Had a fun evening with my life and friend Eric Lidji tonight.
Laurie picked me up from work today and we started the evening off with an enjoyable time shopping at Gap Body. It definitely wasn’t because of what they sell at Gap Body – but because of who I was with.
After we left, we browsed several other shops in the Mockingbird Station area before heading to Light Fantastic.
I remember going to Light Fantastic several times with my dad when I was growing up and he owned his own electrical business. He would go there from time to time to pick up lights and chandeliers for his customers. This time it was window shopping for us – or at least what we might like in the somewhere distant future.
After light shopping we made a visit to World Market where Laurie grabbed a couple different bottles of wine (both apple flavored) and I grabbed a “Make Your Own Six Pack” of various beers. A bottle of Shiner Black Lager, a couple different bottles of St. Arnolds and two brands I was unfamiliar with.
After our shopping trip we headed over to Cafe Brazil (an old favorite of mine – and one of the places Laurie and I went to on our first date) and we met up with Eric who was in town from Alaska for his sister’s Bat Mitzvah.
Eric and I worked together for more than a year at the Waxahachie paper.
Always enjoy conversations with Eric, either in person or now usually via the Interweb. He has great insight on things and great perspectives.
We talked national and local (Ellis County) politics, the newspaper business, the oil business (which he now covers in Alaska) faith and general catching up.
It was a great time only made better by the Chicken Chipotle Enchiladas I had for dinner.
And as the conversation wound down, Laurie and I headed back to Red Oak for a quiet wrap up to the evening.
Tomorrow – we meet with the Home Owners Association to figure out what they’re doing with all the money they get in our neighborhood. Should make for another interesting evening.
Category: misc
City Ministries in Nigeria
Mike Blyth shared an info-video from some of the missionaries serving with City Ministries in Nigeria.
City Ministries is the same group we worked with when we went to Jos, Nigeria in 2006 and also when CWF went in 2007.
Also friend and UMHB alumni, Erin Rigsby, works with City Ministries as well as a nurse for many of the children in the homes.
Pearl Harbor (a.k.a. the start of the Vietnam War)
i heard a funny story on NPR yesterday afternoon
an author was talking about 9/11
she said she had to walk home that day because all the subways and such were shutdown
and she stopped in a bar
two business men were talking and one said, “man this is just like pearl harbor”
the other asked what pearl harbor was
he responded, “It’s when vietnam bombed the pearl harbor and started the vietnam war”
These folks vote. Beware. 🙂
Label your Thumb Drives
If you’re prone to losing your Thumb Drives – or just afraid it might happen some day, Lifehacker has a great tip/hack to label your drive with your name, phone number or other information.
Here are the basics:
I created a next text file in Notepad, typed the word:
[autorun]
And saved it to the root directory—the “main” area of your drive, not in a folder—as autorun.inf.
I chose a big yellow smiley face for my icon but any brightly colored, unusual icon will be easily noticed. I copied the icon to the root directory of my thumb drive and renamed it myicon.ico.
Then I opened my autorun.inf file and added this text:
icon = .\myicon.ico
label=My Name (mobile xxx-xxx-xxxx)(Of course, you will substitute your name and your mobile number for the above text.) I saved the file and marked it “read only” and hid it (just as an added sense of security—a lot of people have not learned how to tweak their “Show hidden folders” settings and, thus, will not be tempted to delete or
edit the file.)
I gave this a try and it works like a charm. If you recall, I wrote about some great software ihoundsoftware.com back in Dec. and this works right alongside the software. I simply edited the autorun file that was already saved on my drive and added my name and phone number.
Here are a couple screen shots showing the final results:
At least it’s Friday…
Praise
My buddy just called and said another friend of ours was released from jail today on bond.
Huge praise!
He was arrested for suspected DWI. There’s a long story involved, but basically the breathalyser installed in his truck was registering a presence of alcohol after he used his asthma inhaler.
Our buddy’s mother testified along with his community group leader and his boss.
So he’s out on a very minimal bond and his next court date is set for April 16th.
Please keep him in your prayers.