James & Katy Moffitt

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Volunteering is important

Good morning fellow readers!!

I saw something on Twitter that has set me off this morning so yes this will be a bit of a rant. J

North Charleston is suggesting that some of us volunteer to pick up trash on the side of I-26 and make our roads beautiful.

Before I go any further I do pick up trash along with the rest of my co workers on Bohicket road just outside of Kiawah Island. I am not happy about doing it however it is a requirement of businesses on Kiawah to provide this community service.

I believe that volunteering our time in the community is important and that all of us should try to do that when we can and our schedules permit. On the other hand I believe that there are a lot of things that need to be done in our community and are not getting done because there either is not enough people to do it or not enough money to pay the people to do it. I am sitting here wondering why our city and state governments do not utilize the manpower that our tax paying dollars are supporting. I am talking about the thousands of inmates that are incarcerated in our city and county jails. I vote that while we are feeding them and providing them with free medical care and room and board that we establish a program that puts them all to work for 8 hours per day doing community service such as picking up trash on the side of our freeways and other things that they are certainly capable of doing.

While I am thinking about it how about all of the welfare recipients in our state that are either unable to find a job or even worse have decided that they are too lazy to work and would rather milk the system for anything that they can get. No, I do not believe that all welfare recipients are lazy people who do not want to work but I will bet you there is a small percentage of them who do. I vote that while we are supplementing their income that we provide them with an opportunity to give back to the same community that is helping them. I have a feeling that some folks that receive city, state or county assistance would be more than happy to lend a helping hand and for those that decide they do not want to do something in return for the assistance might be motivated to stop getting assistance and go get a job.

Ok, rant over… Back to my regularly scheduled tasks…

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Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Antivrus Live

Good morning

Antivirus Live spyware is a “profile specific” program that only affects the logged on user. A “profile” is what is created when you log on to a Windows XP workstation with your user id and password. All of your computer desktop and application settings are stored in that profile which is located in c:\documents and settings\username.

Antivirus Live does NOT infect the entire machine. To cure this problem all you have to do is save your MS Office data to a backup folder on your hard drive and then delete the profile that is infected. You also need to turn off System Restore so that your machine is not re infected when the new profile is created. Turning off System Restore DELETES all system restore points and therefore gets rid of any infected files that might be in there.

Antivirus Live is transmitted via a website AD that you might click on. The AD contains a picture file that gets infected and then gets uploaded to the web site web server. At this time there is no known way to detect that an AD on a website is infected. All we can do is our best to keep our network and machines as clean as possible and do due diligence by doing regular scans and keep the AV and AS definition files up to date.

I am telling you all of this so you will be aware of what is happening and so that you can also be better prepared to protect your home or office computing environment as well.

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Saturday, January 09, 2010

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Tuesday, January 05, 2010

Chs

Meetup
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And gang at tweetup
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Island restaurant
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Friday, January 01, 2010

Starting over in 2010

A dear friend of mine sent me this and I thought that it was a good way to get refocused and start out the new year with a new resolve and determination. Let me share it with you in the hopes that it will help in some way.

When you've trusted Jesus and walked His way,

When you've felt His hand lead you day by day,

But your steps now take you another way …

START OVER.

When you’ve made your plans and they’ve gone awry,

When you’ve tried your best 'til there’s no more try,

When you've failed yourself and you don’t know why …

START OVER.

When you’ve told your friends what you plan to do,

When you’ve trusted them but they’ve not come through,

Now you’re all alone and it’s up to you …

START OVER.

When you’ve failed your kids and they’re grown and gone,

When you’ve done your best but it turned out wrong,

And now your grandchildren have come along …

START OVER.

When you've prayed to God so you’ll know His will,

When you’ve prayed and prayed but you don’t know still,

When you want to stop cause you’ve had your fill …

START OVER.

When you think you’re finished and want to quit,

When you’ve bottomed out in life’s deepest pit,

When you’ve tried and tried to get out of it …

START OVER.

When the year's been long and successes few,

When December comes and you’re feeling blue,

God gives a January just for you …

START OVER.

Starting over means victories won,

Starting over means a race we run,

Starting over means the Lord’s “Well done,"

… so don’t just sit there ..

START OVER.

--- Woodroll Kroll

I am glad that 2009 is finally over and that I have the time to look back at the trials and tribulations that we went through both individually and as a family. I have to remind myself that while there were failures and bad decisions that I must not spend too much time beating myself up. Instead of doing that I will do my best to start over and make better decisions in 2010.

I have not made any new year resolutions because I have always been horrible at actually keeping them during the new year. Like most folks I start out very serious and determined about the resolution and I really do want to be successful at keeping them. Somewhere along the way life happens and for whatever reasons the resolutions get left in the dust somewhere never to be picked up again. Instead of a resolution this year I have several goals that I will continue to work towards each day in 2010. Here are some of those goals.

A. continue to lose 1 lb per week in 2010 - If I can lose more than that is great but 1 lb per week is the goal.

B. to continue being self disciplined to study in the evenings and make good grades in my classes at Trident Tech.

C. to face our finances and make sound financial decisions that will enable us to live with less - this will require living by a budget and cutting out unecessary spending.

D. to be thankful for what we have (each other) and be content - this includes not comparing ourselves (our family) with others. To do the best we can do with what we have and not worry about what others think about it.

E. to be genuine in our walk of faith both within our family our church and community. To focus more on the vertical relationship with God and let Him work out the details in our horizontal relationships with others in the community he has placed us in.

My prayer and hope for all of us is that 2010 will be a year where we can start over in our lives in the areas that we need to. No matter how big the failure or disappointment there is no better time to start over than today. Lets learn what we needed to learn from the mistakes and look forward to a brighter and more positive future. All we can do is live one day at a time and make the decisions that need to be made and do the best we can with what we have. I want to focus less on the negatives and the things that I have no control over and focus more on the things in my life that I do have the power to change and to keep a positive mental outlook on life.

Happy New Year

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