close up of cannon at waterfront park
Sunday, April 23, 2006
Friday, April 21, 2006
Junior Propellerhead
I feel a blog coming on. Yes I do. Yesireee I have some news to share. LOL…
Ok, now that the drum roll is fading in the background and you are sitting at the edge of your seat wishing I would spit it out here it is.
Apparently there are more propeller heads in my home than I had first imagined. As you may already know one of my nicknames is Chief Propeller head. Do not ask me where that comes from however I know that it is a term used for folks that are also known as “geeks” and “nerds”. While I do not fit the profile for an IBM employee and despise wearing a pocket protector in my shirt I still get accused of being a distant cousin of one or both. Therefore one of my friends named me Chief Propeller head. My wife calls me Techno Papa because anytime there is a problem with the computers or (God forbid) the connection to the WORLD WIDE WEB is disrupted for more than 5 nanoseconds (the time it takes for someone to inhale deeply and scream for help in my general direction) then I am the lucky winner. I get to drop what I am doing or in some cases pick my carcass up off the floor or couch and jerk myself out of the mindless daze I might be in because of the idiot box that has captured my attention and then have to snap back to the world of binary to figure out the problems at hand.
Computers came first and then the wonderful invention of the cell phone which is the thing that most of us use more than our own home phones. I think that is why most folks have quit using ma bell in lieu of using the cell phone instead. After all, why should we pay BOTH ma bell and the cellular provider to make phone calls? Gosh, I am chasing rabbits, sorry about that. The reason I am having the problem getting to the point is because this story has something to do with connecting the dots between cell phone and the personal computer which my sweet wife uses regularly.
Typically my wife stays in touch with me in various ways through the day and I also try to do the same thing. We probably communicate in one way or the other several times per day. That could be but is not limited to subliminal messages, smoke signals, screaming out the window, sending our kids to tell each other something, IM messages, e-mail etc. It is a married folk’s thing that most of us married folks do.
Anyway, I noticed today around 4pm when I was leaving my cubicle farm in the tower of power in Monkey Corner that my wife had not pinged me all day. GOSH, that had left a connectivity or latency problem in our network that desperately needed fixing. So, I hop on the cell phone in my car and PING her. I leave her several messages and of course my wife has forgotten that she is supposed to USE this device to ANSWER it in case I call. Katy has one of the cell phones that ONLY make outgoing calls. Hey, what the heck, I have been playing that game on and off for several years so I have sort of gotten used to it. I figured she would eventually come up for air. Around 5:30 pm I started to notice the connectivity gap was getting longer and longer so I called again. It is amazing to me how long of a voice mail message I can leave on her cell phone.
I guess around 5:45 pm Katy calls me and tells me that she is on her way home and that she is on Redbank road which is not far from us. I had already gone online to TRACK my sweet wife via the debit card TRAIL that she had left all afternoon. LOL… Remember that I said that we communicate in more than one way? You want to know where your wife or husband is just get online and see where they have been shopping. LOL… Anyway, my wife commences to expending some of the 5000 words that she has been storing up for me all day on the cell phone. That is cool, I don’t mind, I have the rest of the night to listen, right? More importantly we are on the UNPLAN with Suncom which means we can blather to each other non stop 24x7 seven days per week and they wont charge us another dime.
Katy surprises me by saying that she was on her way to a lady that is on the Free Cycle list to pick up a four cup coffee maker that she wanted to use in her classroom at school. Katy has the navigational prowess of a wet rock so of course she got lost on her way to the address. Katy then pulls over (I hope) whips out her laptop and plugs in the wireless card and finds a Wireless Access Point at a leasing office in a housing development and got on the Internet to check her email and get the ladies phone number that she needed. I was like, SAY DO WHAT? Katy is using her laptop and the wireless card to access a WAP to do what? Holy wireless connections batgirl I have a JUNIOR propeller head on my hands. I am so tickled that Katy has emerged into the 21st century and has embraced the power of wireless Internet access. I will have to get Katy her very own propeller head hat to wear. I can not wait to take a picture of both of us with our propeller head hats on and the props turning in the wind.
Ok, now that the drum roll is fading in the background and you are sitting at the edge of your seat wishing I would spit it out here it is.
Apparently there are more propeller heads in my home than I had first imagined. As you may already know one of my nicknames is Chief Propeller head. Do not ask me where that comes from however I know that it is a term used for folks that are also known as “geeks” and “nerds”. While I do not fit the profile for an IBM employee and despise wearing a pocket protector in my shirt I still get accused of being a distant cousin of one or both. Therefore one of my friends named me Chief Propeller head. My wife calls me Techno Papa because anytime there is a problem with the computers or (God forbid) the connection to the WORLD WIDE WEB is disrupted for more than 5 nanoseconds (the time it takes for someone to inhale deeply and scream for help in my general direction) then I am the lucky winner. I get to drop what I am doing or in some cases pick my carcass up off the floor or couch and jerk myself out of the mindless daze I might be in because of the idiot box that has captured my attention and then have to snap back to the world of binary to figure out the problems at hand.
Computers came first and then the wonderful invention of the cell phone which is the thing that most of us use more than our own home phones. I think that is why most folks have quit using ma bell in lieu of using the cell phone instead. After all, why should we pay BOTH ma bell and the cellular provider to make phone calls? Gosh, I am chasing rabbits, sorry about that. The reason I am having the problem getting to the point is because this story has something to do with connecting the dots between cell phone and the personal computer which my sweet wife uses regularly.
Typically my wife stays in touch with me in various ways through the day and I also try to do the same thing. We probably communicate in one way or the other several times per day. That could be but is not limited to subliminal messages, smoke signals, screaming out the window, sending our kids to tell each other something, IM messages, e-mail etc. It is a married folk’s thing that most of us married folks do.
Anyway, I noticed today around 4pm when I was leaving my cubicle farm in the tower of power in Monkey Corner that my wife had not pinged me all day. GOSH, that had left a connectivity or latency problem in our network that desperately needed fixing. So, I hop on the cell phone in my car and PING her. I leave her several messages and of course my wife has forgotten that she is supposed to USE this device to ANSWER it in case I call. Katy has one of the cell phones that ONLY make outgoing calls. Hey, what the heck, I have been playing that game on and off for several years so I have sort of gotten used to it. I figured she would eventually come up for air. Around 5:30 pm I started to notice the connectivity gap was getting longer and longer so I called again. It is amazing to me how long of a voice mail message I can leave on her cell phone.
I guess around 5:45 pm Katy calls me and tells me that she is on her way home and that she is on Redbank road which is not far from us. I had already gone online to TRACK my sweet wife via the debit card TRAIL that she had left all afternoon. LOL… Remember that I said that we communicate in more than one way? You want to know where your wife or husband is just get online and see where they have been shopping. LOL… Anyway, my wife commences to expending some of the 5000 words that she has been storing up for me all day on the cell phone. That is cool, I don’t mind, I have the rest of the night to listen, right? More importantly we are on the UNPLAN with Suncom which means we can blather to each other non stop 24x7 seven days per week and they wont charge us another dime.
Katy surprises me by saying that she was on her way to a lady that is on the Free Cycle list to pick up a four cup coffee maker that she wanted to use in her classroom at school. Katy has the navigational prowess of a wet rock so of course she got lost on her way to the address. Katy then pulls over (I hope) whips out her laptop and plugs in the wireless card and finds a Wireless Access Point at a leasing office in a housing development and got on the Internet to check her email and get the ladies phone number that she needed. I was like, SAY DO WHAT? Katy is using her laptop and the wireless card to access a WAP to do what? Holy wireless connections batgirl I have a JUNIOR propeller head on my hands. I am so tickled that Katy has emerged into the 21st century and has embraced the power of wireless Internet access. I will have to get Katy her very own propeller head hat to wear. I can not wait to take a picture of both of us with our propeller head hats on and the props turning in the wind.
Monday, April 17, 2006
In Loving Memory of Norman Clifford Orvin
January 12, 1947 - April 14, 2006
A member of Grace Fellowship Church since 1977, serving as an adult Sunday School Teacher. A USAF Vietnam war veteran and retiree from the Charleston Naval Shipyard. Mr. Orvin is survived by Donice, Mark, Jason and Amy.
This afternoon our church is burying one of our long standing members, Norman Clifford Orvin. I did not know brother Orvin very well but I do know that he expressed a genuine love for God and as long as his health permitted it he was in the pews singing and praising right along with the rest of us. Brother Orvin was 59 years old when he passed from this life into the heavenlies. We know that we know that he has received a permanent healing and a new body. No longer will brother Orvin have to use a walker to get around and the pain of arthritis is now gone. We have the assurance of salvation knowing that brother Orvin trusted in the gift of Grace. I helped to run the sound during the service that was held in our sanctuary and then there was a prosessional heading for somewhere in Moncks Corner SC which is about 20 miles north of Charleston.
Friday, April 14, 2006
Because Christ rose
Because Christ rose from the grave we have hope in the gift of grace and eternal life through Him. As we are surrounded of pictures of Easter bunnies, eggs and the other trappings of this holiday join me as I celebrate the real meaning of Easter. May God bless you abundantly and keep you in his loving grace. Be safe and have a special time with your friends and family this Easter holiday. God bless
Wednesday, April 05, 2006
Announcing Mobile Play
Today I learned about Mobileplay and you can find them at the following URL of http://mobileplay.com/ I was able to set up a free account at Mobileplay in approximately 5 minutes and then download their Mobileplay software to my Pocket PC which then allows me to dynamically chose and install any data information application on my device. No matter where I am I can connect to a wireless access point and effortlessly synchronize the data from Mobileplay. For now Mobileplay is in a beta stage which means that eventually they will begin to charge for some sort of extras. As for me, I am SOLD on this service. I love it so go check it out and enjoy data on the move.
James Moffitt
http://www.lightourworld.com
http://moffittjc.blogharbor.com/blog
moffittj@bellsouth.net
James Moffitt
http://www.lightourworld.com
http://moffittjc.blogharbor.com/blog
moffittj@bellsouth.net
Friday, March 31, 2006
In loving memory of Hedy A. Moffitt Dec 16, 2005
In the picture you see my adoptive mom and dad. James C. Moffitt SR is pictured to the right standing next to my mom and his wife Hedy A. Moffitt. This picture was probably taken sometime between the years of 1982 and 1990 when my dad, James Moffitt Sr lost his battle with cancer. My dad was 60 years old when he passed away and had a successful career in the US Army where he retired and went back to school at East Texas State University and went to work as the TV Man at Terrell State University.
My mom, Hedy Auer Moffitt, died on December 16, 2005 as she too lost her battle with cancer. My dad was a native of Quinlan Texas and when he retired from the US Army in 1969 he moved his family back to his home town of Quinlan Texas. My dad met my mom in Frankfurt Germany at a bingo game. My mother is a native of Austria and was a translator for the Austrian embassy and spoke 20+ languages. My parents met, fell in love and married. After several unsuccessful pregnancies my parents decided to adopt my sister and I from an orphanage in Aschofenburg Germany. My sister Tanya was adopted first and then after the paperwork was signed a year later my dad said the nuns told him about me which peaked his interest. When my dad walked over to the crib and picked me up I supposedly took the hat off of his head and threw it across the room and laughed at him. From what I was told that stole his heart and he adopted me too. I am so thankful that I had my parents and that they brought us out of that environment and provided us with the medical care that we both desperately needed.
Tanya was blind in one eye and was not supposed to ever be able to drive and I had my right leg in a cast up to my knee and was never supposed to walk. Thanks to a lot of love, surgeries and therapy my sister was able to take her first eye exam without glasses and pass it and I was able to walk and play basketball for 6 years.
My parents, James and Hedy Moffitt are survived by their adopted children James C. Moffitt Jr and Tanya Lynn Moffitt who live in Charleston South Carolina and Canton Ohio. My parents are also survived by several brothers and sisters who still live in the Dallas Ft Worth area and several grand children.
James Moffitt
http://www.lightourworld.com
http://moffittjc.blogharbor.com/blog
moffittj@bellsouth.net
Wednesday, March 29, 2006
One day at a time
We can do this... :) One meal at a time. One snack at a time. It is all about making the right decision every time we decide to put something in our mouth. Is it good for us? How many calories does it contain? Will it help me lose weight ? How will it make me feel physically, mentally or emotionally?
Monday and Tuesday I ate less than 2000 calories and walked a 1.2 miles with a friend of mine. So far today I have had 120 calories and need to start drinking my water. Hope you have a good day and good luck on your weight loss activities. We can do it !!
James Moffitt
http://www.lightourworld.com
http://moffittjc.blogharbor.com/blog
moffittj@bellsouth.net
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Google Talk Plugins
(image placeholder)Coming to you live from my couch as I listen to the rumblings of my stomach and the garbage truck outside. I am home today thanks to mother nature waking me up at 3 am to make some visits to the great white throne. No, I am not talking about the great white throne that we will see when we go see God, I am talking about the throne that we all visit from time to time. Need I say more here? Anyway, I had so much fun with mother nature this morning that I was worn out when gizmo woke me up at 6:30 am. There is no way I was going to go to work and make trips to the restroom all morning there so I just decided to stay home with Justin and be sick together. Fun stuff, let me tell ya.
One of the things that I love to do on the Internet is to chat with my friends and family via IM also known as Internet Messaging. There are tons of clients out there, Yahoo, AOL, MSN and my favorite , Google Talk. It used to be that Google was just a well known search engine but it appears that they are just going crazy with all sorts of cool applications that are giving Microsoft a run for their money. GO GOOGLE!!!!
I love Google Talk because its simplicity of use. I like it because it is not loaded down with all sort of CRAP that makes it BLOATWARE that eats up half of your memory resources. Not all of us have 2gb of ram on our computers (giggle) so it is nice to know that the Google programmers are being mindful of everyone else when they write the code to this app. The ONLY complaint that I have about Gtalk is that up until now I have been unable to make the FONT size larger. I must have larger fonts than the default fonts in Google Talk. Well, thanks to my having to be in close proximity to the restroom this morning I was able to spend some time researching HOW to do this. Most of the time I find myself working on the Internet researching technical problems but today I was able to actually research something that was going to be directly beneficial to little ole me and of course you, if you have the same problem with the font size.
Check out the following link and download the “extended talk” plugin and that will allow you to zoom in on your conversations withink Google talk and thereby make the fonts LARGER. Cool stuff I tell you. There are other cool plugins you can try as well.
http://esnips.com/web/google-talk-add-ons
One of the things that I love to do on the Internet is to chat with my friends and family via IM also known as Internet Messaging. There are tons of clients out there, Yahoo, AOL, MSN and my favorite , Google Talk. It used to be that Google was just a well known search engine but it appears that they are just going crazy with all sorts of cool applications that are giving Microsoft a run for their money. GO GOOGLE!!!!
I love Google Talk because its simplicity of use. I like it because it is not loaded down with all sort of CRAP that makes it BLOATWARE that eats up half of your memory resources. Not all of us have 2gb of ram on our computers (giggle) so it is nice to know that the Google programmers are being mindful of everyone else when they write the code to this app. The ONLY complaint that I have about Gtalk is that up until now I have been unable to make the FONT size larger. I must have larger fonts than the default fonts in Google Talk. Well, thanks to my having to be in close proximity to the restroom this morning I was able to spend some time researching HOW to do this. Most of the time I find myself working on the Internet researching technical problems but today I was able to actually research something that was going to be directly beneficial to little ole me and of course you, if you have the same problem with the font size.
Check out the following link and download the “extended talk” plugin and that will allow you to zoom in on your conversations withink Google talk and thereby make the fonts LARGER. Cool stuff I tell you. There are other cool plugins you can try as well.
http://esnips.com/web/google-talk-add-ons
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