48 Hours

48 hours. 2 days. 2880 minutes. 172,800 seconds. Not enough time to say good bye. Not enough time to say what I want to say. Not enough time to do anything. Today my best friend’s mom was given 48 hours to live. I can’t help but to think about all the times I have had with this woman. She is like my mom. I love her. I am devastated that I can not be there with her. If anyone out there is of the praying sort, please pray for her. And for me. I am not sure if I can get through this. I am not ready for this. I am not sure when I will be here posting again.

Dinner With A Perfect Stranger- An Invitation Worth Considering

When I read the blurb for this book, I was really interested in it. It seemed like an interesting concept to base a book upon. The concept is this, Nick Cominsky is invited to have dinner with a man who says he is Jesus. How many of us have always wanted to sit down with Jesus and ask him questions? I know that I have. So this book caught my attention before I could even open it and read the first word on the first page.

The whole book takes place from the moment that Nick receives the invitation to when Nick returns home to his family. It mainly focuses on the dinner between the two men. During this dinner, Nick asks some really good questions and is quite skeptical at first. I mean who would really believe that they are dining with Jesus?

I think that this book is a good read for the Christian in your life and the non Christian as well. It is a wonderful story told simply and without the distractions of other sub stories weaved in, you can really concentrate on what is going on in the story. David Gregory has written a wonderfully inspirational book. This book is relatively short and easy to read. Once I got into the story, I read the whole book in less than a day.

You can find other reviews, a study guide, and more information about the author and book here.

I found that I really enjoyed this book and I think that lots of other people will as well. It is a wonderful book.

I got this book for free for the express purpose of this review from WalterBrook Multnomah

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Dinner with a Perfect Stranger by David Gregory (Chapter 1 Excerpt)

So Totally Slacking Today

Not that I honestly don’t totally slack any other day, I am just willing to admit it today for some reason. I think it is the insane, most unbearable heat that has settled in here in Michigan. It was supposed to reach 100 degrees today. Not really sure if it did or not because face it, I did not want to depress myself with that information. The A/C is still working well, thank God because some people I know in Redford are without power as of yesterday. Honestly, I think if we had stayed at the house we would be counted in those numbers. So, I am glad we moved because for the 2-3 summers before that we did lose power in the summer time for days at a time. I sure don’t miss that!!

Okay, on to why I am a slacker today. I had a plan of what I was going to do today and in that plan was write my review for Dinner with A Perfect Stranger: An invitation worth considering by David Gregory (no, no relation to me, I don’t think). It was a short read and a good book, but honestly I can’t bring myself to review it right this second. I know, I know this whole entry about how I am slacking could be the review itself. I get it, but it isn’t. I am just not feeling inspired to write this review and since I totally loved the book, I want to be able to do it justice in my review and not some just half assed review for the sake of doing it.

I am hoping to get it done tomorrow maybe. Well, I am going to run. Ciao!

Switch Went Smoothly For Once

You know in all the tech dealings I have had, they never ever go smoothly. When we lived at the house and we got U-Verse, it was supposed to be an 8 hour thing but ended up being 12 because something went wrong. When we got Comcast here, something went wrong, so it is safe to say that when I was expecting AT&T I figured that something would go horribly wrong.

Well, the AT&T tech was here on the early side of the appointment time and he was a nice guy. Very funny. Had everything set up and working by the time he left so all I had to do was wait on the gateway to get here. I had to wait on UPS and normally on Tuesday, we go to dinner about 6pm. Which is about the time UPS is in the building. I waited and it was about 6:30 or so and finally Doug had gotten tired of waiting so I left a note on the door for UPS and we went to leave. Got downstairs (I live on the 8th floor) and saw the UPS truck, so I ran back into the building , grabbed the elevator and when I got to my door, here comes the UPS guy with my gateway and my blogging for books book. (More on the book later) I signed for them and put them inside and we left for dinner. I could not hook the gateway up until after 8pm anyway so no big deal.

After dinner came home, opened the box and set to work. It was so EASY!! The instructions on how to hook the gateway up were spot on. Let me tell you, that is not always the case!! I had the gateway up and running, the network secured, my wireless working, and the Wii hooked into the network within an hour. I honestly think that the longest thing was the registering the account. So all in all, I am one happy camper! Everything is working well so far. There was one small glitch today with the voicemail, but it is taken care of now. Thank you AT&T for understanding customer service and doing what it takes to make customers happy. I so appreciate it!! Happy here on the tech front once again, Ciao!

Not So Bad Yet

My appointment time with AT&T was for 8-12 and the tech guy was here at 9am. So, my phone has been switched over already and since my DSL is self install I have not gotten my gateway yet. It is on the UPS truck for delivery today. So I am waiting now on UPS. The DSL signal is strong and up and running, so I know I don’t have to worry about that. The tech tested it before he left this morning and said it was just fine.

My gateway is on a rebate, it will eventually be free. Which is good. I guess I also qualified for a rebate card as well when I set up service on line. The person I talked to said $100 but online it said $200. I don’t know which it is, but I will be finding out soon. So, between the rebate of the gateway and the promotion cards, it could be like $260-$360 extra.

I am amazed by how quickly the AT&T tech showed up, I honestly was not expecting him until like 11:30am. I forgot that AT&T actually does know about customer service, at least on this side of the business. I spoke to the tech about the reasons why I was switching and he told me that he has heard them from others here in the building. So far, I am happy now if I would only get my gateway soon, I would be ecstatic!! Ciao!!

Just A Random Mess

I don’t really have one big post for today, but a lot of little things to mention all at once. My mind is kind of scattered right now and I am not really concentrating well. Sigh. The last couple of days I have slept a lot, which is good considering that I have these nasty nightmares that keep me from sleeping more often than not. So, I am sleeping while I can.

In my Blogging for Books program, they are going to start offering e-books now, which I think is so cool. I personally like both, but for this program I like the printed books more because I get to keep them when I am done with them. This program is free and if you are interested, click on the link above to check it  out. I really have been enjoying it a lot. The next book I have coming, they are sending me two of, so I am excited about that!

Doug has been home because of his foot. He had a very deep, open wound on the bottom of his foot and has been going to a foot doctor for a couple of months now. They were worried because he is diabetic and it has not been healing as well or quickly as they like. There was some talk of putting him in a walking cast and being off work for at least 6 weeks. Luckily that is not the case just yet. They inserted this stuff called gel foam in the wound and it is supposed to help healing. They then wrapped it and told him he could not undo it or get it wet. I am not sure why he told work he could not work. But okay.

I got emails from AT&T confirming my appointment on the 19th and I honestly can not wait. Comcast has been so very frustrating to me and I will be happy to be rid of them once and for all. Those commercials that say that Comcast is better than AT&T are so very wrong. If I could I would get cable through AT&T but I can’t, well not living here anyway.

I think this is about it, ciao!

Pain, Pain Go Away…

For the last couple of days I have had a migraine and it does not seem to want to go away. I thought it had faded enough earlier, but I was wrong because it is back with a vengeance. Ugh. As much as I hate these, I had to admit that I somehow hurt my right shoulder. So it is a double whammy as it were. Yay.

The good news is that the A/C is working wonderfully well and it is once again cool in the house. In case you missed it, my A/C died on Saturday, but I have to commend the Lincoln Towers maintenance staff because they were here quickly and attempted to fix it the first time. When he came back he replaced the unit. No questions asked. I am very grateful.

On next Tuesday, my phone and internet will be switched from Comcast to AT&T and to say that I am happy would be a great understatement. I have had nothing but issues with the wireless connection with Comcast and they did finally come on Saturday to switch out the gateway that kept resetting it self randomly.

I am hoping that I won’t have many problems after the switch and I am actually anticipating none. In the long run, it will be better because we will be paying less. Well, I think that I will go relax and try to get rid of this headache. Ciao!