Hilarious Story
Posted by Josh in Uncategorized on October 7th, 2011
I saw this on a friend’s status on facebook.
An atheist was seated next to a little girl on an airplane & he turned to her and said, Do you want to talk? Flights go quicker if you strike up a conversation with your fellow passengers. The little girl, who had just started to read her book replied to the total stranger, What do you want to talk about? Oh I dont know he said, how about why there is no God or no Heaven or Hell or no life after d……eath? (as he smiled smugly). OK, she said. Those could be interesting topics, but let me ask you a question first. A horse, a cow, & a deer all eat the same stuff – grass. Yet a deer excretes little pellets, while a cow turns out a flat patty, but a horse produces clumps. Why do you suppose that is? The man visibly surprised by the little girls intelligence thinks about it & says, hmmm, I have no idea. To which the girl replies, do you really feel qualified to discuss God, Heaven, Hell or life after death when you dont know crap? And then she went back to reading her book.
Chrome as an App
I have been a big fan of the chrome browser for quite sometime now. I did go back to Safari when the latest one that allowed extensions was released. But I kept finding myself missing Chrome. Now I am back to using Chrome again. I have added quite a few extensions that I have just come to love to have right there within the browser. The one thing that hasn’t happened with the Mac version of Chrome that I am ready for is the create application function. I am so ready for that to be turned on in the Mac version of the browser.
Some of my favorite extensions are Evernote (don’t know what I would do without it), Picnic (awesome for quick photo edits), facebook and Chrowety (twitter). I just discovered that Scribefire was released, I use to use this in Firefox and it is what I am using for this post. Another extension that I found tonight was chrometoiphone, it will send what I am looking at to my iphone from the computer which is sweet when I want to take what I was looking at with me when I need to leave.
Chrome is becoming quite the do all app on my mac and it is nice to be able to use it to interact with some of my favorite apps and phone apps.
Mission Trip Mistake
I have to share this little mistake that I made because something funny came out of it.
In the process of getting ready for our youth mission trip this summer I mistakenly overlooked the booking of our church van for the trip. For some reason in my mind I thought that I had reserved it, but didn’t. Needless to say when I am double checking everything for the trip I go to verify the van and sure enough our Vietnamese congregation reserved both the church bus and van for an associational convention. They come back the day after we need the van.
Anyways, it being my complete mistake, I told the youth that we might be walking, since we had no transportation. (I am in the process of finding a van rental) So I get a text from one of my youth that was talking with her grandmother about my upcoming sermon that I am doing in July. She asked her if I had reserved the pulpit for my sermon yet. I am not going to lie that was hilarious. My wife and mother in law also thought it was so funny!! To answer the question yes it is reserved.
YNAB 3
I have been a quicken user for I don’t know how long. I have tried other finance apps over the course of time, but always went back to quicken for one reason or another.
One thing that I was always lacking in taking care of our finances was a true budget laid out. One reason was the frustration of having a non-fixed income coming in each month. I had never really approached our finances with a budget in mind.
I got back in the mood to try to figure out a “new” budget for ourselves to hopefully, eventually get us out of debt. I did a quick good search to see if there was any cool budgeting software for the mac. I came across some really cool review sites that did various reviews of a lot of different budget friendly finance apps. After looking through several I started to notice a lot of the reviews were giving a lot of praise to YNAB which stands for yourneedabudget. I found that there were a number of reviews on this specific app. What really drew me to this was the fact that it was using an envelope system which is what I was wanting for us, but one where we would setup virtual envelopes. It’s 2010, I don’t want to have a bunch of envelopes sitting around with money sitting in them. This appears to be the perfect solution for us.
What makes me so excited about using this particular app, which works on other operating systems, is the fact that it approaches your handling of all your money through the budget. Yes there is a register to keep track up your bank account, but the main focus is your budget and then tracking your register. This is what I have been looking for for an extremely long time and I am excited to have finally found it. I know it is early, but I have extremely high hopes for it. There is a 7 day free trial, and I was so impressed with it that I bought it the first night after messing around with it, which cost $50.
I am really looking forward to using this over the next few months. What I think is kind of funny is the fact that I am actually excited about dealing with our budget and our finances. Usually that isn’t something that gets me excited, but I must say that I am for the first time looking forward to paying bills.
On a side note, I have gone through and really started analyzing everything that we spend and boy does it open up your eyes when you really start breaking down everything that you spend money on. I was shocked at how much money I was spending a month on itunes without even thinking about it. I honestly thought I was spending no more than $5 a month on music and iphone apps. My credit card statements looked like I was spending more like, on average, $15 a month.
All in all I am looking forward to getting a handle on our finances along with getting out of debt. Check out YNAB 3.
Messing with Desktop Publishers
I just installed Windows Live Writer here at work and want to test it out. I have gotten frustrated with publishing through the web interface. It is a little slow and clunky. I am trying out Blogo on the Mac side of things and found out that one of the best for the windows is this app. I will probably use the one at work for mainly posting to our youth website defy122.com. We will see whether or not this and Blogo can make me happy with publishing post to the blogs. I really hope so, always looking for something to get me posting to the blog a little more.
Insane, But Really Cool
This is pretty cool to see how a guys transforms his body of the course of a year.
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God’s Words
It is amazing what God and can tell you and when he might choose to speak to you. I have been thinking recently about what to preach on for the next youth led worship service and I have had a few ideas, but nothing concrete. This past weekend I took the youth group up to Worlds of Fun, which was a blast but freezing!!!! On the way back from KC I was driving the church bus and of course it was silent with just about everyone sleeping. I was in day dreaming driving mode thinking about all kinds of different things and then I felt God speaking to me about what it was that he wanted me to preach on. The message was being laid out before me and tied into one of my devotion reading from the previous week. I am still needing to organize it all, but I got home last night at 11:30pm. Got in bed and started typing it all out so that I wouldn’t forget it. It is exciting to see God at work and different times in which he chooses to speak to us.
1st Week in Office
Since the kids have gone back to school this week I have decided to start going into the office at church. I haven’t really gone into the office at all this summer other than to just look in there. It was very strange to actually go into the office. Honestly this was the one aspect of youth ministry that I wasn’t all that excited about.
It was weird going into the office, but it was a good weird! The only jobs that I have ever worked in my life were ones that required me to be there at this time and you have x amount of time for lunch, basically they tell you everything that you do throughout the day. I was a little worried about how I was going to feel my time. Needless to say it wasn’t hard and I couldn’t believe how fast the days went by, in my opinion they went by too fast at certain times. It really feels good to be in a professional work environment and I think I am going to thoroughly enjoy working up at the church. I know there will be ups and downs as with any job, but I am very excited about what God has in store for me.
I have spent the first 2 days getting organized with some of my stuff and going through all that is in the office. I still have a lot of stuff to go through and decide what to keep and what to get rid of. And again organizing all that is in the office cabinets and drawers. I got a chance to do preparation for Sunday while in the office and it was really good to have a place to just focus on the study. I know that I will be making good use of the office and being productive with my time there. One thing I am going to do and need to do is paint and redecorate the office, it looks quite outdated. God is good and I feel him working in all that is going on right now as I jump into this huge change in my life.
MacJournal Test
Just wanting to test macjournal to wordpress feature.
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