So Jimmy's blogging from the lift on the Right...correct?
(please excuse my cell phone camera pic)
]]>I have known many residents and staff at Fair Havens from my time volunteering in Singles Ministry and their service to women and children is exceptional. I look forward to helping out with this fundraiser.
Since Jimmy the "P" has set fundraising goals for all the guest bloggers, I'm considering taking the giver of the largest donation ($50 minimum) during my stint on the lift to lunch at Bob's Better Burger, which means they will learn my true identity!
]]>It's not like I am totally anonymous, but there are some who firmly believe that the writers at Jessica's Well are the same person, one with multiple-conservative-personality-disorder.
I can firmly say that there are multiple writers at Jessica's Well...and it is a real secretive club.
]]>I often have to deal with government employees. Much like fast food workers and restaurant staff, they run the gambit on ability, desire, helpfulness, and competence. The problem, they can screw up way more than your food order if they "get it wrong."
More than once in the past couple of months I have been faced with a state level bureaucrat who starts working their little fiefdom the same way they have always run it and making the assumption that lowly regulated citizen you is just going to take what they dish out, because everybody else does.
I'm not like everybody else and nothing makes a bureaucrat squirm and make that "call to legal" when somebody comes in and has actually read the State law, and agency rules in regards to a matter. Too bad that squirming generally leads to animosity from the bureaucrat, after all, you upset their comfortable procedure, regardless of your rights, privileges and the law.
It is sad to say, but at least fast food service and restaurant service gets better or goes away after a while, because people withhold their dollars if it gets too bad, but there is no such mechanism for government, especially when our elected officials have forgotten the meaning of "cut the bureaucracy."
]]>I wouldn't say I formally started blogging as long ago as some in the Midland/Odessa area, but it is approaching 5 years since I started reading/writing blogs in one way or another. I also cringe when I realize I will have had an email address for 20 years starting this summer.
I never really got into the "personal-blog" thing, though on occasion I do some "personal-blog" things like post pictures of my dogs. My life can be complicated enough without relating the story to everyone on God's green earth, I enjoy my semi-anonymity. As some have noted, it is VERY difficult to keep up a blog...and it is twice is hard when you spend your time writing for some other blogs. You tend to put your effort into the one, and not the other.
In my case, I will spend most of my effort over at Jessica's Well, and when I think about it, I'll post a picture of one of my dogs over here.
]]>I find the use of "anonymous" third party verification tools like TypeKey or the use of non-machine readable challenge codes kill almost all the comment spam.
Good luck SiteAdmin!
]]>Enjoy!
It can only be from Him, because by all measures for one to exercise this gift without him would be devastating.
What is this gift?
The ability to make right and wise decisions in the midst of complete and utter chaos...and bring peace to those involved......the downside of this gift, you have to be in complete and utter chaos to know you have been blessed with it.
I am being tested and measured.
]]>Local Political Blogs: Asking the questions whispered in the coffee shops.
]]>Now there is this little drop down list with formats like “Markdown” and “Markdown wth SmartPants”.
Seems like I’m gonna have to do a bit of reading.
]]>The author screens shure have gotten a face lift and all the sudden there are lots more widgets and buttons for publishing!
WOW It seems the blockqute style has changed up a bit from the default.
I really don't know why I take the time to keep my MT installation up to date, it's not like I blog here a lot anyway. However, it shows me what I'm missing (especially the SPAM tools) at the Well.
]]>Ohh and there was that issue of new kids in the house....thankfully it is going pretty darn well.
]]>How? I do not know. The Lord had a lot to do with it.
We were blessed to get a fairly well adjusted pair, given their journey to our home. They sleep through the night and on par are like most toddlers I have ever been around.
As a bonus they have absolutely no fear of our dogs and save all the sniffing and licking and general "who are these new dogs in our pack" going on, everyone seems to be getting on great. Though, our younger dog, Buddy, has had to learn the meaning of "no jumping up" and "gentle play" since, he normally likes to be a bit rambunctious.
The only thing that worries me is that many people have said that getting foster kids involves a "honeymoon" period, and that makes me think the other shoe may drop in a few weeks......I'll keep my prayers current just in case.
]]>Because of this I may never do a whole lot more to improve the look of my blog. Yeah I can understand all the syntax of HTML/PHP and such, but in the last several years I have never had the will (or time) to dive into the various web programming languages.
I taught myself BASIC on a TI99/4A, learned PASCAL in high school and did enough FORTRAN programming to write a simple finite element analysis program for a senior level structural design class. I self taught myself the ins and outs of a certain database program and wrote a pretty decent membership database.
The thing that changed was getting married. It really cut down on my extra curricular learning in the afternoon and evenings...and now there are toddlers in our house... and now all time and learning new programming languages and web customization are gone for a while to come.
That is unless I can make more money fooling with computers than I can as an Engineer....umm no I don't think so...well, not right now.
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