What happens when you neglect balancing your bank account for days weeks at a time? Being the inquisitive person I am… I decided to find the answer.
Today I started drinking coffee at 5:45a and was adding and subtracting by 6:30a when my wife left for work. Three and a half hours and seven cups of coffee later, and my accounts balance to the penny! I was so excited I walked around the house singing Christmas carols all morning. And I don’t even like Christmas carols.
And yeah… I lost a lot of sleep worrying about it during the past couple weeks, and I wanted to scream while working on it, and I probably have a couple ulcers now.
…but now we know what happens. And I think that’s what matters most.
“For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’
“Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’
“The King will reply, ‘I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.’
Matthew 25: 35-38
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Why do the mainstream artists always have to remind the church what being the church means?
What do you do when you want something so badly that you dive in before you learn to swim? You don’t drown…necessarily. But doggie-paddling isn’t exactly thriving.
A couple of weeks ago, I had a talk with my boss about working on the company website. It needs some major work. But aside from the obvious aesthetics and functionality, they wanted me to keep the basics up to date: things like interest rates, adding and removing employee contact info — simple stuff.
Then we had a committee meeting…
I started out saying yes to basic textual updates and all of a sudden we’re looking at a total site overhaul or building a site from scratch to replace the current page. But here’s the problem… I’m not a web-design-guy. I’m a photoshop-design-guy. I make pictures and prints that don’t move or link you anywhere. I can’t write flash programs or javascript add-on’s. The most I offer in that area is basic HTML. I can make a site on MS FrontPage. I can manipulate my MySpace page. I can update my church’s page using a really great WYSIWYG editor. And when you compare my work to some friends of mine, even calling myself a photoshop-design-guy is stretching it.
So, now that I’ve agreed to update the rates and text and have been talked into updating the entire website inside and out, what can I do? Hire a friend and take the credit? Do nothing and hope they never visit the page again? Admit I’m in over my head and ask for help? Assume the fetal position and cry like the girl I’m portraying?
This is one heck of a way to cut my teeth in the graphic design industry.
Any ideas on how to reverse and correct operator errors on iTunes?
I downloaded some Christmas songs this morning, thinking I could spread some cheer to my office. When I downloaded them, they automatically saved to My Doc’s file. So, I moved them from My Doc’s to the iTunes Music folder. Lo and behold, when I opened iTunes to hear the sleigh bells jingling, all I see are blank lines where my library should be.
Blank.
Not exactly how I wanted to see my iTunes library — like, ever. I still have the files on my computer. I could go through individually and hit play on each file, and open them in iTunes to manually add them back to the library, but I really don’t want to do that. I’d have to go through and add back in the details, ratings, album art, podcasts… and I would have to do that. It’s an OCD thing. I just couldn’t bear the thought of a disorganized library.
So, if anyone has any suggestions for fixing stupid mistakes, I would love to hear them. Right now I’m about two seconds from dropping my computer off the bridge. And I still can’t get the Christmas songs to play.
Merry flippin’ Christmas… yeah right.
