I am in the middle of trying to merge a blog into our church's website. I already wrote a blog for anotehr site for Michelle, so to get things running quickly for the church, I just grabbed that one.
Now, I want to embed a full featured blog into the site – that would allow more blogs for anyone who wanted one in the church. Now – I am embedding an existing package into our existing site. The challenge – to make the two programs act like one.
Always fun for a challenge!
Why is it when a simple thing like adding a new light in the basement always turns out to replacing an entire hydro run?
As soon as you open a wall and see exactly what is behind it – you have to fix whatever has been there for years, even if it has never caused a problem before – as soon as it is spotted – it now has to be fixed!
I used to think this was the realm of car repair only – you take your car in for a simple oil change and the technician says that you *absolutely* need new ball joints, tie rod ends and struts. The first thought that always jumps to mind is that they are out to make more money for themselves by doing uneccessary work – or at least work that can be put off for a while yet.
The truth may be close to that, but these things probably do need to get done. As we as a society develop new technologies and as more and more of us die off from the implementations of previous technologies, we start to review some of our design decisions. I'm basically ranting right now about aluminum wiring. The feed line for the basement lights is still old alumnium which is clad in crumbling rubber and some sort of fiber cloth. As soon as I moved the damned thing it fell apart. Now I have to buy copper hydro wire. ARGGG!
The good thing is that I got the genius idea to add a new light above the fireplace and that may have stopped an electrical fire since this old wire was about to go anyway. That is also how I have begun to feel about the technicians who look at my car. It's all about perspective.
Just trying to figure out how to get an OSK to work properly in a touch screen. 
Today is family photo day.
First thing this morning we are all going to have showers, primp and preen and head over to get our photo taken.
We do this, so years down the road we can look back to see how we looked.
Uh… wait…. we don't go around wearing monkey suits every day, so this is a false sense of history, isn't it?
Oh well. I know it will be nice to actually look back to see the pics, I'm really just moaning until the picture is taken.
UPDATE: Here is one of our mug shots:
Just disposed of the Dodge Spirit this afternoon. In fact – just walked in the door from doing so.
I am a little down over getting rid of the car, but I am still in a great mood. We still have one car!
When we first started looking at buying a car – I had expected to have to take the Spirit off the road. We were able to handle the financial burden of both cars for just over three years. This is, in my mind an amazing accomplishment.
I don't expect that we will be able to afford an additional car for another couple of years – not until we have paid off the Intrepid, at least. It will be tough – only because we haven't had to manage it, but I am sure we can. After all, there are many families out there that have no cars.
There was a train derailment 1km from our house. Friends of ours were evacuated for fear of chemical contamination, but were permitted to return after a few days.
Amazingly, no one was injured or killed.Train Wreck