Can someone please tell me why automated phone systems will ask you for your phone number? Haven’t they heard of CallerID? I know it can be blocked, but 90% of the time the information they need is probably right there. Or, if it’s not your phone number they ask you to punch in it’s an account number, and what happens as soon as you actually talk to someone live? “May I have your account number please?”.
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I found and installed a nice little WordPress plugin for a couple of blog sites I manage for myself and friends: www.relevantfollower.com, www.refreshministry.com and this site. It’s called eBibleicious and it’s definitely “icious”.
The plug-in allows you to just type in a scripture reference to your post and it will generate either a javascript hover window, embed the full scripture text or just link to the scripture reference on the eBible.com website.
You can see an example of the embedded text on the www.refreshministry.com website
You can see an example of the hover text on the www.relevantfollower.com website
Here’s an example of just the text link provided for a scripture verse: 1 Peter 5:7 and Romans 3:23 (the text links aren’t working for some reason, but the other ways are pretty slick).
You can use scripture translations of the following versions: NASB, MSG, KJV, NKJV, ESV, HCSB, NCV, SpaRV, ItalRV
Pretty cool eh?
I’ve been intrigued with people that share my name for awhile and have even written about it. Who are they, what do they do? Would I like them?
Thanks to my friend Ben, I can now see how many people out there have my name.
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Oh, and if you’re wondering, there was only 1 of Ben. And another oh, after looking through my previous posts where I’ve written about other people with my name, I am too obsessed. Only about 160 more posts to go on that one.
Today was Mother’s Day, if you didn’t know that, and yours is still alive or you’re married with children….YOU’RE IN TROUBLE BY NOW!
Today was a good day for me overall. Aside from the fact that we were up at 6:30am to get ready because my wife and I had to be at church at 7:15am, things went well. The kids weren’t ready to get up, well none of us were, but they got to go to church with pillows and a blanket to lay down, while Kim and I got to practice our drama sketch and I ran the lightboard.
I went to bed this morning around 1am, so getting back up less than 6 hours later wasn’t exactly a nice present for me. That’s a good thing though since I’m not a mother.
We headed to P.F. Changs for lunch and there was much food to be enjoyed. Seared Ahi tuna, pan-fried dumplins, spare ribs, crab rangoons, lettuce wraps, pin rice noodle soup, spicy chicken dish, hot tea, honey shrimp and chicken and more!
We got home about 4:00pm and Kim took a well deserved nap on the couch while the children played quietly for the most part and I sat at the dining room table and worked on a project for a client. Still working on it, just taking a short break.
Called my mom at lunch and wished her a Happy Day. I’ve got great parents. They raised me right, but let me make my own decisions most of the time and even suffer the consequences of those decisions, which is very important in my book. Sometimes Kim feels like I’m too hard on the kids, but I think it’s better for them to learn these lessons now than to grow up thinking the world or people owe them something.
What do you think?
Oh, and out of curiousity, what do you get your mom/wife? Kim wanted a $130 flat-iron thing for her hair. I completely don’t understand spending that much for one when I could have gotten one for less than half that. Even my sister-in-law, a licensed beautician said she probably couldn’t tell the difference. Doesn’t matter though. I usually suck at remembering special events and occasions. Truthfully, I remember them, just don’t ever get anything. I’m what you would call “special-day-challenged.”
Therefore, it doesn’t matter what the gift was this year, I was getting it. I’m sure there’s plenty of things I spend money on that doesn’t make sense to her either.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m from Kentucky but I’m not pushing for barefeet for everyone. I’ve just got to get this off my chest and vent for a minute. I can’t stand the following two types of highly popular footwear right now: Crocs and Heelys.
What is the deal with the popularity of these two items?
This guy agrees with me in that he just doesn’t understand, but realizes they’ve really hit the mainstream when you’ve go the nursing and physician community wearing your wares.
It’s a 21st century version of the old “jelly” shoes that were popular in the 80’s. Plus, they look like your grandma’s garden clogs. I’d think the only place that should be popular is in the garden and the hospital. Having a pair of plastic shoes you can throw in a boiling pan of water for sterlizing would come in pretty handy for medical professionals I’d think.
And the Heelys? Those are just annoying. Maybe I’m getting too old or something. “Get off those crazy rollin’ shoes you little whipper-snappers!”. Nope, these suckers are just dangerous, at least one kid has already been killed wearing them.
My kids wants pairs of both and I don’t know how I’m going to do it.
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