No. I have not passed over the horizon on my never-ending journey...I've just been walking through the desert on a horse with no name (that sounds vaguely familiar...)
Anyway, let me give you a few highlights so that you can catch you up with my life since I last posted over a month ago:
Sept. 1 - New Job
I started a new job on Sept. 1, working for ARELLO. Basically, this is one of the major reasons you haven't seen or heard from me the past month. I've been so busy getting the new project off the ground there that I have not had time to breathe. But, it went live from here on Sept. 29, so...I can relax a little bit.
Sept. 9 - Parenting Seminar at Church
Our church hosted John Rosemond for a parenting seminar. Being the "sound guy" at church it was my job to be there early on Saturday morning to do a sound check with the speaker. The seminar was scheduled to start at 9:00 AM so I arrived at 7:30 AM. Our preacher, Don, and I pulled into the parking lot at the same time and we walked into the lobby together to hear a "beep-beep-beep" sound that indicates a failure in the fire alert system. Don mentions he will have to go reset it and we walk to the auditorium. When I unlock the door and flip the light switch, nothing happens. There is no power. Since there is power in the lobby, we figure a fuse has blown and go to the back room where the fuseboxes are to reset them. Now, back in the back room, behind two locked doors, one of which is keyed with a special key that only Don and the maintenance man have, lies the fuse boxes. Also in that room is five-foot or so deep hole in the concrete that will serve as an elevator shaft. Well since there is not power, I am using my cell-phone as a flashlight...(I'm sure you see where this going...or better, where I am going). We mess with the fuse boxes and nothing happen. However, we are pretty sure that the fuseboxes for the auditorium are somewhere else...across the dark room I see a green light and think..."Oh, there be the fusebox" and march over and step right off the edge of the elevator shaft and land smack on my bum at the bottom of the hole. My first thought is, "DRAT, Don is right behind...I smell sermon illustration material."
Well...to make a long story somewhat short, I was OK. We discovered that one of the two legs of power that come into the building had failed. I quickly set up (rigged) a sound system in the lobby while other men pulled chairs out and we set up the seminar in the lobby. It was fun and exciting...at 8:45 I got everything to work and we had sound.
Sure enough, I made the sermon (listen to the entire sermon | excerpt of the illustration) the next day.
Sept. 16 - Apple Picking in Saint Louis
We traveled to St. Louis for the annual family apple picking trip. Mihaela was so excited. It was all she could talk about for two weeks before the trip. Going to Mam-maw and Pap-paws house to go apple picking. Going to ride the tractor. Going to see the farm. She loved every minute of it. She even surprised us by being adventurous. Mihaela tends to not be a risk-taker, but to be very cautious. However, on the Saturday of Apple Picking, she wanted to experience everything. She was proactive looking for things to try. She even asked to ride the horses and she loved it. She was such a big girl. A good time was had by all.
October 2 - Dr. Appt for Baby
Everything looking good there. Erin still getting sick (but not as bad) but being a trooper. She is worn-out, though, by the time I get home. Which is another reason posts have been non-existent. She just crashes (understandably so) when I get home and I jump in. Then, by the time the kids are fed, bathed, in bed and the house is reset for the next day's activities, I am just exhausted.
Other Funny\Cute\Asundry Stuff
Erin was sitting on the couch watching college football while I was in the kitchen doing dishes or something like that when she said, "Maybe I'm just old-fashioned, but I just don't think a woman should be a football sportscaster." Yeah dear. Old-fashioned, traditional values.
Mihaela woke up a few minutes ago she found her Dora princess doll and her Elmo doll she brought Elmo out after she found him and "introduced" Elmo to Dora!
"Hey, Elmo this is princess Dora"
"ooohhhh, Elmo give kisses to Dora"
"Elmo sit in Dora's lap"
"Elmo, remember me? I am 'Haela"
DO NOT USE OfficeCalendar because they, IMHO, have a bad business ethic.
I have a client who upgraded his Office Suite to MS Office 2003. Well, this client has three people working in the office and they were able to share their calendars, task lists, and contacts under the old version of Office. Well, MS, in its wisdom removed the ability to do this unless you are running an Exchange server, which is too much power for an office of three. We looked for other alternatives and found this package. It works well, but they hid their pricing scheme in their knowledge base...so we thought we would have to buy 3 licensee for them (one for each person using the product), but NO... you have to buy a licensee for each user AND each resource. They use 4 resources, which means we had to buy 7 licensees instead of 3. Of course, we didn't find out about needing the additional 4 until after we had purchased 3 (at $100\each). So, instead of finding a $300 solution, we found a $700 solution. We could only charge our client the $300 because that is what we quoted them. When we complained to the company, we were basically told to "brush off" that the pricing structure was on the website. Yeah, but you have to search the knowledge base to find it!!!
TTYL
Ok...that is enough rambling. I've got a post up...maybe I can be more faithful again. But I won't make any promises.
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