Hope For The Holidays

It's that time of year again, the holiday season is upon us. Thought I'd take a moment to tell everyone about an awesome display of community action that's been going on for the past 10 years, it's called "Hope For The Holidays", and it's being done by The Johnny Dare Morning Show on 98.9 The Rock. Their goal is to help people out who are overlooked by the conventional organizations. They're trying to help people in the area to have a brighter Christmas. They read about people's stories on the air, then call and talk to them about what's going on. Once they've determined what the persons needs are they start taking calls. The phones light up with people calling in wanting to help. One example that happened this morning was for a woman with three kids. One of the kids was a 14 year old boy, a guy called in and said he had an XBOX he didn't play anymore and about 10 games, he wanted to donate that and $300 dollars to the family. If you can, you should try and listen to the show, they even have an online stream.

Later,

David

Bad Coffee

I don't really consider myself a coffee snob, mostly because I drink coffee for one reason, caffeine. However, I do enjoy my coffee made a particular way. I don't like my coffee too strong, I like my coffee on the weaker side, with a full rich flavor. So, I have a great benefit by being one of the first couple of people to show up at work. I get to make the first batch of coffee, just as I did this morning. Well, after two cups of coffee I headed back to the break room for a refill and I find a full pot of coffee. I start pouring and I'm filled with dread, the steam rising forth from my cup smells strong, not just strong, but burnt. So much for enjoying the last cup today.

On a completely different subject, Sarah mentioned on her blog that I'll be posting a story about God's timing. I need to check with her to see what that is. Stay tuned...

Later,

David

Jeep Wish List

I received an e-mail from one of the Jeep catalogs I subscribe to encouraging people to fill out their Jeep wishlist. So I logged onto the site and created one. Thought this might help to keep people from having to constantly ask me if I put together a wishlist yet. The answer is now 'YES'. Check it out.

David's Quadratec Wishlist

Later,

David

Afraid of Change

It's strange, in some aspects of my life I preach that change is good, and if things aren't changing they're growing stagnant. On the other hand, there are some area's where I hold out to change. I didn't really know what I wanted to write about when I started this post, but as I went into the section of Blogger that let's me post a new entry, there was a big section saying "Your new version of Blogger is ready" and gives me the option to upgrade, but I don't want to upgrade. I'm happy with the way it works now. I don't need additional features, just leave it like it is. The same is true with Yahoo! mail. How long has the new mail beta been out, and have I switched? Yeah, I did. I left it that way for about a week, and decided I liked the old version better, so I switched back and am now dreading the day that I have no choice but to switch. As I write this I can't help but think about my job. One of my primary tasks is installs and upgrades. How many times have I heard a client say it's fine the way it is, I don't need to upgrade, and I try to convince them that the upgrade is good and needed. It's so strange. Now that I'm in my blog a little ways I don't know that I really have a point to this. It seems like this would be a great Jerry Springer moment where I summarize what the root of the conflict is and provide some advice for how to deal with it, but I don't have anything in my mind. I guess I'm just wasting your time, sorry.

Later,

David

P.S. - To any of you who have upgraded to the new blog (Jeff), does spell checker still catch the following words: Blog, Blogger, Blogging? This is the only major pet peeve of the current system that I have.

A Little About Nothing

So, it's been requested that I show some pictures from Halloween of Sarah and I. Well, I don't have that many available. We did have some friends take a picture, as soon as I get a copy of the pictures they took, I'll get them loaded. In the mean time, I've changed my profile picture to a picture I took that night. Other than that not much has been going on that I'm feeling like sharing so I'm off.

Later,

David