Mark's Views, Perhaps — from behind my eyeballs
So this blog disappeared completely off the Web.
Why?
Some hacker deleted it for me.
Thankfully, I just got done reinstalling and restoring it.
I’m so grateful the database was out of the hacker’s reach.
Now I need to restore a bunch of other stuff til I get it back to what it was.
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beautiful crispy frosty morning
no terrorists around here
nor black helicopters
dog, cats, chickens OK
great landlords across the way
clear sky still painted with sunrise oranges and blues
Today, among things for which I’m thankful, is this:
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I haven’t tried it yet, but it seems like a great idea.
As I passed the 76 station at Blackman’s Corner on my way into the Molalla Post Office yesterday morning, I noticed the price for a gallon of regular gasoline: $1.899.
Wonderful! It seems like not so long ago they were over $4.20 a gallon.
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
On my way home about twenty minutes later I passed the same station.
$1.799
😀
We live so far out of town that we can’t get DSL or cable Internet.
That doesn’t pertain to this post except to help explain this: We seem to have frequent power outages, interruptions, and/or disruptions — especially in the winter time.
Over the years, that has translated into lots of time lost due to the power failing and the computers going dead. Even when the power merely winks off and on, it means lost work and/or corrupted files. For certain, it means having to reboot and start over.
Well, two or three months ago I decided that was enough of that. So I purchased and installed an APC Battery Backup unit.
Yesterday morning during computing time, the power winked. The printer shut off and restarted. The answering machine went through its routine. My ThinkPad beeped its way from AC to battery to AC.
But our desktop Dell just kept right on as though nothing had happened.
Because my APU did its job — it kept delivering uninterrupted power to the desktop.
Hey! Maybe that’s why they call it a UPS sometimes! (You know, Uninterrupted Power Supply.)
Anyway, that’s the first time the thing earned its purchase price.
That was fun to experience.
And I’m thankful.
(PS: I bought mine from Circuit City’s website. You could buy it from Amazon
As I mentioned on November 22, two of my friends got married that day in Ahome, Sinaloa, Mexico.
(Congratulations, Philip and Perla, and God bless you in unending abundance!)
Our daughter-in-law Shari sent us a picture CD. We got it last night via my folks who just returned from Mexico. Here are extractions from three of those photos:
Sorry, I decided not to post larger versions of these.
Oh, and the young fellow on the right on the last picture is husband of the above-mentioned photographer, our son Russell.
More on the subject: God’s Strength in Our Weakness