26 December 2006

Breathe...

Had a nice long phone call last night with my family - chatted with Mom & Dad, brother & niece. My sister was sick, so she was unavailable.

It was a nice break & change of pace from the hectic past month that I’ve been running.

I’ve recovered almost all of my lost data - praise the Lord for cool technology like Data Rescue II. It found virtually everything that I was missing - files, email accounts, passwords, registration numbers and more.

As a matter of fact, tonight I was on the phone with Microsoft support to get a registration key for my Virtual PC program (they wanted $10 for it!). As I chatted with the support tech, he asked me to open the program and run it to the point where the registration key is needed. (I had already done this several times today in hopes of getting it to run normally again, but since I have lost/misplaced the registration key, it wouldn’t install.)

Well, as I opened Virtual PC again while on the phone with the tech support guy, it booted right up just like it ran before. So, I told the guy I wasn’t going to pay the $10 for now and am hoping that I can find the reg. key sometime soon.

As well, we received a nice financial gift for Christmas that enables us to start shopping for a new Labrador puppy.

Linda’s sick today - fever (101+, aches & more) and we’re all just wiped out.

I’m prepping for a sermon this coming Monday (Jan. 1, 2007). Not sure what exactly to preach on yet, but I’m sure the Lord has some ideas!

God is good. No matter how difficult life is or how good it is, I can always rely on that - the faithfulness & goodness of God.

I’m breathing a little better now...