I thought I’d continue what I was writing about yesterday, leaving Nerds On Site. It’s been a tough decision. The income I make at Mitchell Insurance Agency is more than can easily be replaced starting a business from scratch and only being able to work it part-time. I’ve learned a LOT this last year working with Nerds and I’m thankful for it. I’m gonna just concentrate on what pays the bills for right now. I don’t want to jeopardize that especially with us planning to have a baby (that’s right, I said it). If I didn’t have a good paying job, a wife and a mortgage, I’d go at it full force. I just found that it was a lot harder to get clients than I’d hoped and most small businesses don’t want to spend money on their computers. I felt like I spent a lot of time spinning my wheels. I’d spend time trying to line stuff up and people would back out because of price. Also, many times an hour job would turn into a 5 hour job but rarely get extra billing out of it since we don’t work hourly.

I am still planning to keep learning though. I have found this great Linux course online (and it’s free). It has a basic, intermediate and advanced level. I am starting the basic course this week. I’ve wanted to get really good at Linux for a long time. So I’m gonna focus on that, keep helping friends and friends of friends to make some money here and there (and I can actually keep 100% instead of only 50%). I’m trying to see if one of the other Nerds wants to buy the Nerdmobile. So that’s the story I guess.

In other news, Jessica and I have found a church that we love. We’ve spent time with the pastor and his wife getting to know them. I feel really comfortable and I think it’s somewhere we can start to build a foundation for our family. I’ve fought it for a long time, being filled with fear and confusion after what happened in my past. I never blamed God, but I did have a very hard time understanding and accepting that sometimes you just don’t understand everything. I’m so glad that we found this church too. The pastor graduated from Southeastern, so I know he’s got a similar background and belief system. He’s actually a couple years younger than me. It’s a young church but doing very well. I know that I will be able to get involved when I’m ready. Right now, my prayer has been “God, I just wanna be friends again.”