She needed to come by for a bit with me today. She’s helping a lot. Tries to answer the phone whenever it rings, throws my cell phone to see if it will bounce off the floor, and makes it difficult to type when she’s in my lap because she thinks she’s a better typist than me.
I’m sitting on my inlaws’ couch typing on their laptop. And I’m sitting in front of a big screen TV watching SportsCenter. Since we don’t have cable at home, I get my SporstCenter fix when I can.
Yesterday was a drive north and then lunch at The Wife’s aunt’s house. Then a competitve game of Phase 10. I’m always confident in that game. Sometimes w/o reason. But I came in 2nd overall. So close….. I’m about to go get in the shower and then we’ll load the fam to go to New Albany to my dad’s house, then eat fried fish for Thanksgiving at my aunts house. How’s that for breaking tradition? Then later this evening we’ll head to Amory. Don’t worry, I’m clocking all the miles.
But I’ve also been reading stories on the upcoming Egg Bowl. I’m pumped for it. But I must admit I miss it being on Thanksgiving. I went about 3 or 4 of those. We’d eat somewhere, and then make the trek to Starkville or Oxford. I guess I liked it so much because State won most of the games on Thanksgiving.
But this year is really a toss up. I think we’d have the upper hand except for our QB situation. With Henig hurt, a less than healthy Conner will be at the helm most of the time. And UMiss is looking for trick plays to throw at us too. I hope to be able to listen to some of it on the way home tomorrow.
So…the next two days should be more eating and driving. Seems to be what the holidays are all about.
We’ll be heading out in the morning to start the Thanksgiving Tour. That’s where we load up the car with kids and dogs and go to three cities in three days to see three sets of families. So we’ll load, unload. Then load and unload. Then load and unload. Then load for the return trip home.
Along the way we’ll eat and greet and hopefully sleep. But we’ll be rushed and not really be at anyone’s house long enough for them to be satisfied. So we’ll leave someone’s house and they’ll think we didn’t stay long enough. And then we’ll get to someone’s house and they’ll think we stayed too long at the house we just left.
The joys of holidays!
Not really. But I can see how people can be. I remember when I first heard of it. And it seemed the new thing in college circles. But it was a closed circle. You had to have a college email address and mine had LONG since expired.
I did look at it a few times here and there after it expanded to the high school scene. Someone would log in and let me look over their shoulder. But I did the other social networking site. I got my self a MySpace. And I thought it was cooler. It had music and everything w/ it. And it seemed to have a lot of people involved with it.
But then someone told me that Facebook was open now. Wide open. And I signed up a couple of months ago. And I see how people could spend inordinate amounts of time on there. My previous assumptions of Facebook being more high school and MySpace being more college wasn’t true. Facebook seems to have tons of both. And more and more people adding every day. Even “old” guys like me.
But it is a great way to be able to keep up w/ people. And to connect with students in their world too.
The kool-aid is tasting good. The Mac came in and now I’m sitting in front of it. It’s small, sleek, yet 15.4 inches. I guess I’ll be figuring out the ins and outs of it soon. I’ve been looking around the last few months at online opinions. And there are a lot of people who say, “Mac is the best and here is my grocery list for why…” and then there’s the camp that says, “PC’s are more than fine and here’s why when comparing apples to apples oranges to oranges they’re just as good…”
But I read one statement that rang true. Even though there are plenty of people who LOVE their machine, be it Mac or PC….any of the ‘switchers’ you read about are the PC to Mac people. I have never read someone say, “I used to be a Mac user only. But I switched to a PC and now I’d never think of going back.” I’ve NEVER heard of that. And it’s speaking volumes to me.
Now I’ve still got a long ways to go in getting my feet wet w/ this machine. I know it can do a lot of stuff that I’ve not even begun to scratch the surface of. So here’s to exploration and learning. This will be a great ministry tool. I’m excited to see what happens with it!
To follow up on yesterday’s post, as we went to bed on November 16th, there was lots of prayer and concern. There was actually a brief point where I was almost deathly fearful. I was just outside of town, The Wife was at the Doctor, and as I was closing a business deal, the cell rang. Didn’t recognize the number and I was about to walk out of the door. So I didn’t answer.
I leave, The Wife calls and chews me out for not answering the phone (which I should have). Turns out she’s at the doctor and I can tell there’s not been good news. But she won’t tell me anything over the phone. Nothing. So I go home and wait. And wait and wait. Then I call the Dr. office, and get a hold of her in the exam room, but still won’t say anything. But I can tell she’s upset. So I have to wait still.
FINALLY she comes home. But just sits in the car, with it locked, and is crying. Now just imagine all that is flooding my mind. We’ve gotten no so good news from the doctor that the baby might not be growing as quickly as is normal. The doctor is concerned. He wants to go in and induce right now. Then The Wife comes home and is obviously upset and won’t open the Explorer door. And she’s crying.
I’d thought we’d lost the baby. That there was a dead baby in my wife right now. It was crippling. BUT…that wasn’t the case. Very thankfully. Today my daughter is TWO YEARS OLD! But here is a blog entry from 2 years ago w/ a “in the moment” story of how it all happened…
Was at Target tonight. There were people starting to camp out. Had tents set up and everything. My wife was asking what those crazy people were doing. I told her it was to be first in line to buy the Playstation 3. I thought it would go on sale at midnight. But a lady in Target said that they were closing in 30 minutes at 9pm. The people would have to wait out there til 8am tomorrow.
I know we live in Mississippi, but it was COLD out there. One store over, at Best Buy, there was a huge group standing in the parking lot w/ sleeping bags and such. I guess they were having to wait til closing time before they could set up camp on the sidewalk.
Crazy people….
Two years ago, this was the due date for my second child. We didn’t know if the baby was to be a boy or a girl. We were excited about the baby, and wanted to be surprised by the gender. And I had visions of walking out of the delivery room and being able to announce to my family the sex of our new baby. To walk out and see their expectant faces, just waiting on my words of proclamation.
But on this day, things were starting to look kind of scary. My wife was getting some not so encouraging news and advice from her doctor. Here’s what I posted on my blog two years ago. Just know that my entire being was being stressed out at this time.
Fifty seven games. That seems unheard of. Fifty seven games in a row is what South Panola has won. I remember living in Amory and seeing them win 36 games in a row and thinking that was really impressive. And knowing that the state record at the time was somewhere around 47 or something. But South Panola has won 57 in a row and they have their eyes set on 60. That would mean they’ve won four state championships in a row with four undefeated seasons.
But Clinton is going to try to stand in their way. Clinton, who had a shaky start with their Jamboree blowouts (not in our favor) and then seemed to be the comeback kids during the first two games, found their stride. They went so far as to make it to #6 in the state. They had a few stumbles with their Jekyll and Hyde play. But they’ve positioned themselves for one of the bigger upsets of the year.
Not an upset because Clinton isn’t’ a good team. But just because of how dominant the SP Tigers have been over the years. So I’ll be there. I was actually in Batesville this summer on my way to Oxford. I noticed the signs welcoming everyone to Tiger Country and the lists of champions and championships.
I hope to be able to report good things come Saturday morning.
Well, it seems that Eve couldn’t resist the apple. She gave in and partook of the fruit. Now I don’t mean to say that an Apple is sinful at all. But I’ve been looking over the fence at the Macintosh computers for a bit. I hear all the buzz. I see all the neat tools. I hear the “once you go back, you’ll never go back!” phrases.
But after some needed switcheroos in the computer setups in the office, we made a purchase. And we purchased a MacBook Pro. It should be here w/in the week. We expect to be using it for various media manipulation and editing as well as some desktop stuff. It’s got the horses. And we plan to let it run!
Does anyone recommend any media projection software? We’ve been using MediaShout for PC’s for around a year or so. I’ve seen ProPresenter and LiveWorship both for the Mac. Any thoughts?
