Well needless to say I am very pleased thus far with the print ability of the R340 from Epson, I had read a lot of mixed reviews, tried test prints at CompUSA, and was torn, but now I am printing out 4×6’s left and right It will do full bleeds up to 8×10 - for larger stuff I can always outsource for 17×11 and such, but for most projects, client work, 4×6 or 5×7 will probably do, and for bands I can layout some 8×10 glossy’s as well, good stuff.
Anywhoo - lots of final prep on the room tonight, according to Officemax my table should be in tomorrow, if I can get it all re-arranged and cleaned the last bits tonight, I am good to go, because 2 monitors is just not possible with this printer on my desk, my Windows station is already pushed over to the site quite a bit
Well currently I have 4 chicks in my backyard, 2 more eggs to go - our neighbors raise chickens, and my dad before leaving told them one made it over and laid some eggs in our backyard, well apparently they’ve been there a while as they are hatching right and left.
Cute buggers though the mom is only watching over one - it follows her around like a puppy, the other 3 already out and about are huddled in the patio cover that’s laying on the ground, as it got cool last night, poor guys, I’m sure it was cold - but they are alive, not sure what to do, but so far nature seems to be fine without me butting in.
A big day - Going to call Officemax again, see if they ever found my desk, was supposed to get a call, got nothing, so going to call again and see whats up, also my Epson R340 comes in today, found the 4×6 paper from Epson on sale for 100 sheets, so I picked it up, going to do a print or two once I get it up and running - but pretty excited about both those, will help un-clutter the room with the new desk, and I have been wanting to print some stuff photo quality so should be fun.
Prep work is underway for probably one of the last CMC things for a while, one final project I suggested finally is coming about, migration to a new provider for hosting, I have never done their hosting on my servers, but their current provider has made some changes, and it makes it harder for them to keep updated, plus without a full time admin anymore, they needed a better solution, this way I can at least automate some of the update processes to nightly so they have a more up-to-date system, which is half the battle, then their new part-time admin will come in now and again for checkups.
All in all, a busy day I suppose - and with temps slated to be under 100F should be a not-so-sticky day - but I must get to it, say a prayer for me, lot of work to do, a only so many hours of sleep had, so I might be a tad cranky. Have a Good Day All.
Check your Hero’s box, and highly consider disabling flash on MySpace - I was browsing a profile tonight, a box pop’d up, then disappeared, kept trying to see where it was going and found a link to login18.swf.
Not sure what it does, wish I had a way to easily decompile Flash - but needless to say later I came to my own profile, same popup appeared, my “Heros” section had been edited and the same code posted, so be sure to check your profile’s hero section, and change your password to be on the safe side.
Well after a few days of pondering I have my new room layout in my head - and I took the plunge and got the R340 Epson photo printer for the mac - as well as a second table - so I will have a Windows Station and a Mac Station, also in going through clothes I have a trashbag full of clothes to give away - stuff I’ve outgrown and such.
But the new layout should work good to, the back wall will have the 2 stations on either sides of the room, as well as a printer dedicated to each, LaserJet on Windows (as it has no Mac drivers) and the R340 on the Mac for use in Photo Printing and color works - but mainly photos - borderless! W00T!
Also going to pick up a fan or two, one for me in my room, and one for the living room as the old one that was in there exploded last night, it fell the other day but looked fine, however it was unbalanced so it kept falling over, last night it fell again, and plastic went everywhere! Twas scary, and cool at the same time.
All in all things are going alright, have a pile of checks to deposit, a pile of palm pilots (which I may sell publically if no friends want them) its good stuff. More later (maybe)
Lately around town, I have heard the whispers that our fair town is going to crap, rise in crime, tagging, and throw in a natural distaster or two, a lot of people seem to be living on fear vs faith - one thing I have heard is that in a paraphrased form of what everyone has said “God is angry, and he’s gonna do some mad-ass smackdown” - our local dam has a crack and a earthquake could cause it to break and flood the area, and I’d probably be midly soggy.
Though I hear these things said, and they are presented in fear, fear, fear, fear - they always throw in a bit about how more people are going to Church, and yet this doom-and-gloom style stuff continues, and while I know many churches are preaching we are in the “last days” while that may be the case, I don’t think FEAR should be the ultimate motivator in leading folks to Christ, like many choices in Christian life I don’t think we should allow fear or tradition control how we live our life.
I have been in charge of music at a few churches I have gone to, my background in vocal and instrumental music always got me easily voted in - but my views on things didn’t always keep people happy with me, I had a saying about “Special” music that was sometimes brought during Sunday service - I said “If it happens every week, how is it special?” this has not always set well with some people who were in my singing groups - the classic church road block especially of coming into a church I didn’t grow up in, was “But Chuck, we’ve always done it that way, it’s part of the service” but then call it “Mid-Morning Song” the word is “Special” and it should be treated as such, not just because its ALWAYS been done should you throw in a tape and read the lyrics from the tape insert, but because God’s touched your heart with a message, with a song, and its bursting from you, not only that but you’ve polished it, you’ve learned it, and its awesome - truly special to not only you, but to those listening - and to God.
I guess my views on Church, my faith, and such are a tad different than some, I was raised in a very “involved” family in the church, from my Grandfather’s Church as a kid, to my dad’s - and while some people would say “Ah, typical PK” - I recall me and my siblings going to a PK Retreat as kids, and it was the stupidest thing I have ever gone to - couselors at the camp were more or less telling us it was alright to hate our dads, and every other kid was complaining about - and this was my laugh of the time there “My dad just out of no where called me to take the offering!” - wow. So harsh that dad of yours - I guess service was raised in me from a young age - but I always wondered what those kids parents wrote them as fathers were to write their kids a letter, which we got while we were away, my dad wrote me a letter which I have to this day, and it wasn’t an apology for making me take the offering, it was encouragement, love, and his view of me growing up.
So were am I going with this post? Grace. God isn’t about raining down fire on our fair little town, but if its what it takes to bring about repetance, then he will use it I suppose, but grace when it comes to God is key. I mean we all deserve death, we all are in sin, born into a world filled of it, but grace is key, grace is what saves us, grace God freely gives - and maybe why I read Jonah again recently - but in this time and issues in Bako this scripture stuck out:
Jonah 4 (The Message)
“I Knew This Was Going to Happen!”
1-2 Jonah was furious. He lost his temper. He yelled at God, “God! I knew it—when I was back home, I knew this was going to happen! That’s why I ran off to Tarshish! I knew you were sheer grace and mercy, not easily angered, rich in love, and ready at the drop of a hat to turn your plans of punishment into a program of forgiveness! 3” So, God, if you won’t kill them, kill me! I’m better off dead!”
4 God said, “What do you have to be angry about?”
5 But Jonah just left. He went out of the city to the east and sat down in a sulk. He put together a makeshift shelter of leafy branches and sat there in the shade to see what would happen to the city.
6 God arranged for a broad-leafed tree to spring up. It grew over Jonah to cool him off and get him out of his angry sulk. Jonah was pleased and enjoyed the shade. Life was looking up.
7-8 But then God sent a worm. By dawn of the next day, the worm had bored into the shade tree and it withered away. The sun came up and God sent a hot, blistering wind from the east. The sun beat down on Jonah’s head and he started to faint. He prayed to die: “I’m better off dead!”
9 Then God said to Jonah, “What right do you have to get angry about this shade tree?”
Jonah said, “Plenty of right. It’s made me angry enough to die!”
10-11 God said, “What’s this? How is it that you can change your feelings from pleasure to anger overnight about a mere shade tree that you did nothing to get? You neither planted nor watered it. It grew up one night and died the next night. So, why can’t I likewise change what I feel about Nineveh from anger to pleasure, this big city of more than 120,000 childlike people who don’t yet know right from wrong, to say nothing of all the innocent animals?”
I think a lot of Christian’s have devloped this Jonah additude here in Bako, I am not trying to sit here and say EVERY Christian is in this mix, but many are, God calls us to a work, to a task, and says “Go here, do this” and we get this expectation of EXACTLY God is going to do, but God saw that the people of Nineveh had a change of heart, that they heard his warning of his anger towards them, but in their change of heart he extended grace, and in all honesty Jonah was a instrument of allowing that grace to happen, and yet he ran from it because of how he felt about the people in Nineveh, he ran from the chance to give warning and offer a chance for a 180 from their current way of life - because he didn’t want to allow for grace, so God gave him a view of grace with the tree he provided, and followed up with the Worm - showing in the end its God’s choice what happens, and faith in him is truly the best course.
So this coming week, issue grace to someone, think of how many times you have been alloted grace for the thing your currently getting hot under the collar for, and extend a break to someone, even if they don’t deserve it, if it’s a waitress who just spilled ketchup on your new white shirt, its just a shirt - it can be washed, restored, and renewed just good as new - or if someone cuts you off on the road, instead of yelling “$$@#!#$!@# driver!” say a prayer for the person’s safety - feel no one has ever cut you slack in similar issues, so you don’t need to offer those same graces? Well humor me, issue them anyway, and see how people react, see how you feel - God has issued all of us great graces for areas of our life, who are we not to extend similar grace to others - respect grace given, and grace recieved, its a gift, and a life changing thing.
Have a Good Weekend Folks. Probably a personal blog later tonight.
Some days my job is great - a high level of freedom as of late, had some great times with friends, family, and with the recent move away from CMCentral.com - my time has freed up for various projects. Then you get mornings like this - security concerns, making calls, checking systems, everything turned out okay in the end, server was fine, but minor panic attack to say the least, just another reminder to get titus finished up, folks moved around, and get the new site online here soon, hopefully increasing sales for a few months to get the income up to both accomidate my road trip, and possibly a new car.
But all in all mornings like this do push me to burn off extra nerves by takin out the bike - need to get some food in me as well as some bottles of water for the backpack, but just crazy times, and with the rents leaving tomorrow for Hawaii - I have a week of wild parties planned - or at least like last time, me, myself, and I will be there, and getting plenty of sleep
Anywhoo - been a odd couple of days, not really a lot to say, but I’m alive, so I can’t complain - just need to get some things rolling, hopefully the last leg of this week will give me some much needed headway on various things. Anywhoo - food beckons, and hopefully followed by Bike’n. If only Jake would wake up
Well my brother arrived last night with my GPS (Streepilot III from Garmin) it’s a older unit, but a GPS none the less, so I have some Geocaches tagged already, and already took it on a little journey - pretty accurate, at one point it was a variance of only 18ft, but kept my speed pretty well - so very cool.
It’s fathers day, and I already gave my dad his gift last week, Numb3rs Season 1 on DVD, one of him and my mom’s favorite shows, I am actually giving him a semi-upgrade for his birthday, Season 4 of the Pretender - classic TV from when TV was quality Probably doing something for dinner tonight, not sure, as the rest of the kids (beth/ron) are down at a baseball game with my aunt Karal.
What else is new with me? Well sleep - actually considering crashing out here shortly again, granted its 4:30 in the afternoon, just many weeks of no sleep are catching up with me, and I am sure this week will present a nice lack of sleep and then some - but must be prepared for the following weekend as Cousin Sarah will be back in town, and the insanity will insue with some movie madness (Nacho Libre) - good times.
Anywhoo - Gonna zone out here for a bit, then maybe crash out or travel out to the office to ensure that the temperature isn’t spiking as it does on weekends as they have a bad habbit of shutting off our AC! So must cool it down sometimes… man I’m sleepy lol. Night Kids
It will do full bleeds up to 8×10 - for larger stuff I can always outsource for 17×11 and such, but for most projects, client work, 4×6 or 5×7 will probably do, and for bands I can layout some 8×10 glossy’s as well, good stuff.
