Failure to communicate
Sunday, August 29th, 2004Our
Our
I use a home-made customer-relationship-manager, answer-book, project-management, document-management, scheduling, invoicing, marketing tool I call “RR: Tracks” (RR = Rapid Results). As I was looking at what I needed to get done today and tomorrow I realized I had about 22 hours of tasks scheduled. I know, there are 48 hours in that period, [...]
Friday - had Jeff over and we shopped for hours on iTunes. And, yes, guys CAN shop when we care about what it is we are shopping for. We sorted through hundreds of great Hair Bands and other 80’s and 90’s music and finally selected our top 50 for purchase. What a [...]
HERO, by Steve Taylor
When the house fell asleep
There was always a light
And it fell from the page
To the eyes
Of an American boy
In a storybook land
I could dream what I read
When it went to my head
I’d say,
I want to be a hero
I want to be a hero
But the practical side
Said the question was still
When you grow [...]
High Priest:
Armaments Chapter One, verses nine through twenty-seven:
Brother Maynard:
And Saint Attila raised the Holy Hand Grenade up on high saying, “Oh Lord, Bless us this Holy Hand Grenade, and with it smash our enemies to tiny bits.” And the Lord did grin, and the people did feast upon the lambs, and stoats, and orangutans, [...]
Taken from a website promoting an [Amazing Church Management Software - to be Unnamed here]
…will enhance communication, build fellowship, manage finances, and automate office tasks in your church. Equipped with a superior database engine, [_____] makes data entry processing and report generation fast and easy.
…build fellowship…
If only more churches used better software. In fact, [...]
Yesterday, on the way back from lunch with Doug and Bill we saw the ultimate ADA (Americans With Disabilities) success story: as we passed a construction crew on Georgetown Road we noticed one of the road-workers was in a wheelchair - yes, right out there in the midst of all the construction equipment. [...]
Indiana State Fair opened yesterday! Fried food. Fried (consumable, but not really food) treats. Fried skin (some years it’s been over a 100 on the day we’ve gone). FUN!
It is still tragedy that our kids are already in school and so we will be going on a weeknight. But we [...]
Lorrie took Nicole to the bus stop and got the requisite “Getting on the bus on the 1st Day of School” picture. I hung around for a while and took the older kids about 30 minutes later. Of course they complained (middle-schoolers do not like their parent to escort them to the bus [...]
Let me first say that I have not done a good job of networking around Indianapolis. I am actually really enjoying sales for the first time - as I am selling something I am very confident in and see a great need for (me).
But I don’t get out and talk to people about that [...]