Thursday, March 1, 2012
Love/Hate relationships
March is here and still the computer file problems are unresolved. Trying to save and restore and undelete and on and on on on on on and so on. No time for a more detailed blog entry now. Back to problem solving or creating more headaches. I wish I knew what all these files are on my computer and which ones I need to keep and what should be blasted into bits and kilobits. -- Out for now, Ken
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
I hate computer problems
Who knew switching from a relatively expensive anti-virus program, at the end of my subscription, to a better alternate program I received free from my university would:
Destroy one of my two 750 GB external hard drives, start to foul up the other and a third smaller drive; slow some processes related to protection and a few other applications to a snail’s pace (no, snails are faster - click and wait 45 to 60 minutes before proceeding); and that the solution(s) would be as bad or worse than the initial problems.
The month of tech support issues between three companies (yes I had to pay another $100 to a third party to try to settle the I/O conflicts caused by the other two and now that is not working either) has delayed my dissertation project pushing it to the limits of academic tolerance. My case will go before the review board in a couple of weeks and if I have not made the expected progress (which is key and due now in this week) despite the tech issues, I may be dropped -- "life happens" the director says, to "deal with it" (but how?). YOUR PRAYERS are my only answer. Please pray for me, the committee, and my computer and tech issues. Thanks.
Destroy one of my two 750 GB external hard drives, start to foul up the other and a third smaller drive; slow some processes related to protection and a few other applications to a snail’s pace (no, snails are faster - click and wait 45 to 60 minutes before proceeding); and that the solution(s) would be as bad or worse than the initial problems.
The month of tech support issues between three companies (yes I had to pay another $100 to a third party to try to settle the I/O conflicts caused by the other two and now that is not working either) has delayed my dissertation project pushing it to the limits of academic tolerance. My case will go before the review board in a couple of weeks and if I have not made the expected progress (which is key and due now in this week) despite the tech issues, I may be dropped -- "life happens" the director says, to "deal with it" (but how?). YOUR PRAYERS are my only answer. Please pray for me, the committee, and my computer and tech issues. Thanks.
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Welcome to Paul and any other who may be reading this
I too have experienced a slight delay in noticing the arrival of the one for whom, at least in large part, this blog was designed to communicate. Welcome Paul, I am glad you finally found me here.
You mentioned in your comments a couple of week ago the potential for some really nasty earthquakes on both coasts of the United States. However, since I live in the middle of the USA don't think me complacent or unaware of the reach of the hand of the Lord in this place as well. Perhaps you already know, but right down the middle of America is another fault line, one potentially more dangerous that the San Andreas fault.
It has not rumbled much. I can only remember two times. Once, just following my decision to be baptized (just over 37 years ago); the second time was a few years back, shortly after a 100 mile move to the University to allow my children a place to live besides campus housing.
The first quake I personally noticed and noted as a message to me from the Lord. The second, my wife asked me in the morning if I felt it. I had slept through it and only heard of it from her and later that morning on the news. This second quake was a memory jogger, a reminder of the first, but otherwise it was not seen by me to have any personal significance such as the first one did have.
I am going through a difficult time now, mostly my own fault, which makes the depression all the greater as I struggle with what to do next. Please pray for me. I do not think that moving again is an option at the moment. I have asked the Lord many times if He needed me in some far flung mission field and His answer before has always been that he needed me to stay right where I had been placed. He needed me to give the message to my own people who needed His message as much and more than many abroad.
Some go to foreign fields willingly like Paul or reluctantly as did Jonah; some are taken against their will, but make the most of it, like Ezekiel and Daniel. Then there are those who stay put until the last moment, like Jeremiah, or until martyred, like Isaiah. Perhaps rarely there are others we have not heard of whose place, like Enoch and Elijah, is beside the throne. For many, that still small voice says go tell the world; yet others are told to bravely stand your ground.
However, I am not sure what path to take at this very moment. Pray that He leads me as well as giving me renewed hope. Some here in America are listening to you. Not always will as much understanding as you would like, but with a desire to better comprehend and to dialogue.
You mentioned in your comments a couple of week ago the potential for some really nasty earthquakes on both coasts of the United States. However, since I live in the middle of the USA don't think me complacent or unaware of the reach of the hand of the Lord in this place as well. Perhaps you already know, but right down the middle of America is another fault line, one potentially more dangerous that the San Andreas fault.
It has not rumbled much. I can only remember two times. Once, just following my decision to be baptized (just over 37 years ago); the second time was a few years back, shortly after a 100 mile move to the University to allow my children a place to live besides campus housing.
The first quake I personally noticed and noted as a message to me from the Lord. The second, my wife asked me in the morning if I felt it. I had slept through it and only heard of it from her and later that morning on the news. This second quake was a memory jogger, a reminder of the first, but otherwise it was not seen by me to have any personal significance such as the first one did have.
I am going through a difficult time now, mostly my own fault, which makes the depression all the greater as I struggle with what to do next. Please pray for me. I do not think that moving again is an option at the moment. I have asked the Lord many times if He needed me in some far flung mission field and His answer before has always been that he needed me to stay right where I had been placed. He needed me to give the message to my own people who needed His message as much and more than many abroad.
Some go to foreign fields willingly like Paul or reluctantly as did Jonah; some are taken against their will, but make the most of it, like Ezekiel and Daniel. Then there are those who stay put until the last moment, like Jeremiah, or until martyred, like Isaiah. Perhaps rarely there are others we have not heard of whose place, like Enoch and Elijah, is beside the throne. For many, that still small voice says go tell the world; yet others are told to bravely stand your ground.
However, I am not sure what path to take at this very moment. Pray that He leads me as well as giving me renewed hope. Some here in America are listening to you. Not always will as much understanding as you would like, but with a desire to better comprehend and to dialogue.
Friday, October 7, 2011
Just Getting Started - "Pardon the Dust"
I am 100% new to blogging. So far, I am very uncertain as to how to set-up a blog, make it work, or anything. This the title, "Pardon the Dust," here in the USA is a typical slogan used at construction and remodeling sites of "brick and mortar" (as opposed to on-line) businesses to beg pardon for a temporary mess (such as my early posts are bound to be). This first entry is "dust." Just clutter as it were to test how things work and to give me an idea of what format to use, the potential and limitations of the tools this service provides, and what I can really offer to readers that may eventually be of interest etcetera.
So, until I can come up with a real and meaningful topic, please pardon this dust. Hopefully it will soon pass away. It will if blog pages can be deleted and replaced with something really worth reading.
FYI, I started this blog to be able to communicate with another blogger. Their site uses this same service from Google. In order to talk I had to have a website or blog site too. But now that I think about it, it would be rather nice to have a real blog of my own; not just a "Bogus" one as a front to talk to Paul.
What do I plan to do with it? Well, first off, my church desperately needs a single coordinated calendar uniting the many diverse published and non-published events from all the local ministries to children and youth in the church, on campus, and in the community. I tried to get this in place through the IT/media department, but after a year of committees and personal communication I hit so many technical roadblocks that I am not sure we will ever have an official unified calendar. People liked the idea, but no one could figure out how to do it from a practical standpoint. However, Lord willing, perhaps we can have a personal "unofficial" substitute that will be almost as good. Beyond that, I may occasionally have a few things to say about the passion the Lord has given me for both children's and family ministries based on Malachi 4:4-6 and related passages; other topics too perhaps, but that is open to further thought.
Well, now you have seen a little stirring of the dust; that is, now you have an idea of one possible direction this blog may take. You now can decide whether to check back on the progress of this new construction if this is of any interest to you. Or you can just use it as an alternate means of communication with me, if, that is, I can get those apps in place and functioning here. Your prayers are implored. Thanks.
Pastor Ken
So, until I can come up with a real and meaningful topic, please pardon this dust. Hopefully it will soon pass away. It will if blog pages can be deleted and replaced with something really worth reading.
FYI, I started this blog to be able to communicate with another blogger. Their site uses this same service from Google. In order to talk I had to have a website or blog site too. But now that I think about it, it would be rather nice to have a real blog of my own; not just a "Bogus" one as a front to talk to Paul.
What do I plan to do with it? Well, first off, my church desperately needs a single coordinated calendar uniting the many diverse published and non-published events from all the local ministries to children and youth in the church, on campus, and in the community. I tried to get this in place through the IT/media department, but after a year of committees and personal communication I hit so many technical roadblocks that I am not sure we will ever have an official unified calendar. People liked the idea, but no one could figure out how to do it from a practical standpoint. However, Lord willing, perhaps we can have a personal "unofficial" substitute that will be almost as good. Beyond that, I may occasionally have a few things to say about the passion the Lord has given me for both children's and family ministries based on Malachi 4:4-6 and related passages; other topics too perhaps, but that is open to further thought.
Well, now you have seen a little stirring of the dust; that is, now you have an idea of one possible direction this blog may take. You now can decide whether to check back on the progress of this new construction if this is of any interest to you. Or you can just use it as an alternate means of communication with me, if, that is, I can get those apps in place and functioning here. Your prayers are implored. Thanks.
Pastor Ken
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