The Sabbatical Is Over

We now return to our regularly scheduled blog.  Thank you for your patience.

I am back to blogging.  Have you missed me?  I'm sure you did.  Let's see, two weeks of blogging vacation and what happened?  Not much.  Oh, my family came to town, so it was nice to see them and hang out with them for a few days.  Hadn't seen them since March, so it was good to catch up.

Oh, I remember what I wanted to write about.  It's actually about the last two times that I was a reader at church.  A little irony mixed with a little humor and what have you got?  Me, someone from Arizona that happens to be half Mexican, reading a letter from the bishop of San Bernardino, regarding the current Immigration reform issue taking place in Arizona.  Ironic, huh?  Me, a Mexican from Arizona, living in California and reading a statement from the Bishop of San Bernardino.  Good stuff.  It's interesting how the U.S. Catholic Bishops are trying to support immigration reform and yet distance themselves from the act at the same time. 

The second bit of irony was just this past weekend.  The first reading at church was from the Book of Revelation.  It talked about a woman being pregnant and going into labor and then a dragon appearing in hopes of devouring the child as it is born.  But where's the irony you ask?  Remember that my wife is pregnant and due to give birth in September.  Plus, I also like dragons.  These two facts prompted my wife (who is the cantor at mass) to whisper to me before I read the announcements to let the congregation know that she would not allow our baby to be devoured by a dragon.  I didn't get a chance to offer the information to the congregation, though I'm sure that they will be concerned if there are any dragon sightings in the Inland Empire.

Now that my sabbatical is over, I will come back to updating the blog.  Perhaps not every day, but every few days if something interesting happens or if there is something that "Grinds My Gears", to quote Peter Griffin from Family Guy.  If it happens to me, then you might learn about it.  Oh, and I might have to take another vacation in September, you know, since my wife is having a baby and all.

Until next time.