal to each other.

What I found cool was how they showed remorse or grief at the sight of an egg or baby penguin that had been claimed by the freezing climate. Sure these eggs or young'uns become abandoned and cast to the side once they have expired, but some penguins would stop and have a poke around with their beak, identify the sad case and seemed to take pause and think.
It was really touching to see that. Even Penguins seem to show an understanding of how precious life is.

Yesterday was Wayne Reynolds 21st birthday. I still struggle to understand that when he died he was younger than I am now. He was older than me and I feel he still is and I don't think reason or logic can convince me any different. He was smart, he excelled in school, he fought through immense pain with strength God gave him, with words to quote that God gave Him, and with family and friends that cherished him.
I'm incredibley thankful to God for him. Lessons are continuing to be learned from Waynes struggle, in my life at the very least.

It would be good to see everyday the gift that life is, thank God and spend time in His wisdom and live out our days with that richer perspective, but it maintains its place as being a real fight everyday, a battle for wholesome growth.