Looking Towards Spring in Sharing 519

[Lynx]

Last Saturday my favorite auction place had its first show in a new building. Well, an old car dealer place that they bought.

Several things happened...

About a third of the way through the show, tornado sirens and people's phones started going off. We largely ignored it. It's a pretty stout building.

The guy who was supposed to install air conditioning was running behind. But it's only the start of April so it wasn't all that bad. If it had been August I would have just gone home.

About two thirds of the way through the show, a smell began invading. The owner/auctioneer gave the headset mic to the guy who filled in for him and went to investigate. Apparently there was a guy who rented this building before they bought it, and he had let oil and gas and stuff collect in a repair bay. Rain had flowed into said bay and all that junk was flowing just all over the back area. But that was GOOD news - it was not the gas leak the owner thought he smelled and it was not the burnt wiring I thought I smelled. It was just a big mess that could be cleaned up later. The crowd couldn't even see it from the main auction floor.

About half the building had an electrical strain, because that's the side the cook shack was on. Breakers tripped occasionally. The owner planned to install more breakers before next Saturday's show.

We all rode it out though. We'd all been coming to this auction for months, so we were familiar with each other and the owner and staff. We just took it for what it was and moved on. Ol' Randy will get it patched up and it'll be better next week.

[Roscoe]

I need a good auction place. Like I need a hole in the head, but I need it nonetheless.
God forevermore showed up and showed out last night. I cannot begin to describe the chains that were broken and things that He did last night. I'm hard headed and fought with Him about what I was supposed to preach..and finally I felt like He asked me "Do you wanna preach what you want to preach and be you, or what I want you to preach and let Me work?" Yes sir. Song service- struggle. Assistant turns it over to me, I simply tried to follow God and got blunt with the congregation... then began to preach what He had given me. Around 40 people there. All the sudden, First one, then another began travailing in prayer, then tongues and interpretation twice....then BOOM.  A situation that was destroying someone, and killing me, as well as hurting the church- God resolved. Immediately. A sister began sobbing, her defenses broken... and lord did we ever have a time. I slept GOOD last night, I tell you. And woke up thankful!
Then today I went and gave the Infernal Revenue Service, aka leeches, a large chunk of my hard-earned money for the privilege of laboring. Following that, got a bit of work done on Rusty and a run to Russellville. Tomorrow- sheesh. Back to work.

[Lynx]

Reminds me of this one revival Douglas Klinedinst was preaching. He said one night he was just feeling very unprepared. He had been running errands with the pastor all day long and didn't have the study and prayer time he usually got. While the church was singing that night he knelt by the pastor's study door and said, "God it's just really gonna have to be you tonight. I don't really have it all together this time."

He said God replied, "Well who do you think did it last night?"

Oh. Right. Yessir.

[Roscoe]

Hi yall. Ready for the weekend again....

[The Purple Fuzzy]

I'm glad that cold spell didn't hurt my tomatoes.

[mini]

Good morning everyone!

[MsJennJenn]

I'm glad that cold spell didn't hurt my tomatoes.

I held off until this weekend to plant all my seedlings cus of the cold spell. It was like 30 one night here. Crazy weather. 

I'm here not there. Nowhere. Bogged down by money related stress these days.

[Lynx]

Good morning everyone!

I'm trying to not think about that M word...

[The Purple Fuzzy]

  

[MsJennJenn]

Psst Sandras lurking pass it on.

I just ordered a hay bale for curbside pickup from Tractor Supply.
Things I thought I'd never say. LOL

Plopped my little baby seedlings outside so they can get used to the the weather.
Gonna pot them tomorrow. Thus the hay bale. Using it with my soil and compost to hopefully have a good crop.
Also using it for the laundry basket potato hack I saw. They do one layer of straw, a layer of compost, and then the potato eyes and then repeat all the way up the top. People have good results with it. I hope I do!!

SPRING MAKES ME HAPPY 

[Roscoe]

   I yet live. 

[MsJennJenn]

I did not in fact pot any of my garden seedlings. I instead spent the day being lazy on the couch with the hubs. lol
OH well. Try again another day.

[Backseat Radio]

Been a busy weekend for me. The big photo lab printer broke down Friday evening. We had to call Fuji tech support Saturday to have them send a tech to fix the machine. Its now Monday afternoon and we're still waiting on that tech.

Spent Saturday evening switching my phone number over to a Tracfone plan with just enough data to get picture texts.  Trying to give my internet addiction the boot.

[Roscoe]

So weary. Was gonna take today for me,,just relax. Then wound up with a saint in a Little Rock Hospital so wound up going there, then buying some tile for the never-ending apartment project. I DID give myself permission for a two hour ish nap....which I never do. Back to work tomorrow.

[Backseat Radio]

Still waiting for Fuji to come fix the photo lab printer. 

[Backseat Radio]

Fuji came while I was on lunch and fixed the big printer. 

Also got my replacement instant printer in today so a coworker and I changed that out.

[Roscoe]

Hi. Dashing in- seems like that's all I get time to do anymore and it is only in the evening mostly.  Went by the local computer store and picked up two new Lenovo laptops for the church- one for multimedia powerpoints, etc and one for the secretary as the computer in that office is literally a Windows XP machine from the very early 2000's, even sporting the big clunky monitor. It has never in its term of existence been on the web either for updates or anything as Bro Wilson was scared that if it were online the church account could potentially be hacked.
I hate spending money, but it seems the last two and a half, three years have been a constant need to upgrade things that are at the end of life and beyond.
On the other hand, if the Lord calls me home soon, the next guy will have a good physical structure to build on, with lots of new toys. 

[Lynx]

Lenovo can be a really good thing if it is thinkpads. Those things are built to last way longer than you want them to. When you are wishing they would die so you can justify buying a new one, they keep running. New ones are doggone expensive though. I only ever get used ones off ebay.

Ideapads, not so much.

[MsJennJenn]

Lenovo can be a really good thing if it is thinkpads. Those things are built to last way longer than you want them to. When you are wishing they would die so you can justify buying a new one, they keep running. New ones are doggone expensive though. I only ever get used ones off ebay.

Ideapads, not so much.

I had several variants of a Lenovo thinkpad for my work computer over the years. And you are soooo right. They just keep on trekking even though they cause so much trouble!! I had one at one point that had that little red button as a mouse thingie in the middle lol...

Now thankfully I have a DELL.

[Roscoe]

I have no idea it mine are ideapads or thinkpads. Whichever they are with the minimal use of a few times a week, I imagine they will serve us well for a decent time.
My favorite machine I've had personally is a HP Pavilion with a touch screen. Does all I need and is decently fast- I think it's an I5 core machine. Probably will have to replace it soon- having issues with a broken case where it hinges of all things. I've got it taped up like a shoemaker's boot.

[MsJennJenn]

Bobby what is going on with your governor!! Booting CVS out of Arkansas!! Holy moly that bill is gonna hurt a lot of people who need prescription access. 

[Lynx]

I have no idea it mine are ideapads or thinkpads. Whichever they are with the minimal use of a few times a week, I imagine they will serve us well for a decent time.
My favorite machine I've had personally is a HP Pavilion with a touch screen. Does all I need and is decently fast- I think it's an I5 core machine. Probably will have to replace it soon- having issues with a broken case where it hinges of all things. I've got it taped up like a shoemaker's boot.

If it finally breaks enough to make the screen go out, you can always plug a computer monitor into it and call it a desktop computer. 

[Roscoe]

Bobby what is going on with your governor!! Booting CVS out of Arkansas!! Holy moly that bill is gonna hurt a lot of people who need prescription access. 

If the heifer that occupies our Governor's Mansion listened to me, I'd be a lot better paid and a certain amount of stupidity would cease. Unfortunately, that's not the case. I've heard bits about that bill but have no idea what is in it or why CVS is getting booted out. I've ONLY heard CVS mentioned as being affected, which puzzles me- how are they different from Walmart??
 Been a week. Much talking to GOd, much being talked to by God, much work....and stress. And my shoulder hurts. And when I unloaded the tile tonight I did so (in my wife's words) "like you were 25 again and you aren't". This resulted in me feeling a pop and the pain of a pulled muscle or rib cartilage- on the opposite side of my body from the bad shoulder- AND having to face facts that 48, nearly 49 is NOT the new 20.  
It'll be a pain medicine and recliner night I suspect.

[Backseat Radio]

I have no idea it mine are ideapads or thinkpads. Whichever they are with the minimal use of a few times a week, I imagine they will serve us well for a decent time.
My favorite machine I've had personally is a HP Pavilion with a touch screen. Does all I need and is decently fast- I think it's an I5 core machine. Probably will have to replace it soon- having issues with a broken case where it hinges of all things. I've got it taped up like a shoemaker's boot.

My favorite HP laptop died of a broken hinge. Attempts to fix the hinge broke the screen which destroys touchscreens.

My current "computer" is an ipad 9.

[Lynx]

Google says it is because CVS is owned by a pharmacy benefit manager. Apparently it is a conflict of interest for a pharmacy benefit manager to own a pharmacy that sells the drugs the pharmacy benefit manager is arranging.


From Google:




A Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) is a company that manages the prescription drug benefits for health insurers, Medicare Part D plans, large employers, and other payers. They act as a middleman betwcompanieseen pharmacies, drug manufacturers, and insurance , negotiating prices, processing claims, and setting up pharmacy networks.