GKuhns

The Rules

2010-08-21T22:39:00.003-04:00

"The game is played, not to protect the rules; rather, the rules are made to protect the game." - Ravi Zacharias in Recapture the Wonder

Often when people are confronted with rules, especially rules that do not make sense, they rebel against them in some fashion or another. It is also a nearly universal problem that if one does not understand something, it must be stupid or useless. Because of this, when we disobey a rule that doesn't make sense it doesn't really feel like we are rebelling when in fact we are.

How a person relates to rules tells a lot about them and is most likely an indicator of a lot of things that he would never tell you to your face.

The longest game in history is life and everyone is playing.

The sheer stupidity of mankind shaking its collective fist at its creator can only be explained by the nefarious evil known as the "great lie" that was told to Eve. She was told that knowledge would make her a god. Mankind still believes this today and is in the process of testing all of the rules that were handed to them by preceding generations. We believe that if we "figure it out" we can make our own rules and thus be gods. This makes sense if you are believing a lie.

A false rule.

The only absolute being that there are no absolutes. Thought experiments filter down to action that result in mass destruction, chaos, pain and misery and are blamed on the personal evil of one person or another. Confusion stems from the results of the experiment because the facts are looked at through the filter of “the great lie.” We hate truth. We think it limits us so we bash at it, bloodying our hands and hurting ourselves but never budging the wall.

There is a God.

And we are not Him. He gave us enough rope to hang ourselves or help ourselves. If you believe that Christ is the Son of God and that He can forgive you of your sin you are suddenly winning the game. There is nothing you can do to win, except to believe. And when you do this, the rules no longer apply because the only reason the rules exist is to make everyone who believes "the great lie" lose. When you enter the Kingdom of Heaven you Honor the King and by doing so you renounce the "great lie" and you are justified - pardoned from the guilt that is heaped on you by the rules. The crazy thing about Honoring the King is that you end up obeying the rules because that is who He is and that is how you honor Him because the rules are a revelation of truth. It is the nature of the beast. If you are not Honoring the King and you are trying to win the game by yourself, you are still believing "the great lie."

"Love the Lord thy God" is the greatest rule or the rule that all the other rules are bullet points of. "The most irresistible force in the world is love and the most vulnerable." - Ravi Zacharias in Cries of the Heart

So the rules protect you from the "great lie" and allow you to play the game of life for real.

Rewards Cards are thieves

2010-06-11T17:06:00.000-04:00

There is a nearly criminal racket that is very active and pervasive. Chances are, even you have taken part in it. The racket is called Rewards Cards. Have you ever wondered where the "rewards" that you get from your Rewards Card come from? Straight from the vendor where you bought your stuff. To pay for your rewards, the credit card companies take an extra percentage right off the top of the transaction. So by using the rewards card, you steal from the store you bought from and by extension if you steal, you are a thief. Sure, you get part of your money back which is cool, but the major beneficiary of this vile scheme is the credit card industry. You see, they don't pass all of the "rewards" on to you, they keep a chunk of them for themselves.

In the last few months, the rewards cards have been skimming an extra 2.5% right off the top of the transactions that I submitted here at work and there is absolutely no way to recover the money or to keep it from happening again. It is illegal for us to refuse credit card payment, to refuse rewards cards or even put a cap on how much people can pay with cards. So, if you want to steal from us, we are open for business. The only way we can avoid the racket is to stop offering credit card payment options or by charging an extra processing fee.

Do your merchant a favor and stop using your rewards cards. I'm sure places like Wal-Mart and Target have it figured out so they don't have to pay it but for the small businesses, it just hurts.

Arbor Day Foundation

2010-03-31T15:45:00.006-04:00

I just joined the National Arbor Day Foundation. The registration costs $10 for a year and with that I get 10 trees. I wanted a Weeping Willow tree too, so I bought one for $8 and got a free Red Maple with that. All said and done I got 12 trees for $23. You need to order soon to get your trees in time for spring planting. Go join up already, unless of course you are deprived of the blessing of land.

I think trees are awesome. What better way is there to dress up God's green earth?

Lectio Divina

2009-12-05T13:15:00.003-05:00

Lectio Divina
The Four Moments from Wikipedia

Lectio Divina has been likened to "Feasting on the Word." The four parts are first taking a bite (Lectio), then chewing on it (Meditatio). Next is the opportunity to savor the essence of it (Oratio). Finally, the Word is digested and made a part of the body (Contemplatio).

Lectio

This first moment consists in reading the scriptural passage slowly, attentively several times. Many write down words in the scripture that stick out to them or grasp their attention during this moment.

Meditatio

The Christian, gravitating around the passage or one of its words, takes it and ruminates on it, thinking in God’s presence about the text. He or she benefits from the Holy Spirit’s ministry of illumination, i.e. the work of the Holy Spirit that imparts spiritual understanding of the sacred text. It is not a special revelation from God, but the inward working of the Holy Spirit, which enables the Christian to grasp the revelation contained in the Scripture.

Oratio

This is prayer: prayer understood both as dialogue with God, that is, as loving conversation with the One who has invited us into His embrace; and as consecration, prayer as the priestly offering to God of parts of ourselves that we have not previously believed God wants. In this consecration-prayer we allow the word that we have taken in and on which we are pondering to touch and change our deepest selves. ...God invites us in lectio divina to hold up our most difficult and pain-filled experiences to Him, and to gently recite over them the healing word or phrase He has given us in our lectio and meditatio. In this oratio, this consecration-prayer, we allow our real selves to be touched and changed by the word of God.

Contemplatio

This moment is characterized by a simple, loving focus on God. In other words, it is a beautiful, wordless contemplation of God, a joyful rest in His presence.

AT&T Towers

2009-11-24T10:20:00.001-05:00

I just got off of the phone with AT&T customer service complaining about a lack of service. The lady gave me this address to send a request to get a tower placed on my property. Basically you need to send this information to them and (hopefully) they will contact you about putting a tower on your land.

AT&T Network Real Estate Administration
12555 Cingular Way, Suite 1300
Alpharetta, GA 30004

You will have to also include the following info as well.

I was informed that you may or may not get a response from them but it cannot hurt if you at least try.

Contact name
Phone number
address and/or email address
Property address
city
state
county
Property size (acres or square feet)
Latitude/longitude of site (if available)
Map and/or survey (if available)

Cannot start Microsoft Outlook. Cannot open the Outlook window.

2009-09-10T09:15:00.001-04:00

This morning I encountered this error when I tried to open Outlook. "Cannot start Microsoft Outlook. Cannot open the Outlook window." Turns out, all you need to do is go to run and type or paste "outlook.exe /resetnavpane".

In XP "run" is located at Start > Run...
In Vista and Windows 7 it is combined with the search box that is at the bottom of the menu that pops up when you click on the round glow ball that took the place of the Start button.

Reset Photoshop preferences to default

2009-08-03T09:39:00.002-04:00

How to reset Photoshop preferences (In Windows):

Hold down all three Ctrl+Alt+Shift buttons and open Photoshop from the start menu.
As Photoshop loads, you should get a prompt asking if you would like to "delete the Photoshop settings file", Click yes
All done. Everything will be set like it was right out of the box. It even resets your "Recently opened" menu.

I had to do this when I ran into trouble starting Photoshop in Windows 7. When I would open the program it would immediately close and give an error about not having permission to change a file. The only way to start it was to "Run as administrator" but this fixed it like a charm.

How to delete or force delete print jobs

2009-07-06T11:41:00.001-04:00

Written by Ellie under Geek Girl

We have all sent print jobs to the printer to only realize – “I shouldn’t have sent that!” But when you right-click on the job and press delete, the job says “Deleting” but never goes away!
The only way I knew of to fix this was to restart my computer. But, that’s a huge pain when I have four or five programs open and working online, too!
Follow the directions below to manually force delete print jobs. You won’t have to reboot your computer afterwards, either!

Browse to Start > Run… and type in “NET STOP SPOOLER” – this will stop the print spooler service. (In Vista, you can just type this in the Search box; and when testing, the next two steps were unnecessary; however, try them anyway!)
Browse to your windows\system32\spool\PRINTERS\ folder
You should see files there ending in .SPL and .SHD created around the time you tried to print – delete these files.
Browse to Start -> Run… and type in “NET START SPOOLER” (this will restart the print spooler service)
Double click the printer icon in the lower-right corner of your taskbar to examine your print job queue and browse to View > Refresh.

IBM ServerGuide

2009-03-13T00:40:00.001-04:00

IBM ServerGuide download matrix
https://www-304.ibm.com/systems/support/supportsite.wss/docdisplay?lndocid=SERV-GUIDE&brandind=5000008

This is the installation disc that makes things so much easier when you are attempting to do a fresh install on an IBM xSeries server.

IBM xSeries 346 PCI slots

2009-03-11T19:21:00.001-04:00

This is a picture of the PCI riser card in my IBM xSeries 346 8840-45u server

From this diagram, I surmise that the PCI slots are the 3.3v 64-bit style.

Remote Business Contact Manager Database

2009-03-08T19:52:00.003-04:00

A handy tool to ease the setup of a BCM Database: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b8e7aa0f-f593-4fb4-b822-dd662af1a6cb&DisplayLang=en

This tool allows administrators to host Business Contact Manager for Outlook 2007 database on a computer on which Microsoft Office 2007 and Business Contact Manager for Outlook 2007 are not installed. Once installed on a server, this tool will allow user to:

- Create and backup Business Contact Manager 2007 databases. To create a database, user must be the local administrator.

- Restore databases from Business Contact Manager for Outlook 2007, Business Contact Manager for Outlook 2003 and Business Contact Manager for Outlook 2003 (Update).

- Share Business Contact Manager databases to other users on a local network.

It will ensure that necessary firewall ports are opened, that users are granted permission to the database, and that the SQL instance is configured to allow external connections. These operations will require the user be a local administrator.

Lost Generation

2009-03-04T13:46:00.001-05:00

Superb car handling.

2008-11-22T14:11:00.001-05:00

This guy is having way too much fun. (Jealous)

You can see that the making of the video was not flawless, but the sheer skill needed to perform some of the challenges is amazing.

Ken Block Gymkhana Practice

Round Dog vs. Square Hole

2008-10-04T00:39:00.001-04:00

Cute clip of a young puppy trying to squeeze through a tiny hole.

Google Chrome

2008-09-02T15:04:00.003-04:00

The new browser from Google is here in all of its simple goodness. Seems to work well in Vista Ultimate x64. Can't wait for the Mac version to come out.

Download it here www.google.com/chrome

Chrome a small download and takes almost no time to install. That's gotta be good for the overall speed. Oh, and get this, each tab gets its own process, which means it should work really well with my Quad core. True multi-threading for the age of the multi-core processors.

Looks like the browser wars have heated up to a red-hot tempo.

Google Docs in Plain English

2008-08-15T22:00:00.001-04:00

I really like this video

iChat Screen Sharing

2008-02-27T14:04:00.002-05:00

I had a problem with iChat screen sharing via Bonjour on my Mac. The screen sharing screen button was grayed out when I was using my LAN connection (10/100) and the connection doctor said that the connection was to slow, but when I switched to a wireless connection, it worked perfectly.

Thankfully, I found something that cleared everything up wonderfully

emeryemery on whirlpool.net.au posted this. This is a simple problem to resolve. It is caused by corrupted preferences. simply quit iChat, go to your home folder/library/preferences and delete all the files that have com.apple.ichat in the file name. Launch iChat and set up your username and password and screen sharing will be an option to enable and use.

Thanks emeryemery

What Lies Beneath

2008-02-20T09:11:00.002-05:00

Things have not changed here. Everyone is hoping that the peace talks will succeed. Hoping and praying for a miracle. No one is sorry for what has taken place so far. The same people that have been chased from their own homes are not hesitant to chase others from their homes.

If there is nothing that comes from the peace talks that satisfies everyone, soon, Kenya will definitely go through round two of all the violence.

A news article that caught my attention:

NAIROBI, Kenya: (Associated Press) Kenya's opposition on Wednesday threatened mass protests within a week if the government fails to start work on changing the constitution to pave the way for any type of power-sharing government.

Parliament must convene within a week to enact constitutional changes that will be needed to restructure the government in a way that will divest some of the power from the presidency, said Anyang Nyongo, secretary-general of the opposition Orange Democratic Movement.

"If that does not happen, ODM hereby gives notice that we call our supporters to mass action within one week," he said.

Another senior party official, Najib Balala, said any such action would be peaceful. However, previous political protests have turned violent and deteriorated into ethnic clashes.

Weeks of violence sparked by the flawed Dec. 27 vote have left more than 1,000 dead and forced some 600,000 to flee their homes.

A goat for a slap

2008-02-18T13:45:00.002-05:00

Sun 17 Feb 2008, 11:55 GMT

NAIROBI, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Kenyan elders have demanded a goat from President Mwai Kibaki as compensation for an alleged assault by First Lady Lucy Kibaki, local media said on Sunday.

The government denies the allegation by member of parliament Gitobu Imanyara who had threatened to sue Kibaki's wife. Imanyara said he was assaulted last month at State House.

The Sunday Standard newspaper said a council of traditional elders, the Njuri Cheke, met on Friday and decided to take up the legislator's case.

"They have demanded a fine of a he-goat and an unreserved apology from the First Family." The paper said the elders wanted the matter resolved according to Meru tribal customs.

Kibaki is wrestling with a crisis over his disputed re-election that has triggered widespread ethnic bloodshed.

The Presidential Press Service said Lucy's lawyers would take action against Imanyara's "wild allegations", which it said bordered on character assassination, blackmail and were part of a wider political scheme aimed at tarnishing her office.

Kibaki's wife is known to be fiercely protective of her husband and has courted controversy several times. In December, local media said she slapped an official who called her by the name of a woman widely reported to be Kibaki's second wife.

On Monday, Kibaki is expected to meet chief mediator Kofi Annan again, and also U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, whose visit is meant to shore up the Annan-chaired talks aimed at finding a solution to the Kenyan crisis. (Reporting by Daniel Wallis)

I find something like this is, at the least, interesting. If high Kenya government officials are so concerned about a slap on the face and a goat... What are the chances of them being able to reach a peace deal?

Quiet in Kenya

2008-02-02T08:50:00.000-05:00

For the last several days, things have been generally quiet here in Nakuru. But there is no reason to believe that things are peaceful. Everyone is on edge, scared, wondering what the next disaster will be and where. Rumors of planned violence abound.

There was another Minister of Parliament killed on Thursday. He was shot four times in the head by a policeman, within 36 hours of the first one. These events are highly suspect in the eyes of the opposition as being straight up assassinations. The policeman that is being charged with the murder is scheduled to be tried in the High Court of Nakuru. Yesterday, when they read him the charges, he expressed surprise at being charged with murder. Oh and get this, in an "unprecedented move" the media was not allowed to be present in the chamber for the charge or the cautionary statement. I am smelling the proverbial rat.

The killing of the MP sparked more riots and unrest in the towns of Eldoret and Kisumu. We have another mission compound in Kisumu, so it was really unsettling for the missionaries that were caught away from home. Some of them even had to spend the night out in the country-side because it was not safe to go into town. There were "thousands" of people on and alongside the road. They covered the road with stones in order to make it impassable. Here is a picture taken by one of the missionaries from Kisumu, showing the road before it was cleaned off.

Sometimes you wonder if Mr. Kofi Annan and the other peacemakers are kidding themselves. Sometimes you wonder if Democracy will ever work for a nation that has tribes and all of the prejudices that come with tribalism. Sometimes you wonder if mankind is any different than it was 4,000 years ago. The hoodlums don't care if the person that they are killing is their childhood friend, or even a child for that matter. Killing him only because his name is not right. The official statistics put the death toll in the hundreds. I would not be in the least surprised if it was actually in the thousands. I have heard too many stories of bodies lying around, getting eaten by dogs.

How can you have peace in your country if no one in your country has peace in their heart?

Unrest in Kisumu

2008-02-02T08:30:00.000-05:00

Here is a riveting account by a missionary in Kisumu, Kenya on January 31, 2008.

Dear all,

I feel indebted to all of you who have shown interest and concern to at least brief you on some of the details of what happened today.

This morning I picked up Evans at 7:00 and took him and his wife to the Kisumu airport to fly to Nairobi to begin cancer treatments. They ended up getting bumped because of a problem on the plane. By noon I was ready to head out. I planned to make 4 stops this afternoon.

Stop one was at Sylvanus and Perez. They had five self supporting children living in Nakuru. Now they are either back in Sylvanus's compound or on their way back. Currently they have 17 people in their compound. Three of the children had all their belongings burned by the Kikuyus last week.

I listened to Caroline, a daughter, relate here narrow escape from a huge crowd of Mungiki killers. Others were being killed just near to where she was running but somehow she managed to escape. She thinks they didn't know she was a Luo. It was the kind of story that books are made of.

I was almost ready to leave when Perez overheard a phone conversation between Sylvanus and someone else. She quickly informed me that town is in an uproar. Almost immediately I got calls from others telling me the same thing. I decided to make a dash for home, hoping to get there before the road blocks keep me out.

As I sped toward home some bikers motioned me off of the road. Others motioned me on. I came within about a mile of town when I saw a huge crowd. I pulled off of the road trying to determine what to do. As i paused a public transport van veered into an off road opposite from where I was parked. Several young guys lobbed rocks at his rear window.

I quickly decided to get out of there. I retraced my steps back to Sylvanus's, arriving without a problem. They were very happy to host me and assured me that my vehicle and I are safe there. I was given ugali and scrambled eggs. I waited there until about 4:30, thinking that probably I'd end up spending the night there. I kept talking with others via phone trying to assess from a distance how town was. Bernice informed me that there were many gunshots.

Around 4:30 pm our gateman called and said the road is starting to open up. He was on foot and was assessing the situation for me. He called and said that vehicles are passing and that I should come. I agreed to meet him and then take him with me through the worst parts.

I was not expecting what I saw.

I had imagined a road that was basically open with a few road blocks pulled off to the side to allow traffic to pass. What i saw was basically road blocks the whole way in to town. The road was covered with big rocks. Vehicles were burning/smoldering on the road. And people by the thousand. They were manning the road blocks and only letting people through if they pleased.

Jackton (gateman) was worried but told me to drive slowly and let him talk to the people. I felt hesitant but proceeded. It was basically a gauntlet of hundreds of frenzied young Luo men carrying machetes, pipes, clubs. They came up asking for money, yelling, threatening. Jackton sweet talked our way through the first road block. From there we encountered groups of young Luos every 10 feet or so. They were still throwing rocks on the road. The road was impassible but we were able drive beside the road. We were following a "press" vehicle. They seemed to have some tolorance for the press so I kept tight on their trail. One by one we worked our way through the crowds and road blocks. Sometimes they had to move stuff to allow us to pass.

It was not a joke. I did not feel overly fearful at any time. Not sure how to explain that.

Finally we got through the last road block. It might have taken 10 - 15 minutes to go through the whole ordeal. At one point riot policemen were footing it on the road. They had guns but they looked quite stressed out. After they cleared one road block, the crowds simply put it back in place. We passed a number of burned vehicles, huge amounts of rocks on the road, burning tires etc.

I was very glad to be home and I think Bernice was glad too... unless she was faking it ; )

Thanks for all your prayers.

I'm thinking that maybe tomorrow I'll do bookwork at home...

Hosea

War in Kenya

2008-01-29T03:32:00.000-05:00

What happened in Kenya is that the elections were flawed and there are currently two men who claim to be the rightfully elected President of Kenya. The incumbent (Kibaki) is from the largest tribe in Kenya which are the Kikuyu. The opposition (ODM) is led by a man by the name of Raila. ODM is a coalition party comprised of almost all of the other major tribes,which are the Luhya, Luo, and the Kalenjin.

According to government statistics, the main groups are -- Kikuyu (22 percent); Luhya (14 percent); Luo (13 percent); Kalenjin (12 percent); Kamba (11 percent)

The fighting started because the opposition is positive that Raila is supposed to be the president, but Kibaki had already sworn himself into office within an hour of the announcement of the results. Sadly that reason was only a excuse to get started. The political stalemate has lasted long enough that the fight has taken on its own life, and has evolved into a tribal war that stems from resentment from things that happened 49 years ago while Kenya was still under British rule.

The Kalenjin tribe is claiming all of the Rift Valley Province to be their own, and of course the Kikuyu are disputing that. The problem is that while the Kalenjin are vastly outnumbered by the Kikuyu, they are fearless and heartless, and the Kikuyu are deathly afraid of them and run from a direct fight with them. But the Kikuyu are taking their anger and frustration out on the friends of the Kalenjin, which only makes the Kalenjin even more angry.

This all came close to home last Fri and Sat. Friday night there were church members that were chased from their homes and on Saturday there were mobs and some major fighting very close to our compound here in Nakuru. We even heard some bullets flying overhead. One thing that we are thankful for is the fact that the 'bad guys' don't have guns, only the Police and military have them, which gives a definite upper hand to the 'good guys.' The weapons of choice are machetes, sticks, spears, rocks, bow and arrows, and such like medieval weaponry. But things are continuing in a downward spiral. Just this morning (12:30 am) a Minister of Parliament was murdered as he arrived home in his car.

Pray for us as we make decisions and pray for the Kenyan people as their lives are shattered.

Kenya elections

2007-12-29T00:55:00.000-05:00

There was a lot of fear coming up to the elections that the situation would become very volatile and that there would be a lot of violence. But I am writing this on the morning of the second day after and there is not much happening. It looks like the previous president will be "unseated by the polls" which would be a first for Kenya.

Parliament was shaken up though. Sixteen of the MPs that were running for reelection were left out in the cold. Including the former Vice President. And the former minister of roads. Yay!

Now, lets see if these people keep their promises.

Bhutto killed in suicide bombing

2007-12-27T09:04:00.000-05:00

Bhutto Killed...

Wow, looks like the extremists are not above killing their own countrymen in this perverse way. Of course, I knew that they do stupid stuff like that but it still amazes me. I wonder if the bomber will still get his 70 rewards? He didn't kill any infidels.

It's amazing what deluded people will do. Would you blow yourself up for the sake of anything that you believe? Now these guys are doing it for the sake of a really bad cause, would you give your own life for the sake of a really good cause?

Is Democracy working in this situation?

Philanthropy

2007-12-22T09:19:00.000-05:00

Hello all,

I’m back to the blogging world again. The AMA mission board wasn’t sure if this thing called blogging was something that was safe or not and asked us to refrain until further notice. They discussed it over the last year and in the last meeting they decided that it is okay. Praise the Lord.

The year is very nearly to over and it seems as if it has not been that long. My last post was in March and a lot of stuff has happened since then. In August, I was privileged to visit home for a period of three weeks in August and a month after my return here, my sister Karleen came to visit for four weeks, and the next big event on the calendar is my return home in March with plans to stay put for a while. My location of living has been quite fluid since the year of 2002 with stints in Pennsylvania, Illinois, Arkansas, and of course Kenya with returns home to Ohio sprinkled throughout so I am ready to settle down and make some money very soon here. I am planning to work for my dad in his business (www.kuhnsmfg.com).

Money is the Key to Happiness. Did you know that? Everything that I would like to do hinges on the on one key factor. Having Money. So someone should just give me some. And while they are at it, they should just give me a lot of it because there is all kinds of stuff to do with it. I would like to be a philanthropist. Philanthropists travel around the world making people happy by giving them time and money. Mother Teresa and Bill Gates and Angelina Jolie are all notable philanthropists. It is probably the only resemblance between Mother Teresa and Angelina Jolie besides the fact that they are both women.

Oh wait, I am a philanthropist. As a volunteer here in Kenya I give both time and money to the Kenyans. Does it make them happy? Yes it does! For about five minutes and then they are back asking for more. So scrap the idea. No one give me any money, please.

Do you want to be happy? Give something to someone. I think giving to a grateful recipient is a happier thing to do than receiving a gift.

Have a Happy Merry Christmas!

Not allowed to post

2007-04-27T04:09:00.000-04:00

My sudden and prolonged silence is due to the fact that the mission that I am serving under states that we as missionaries cannot have our own blog sites because of concerns that they have over too much time spent in updating the thing and therefore not being able to bond with natives and fellow missionaries. I will keep my site, but I will not be posting unless they change their minds.

Dizzy Squirrels

2007-03-13T16:32:00.001-04:00

From Gizmodo

Squirrels are the natural enemy of the birdfeeder. There are tons of contraptions out there designed to make sure only birds have access to the delicious seed contained within, from long arms suspending the feeders off the edge of the porch to your dad in a second-story window with a bb gun. Well, the awesomely named "Twirl-a-Squirrel" combines the efficiency of method #1 with the entertainment value of method #2.

It works by spinning rapidly around whenever something with enough weight climbs aboard. So when a pesky squirrel tries to pilfer some seed, he'll suddenly find himself on spinning deathtrap, one that's guaranteed to give him the old heave-ho much to the entertainment of everyone but the squirrel involved.

World view of Pres. Bush

2007-03-10T06:03:00.001-05:00

The world thinks that Bush is a gun slingin' cowboy that wants to have his own way. The witch doctors in Guatemala are planning to purify the ancient site that he is planning to visit, because of the evil spirits that he will bring. Is he really all that? I mean, c'mon guys, do you really believe all that crap?

Apple

2007-03-04T14:55:00.000-05:00

I bought a 15" Apple Macbook Pro. Mac OS X is super cool and stable, but it will probably be a bit until I feel at home with it.

the specs:

Core 2 Duo 2.16
1Gig @ 667
120 Gb
128mb radeon x1600
other stuff
boatloads of coolness

Love it

Busy

2006-09-30T13:53:00.000-04:00

I was so busy today, it is now hard to adjust to the idea that tomorrow is Sunday and Sunday is not a day of rest for me. There is a youth Bible study on the first and the third Sundays of the month that I am responsible to oversee. It is right in the middle of the afternoon, so by the time we return, the day is totally gone.

I started the day by hooking up three outlets that had been waiting for a while. I had to work in the hot, dark, and very dirty attic for a while to accomplish this. I then prepared to take inventory at the store that Agape Development Ministries (ADM) runs. It is a bore of a job. Tabulate all of the items on the shelves, collect any money generated and pay the employee. I then returned and helped clean house. We are planning to have several guys stay with us Monday night because we have decided that it would be better to have the people from Kisumu stay overnight to avoid having to travel the extremely rough roads twice in one day.

I had no time to work on the biggest project that is keeping me busy right now. I am networking all of the mission computers so that we can share a DSL connection. We had previously dialed up individually to check email. But the costs were very high, so the mission board asked us if it would be possible for us to lower telecommunication costs. Sure said I. Now I am in the middle of it, and I am hoping that everything will be satisfactory for everyone.

Current Status

2006-09-15T15:45:00.000-04:00

I am primarily a maintenance man at an Amish Mennonite Aid (AMA) mission in Nakuru, Kenya, East Africa. I am also a Projects Director for a small humanitarian aid sub-mission of the same.

Statement of Purpose

2006-09-15T15:41:00.000-04:00

I am starting this blog to give vent to any ideas or frustrations that I may have with with my professional life.