Saturday, April 03, 2004

The attack of the pollen


I am not sure if I am suffering from allergies, an ugly head cold or both. I do know that "pollen is in the air" since our vehicles now stay a bright yellow. Winter is officially gone yet it still remains a tad bit cool outside. I suppose that once Easter has come and gone this year that the warm weather will finally set in. I think that I am ready for the pollen to stop doing whatever it is doing and for the warm weather to arrive. I have had enough of this cold weather to last me the rest of this year.

I started a part time job with Goodwill last week. They were looking for a PC Technician that can work part time doing refurb/repair/service and sales. I work primarily on Saturday during the day doing sales and then a couple of two or three days during the week part time. The money is certainly better than my security job which is a huge boost to our budget which seems to stay in the red most of the time. Katy and I now have 3 jobs between us so hopefully we can manage to stay afloat from one 2 week period to the next. It is disheartening to get paid every two weeks and then be broke 6 days from the next payday. I know that we are probably not the only people that live from payday to payday. Actually, I would like to get back to that point where we can live from payday to payday. LOL....


I forgot to tell you how I found this job. I was working 7 am until 3pm last Saturday down at the County Office Building in Charleston and my co worker Jorge told me about how I could go to Goodwill on Rivers avenue and purchase parts for computers at a reasonable rate. I was looking for a pci video card for my kids game machine. The integrated sound card was a 1mb video card but that is not adequate to play most games. So, I headed down to the Goodwill and purchased a used video card for 5.00 and it works fine. I plugged it in and Windows 98 Operating System recognized the chipset and automagically installed the drivers for it. So, thanks to a tip from my co worker I found out that Goodwill is looking for a part time pc tech. I immediately went across the street and applied for the position and one week later I am working. Wahooooo! Well, maybe not all that excitement but atleast it is EXTRA income for the time being. I am not sure how long this position is going to last but I suppose as long as Goodwill keeps receiving computer donations I will have something to refurb/repair and sell. When that supply dries up I am sure that my part time job there will vanish.

If you go to Cooper River Bridge Run you will see that today is the day in 2004 when THOUSANDS of people run, jog or walk in the Cooper River Bridge run. This is an annual event that has been going on for 27 years. I thought about doing this the other day then I had a cool drink of water and the urge went away. hahahahaha However, I admire those people who are physically able and have the courage and stamina to enter the race and finish. I am thinking that there are some brothers from Kenya that enter this race every year and usually win. Does that really surprise us? LOL....

I am so excited that we lost an hour to day light savings time last night before I went to bed. Instead of it being 11:30 pm when I went to bed it was actually 12:30 am. Who in the world invented day light savings time anyway?
Daylight Savings Time. Well, I am glad that I just researched this website because now I REALIZE that I was not supposed to change the clocks until 2 am SUNDAY morning and not 11:30pm Friday night. DOH...... I just cheated myself of one hour unnecessarily. Whaaaaaaaaa. Yes, now I am changing back my clocks. BRB.... Thanks to blogging I realized my boo boo and now I fixed it back. Now, I wish I could go back to bed and get that hour back but of course I am wide awake now.


On April 14th Jeremy turns 18 and on April 24, 2004 my son Jeremy will be going to his senior prom and then on May 23rd he will be graduating from high school. Terry High SchoolIt is hard to believe that this much time has passed and Jeremy is going to be going off to college soon. From what I understand he was able to obtain some band scholarships which will help him financially which is a good thing. I believe that Jeremy's goal is to become a teacher and I am proud of that. If Jeremy does this then he will be following in his stepmothers footsteps.

Monday, March 29, 2004

Jesus Connect Ministries: People do not care how much you know until they know how much you care!

Jesus Connect Ministries: People do not care how much you know until they know how much you care!

Life with Christ and multiple Blogs


For now I think that I will utilize Life with Christ for a Jesus Connect Ministries Blog ONLY. I will do that for exposure to the christian community there. Hopefully some of those folks will check out what we are doing on our website and participate.

Until then I will do the personal weblog on Blogspot and Jesus Connect there. Who knows, I might play with having multiple blogs on blogger.com instead. Hopefully it will be a bit more seamless and less of a hassle. I certainly appreciate all of the hard work and effort that Jeremy has put in to that website for Christians to use.

Posting ONE MESSAGE to multiple Web Logs with w.bloggar


Do you feel like MY guinea pig YET?? LOL, you should.... Ok , I think I have this figured out even though I am not happy with the results. It appears that I can have multiple blogs on one service provider and I can post and publish to multiple blogs. However, it appears that I can NOT post a message to my blogspot & lifewithchrist Blog at the same time. I have to create the message, cut and paste it into memory, post and publish to one account and then change accounts and post to the other. I will demonstrate that in my next post so you can see what I mean jellybean...... :)

Ok, this is a test of the POST to MANY BLOGS utility in w.bloggar


I am experimenting with posting my blog to jcmoffitt.blogspot.com AND jcmoffitt.lifewithchrist.org

It appears that my blog on the Life with Christ blog mysteriously disappeared in the last 10 minutes so I am not sure what is up with that. Hummmmm... Hey, its my day off and I guess I figured this would be fun to play with.

I am also toying around with a new w.bloggar plugin for Windows Media Player that is supposed to allow YOU my reading audience to see WHAT Music CD that I am currently listening to on my computer here at home. Gosh, how is that going to work? This must work through the Microsoft (Mickeysoft) .net architecture somehow. Once I figure out HOW it works I will babble about it more in detail. For now I am just hopping into this baby and giving it a spin to see what will happen. hahahahaha NO, I do not read manuals. What fun is that??

Gosh, I think I finally figured out HOW to post and publish to multiple Web Logs using w.bloggar while I was writing this message. BTW, Jeremy from Life With Christ wrote me back after my pinging him about something. Jeremy's respons we very quick and polite and I am very thankful for that. Thanks Jeremy for your quick support.

Hummmmm what next. Oh yeah, I need to post this to multiple blogs and see if this baby will blow up or not...
hahahahahah



Sunday, March 28, 2004

Life with Christ: Your Christian blog provider.

Life with Christ: Your Christian blog provider.

I found this web site today while searching for Christ centered Web Logs (Blogs) and this appears to be a very nice one. Apparently they offer you the ability to have a FREE Blog from their site which is nice. Since they host Blogs there will probably be a wide variety of blogs to read as well.
The fact that they use RSS also makes me very happy which means I can keep up any new changes via Blog Express. :) As far as that goes I have approximately 32 RSS feeds that I keep up with every day. I LOVE RSS , have I told you that? LOL....

God bless

How To Create a Basic RSS Feed : Introduction to RSS

How To Create a Basic RSS Feed : Introduction to RSS

This is an EXCELLENT website that provides some information on RSS for web masters. Enjoy!!