Information Technology Jobs

Ever wonder what it is like to support computers at a University. Here's my suggestion:

(1) Go by three 1000 piece puzzles, dump them into a single pile and mix them up.
(2) Now randomly pick out 1000 pieces and throw the rest in the trash.
(3) Put together the remaining pieces to create your new puzzle.

That's about what it feels like to support all the various operating systems and tools expected of an information technology specialist.

Enjoy.

Stretch Hummer Sighting

The first interesting sighting in months. I was getting gas and glad I was not the one filling this up.

Sugar Cookies

The Hamilton's have an annual tradition of making sugar cookies for Santa. Here are the photos of this years sugar cookie making party.

Current Website Work

I have been working a lot recently on a new website for the Rolla Royals. They are the Rolla Homeschool Athletics Association teams. We have Junior High and High School teams for boy and girls in Volleyball, Basketball and Track. We are planning on forming a soccer team in the spring.

The website has a lot of information already there, and a lot more to be added.

I have really enjoyed working on this project check it out at http://www.rollaroyals.org

A Not Quite New Car

On Friday Night I purchased a replacement for my totaled Ford Escort. I miss that car, but I think I will enjoy the "new" one even more. The accident gave me the opportunity to purchase a "classic" car to restore. I was surprised to find a very well cared for 1984 Ford Crown Victoria with some minor body damage that fit my budget perfectly. I am getting a new windshield put in it on Wednesday and need to do a little body work to the driver's side doors to make it street legal again, but I should have it fully on the road by the weekend.

I have driven it far enough to know that it will be a very enjoyable car to drive. It probably won't get very good gas mileage with a 302 small block V-8, but at least I'll have plenty of power. It has been said about these cars that they can pass anything but a gas station. I'll letyou know if that is true in a week or two. I'll probably be blogging about the car quite a bit over the next few weeks just because it is something new in my life. I hope to have some picture to put on here soon.

Billy Graham's Prayer For Our Nation

THIS MAN SURE HAS A GOOD VIEW OF WHAT'S HAPPENING TO OUR COUNTRY! I Whole-heartedly agree with Bill Graham on this one.


'Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask your forgiveness and to seek your direction and guidance. We know Your Word says, 'Woe to those who call evil good,' but that is exactly what we have done. We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed our values. We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery. We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare. We have killed our unborn and called it choice.. We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable. We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building self esteem. We have abused power and called it politics. We have coveted our neighbor's possessions and called it ambition. We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression. We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment. Search us, Oh God, and know our hearts today; cleanse us from every sin and Set us free. Amen!'


Commentator Paul Harvey aired this prayer on his radio program, 'The Rest of the Story,' and received a larger response to this program than any other he has ever aired. With the Lord's help, may this prayer sweep over our nation and wholeheartedly become our desire so that we again can be called 'One nation under God.'

Obama Pro Life?

A friend of mine sent me to the following site where supposedly Obama is taking a Pro-Life stance, but from my reading of the site I was unable to determine his stand on much of anything other than protecting the life of the mother.

Obama's supporters seem to believe that through the process of legalizing abortions through the "Freedom of Choice Act", and then providing better health care so that women will be able to care babies to term easier. I don't really think it is a Pro-Life choice to pass the "Freedom of Choice Act".

There is not much else to say in response to Obama's stand on abortion, he has no moral issues with abortion at any stage in a pregnancy, this just does not come across as a Christian stance on the issue.

Obama, Where are your Christian Morals?

http://www.prolifeproobama.com/plpo_willdo.htm

Thanks for reading,
Scott

Choose Obama Choose Death

From viewing this video on "Americas Choice Now" it has become clear that a vote for Obama is a vote for the death of our culture as we know it now. It will give any woman, or any age girl the right to an abortion at any stage in the pregnancy. This gives a woman the right to murder as unborn child even up to the point of full term delivery. Please help me in getting the word out about Obama's Pro-Choice stand.

Thanks for your time.

The Messiah?

I came across a very interesting web site this morning making claims that Barack Obama is the messiah. He has not said it in his own words, but several people including Fararrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam in the United States, have called him the messiah.

I found the articles on this blog to be very informative and thorough in giving their sources. Obviously they are making an impact as many of the links mysteriously vanished after being covered in this blog. I realize I should cover both sides of this story, but have not found a site excepts snopes.com that will deny Obama as messiah. If anyone reading this post knows of one I'll be happy to add it as a full blog entry.

This was one of the most interesting entries on the site: http://barackobamaantichrist.blogspot.com/2008/10/full-story_09.html

Not that the rest of it wasn't worth reading.

I don't really care who you vote for, but I hope this will persuade you that voting for Obama is a bad idea.

Fun with search engines.

Did you know that you can use a search engine to take a rough poll of peoples opinions? It's quite fun to do, except when the general opinion is against yours. Then it kind of sucks.

Below you will find a graph generated by me to guess the election results. It looks like if Sarah Palin were to run for President she would win by a land-slide. But McCain is holding her back.
This poll is done by counting the number of web pages that contain the candidates name followed by sucks, rules, or rocks. These numbers are then totaled and graphed below. It seems that people equally hate and love Obama, everybody likes elections and Jesus, more people hate McCain than like him, but a majority of people love Sarah Palin.

Kind of fun to look at.