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where nothing goes right? That's what yesterday was.

Started off bad when I woke up and found a note from 2 that the washing machine had leaked. Not a good thing to roll out of the rack to. Couldn't do much at that point about it, so I saved it for when I got home.

Get to the plantation and my inventory is off. Never a good thing but at least it was showing that we had more than we should, which is better than if it had shown a shortage. Still looking into that one.

Get a call from South America, a container is at the dock but customs is holding it up because of a labeling error.

Rain storm rolls in and soaks the place. A trucker can't see in the rain and rolls through one of the landscaped areas, leaving deep ruts and dragging mud all through the place. 

Make it home 2 hours later than normal and decide to check out the washing machine. Turn it on, go check email, phone rings, get distracted, hear a noise and think, dang, more rain? Snapped to a couple of minutes later and run to the machine - water everywhere. Sigh.

At that point, SU walks in the door and sees me frazzled. Must be like in the fifties when the husband comes home to find his wife in tears. So she says, let's get out of here and head to the remote, that's what it's there for.

Couple of margaritas later, life was good again.

this morning. Had a lot of guys (and gals) there today, that felt better after last week. The guys weren't in a particularly talkative mood but when they did, you could tell they were engaged with the subject.

We used Genesis 29-31 as the backdrop for a lesson titled God's Faithfulness. As I was preparing for the discussion, I read the story straight through several times. Amazing. It reads as a short story or novella. Every flaw you want to find in man is in that story, as well as redemption and the steady hand of God. Really cool, I don't know that it's ever affected me like that before.

The service was okay, the pastor's sermon sorta kinda fit in with our discussion. He used the capture of Jericho as his background. One of the things that stood out was Joshua's order to the army to be quiet, no talking, as they marched around the city. Stopped the negative talk, eh? Interesting.

Been working on websites this afternoon, finally, FINALLY got the Prayer Center working again. That one took some time. When I migrated servers, somehow, someway an errant apostrophe found it's way into a php file. Dang, that took forever. Good news is that it is now fixed on all the sites!

The pulled pork was wonderful. My concern about too much pecan was ill-founded, no bitter taste and my, my, it was good. Gonna have more later. Probably be having it for lunch all week long.

Been practicing Amazing Grace (My Chains Have Gone) all afternnon. I think I'm going to play in G with it capo'd at 5 using D shapes. Had a nice sound out of the Taylor DN3 , not too mandolinish. Plus, G lets me stretch the vocal chords a bit. Not too high but high. Once again, Graham/Daniel Choo has done some excellent work but this one really wasn't hard to figure out.

I'm thinking about doing a chapter by chapter review of Thomas Sowell's Economic Facts and Fallacies. He writes in such an easy to read fashion that most people should be able to comphrehend conservativism.

Oh well, off to church.  

I must admit to having thoroughly enjoyed this years Republican presidential primary. For the first time in a long time, I had a candidate that I could support without reservation and without hesitation. A class act to the end, he never succomed to the type of negative campaign that Mitt Romney ran.

The following is an email that he sent:

has kept right on rolling without you participating. Been a whole week since my last post here, I've been in somewhat of a fog, I suppose. That always happens when I get too involved in the inner working of computers, software and such.

Made a ton of changes to several websites this week, the biggest is the move to the dedicated server. So much faster but now I'm responsible for the upkeep, not only of the various sites but of the server. It's been so long since I've use the command line, everything took twice as long as I relearned vi, grep, chmod, chown, chgrp, reslove.conf files, nameserver configuration, email configs, etc. Almost back in action now. 

First off, 2 is okay, the only injury was a sprained ankle and bruising. Which is very good considering that she was T-boned and the car was totaled. Now to negotiate with the ins. co. over the payout and determine what to do for another vehicle. I was glad SU got to go and spend some time helping her.

Yesterday, SU and I rode the bike over to a mission/outreach in Pasadena called The Refuge. We met several of our class members there and discussed how we could help. I think we'll adopt this one for now and see if we can contribute, it'll be good for our members.

Today was awesome. RSa asked me to fill in for him and BT was filling in for GE, so we just rocked the house. Had a blast but was so nervous I got a major headache. Lunch w/Pop after that at the Dinner Bell, then tried to take a nap.

The week is looking busy, so I don't think I'm going to be able to go on the Patriot Guard ride I was thinking about. For all the talk of surges and success, people tend to forget that our guys are still getting killed over there.