And for some happy news: Seventeen years ago today, I married my beloved Bride at a very, very small ceremony in a church in Jacksonville, FL. And by small, I mean the two of us and two pastors (husband and wife duo). They were very happy to hold a small, private ceremony for the two of us so that we wouldn't have to do a Justice of the Peace wedding. We flew to Houston the next day and had a larger ceremony with family at my Bride's family church. Then, four days after our wedding, I shipped off for a six month deployment overseas aboard a United States Naval Aircraft Carrier... that beautiful woman shipped me a care package every single week for six months. And she hasn't slacked off in her love and care for me for a single day in the past seventeen years.