Powerful news segment:
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This reminds me of growing up in South Carolina and tying thread around the legs of Japanese Beatles in the Summer and walking them around like pets –
This has “Wesleyan Youth Convention” advertising written ALL over it!
Last weekend was extremely busy. My Uncle David and Aunt Bea came to town on Friday night and on Saturday, Uncle David and a team from McLean Bible Church helped lead a few songs at the Tomajko Memorial Service. Uncle David and the team also stuck around Sunday morning to lead worship in both of our worship services, too! Sunday evening we had our monthly SNAC and I enjoyed playing basketball with some of our students until late. Monday was my day off and I knew I was beginning to get a cold, so I literally laid around all day. On Tuesday I had a full day in the office and then an evening meeting training some volunteers in the world of hospital visitation. By the end of that meeting, I was ready to collapse. I came home and set up my “sick bed” in the living room.
I stayed home all day Wednesday with a 102+ fever and saw the doctor on Thursday morning. My doctor gave me a ZPack antibiotic and swabbed my nose to see if I have the Flu. I’ll find out hopefully tomorrow. She also said I have an upper respiratory infection and bronchitis. Two of my favorites.
Today I have been fever-free, but I feel as though I’m breathing from the bottom of a swimming pool. I also sound as though I have a smoking habit I’ve been trying to hide. I don’t.
Jess has been incredible during this whole thing. Bless her heart, she has put up with my lack of ability to do much of anything and still keeps both kids fed and clean! I am so thankful that Jess doesn’t get sick like this – I doubt if I could keep up with things like she does!!
Our church has a Clover Site website. (cloversites.com) It’s beautiful, it’s functional, but it doesn’t do EVERYTHING I want it to… I’ve e-mailed them suggestions but it seems like they’re pretty set on keeping things the way they are when it comes to changing some of “the way things work”. I’m okay with that, just makes me search harder for solutions to issues I come up against.
Speaking of issues. I recently switched from being a strict MS Outlook-guy to a strictly Google-guy. I ONLY use Google for my e-mail and ONLY use Google for my calendars. Kind of nice to have made that switch just weeks before owning a phone that works very nicely with Google’s e-mail/contacts/calendars, by the way.
Anyhow, Cloversites doesn’t play nice (or at all) with Google’s Calendars App. They have their OWN calendar built-in that apparently they offer to those who may not even know what Google is, I guess. I asked Clover about integrating the two and they said, “Sure! Just point a link to your Google Calendar.” Not the response I was hoping for, but a solution we are using nonetheless.
The problem, however, was that I pointed our “link” to a public-version of our church calendar that showed strictly church-events, but I also have another calendar for our youth-events, and imagine having other calendars in the future that show other ministry-events that don’t necessarily need to be listed on just the main church-calendar. So, our link ONLY showed our church-events, NONE of our youth events. This bummed me out, but I didn’t have a solution.
Until today.
Today I stumbled upon someone else with the same problem and they had a solution!! Hurray. Here’s the site that I digested and solved our church calendar issue – http://ouseful.wordpress.com/2008/12/04/displaying-events-from-multiple-google-calendars-in-a-single-embedded-calendar-view/. Now our calendar page on armbrustwesleyan.com is a link to a calendar that lists BOTH our whole-church calendar AND our youth-events calendar! (now if I could just make them show up as different colors…)
