Entries Tagged 'Life'
Name Game
Timothy is the #27 most common male name.
0.64% of men in the US are named Timothy.
Around 784000 US men are named Timothy! Butler is the #91 most common last name.
0.091% of last names in the US are Butler.
Around 227500 US last names are Butler!
source namestatistics.com
Found on Neil's World.
Rebate!
A few months ago I purchased Roxio Toast 5 from CompUSA for my iMac. I got it for $100 with a $40 rebate and $10 instant savings, so theoretically it was a “mere” $50 when I got done (quotes around mere since it cost nothing and required no effort to get the same external burner working on my GNU/Linux box). At any rate, that was okay.
But, things couldn't be that simple. I got a post card from Roxio that says that I didn't purchase the software during the eligible time (actually, I did buy it during the eligible period)! Worse, calling the phone number on the post card yields no way to get to a live person, and attempts to e-mail the rebate processor have resulted in no response in over a week. sigh
Hrmf.
Depressed
Of those things, I was most excited about the brochures. During my first year as publicity taskforce coach, I've been focusing a lot on the creation of the Uniform Brochure Design (UBD). The plan behind this is to create a unified array of brochures on whatever topic one might want to find out about our church, our beliefs, etc. I've been working on the UDB even before the publicity taskforce was formed and I was very excited that it would come to fruition during the ministry and missions fair (part of the 40 Days of Purpose).
Unfortunately, things have not been going smoothly at all. First, the powers that be ripped apart the press release I crafted and gave me a different one to send out. Then, after doing some requested modifications to the pre-built site, I was told to reverse all of them plus redo the pre-built site into a site with a number of extra pages. The site stuff was alright, although I wish if they wanted to do a bigger site that we weren't trying to do it with the pre-built template (which uses very messy HTML), but that was fine. The death of my PR piece was a bit disheartening, but I got over it.
Obviously, I still had one piece of work that hadn't been rejected: the UBD-based brochures for the ministry and missions fair. Early on the head of the ministry fair taskforce approved the use of the UBD for the brochures and a matching UBD-esque cover for the accompanying ministry directory booklet. Finally today, after work on those brochures was already well under way, I found out that the main DoP team reject the design. Completely. I've been told to redo the brochures with a new design that consists of black bold Times New Roman text on white paper and no graphics. Every dot and iota of the UBD was removed from the rough draft I received to work on.
In the big scheme of things, none of this is that big of deal, but with time constraints (see last post) and the shooting down of all three projects, I'm a bit weary at the moment. Considering everything has either been replaced or is waiting to, I wonder if it wouldn't have been better if I'd spent my time working on the next generation church web site or some other project instead.
I think I need a vacation.
Tired
This week has been very hectic… nothing is going according to plan. sigh Maybe I'll just go back to bed until next Monday.
Oh well… tomorrow I setup our church secretary's new computer during the afternoon. That could be fun — there's nothing like seeing the delight in someone's eyes when they realize they can actually get their work done rather than fighting with a slow, old computer.
Now if it just works out OK…
Another New Site, Meetings
Kevin Hartwig, the founder of the Sakamuyo Network, which was his personal blog for a long time (now it is a group blog), has launched a new personal blog — Birkenpreacher. Take a look, it has lots of good stuff already, and knowing Kevin, it will keep getting better!
The site has been up for a few weeks, but Kevin was doing a sort of “soft opening” (as a retailer might put it). Now it seems he's ready for the world to know about it — so at least asisaid.com readers should know about it!
In other news… tonight was Administrative Night at church. A worker at some printing shop, that was closing, stopped by and gave us a bunch of reams of high quality paper that will be really useful. I was there tonight for the Evangelism Committee (I'm the “coach” of the Publicity Taskforce subdivision of that committee), but I'm also the chair of a small committee that oversees our volunteer librarian staff. Somehow it got on the calendar that this other committee was meeting tonight and I had people wondering where the ERC committee was. Oops!
Ah, exciting night…
Whirlwind
Well, things have been hectic the last week. Catching up with business, personal and church work has pretty much consumed every last moment of time. I finally got most everything done yesterday. So today was mostly free, which is nice (especially nice since my free day collided with my birthday). At any rate, I haven't abandoned asisaid, I just haven't had time the last few days.
I should be able to resume a regular posting schedule here and at Sakamuyo, now.
In Memoriam
I felt like I should post something acknowledging today. I didn't have a chance to write a lengthy post, but perhaps that's not needed. Two years after 9/11, I still find it a sobering, saddening event. I mourn for the families of those who were lost. For those who were lost without having a personal relationship with Jesus. For the naïve innocence of our nation that has been lost. For the lives that have been lost in wars sprouting from 9/11.
Everything has, as it is often said, changed. Just today I heard a jet overhead that was especially loud and had a small, but persistant nagging that it could be another hijacked plane. On a less terrorist related level, the aftereffects of 9/11 threaten the very fiber of our nation politically as its terror is misused to push through legislation such as the PATRIOT Act in the gloomy days after the attack.
And most of all, all of those people who perished in such a horrid way. Oh, if only we could again live in the world of 9/10/01 and not 9/11.
Exploratory Committee
I've decided to form an exploratory committee to decide if I should try to go for the write-in vote on the California Recall Election. I figure the whole thing is so fractured as is, a write-in candidate might have a chance. To get things started, I've got my good ol' BSEC campaign sign back up.
Not bad, huh? Maybe if word gets around, I'll even get my own burrito.
Down, but not out...
Hrmf. My allergy to mold seems to be getting the best of me. I didn't get much of anything done yesterday and moved like molasses today. Oh well, it rained tonight, so I hope the mold count will be down tomorrow.
