Last day of July

I chose not to go to BUCO today as I felt that it would be useless just being there for a couple of hours. I got a phone call from Peter Lawrence who told me that Desmond Wong was coming to Bendigo to pick up some computer books. I agreed to leave them in a plastic bag in the backyard.

I went to Connect Church and had good  long discussions with Richard Tatti, Ken Miller and Richard Kinsman. I showed the associate Pastor Simon Williams what I has done and he was very impressed. Simon has taken over the website project and I hope he will get me on board.

I spent some time in Richard Tatti's office and I was impressed with his setup. I also had afternoon tea at the church and stayed for the mens fellowship evening. I was tired later but it was a very productive day.

A slightly ill wednesday

As I do not have to work at BUCO on Wednesday's, i stayed home and made progress on my new web project. I was due to go to the Shiraz club in the evening, but had to pull out as I became ill with what seemed to be indigestion. I chose not to go out as I was worried i would take ill at somebody else's house, so I stayed home and kept working on the web stuff. 

This is the first Shiraz club meeting i have missed. I think that i will look forward to the next one.

A not very busy monday

Things have gone a bit quiet at BUCO. I left at 3.00 pm today as I had finished all my work. I am still working on my new web site at home.

A novel sunday

 At church this morning, I got asked by Richard Tatti to operate the camera. This was my first

 time ever and it was really exciting. Libby operated the other one and it was a great experience. I did not go to church in the evening but kept working on my web stuff. I have now got a handle on CFC's in Coldfusion which feels good.

A busy friday and Saturday

On friday, i was feeling quite ill very early and was tempted to go home. I must have had some sort of stomach complaint. I went up to the marketplace and got my back massaged on one of the chairs. I felt better later.

Roger Connell came up for the afternoon. He sorted out my problem with the website. Turned out that it was the IP address that was causing the problems. He fixed that up, which in turm fixed up the bug with the software. He also showed me a neat way to do the reports and gave me a few good ideas about using the database to help the clients.

The next day (Saturday) I spent working on my new website. I got a fair way and eventually got the paging problem sorted out. It was two good days generally.

An "Irish" wednesday

I spent most of the day at home working on the back-end for the new website I am working on.
In the afternoon I got a visit from 2 young ladies who were looking for donations for The Heart Research Foundation. They were both Irish and both very sexy and yes I agreed to a small monthly donation. They kind of charmed me into it.

A busy Sunday

I went to Connect Church twice today. I attended both sessions. I must be getting keen. In the morning Pastor Russell preached on "expanding your faith". It was a good sermon. I spent the morning session on the multimedia desk getting familiar with the multimedia layout. They served pancakes after the morning session. I got an email that said that my brother John was improving. Let's pray that he gets better.

A thursday to remember

Today was a thursday to remember - for all the right reasons. To begin with, early in the morning

I got a phone call from BEST Employment telling me that I did not have to come to the appointment as I had an exemption. That was cool as those meetings are usually boring anyway.

In the afternoon , I arranged an appointment to meet Ken Miller at Connect Church. Ken is the Development officer at the church. I showed him what I had done with the Vineyard web site and he was super impressed. The church had been having all sorts of problems getting a proper web site up and running. They had paid a local vendor $4000.00 to create a site, which they were dissatisfied with. I felt that it would be a better idea for them to develop a site from scratch, rather than use somebody else's template, which they cannot adapt for their own use.

Ken was happy with what I showed him and he arranged for me to meet with another chap in the church to discuss some future web plans. He said upon leaving that it was an answer to prayer that I had come to the church at this time.

Overall, i feel that it was a pretty productive day.

First post in a while

I have not updated this blog for a while because there has not been too much to talk about. Not a lot has happened Unfortunately, I heard today that my brother John is in hospital in Canberra with pneumonia. I hope he recovers ok. I have now got the old Vineyard Church website back up and running on my Brinkster account. I have resurrected it as a way of showing prospective customers what i can do as i am hoping to get more Content Management work soon.

The last two days have been cold and very wet. It is really good to see the rain again.

"The Shack"

At last night's Shiraz club meeting, we met at Rod Slocomb's house. We did things a little differently this night. Rod Geri discussed an interesting sounding christian book called "The Shack" with us. I have not read it but everybody who has read it, recommends it highly. Sounds like a must read.