Non-linear thinking

• I decided not to go and take my driver's test yesterday. Thought I might not be too alert due to jetlag.
• Went this morning, but I have to produce some more pieces of mail to prove that I really have an Iowan address. So I might go back next week.
  
• Else I'll just use my South African license. Which is completely legal.
  
• I may have been the only person around Cedar Rapids wearing a coat, scarf and gloves. Some young Iowans are out in shorts and T-shirts while I'm shivering.
• It was 34 degrees this morning. It may get up to a blistering 50 degrees later in the day. Warm enough to melt all of yesterday's snow.
• Yes, we had snow yesterday.
  
• We had heavy rains yesterday afternoon, followed by an inch of snow. More, actually, but much melted thanks to the rain.
• This morning was the first morning in a while that I was back at scraping ice and snow off the window of the car I'm using.
• It was also the first morning that I was wide awake at 4 am. Got to spend 2 hours in bed, reading. Then I got up.
• Today, I get to visit with lots and lots of people at a dessert event. Tomorrow and Sunday's packed with missions events. And a wedding reception in between everything.
• I should be working on my presentation for tonight. Not a formal presentation, no. Just some pictures from the past year. Then head home to help bake a million pies for tonight.
  
• OK, I'm exaggerating, I know.
• Some people were wondering if tonight's dessert is part of the New Covenant missions weekend. Yes, it is. That's why I'm in town.
• Back to work.