This is the middle of August and the weather this week has been incredible. It has been in the low 70s or high 60s every day, clear and beautiful. Evenings are in the 50s or even high 80s. This is October weather, not mid-August! It is wonderful. I love this weather and wish every day of the year could be like these days. It does my heart good and does make me thankful and more full of praise to God. I've been sitting outside on the work deck most of the week and just soaking it in.
The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. (Ps 19:1)
Friday, August 16, 2013
Wednesday, August 14, 2013
NYC this week
So, for awhile now, I've been planning to go up to NYC in August to see a friend. We settled on dates- going to be there this whole week working and then hanging out in the evenings. However, as the date has gotten closer, the plans have gotten murkier and more up in the air. I wasn't able to get official approval from work until the last minute. Then, over the weekend it was hard to communicate and lay down a final plan for Monday. Finally, Sunday night, Liz and I had no peace about going on Monday and we just decided to wait and plan to come on next Friday to spend a long weekend. Then, I found out why God had given us no peace and made it hard for us to come.
Monday, my friend found out that a mutual friend in NYC had been diagnosed with HIV and Hep C from a needle stabbed into him a couple months ago while handling a crazed heroin addict patient (he's a doctor). That was terrible news and my friend had a lot of stress helping him and dealing with that Monday. Then, on Tuesday, my friend's mom had a partial stroke in northern VA and that really threw everything up in the air as far as whether he would even be staying in NYC or not. So, I think its been horribly stressful the last couple days up there and his plans are greatly in flux and it would have just been complicated and more stress to add to have us there.
I'm not thankful for the things that took place, but I'm thankful that God in His wisdom gave us a non-peace about going and now we see why that was.
Monday, my friend found out that a mutual friend in NYC had been diagnosed with HIV and Hep C from a needle stabbed into him a couple months ago while handling a crazed heroin addict patient (he's a doctor). That was terrible news and my friend had a lot of stress helping him and dealing with that Monday. Then, on Tuesday, my friend's mom had a partial stroke in northern VA and that really threw everything up in the air as far as whether he would even be staying in NYC or not. So, I think its been horribly stressful the last couple days up there and his plans are greatly in flux and it would have just been complicated and more stress to add to have us there.
I'm not thankful for the things that took place, but I'm thankful that God in His wisdom gave us a non-peace about going and now we see why that was.
Monday, August 12, 2013
Remote Access
I've been trying to set-up Wayne with remote access to his computer. We've talked about it for years, but just recently its finally gotten serious and I've been trying to set it up. I've been running up against a problem that his Verizon router is behind a NAT, so I can't get to his router from the outside world. So, we thought maybe we should go with HughesNet to be able to do this. On Saturday, God prompted me that maybe I should research HughesNet- I did and found out that they have the exact same problem with the NAT. So, that would've been a useless waste of time and money- I'm so thankful God lead me to research that. I did feel frustrated though, so I emailed Wayne on Saturday and told him to buy a static IP from Verizon for $500 since that was our only solution.
On Sunday, God just wouldn't give me a peace about the $500 solution. I was frustrated with it in the afternoon, but didn't know what else to do. Then, he put the thought in my mind to search the internet more generically for getting around NATs rather than just searching for Verizon and HughesNet. Right away, I found that there was something I hadn't even considered- a third-party service that lives on the internet and therefore can work around the NAT. TeamViewer and LogMeIn were the best options. Even better, they offered iPad and iPhone access for free- something I was really wanting to do for Wayne. I was really really excited about this and called Wayne right away to tell him not to get the $500 static IP.
Today, we went over to their house and I set up LogMeIn and it works perfectly on all devices! I'm so excited about it; praise the Lord! I'm so glad that He lead me to a simple and inexpensive solution to this problem that was getting so complicated and discouraging.
On Sunday, God just wouldn't give me a peace about the $500 solution. I was frustrated with it in the afternoon, but didn't know what else to do. Then, he put the thought in my mind to search the internet more generically for getting around NATs rather than just searching for Verizon and HughesNet. Right away, I found that there was something I hadn't even considered- a third-party service that lives on the internet and therefore can work around the NAT. TeamViewer and LogMeIn were the best options. Even better, they offered iPad and iPhone access for free- something I was really wanting to do for Wayne. I was really really excited about this and called Wayne right away to tell him not to get the $500 static IP.
Today, we went over to their house and I set up LogMeIn and it works perfectly on all devices! I'm so excited about it; praise the Lord! I'm so glad that He lead me to a simple and inexpensive solution to this problem that was getting so complicated and discouraging.
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