Must Love A Brother; Day307

1Jo 2:10  Whoever loves his brother [believer] abides (lives) in the Light, and in It or in him there is no occasion for stumbling or cause for error or sin.

We do have people in our list that are against us.  I think that is human nature.  The root cause “spirit of jealousy”.  People just sometimes go against us for no good reasons other than they are jealous of what we do or what we say or what we write or what we create or what we have or what we’ve been to.  A few months ago, a friend of mine told me that a person was poking at him regarding just about anything and he have to change strategies on this guy.  He almost lost his patience but was able to rebalance himself (biblical way).  He started showing him love, he started saying “good morning” to him and before he went home for the day, he started going to him and tell him “Hey, I’m going home… I’ll see you tomorrow”.  He said, the results were amazing.  If you really want to know if you are a true Christian believer, examine yourself and your relationship to a brother or a sister.  Are you full of hate or are you filled with love. Is there a person that you dislike?  Is there a person that you hate? Is there a person that you have not forgiven?  Bottom line, we cannot confess that we love God and in our little corner hates one person.   

Side Note: There is one person that I am trying to reach that I think I offended (you know who you are), please find me because I cannot find you or can’t reach you safely.  If you are a friend to this person, please relay my message.  I cannot die yet until I hear from you.

MIT (Most Important Task)
1. 2.4Mile swim
2. Backup Sharepoint/Hyper-V
3.

0000, Sleep
0100, Sleep
0200, Sleep
0300, Sleep
0400, Sleep
0500, Sleep
0600, Sleep
0700, Breakfast; journal;
0800, Drop off the kids
0900,
1000, 2.4Mile swim
1100, 2.4Mile swim
1200,
1300, Event Log project
1400, Event Log project
1500, Pickup the kids
1600, Event Log project
1700, Event Log project
1800, Backup Sharepoint/Hyper-V
1900,
2000,
2100,
2200,
2300,
2400, Sleep

LOOKING BACK – YESTERDAY
What went well?
1. Life without limbs. I’ve watched and learned a few things about Nick Vujicic who was born without arms and legs.  His story is very inspiring and made me feel content, complete and satisfied with what I have.  I’ve heard so many great stories and listened to good preachers and I’ve read so a few inspirational books but there’s no better inspiration than watching him grow up with his struggles in life and then found him being transformed into being a servant of God.  I’ve organized the links below for simplicity.  Please find time to watch. 
Nick Vujicic Story
Nick-At Home
Nick’s Website
Life Without Limbs 1
Life Without Limbs 2
Life Without Limbs 3
Life Without Limbs 4

2. Grown up son.  On our way home after I picked up my son from school, I had this conversation with Brent in the car; “Dad, what do you think will happen if you put strangers in the middle of the jungle, will they bond together? or will they fight?” I know the answer – strangers will bond together regardless (initially).  I get this type of conversation with my son all the time now.  Sometimes we sit down in the living room just talking just about anything.  He is now growing up and fast. Last year, Ridgeview Middle School administered the Stanford Achievement Test . He was only at the 7th grade last year (12 years old) but all his results was rated PHS (post high school).  I am not into good grades.  I don’t push my kids to get good grades, I only tell them “Stick to your mission at hand” and their mission is to get an education and find a job one day.  His result indicates that he has special skills and I need to plan for it in terms of satisfying his natural ability when it comes to education. One thing I noticed though, he does not show any great efforts in studying.  There are times I watched him just watch tv or play video games when he has homework to do and he always does his school work late at night or close to sleeping time … weird.  I am just curious of what will happen if he mixes LEAN Thinking on his current working habits.  I’ll find ways to influence him one day.
Characteristics of Gifted Learner
Texas Education Agency
Talented Toolkit
Talented Toolkit 2

3. Heart Attack Plan: Received a literature in the mail Heart Attack Plan, I just want to share because when it was my time, I did not call 911, I let my wife drove me to the hospital.  Step 0 is call 911 at all cost because when they take you to the hospital, they can administer treatment while in route to the ER.  Also, people need to be educated about the symptoms of a heart attack.  One friend of mine did something foolish, he googled “chest pains” and diagnosed himself.  After 10 minutes, he called 911 because he had all the symptoms.  The story ends with a heart bypass, he was 40.  I think, people need to be aware that heart disease ranks No.1 killer in the US, (someone told me that)

4. Cycling in the rain:  It was fun until I got home and my toes and fingers did not have any blood flow, I have to stay in the shower for 10 minutes to restore hand and toes functionality.  I respect the weather but there is something in me that just love the unknown. I wanted to feel how a 58 degreesF weather and rain feels like and the wind was 15 miles per hour.  I learned my lesson – stay indoors when the weather is bad.  Overall, it was a great 22 miles ride (planned for 30).  Learned so many survival technique along the way ie. don’t over dress when it is raining, I wore my winter clothes underneath my rain jacket, I was soaking wet at the end of the ride, not with rain but sweat.  I’ve learned to watch out for manholes, they are traps.  I learned to love the rain even though it soaks me, it keeps my heart rate down due to less effort.  So why ride in the rain? Because no one rides in the rain.

5. Computer System Health Monitoring:  I want to build my own computer system health monitoring system using the Sysinternals tools only.  I know that there are packages out there that does the same thing but I wanted a simple approach and I also want to learn how to integrate this data into SQL2005 database and then provide a frontend web user interface using Visual Web Developer 2008 Express (all free software).  The motivation is learning and not necessarily functionality but if I get both, then it will be a blessing.  Here’s the MindMap for the design if you want to know how I keep tab on the project. There are two command line utilities that I will be using:
a. psinfo – get computer information from the command line
b. psloglist – dumps the NT Event Log to a text file

As of right now, I don’t have a clear path on how to automate the uploading of these two files to the SQL2005 database. I can use the bcp utility or DTS.  But before I can do that, I need to join the file into 1 large file with one command.

6. PsInfo – Dump system information into a text file
Command – psinfo –h –s –d >systeminfo.txt

7. PsLogList – Dumps the OS event log to a text file
Command – psloglist –s >eventlogdump.txt