In 2009 :
Lo : 25 °
Hi : 53 °
Rainfall : 0.00 “

In 2008 :
Lo : 48 °
Hi : 56 °
Rainfall : 0.13 ”

In 2007 :
Lo : 63 °** Record Warmest
Hi : 77 °** Record Hottest
Rainfall : 0.23 “

In 2006 :
Lo : 13 °
Hi : 49 °
Rainfall : 0.00 “

In 2005 :
Lo : 15 °
Hi : 28 °** Record Coolest
Rainfall : 0.00 ”...

Much like Tuesdays 3 year note auction, yesterday’s 10 year note auction was weaker than expected. Following the release of the results, mortgage backed securities continued to be pressured lower as treasury yields rose. There were some reports of a couple aggressively priced lenders that did reissue new rate sheets for the worse but most lenders had left rates unchanged on the day as the losses were not substantial.

The Department of Labor released the weekly jobless claims...

Who's following you on Twitter? Are you telling your personal business to countless people you don't know?
Seeing reports from across the country.
"Man Tweets while on vacation. Comes home to ransacked house."

Smart Tweet:
"Just home from a week at the beach. Great sun, surf, seafood."

Less Smart Tweets:
"Off to the beach for a week. Back next Sunday"
"Going out for Gulf Stream fishing today. See you tomorrow....

Returning to school has been a series of new lessons. I considered myself literate on the old computer but I am daily learning something new. I do know that somethings are still just very hands on. Touch, smile, hug.
I hope all the new nurses get a chance to learn that as I did twenty years ago. I am dismayed by all the technology they are carrying in their pockets. Try to find one with a good pair of scissors.

In the Old Testament book of Exodus the people of Israel experienced what initially seemed like impossible circumstances.

I won't describe the entire account of Israel's deliverance from their bondage in Egypt. Anyone that has a Bible can read it for themselves.

But one particularly trying circumstance has stood out to me and has encouraged me these last few days.

At the beginning of their journey into the desert on their way to the promised land...