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Aug. 20th, 2006 12:18 amAt this time a year ago, we were probably working on last-minute wedding prep. My brother and my sister-in-law will be celebrating their first anniversary tomorrow and they are together - at least for a few days. A rather poor assortment of pictures (mine) can be found here.
Unfortunately, my hard drive started having issues and I may have lost everything on it. Levi urges me to let this be a lesson on the importance of backing up what I have as often as I feel it is necessary. Though I had completely converted to web-based email due to prior experiences with these types of problems, nothing of the sort had happened since Levi took charge of the computers. This problem is due to my own negligence, probably, since I didn't do anything about it when it started (besides tell him a few days later). Ah, well...
That means that I lost 22 gigs of stuff, 14 of which were pictures.
I do have a lot of those pictures on discs or uploaded somewhere, fortunately, though not all at full resolution. Levi installed a different hard drive temporarily while he works on finding a program that will undelete the information from my hard drive, which apparently causes even his amazing computer to freeze up when he attempts to run the undelete programs. So far, he hasn't been successful at getting professional input. I really would rather not lose all the stuff on the hard drive, though I can't complain too much since it is my fault for not backing things up.
Anyway, that was too much information. Haha. Life this last week has been interesting. My mom and the four younger kids stayed with my grandma Tuesday through most of Friday because my grandpa was out of town. My dad had to work the first part of that time (he works in a town northwest of here and my grandparents live in a town northeast of here), so he stayed home the first part of the time and then he went and stayed with my mom and the younger kids the last night and day. So Levi and Benjamin and I had a very quiet house. Apparently, things stayed pretty quiet with everyone else, too. Funny how that works. Just separate certain siblings and life is...well, nearly perfect, anyway.
Cooking for a small group of people is very depressing to consider, so I didn't do much of that. I do like cooking for just one person, though. That sounds rather contradictory. Haha. I like cooking separate meals for separate people, but I don't like just cooking for two people. That still makes no sense. I like to please people - I think that's what I'm trying to say. But I don't just like cooking a tiny bit of food. Maybe I should just give up on trying to say this and go to bed. Haha.
On HSA, one of the recent topics of discussion has been in response to this message, which I downloaded last night but didn't listen to...because I didn't really have the opportunity at that time. The consensus seems to be that this guy might overstate his case but that he might be doing so reasonably because we need a good dose of reality. So the question is, how do we respond? And one of the answers was that we need to take more of a discipleship approach than we usually do. And I totally agree...
It's fine and nice to "lead someone to Christ," but what about leading them to maturity, to a solid daily walk? Leading someone in a "Sinner's Prayer" may or may not have a lasting impact. So something needs to change. Now, granted, I see a lot more discipleship at our church than probably exists in a lot of places...but it does frequently seem to be lacking in the church as a whole. So our question now is how to remedy this, I guess. Seems like a good question to be asking.
I'm tired. Good night.
Unfortunately, my hard drive started having issues and I may have lost everything on it. Levi urges me to let this be a lesson on the importance of backing up what I have as often as I feel it is necessary. Though I had completely converted to web-based email due to prior experiences with these types of problems, nothing of the sort had happened since Levi took charge of the computers. This problem is due to my own negligence, probably, since I didn't do anything about it when it started (besides tell him a few days later). Ah, well...
That means that I lost 22 gigs of stuff, 14 of which were pictures.
I do have a lot of those pictures on discs or uploaded somewhere, fortunately, though not all at full resolution. Levi installed a different hard drive temporarily while he works on finding a program that will undelete the information from my hard drive, which apparently causes even his amazing computer to freeze up when he attempts to run the undelete programs. So far, he hasn't been successful at getting professional input. I really would rather not lose all the stuff on the hard drive, though I can't complain too much since it is my fault for not backing things up. Anyway, that was too much information. Haha. Life this last week has been interesting. My mom and the four younger kids stayed with my grandma Tuesday through most of Friday because my grandpa was out of town. My dad had to work the first part of that time (he works in a town northwest of here and my grandparents live in a town northeast of here), so he stayed home the first part of the time and then he went and stayed with my mom and the younger kids the last night and day. So Levi and Benjamin and I had a very quiet house. Apparently, things stayed pretty quiet with everyone else, too. Funny how that works.
Just separate certain siblings and life is...well, nearly perfect, anyway.Cooking for a small group of people is very depressing to consider, so I didn't do much of that. I do like cooking for just one person, though. That sounds rather contradictory. Haha. I like cooking separate meals for separate people, but I don't like just cooking for two people. That still makes no sense. I like to please people - I think that's what I'm trying to say. But I don't just like cooking a tiny bit of food. Maybe I should just give up on trying to say this and go to bed. Haha.
On HSA, one of the recent topics of discussion has been in response to this message, which I downloaded last night but didn't listen to...because I didn't really have the opportunity at that time. The consensus seems to be that this guy might overstate his case but that he might be doing so reasonably because we need a good dose of reality. So the question is, how do we respond? And one of the answers was that we need to take more of a discipleship approach than we usually do. And I totally agree...
It's fine and nice to "lead someone to Christ," but what about leading them to maturity, to a solid daily walk? Leading someone in a "Sinner's Prayer" may or may not have a lasting impact. So something needs to change. Now, granted, I see a lot more discipleship at our church than probably exists in a lot of places...but it does frequently seem to be lacking in the church as a whole. So our question now is how to remedy this, I guess. Seems like a good question to be asking.
I'm tired. Good night.
