Blessed Beyond Measure
Work
And Start!
Oct 20th
There has been lots of buzz around the house these last few days.
After much prayer and council we have decided to invest a little money and a lot of time into converting our garage. The best thing is we will be doing this completely debt free thanks in large part to listening to and following Dave Ramsey and getting on a strict budget.
I highly recommend it.
The new space will be primarily used for Julianne’s Piano business which is growing by leaps and bounds.
I am so proud of her.
We will also use the space for our worship team rehearsals, I will start offering voice lessons, and Alex will utilize it for audio recording as he learns the trade.
I will be taking pictures of the progress and updating the blog as we go along.
After this project is over we start on the rest of the baby steps to becoming debt free.
We have big plans and can hardly wait till the next building phase where we will be replacing our garage with a new one complete with studio space above for me. Rohr Fine Art is my motivation to live like no one else so later we can live like no one else.
Waiting, always waiting
Feb 5th
This waiting is really starting to get on my nerves now. Waiting for change. Waiting for direction. Waiting for what is next. Waiting, Waiting, Waiting!
Good thing I am learning to take life one day at a time and trust because thinking about waiting for the whole week is well, simply out of the question!
Like sands through the hourglass……… I wish!
Move sand move!
Thanks for letting me share – now back to waiting.
Do you think we are losing the language?
Jan 18th
Got this today on one of my workstations at the office.
“has failed catastrophically”
I have never had a catastrophic failure. I was half expecting my eyes to start bleeding.
Is a software application not running really a catastrophe?
What is next – “Your email has not been sent Armageddonly”
Hackers Suck
Dec 3rd
My FTP server at the office was under attack this weekend. It took some hit’s, got a black eye, but in the end I think I won the day.
I am sure it was a script kiddie attack, because they left so many tracks I would have to have been blind to not notice. If I had been compromised by a “real” attack I would never know it. Well, I would figure it out eventually, since I pay fairly close attention to my servers acting up.
Not to mention they “speak” to me.
They are kind of like my little digital children, and I just know when they are sick. Some of these servers have been under my care for 10 years. The fact that they still run is a testament to my ability to keep them from harm. They run Microsoft software for heaven sake, which makes it even more amazing.
The FTP server break in was my fault. I let some security slide to make things easier on our clients. I made the mistake of giving write permissions for files and directories. They were able to confuse Explorer and launched from there. Part of the attack was to use remote access to call out and give them direct connectivity to the box.
Once into my network they went to work on my firewall and stupidly killed it locking them out until I re-booted it. I replaced the firmware this morning and all is well.
I watched as they tried to get back in this afternoon and banned their IP. all is well for now as I have changed the permissions on my directories.
I will have to be extra careful for the next week. It is a game for these idiots and one I don’t have the time to be playing.
