So this weekend is more weekendy than most - or something. I just got the call (okay about an hour ago) that my apartment is a go, and that tomorrow @ 11am, I will meet, give a check for the pro-rated month, (going to pay next month too) and I am 100% live! I’ll get keys, I’ll get going, it’s gonna be great!
But there it is! I am sure I’d have more, but sadly I don’t at the moment, just busy getting boxes together, calls to get things installed, good stuff! More soon! Thanks for all the prayers!
Well I got home to a pile of pans, assorted foods, silverware, some bowls & glasses, etc. etc. my mom is gifting me I think about 2/3 of her kitchen lol - I love my parents, they too are excited about this move, and folks keep asking me “Are You Excited!!!???” the answer, I am patiently waiting. (Yes!)
So many crossroads in life, I think we rush into things, we don’t take that bit to stop, park the car and just go “WOW” we really do breeze by in hopes that the quick drive will get us to bigger and better things quicker, that somehow we control the overall pace of our lives - but as I found in this video [linkage] via TED (which I found on one my RSS feeds today) slowness is good - so I am trying to enjoy this experience, one day at a time, as I have been making an effort to for years now.
I have done the house thing before, heck had me a 3 bedroom 1 bath, for a year or two, then picked up a roommate (lil sis) then folks all moved back in, and some things changed, some things didn’t, but this past few years living at home with parents has been pretty nice, maybe not what every 20 something thinks to themselves in the morning “I can’t wait to see if Dad’s hogging the shower this morning….” but as my father noted to me in a discussion the other morning before I applied for the apartment, he said:
You’ve always watched out for us, but one way or another, God can take care of us, and you’ll continue to as well.
I of course cut out the stories he shared - but the jist of it, I guess I have been a help, and I guess that’s what God has been trying to show me these past few days as things started to line up with putting in the app, more and more people have offered to help move, offered supplies, furniture, time, etc. to help me get all moved in and sorted. I had honestly thought that I’d simply move lots of small things over in my car, then get Dan to help with the big stuff (aka he has a truck) - but more and more folks are offering me, at times the shirt off their back - and that’s just amazing to me.
So I am enjoying this journey once again into independence - asking questions on getting things taken care of, having great friends offering help without even having to ask, just being heaped on, that’s a blessing and a half - but as the video above notes, get in touch with your inner turtle, slow down. Enjoy moments like this in your own life, cherish and look forward to slowing down at the end of the day to just not think - and look around and say “WOW”
I could close with my ever classic “anywhoo” but I will say this to each of you out there who have offered help, prayers, time, advice, even just the simple “How is it going?” - thanks. I truly appreciate the outpouring over something as simple to most folks as an apartment, but to me a big step forward, and the good old fashioned “Change” so I look forward to seeing what this change brings. I’ll post more on the apartment when I hear it, but as I told my Dad and Dan, if I get it Praise the Lord if I don’t… Praise the Lord.
A good day of progress, got things rolling with the data @ work, took only finding out the key to exporting the data from old txt files, now its fully 100% in MySQL ready to be abused, the other method was becoming pointless as it took SOOO long to convert from xBase -> MySQL (as the format was hinky, tools were fine, older xBase bunk) - so now I have data, and have begun writing some basic apps - nothing major, but key functions that will help build all apps.
The day really wrapped up with a trip to the Poon’s for dinner, had some amazing chats, tasty dip and desert, it was a good night indeed - talked about recent happenings, and it was nice to have a ear on things, the Poons have always been there for me, and are a tremendous blessing to me! So I had a great night indeed.
I got here and checked my order, parts are in-motion! So should have the case tomorrow, and the remainder (aka everything else) Monday - but it should be a nice rig, the BluRay I need to find a movie to pickup to use as a tester, if anyone has a suggestion, do let me know!
Anywhoo - Friday is nearly here, have a server migration tomorrow but it should be pretty straight forward I hope and pray - new servers looking good, and things are going to all work out - right now some odd things happening, and again I just ask for your continued prayers, I’d share more, but I want things to not be inflated here, and I think prayer is the best thing for the entire thing right now, and with that I will say Good Night, and hit the hay! Happy Friday!
So I am back home now, I didn’t come and zone out on the net, had a pile of things to do, so I had to get them done (still a few more to do) but I stopped and un-winded a bit with Dan and his fam - was enjoyable indeed!
My dad is home now, got him home around 5ish they said he was indeed dehydrated again, but they noted his kidney function is lower than it should be so Monday they meet with a specialist - but he is doing good, came home, made him some eggs, he took a nap with my extremely tired mom, and now they are onto nap 2.0
Many thanks for the prayers! Much appreicated! More on other things probably tomorrow! Night!
I really don’t know how I got to the a-typical boring guy level of things I have lived a pretty wild bit now and again - I mean how many people have been investigated by the FBI twice, and the Canadian mounties? (Okay it wasn’t the mounties, but it sounds cooler than the Canadian version of the FBI)
A lot lately people keep telling me that I am far too nice - when did becoming nice almost become a put down? LoL I love the folks who tell me these things, tonight it was my little sister, she said it in reference to something that happened to me a while back, and I jokingly said I was going to hire her to come do collections for me! She’d have me tons of owed money ASAP.
Honestly I do see it sometimes that I let things go that I should be upset about, but I suppose it is true that nice guy’s finish last - and sometimes as of late aside from heat stroke, flu, and bordum @ work, I do feel like I am finishing last. My vision of where I would be by now is a lot different than how it turned out - I am not a chef cooking for people, I don’t have 2 kids and a beautiful wife, no 3 bedroom house, but instead - I have a lot of things folks don’t have - and more and more I see that even in my every day interaction with folks at work.
My office has some folks that look at life a lot different than I do, they see the negative and hang on to it, “being nice” isn’t something they practice on a regular basis - I mean the fact that I keep a stash of goodies that I hand out for free still to this day boggles the minds of folks there - both young and old. I mean who would go out, buy some candy bars, and some snack cakes and hand them out for free? I mean come on what’s the catch?
I dunno, this past 2 years a lot of learning has gone down for me, and adding this 9-to-5 style job is a big change for me, no more running out on a Friday to Kosmos with Matt for 2-3 hours to chat, no more snagging lunch for Rosie and running it over to her at B&N, no helping friends decipher taxes and applications for loans, granted I still get to help folks at work, even got to help a old friend today, and she offered to take me to lunch as a thanks - I dunno, things like today where I should be billing $75 just for doing something, I am going to let it fall by the wayside.
Grace. As Google defines it:
“a disposition to kindness and compassion”
I have always been a big supporter that if grace is given to you, if that kindness and compassion is shared - you should share it in return, because grace is something you don’t deserve - it’s a gift. A gift which I have received in my life time and time again - so who am I not to extend it to others?
I mean if I have no other role in life than to spread a little bit of grace, compassion, and kindness - that seems like a noble enough of a life - may not be the vision you come up with a kid of being a fireman, of being the president of the USA, but I think for this day in age - it is something needed.
My life is going to be taking some changes soon, probably a new place to live, changes in how I eat, exercise, interact, etc. and thru it all I pray I don’t loose that sense of grace - as even when folks are short with me, or fall short of what I expected from them, grace can still be given, that gift that costs nothing but issues such a rich reward to another - the best gift one can give and the same for someone who receives it.
Anywhoo - that’s my bit for now - going to run the budget numbers again, and pray about ditching work tomorrow to rest up for Friday’s big inventory day - but knowing me I’ll probably just end up going and be grumpy on Friday from lack of sleep and even more fun heatstroke Keep me in your thoughts and prayers - hopefully going into July some things things will be underway. Night folks.
Not a ton to say, just one of those days, things wrapping up - got a raise, get health insurance tomorrow, possibly dental & vision - almost a real grown up now… man what is this world coming to? lol.
Busy is just my middle name as of late, actually have a project I was supposed to run tonight, but I was too tired to think, all I have now is the things that always grind on my mind, life choices, emotions, projects, but no active thought to work with, just ideas - this constant flow … but it was nice to see Bones was on TNT a older episode I hadn’t seen, so I enjoyed watching it, like The Office and some other TV shows, it’s one of those shows I caught the later seasons, and now I am re-visiting the original stuff, and it’s a good show, I just like to work with a more mature character dev & story line than have the patience to see it built — and no I am not one of those read the last page of the book kind of people.
Just really sitting here tonight just taking it all in, this job, my business, my health, my projects, my emotions - it’s been a roller coaster of a year, from tight funds, to doing okay, to a raise which will help quite a bit re-build things like my savings, but also give me some extra room to play with Thrust Networks, things moving forward it seems - and heck the lady down the street even told me a relationship would happen for me soon - so I mean she has to be right - Ms. Right, come on down! But being a touch silly aside, things are going good, Matt is coming down the 21st, active in church again via the Hub, great friends, supportive family, fun jobs, just ready to let go of some things and just let it happen for once instead of finding all that could go wrong and really moving forward.
Anywhoo - that’s my random bit for the evening, going to hit the pillow, set my phone as a backup alarm as the weather is really really windy, and last thing I want is my alarm to NOT go off, so for now, farewell - sleep well, and enjoy your Fake Friday. Night.
Well it’s nearly Friday, this week has flown by, one minute were starting Tuesday, and BAM! Hello Friday. I am going to keep this brief as my brain is sleepy, and my hands keep forgetting to hit keys in the proper order, so this post is taking more work than it should!
Things, Friday night is the official posting of the FH newsletter it will unveil some things in testing, some things coming online this next week, and explain some upcoming options for hosting customers - rather exciting, I am looking forward to some exciting changes, and hopefully… prayerfully… restfully… they will all come about and really help to enhance services and give a good summer drive in new accounts.
Coming up rapidly on the 90 day mark for work, at which point I get health insurance again for the first time in a long time, also vision which means YAY! new glasses as these are bent and nearly broken, I want new frames… something mildly hip… but not too hip, but not the same as I have now, that’s for sure (as they have never fit my head right) - plus I want them to be transition lenses so I don’t have to carry several pairs of glasses.
Anywhoo - more news on things soon, some things not even being made public to my closest friends, but things are in motion, expansion, growth, new territory etc. should be fun, good crazy etc. For now I will say “Good Night!” - Happy Friday Folks!
I have lived a pretty wild bit now and again - I mean how many people have been investigated by the FBI twice, and the Canadian mounties? (Okay it wasn’t the mounties, but it sounds cooler than the Canadian version of the FBI) 
