42 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 8-6-15”

  1. Morning all. Aj, I am praying for you and your family. It is a very discouraging time. But know that He loves you and is doing something on your behalf that you cannot yet see. Praising Him for His special care of each of you. Blessings

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  5. Good morning to everyone but Jo

    .Rest easy tonight Jo.
    In the Air Force, we used to tap out CULOM to end a transmission. (Though the OM might be a young woman at the ground station.) But I can hardly say that to Jo. l

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  7. From the AP, via the Hendersonville Times-News

    “The average new car has 40 to 50 computers that run 20 trillion lines of software code, more than a Boeing 787, a recent KPMG study found. ”

    Hard to believe, but that’s what it says.
    My car can’t be hacked.

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  8. Chas- Conspiracy theorists say we should get old cars so the government cannot control our cars. Something to think about, anyway.

    I got some good pictures of sea birds yesterday. And today we plan on going to a research aquarium. Maybe I’ll get some “underwater” shots.

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  9. Good morning! I put a prayer for AJ and Jo on the prayer thread.

    Yesterday I heard from my friend, Karen, whose daughter got ‘married’ a few weeks back. She was talking to me about Jesus. I was so happy after the other disturbing email from my other friend regarding salvation. Not too long ago I thought Karen had changed her mind about God, too, because she was needing to keep the peace with her daughter. Also, she was not quite right because of needing the surgery for overgrowth of her parathyroid. So it again sounds like she is growing in faith as she continues recouperating from her surgery.

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  10. Crazy day yesterday. Another “shooting” in a theater although now they have said it was a pellet gun. What do they call that? Suicide by cop? At least the police were on the scene quickly and no one except the gun man was killed. I predict there will be more and more of that kind of thing because the people beg for details and the media sensationalizes it.
    There was a wreck on I 10 yesterday morning that had the eastbound lane closed all day and traffic backed up 15 or so miles. The tanker truck that flipped was hauling a hazardous chemical so it had to be handled carefully.
    I was “carsick” yesterday too. I drove down to the beach but felt very ill. Eventually I began to feel better, but when I drove myself home I got sick again. Dinner was Gatorade and chicken noodle soup.
    I am up and moving today, but still a little iffy. Work calls and I am so/so about that also. Even knowing I was sick I still got messages about things to handle. Perhaps I am just overly tired.

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  13. Happy Thursday. My port meeting starts in 30 minutes — I usually use both my own laptop & the company laptop, side by side, one to watch the meeting live and the other to type notes on. 🙂 It’s quite a set up.

    If they ever have technical problems and the live feed doesn’t work, I guess I’d have to dash out of here and show up in person, Port headquarters is only about a mile away. But really, it’s so much easier to “cover” it in the comforts of home.

    That bird is very intense. Looks kind of like my border collie Tess (when she spots Annie the cat in the kitchen when it’s time to feed the dogs) — or like Annie when she spots a mouse or lizard.

    I’m tired of summer and our hottest weather is still ahead of us. 😦

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  14. Pastor Steve gave an interesting insight on John 8 last night. The woman taken in adultery. The fact that the man was not also charged, according to the law, indicates that it was a set up. The rulers set Jesus up so that he would order the woman stoned. That would cause trouble with Rome. To say, “Let her go” would illustrated disregard for the law. Jesus, of course, was wise to this. He wrote on the ground, speculation is that this was the sins the Pharisees were guilty of. The oldest were convicted and left. The younger also left partly from conviction, partly from lack of courage after the leaders left. .

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  15. Just because it’s fun and just because we are mean like this….we have an agent here at the office whose wife is overdue with their first child. They tried to induce her on Tuesday but sent her home. We have now determined that the baby has to be a girl—only a girl child would start messing with her parents that early. Just now we were teasing him about his baby weight and looking a little bloated. We told him he couldn’t go out to eat he needed to save his money for diapers. Then 3 of us started explaining breast feeding to him. He is just too adorable and it was too easy to have that much fun with him.

    I did ask him earlier what his religion was. He is Methodist and his wife was raised Catholic. I told him that was good. He needs as many members of the clergy as he can get if this is a girl. I told him to go to the minister and the priest and confess everything he had ever done wrong, beg for forgiveness and plead with God not to let this girl child revisit it on him 10 fold.

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  17. Earlier I went to our mall about a mile from our home. I wanted to shop the clearance going on at Burlington and find some shorts and tshirts for husband. I found two shirts and shorts for under $30.00. When I got in line I noticed I was the only white person. There were people speaking different languages and from many different countries I would guess. It is something to see that the people out shopping who have money to spend do not appear to be from the USA. Of course, I am not talking about upscale shopping like Lenox Square in Buckhead. That is not far from here going in another direction. Our mall was probably the first big mall in Atlanta. It is where as teenagers, friends and I might spend a Saturday.
    My neighborhood is still majority white, but we are the minority in the general vicinity Sometimes you can feel like a foreigner in your own neck of the city block..

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  19. Does anyone know of someone who hooks up a large monitor for use with a laptop? I saw a large curved screen monitor at Sam’s earlier that looked to be easy on the eyes.

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  20. I have an additional screen hooked to my laptop right now. I LOVE working from multiple screens. You don’t have to toggle back and forth. It’s easy to do. (Obviously easy because I did it)

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  23. Talking to a young colleague, I mentioned the Orange Julius that used to be on the waterfront.

    “What’s that?” she said.

    Argh.

    Painful.

    So then I had to try to explain the wonder and beauty of Orange Julius that was the hip new thing when I was a teenager. 😦

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  26. Yep, DQ bought the company. I think I had some copy-cat concoction when I was a child, but whether I’ve actually had one like Donna is talking about, I don’t know. I just have a vague memory of one of my brothers or a sister-in-law offering her own homemade version, or something of that sort.

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  30. I bought some slacks in Ross last night and conducted everything in Spanish. 🙂

    We’re going to a sub-continent India party tomorrow night. I’ve borrowed a sari and will experiment tonight . . . when my sons asked what to wear I said a Nehru jacket. They had no idea what that was, though my husband laughed.

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  34. I think the recipe I used had powdered milk in it. The OJ disguised any bad flavor from it, while saving money. I never could stand the taste of it. I remember when my cousins had to drink their milk half fresh and half powdered. 😦 I felt sorry for them. They were used to it, though, apparently.

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  35. My mom used to make powdered milk sometimes. It sure does have a different taste.

    I’m not sure if mom made that because we were short of money, or because it was lower in calories (she was often on one diet or another).

    I remember Orange Julius. I think only only had one once, though.

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  36. Heidi is less itchy today. Turns out that the flea medication our vet had us using (Vectra 3D) was not doing its job. Even less than two weeks after treating her the last time (it should last a month), she had fleas on her. Looking at the product reviews on Amazon, I found that 73% gave it a one star rating (the worst rating). So it wasn’t just my imagination that it wasn’t working well (or at all).

    One of the “selling points” for Vectra is that it repels & kills the fleas, rather than letting them bite first & then die. (Frontline kills, but doesn’t repel. Heidi has a flea bite allergy, so repelling them before they bite her would be better.) I found another product, Advantix II for Dogs, which repels & kills fleas & ticks & a couple other pests, & had great customer ratings & reviews.

    Before applying it on Heidi last evening, Chrissy had seen a bunch of fleas on Heidi’s backside. Today, Chrissy only saw one flea, & she thought it looked like it was dying. What a relief, for Heidi & for us. We’ve also changed from Frontline to Advantage II for Cats for our kitties.

    (Advantix is for dogs, Advantage for cats, by the same company.)

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  37. I’m not sure, but I think they used to use the name Advantage for their dog product, too. Maybe they changed the name? Maybe I’m confused?

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  38. The sunset was gorgeous with clouds blocking the actual sun but sun rays from behind them radiating light upwards. Yet I miss sunsets over mountains in a dry climate without the haze. The sunset we saw over the Pacific when we were in California a few years back was much more colorful.

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