Well if you have been constantly coming here to try and find some of my witty (it’s my blog and I can describe it how I want ) writing then you will be glad to see that there is something here today. I have taken on quite a bit in my life lately and it has been taking its toll on my time. Here is a run down of my week. Monday I am studying for my Microsoft DBA exams and preparing for the rest of the week, Tuesday is for Bible study preperation when I am leading and if I am not leading I need to actually do the homework I gave to everyone the week before, Wednesday is for Bible Study itself. Thursday is for a course in biblical Hermenutics, Friday is for AWANA. Saturday (every second saturday) is for Worship team practice and a public speaking course. Sunday is put aside for Church and sometimes friends.
In between the long list above is preparing various homework including bible observations and speech preparation for Saturday.
I do want to however make a conscientious decision to keep the blog going strong.
So in light of this decision watch this video which has given me the inspiration to juggle things which just don’t wish to be juggled
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I have been watching a lot of Stargate recently and I was just wondering about choosing people to represent Earth to other worlds. Out of these videos, I want my readers to choose one person who would be best suited for this prestigious position. Please put your answers in the comments section so everyone can see who you have picked.
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Well no I haven’t been climbing real mountains, but it sounds like fun
While my mom was still living with me I never went to the shops really unless she was with me and she used to drag me around from shop to shop which I quickly learned was not something I would call a hobby. Well this week I got a message from the domestic that I need new “sleeping shirts” as my pajama tops had kind of disintegrated. I first thought that it was impossible but quickly realised that they were about 3 or 4 years old and the washing machine was just too much for the poor things to bare and they shredded.
In search of “sleeping shirts”
So monday I started looking for these elusive things. The whole set of pajamas were not broken just the top half so buying an entire set would be wasting money so no luck Monday as they only had sets. Tuesday I went down to a mall during lunchtime and spent an hour walking in and out of shops (including about 20 minutes standing in the queue at the bank), but alas I was just not cut out for this shopping thing.
Today I set out with the mission of getting this horrid task completed, alas it is month-endso I waited out the hordes of month-end shoppers till the afternoon.
I didn’t steal it honest Well to cut a long story short, I managed to find something after spending an hour in the store wandering hopelessly around until I finally found someone to ask. Alas I was not to escape the store as easily as I may have hoped because as soon as I walked out of the store (after paying I might add) the exit alarm went off. Here I am a Recovering Introvert, the recovering part missing at that very moment, standing there with a shopping bag stuffed with a couple of pajama tops, with an alarm blaring, red lights flashing and security heading rapidly in my direction. Oh and EVERYONE staring at me. All I could think of saying to the security guard is, “That’s strange”. Luckily he skipped the strip search and let me go through the sensor without the bag of purchases, again the alarm went off, so he handed me my bag and said that it must be something in my pocket setting the alarm off, letting me go on my way without questioning my pocket contents. (I still don’t know what set it off)
Teeny, Tiny, Beetle Bits If any one has wondered what a VW Beetle would look like in a million tiny pieces, wonder no more as you watch this video.
And just for good measure, the only way to stop the FBI getting hold of your data from your Hard Disk Drives (Of course you wouldn’t be able to read them either )
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Well I have just got back from an interesting bible study. We covered topics as diverse as Benny Hinn and general Charismatic teachings (or mis-teachings depending on what side of the fence you are on) to Auto flush Urinals in mens toilets.
Definately an interesting discussion for me cause Introverts don’t talk about toilets. Good thing I am a recovering introvert, I am trying to train myself to be more open and not get totally embarrased by something as innocent as a toilet.
Oh, just in case some of our church elders are reading, we did spend some time doing bible study
I like going to our bible study the guys are totally committed to the Word of God while still being able to have a really good social fellowship afterwards. So we actually have bible study from 7PM till 9PM and generally socialise till about 10PM sometime 10:30PM, so it can be alot of fun.
One guy mentioned that in one of the urinals there was a talking while the urinal was in use. I don’t know about you but that would probably freak me out. Another lady was asked by her boss to go and test all the auto flush mechanisms in the urinals, that must have been a funny site, it’s funny when she re-enacts the little dance she did in front of each urinal to activate the sensor (I know she’s going to read this and I might get into trouble for putting her encounters for all to see )
There was even a discussion about an advert which instructs men to aim at a particular spot to reveal a product advertisment. I guess it worked because he remembered the product
Anyway, enough toilet talk, and watch these videos. The second one is hilarious but the first is pretty funny too.
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I appologise for being pretty scarce lately. There has been a lot going on with studying and some other stuff which has been keeping me busy. The biggest news I have is my new blog network, JMRPub.com, it’s coming along nicely, not quite ready for release yet, but if you want to play around and see what it will be like then go over to my sandbox and scratch around.
Google adsense rules I was just reading about how easy it is to violate the Google Adsense terms and conditions. It’s pretty scary how easily you can get yourself and your site banned. If you run Google Adsense or are thinking of it, then take a look at this post, http://www.affiliatewatcher.com/how-to-get-your-google-adsense-account-banned/.
Bible Study
I found a website which has some really nice material on bible study. The material is based on a book by Dr Howard Hendricks called “Living by the Book”. The website is http://www.preceptaustin.org/inductive_bible_study.htm.
Funnies Finally here are some cool videos. some funny, some just cool
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The Story My dad told me a funny story this weekend. My dad deals with Generator Sets which provide power to a building in the case of electricity supply failure. So he has this one customer, I can’t say who it is but I will say it’s a large grocery retailer whose primary business function is financial services, they grabbed a generator from my dad’s company and rented it for the duration of a power shortage.
About two hours after it being installed and started to run their fridges, that my dad gets a call that the thing has failed and they need immediate assistance. Immediately my dad asks what the controller says on its screen. Now the controller is a clever little thing that kind of hints at the problem rather than be direct, so the error message says “Uncontrolled Shutdown! Fuel?”. A subtle hint that you should maybe check the fuel guage. My dad tells the person on the other side that all the technicians are busy so cannot bring fuel to fill the generator. So the guy must find a drum, drive it to the filling station and bring back some diesel for the thing, he says ok and hung up.
A couple of hours later they phone again, after putting 400 odd litres of diesel in the thing it still won’t start. My dad is a little curious as to how they filled the 200 litre tank with 400 litres. They said they just filled until it would not take any more. My dad asks them to describe where they put the fuel. After there explanation he asks, “Right so above the fuel cap, the one that has Diesel printed on it, you opened the one with the stick thing and filled there?”, “Right” they said proudly. They had just filled the engine with diesel by putting the diesel into the cap with the dip stick to measure the oil level in the engine.
They were pretty annoyed that the controller was still insisting “Fuel?” and didn’t realise that the fuel tank was actually still empty and the engine was now flooded, really flooded. R2000 later the technician had drained the fuel (and now contaminated oil) out of the engine filled the tank with fresh diesel and started up the generator. They wanted to know what they must now do with the three or four barrels of ‘two stroke diesel’ that the technician had left behind. He told them whatever they wanted but advised them not to put it into the truck engines.
A funny video I was sent this video yesterday by a friend, I was literally crying it was so funny.
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Well as Christians we all know about forbidden fruits, I mean in the garden of Eden God gave Adam and Eve explicit instructions not to eat from one particular tree. So what did they go and do? They ate the fruit, oh of course it wasn’t their fault, “the devil made them do it” (Isn’t that just like the human race, always trying to farm off the blame anywhere but themselves). Well it is because of this initial disobedience, that we are so prone to disobey God and we are naturally drawn to anything which goes against the norm. For example, I came across this post which speaks about this very phenomenon, and mentioned about a reality tv show which took a number of people with kidney failure and put them into a house with a terminal cancer patient. The cancer patient is supposed to choose the winner of the her kidney when she dies. Wow, what a sick show that would be. Fortunately according to another post on the same blog the “Big Donor Show” is actually a hoax.
I make it a habit to avoid reality shows, apart from them being a waste of time, how many of them are actually real? I mean there is one show where a normal person like maybe a school teacher is trained to be an elite soldier. This is a reality show but how many people actually think that this person will be deployed into a foreign country to go and “take out” some dictator who is running their country into the ground. This will never happen. When I was on holiday in the UK however, they had one reality tv show which I did get hooked on. In my oppinion is was the top of the reality tv shows. What they did was take a group of people (with secret actors) and signed them up for “An adventure of a lifetime”. No-one knew (except the actors) what was the adventure. Then they were taken to a private plane and told just before boarding that they were headed for Russia to become the first members of the public to go into space. They would undergo heavy training and then will be sent up into space for about 5 days. To cut a long story short, the show was advertised as Englands biggest hoax. The people were flown around scotland in a wide holding pattern for two hours, after which they touched down in an unused airforce base in Ipswitch. The base was fully kitted to look like a Russian base. Eventually 4 people where chosen, one of whom was a secret actor, and were taken through to the “shuttle” and blasted off (with two more actors at the helm) for space to conduct experiments in a zero gravity (but with an artificial gravity generator) environment. The truth is that they never left the hanger the “shuttle” was parked in. But what makes this a brilliant show is that the guys trully believed that they were in space, all the training that they underwent culminated in an actual mission. Well they believed it was an actual mission. The kicker was that unbeknownst to the makers of the show, one of the guys who was chosen to go into space had actually visited that very base as a younger child when it was active, and he spent over a month their training for this mission and never once recognised it.
The show was called the Space Cadets if you want to read up about it. It was really fun to watch.
I will close off this post with a video of the Space Cadets final mission, a real trip to Russia to ride on the “Vomit Comet”. This is a plane which flies up really high then drops altitude at a high speed causing one of the closest experiences of zero gravity that can be simulated on earth.
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Well it is that time of year when I have to say I like the tax man. I got a pretty nice cheque from SARS (South African Revenue Services, not the SARS you are thinking about ) yesterday which will make a nice dent in my house repayments.
I got my first payment from Bloggerwave on yesterday as well so it has been a pretty profitable weekend for me this weekend. Now I just need to organise a steady stream of income so this blog doesn’t make a dent in my pocket
My domain expires in 8 months so that should give me enough time to get a good stream going.
I am also working on a new project with a couple of friends. We have dubbed it Operation 465 so look out for that coming soon as well.
Well I guess thats it for today, oh almost forgot there is a new blogger in town so if you want to read something good hop on over to Streetcrew.net (The streetcrew blog)
The best video I have seen this week, very funny.
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) writing then you will be glad to see that there is something here today. I have taken on quite a bit in my life lately and it has been taking its toll on my time. Here is a run down of my week. Monday I am studying for my Microsoft DBA exams and preparing for the rest of the week, Tuesday is for Bible study preperation when I am leading and if I am not leading I need to actually do the homework I gave to everyone the week before, Wednesday is for Bible Study itself. Thursday is for a course in biblical Hermenutics, Friday is for AWANA. Saturday (every second saturday) is for Worship team practice and a public speaking course. Sunday is put aside for Church and sometimes friends.
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