meeting each other
was one in six billion odds
chance straight from Heaven
This may bother me more than it should, but it really bothers me how people remember exactly what they gave someone, even the cost, and ask for it back when the person they gave it to is no longer here. I don’t care if the person may not have liked it, may have loved it, or may not have even remembered receiving it in their passing days. And I really really hate to hear someone say, “he/she would have wanted her/him/them to have it back.” I don’t think that type of statement should have any validity, nor any need to be said, because the truth is, you never 100% know that’s what would have been wanted, especially with items that may have been forgotten about. It’s not even that I want the stuff, it’s just the point of it. Quite frankly, I find it disrespectful.
The need to prevent images from displaying in the post content came up with some feedback to my Instapic theme. The user was using the WordPress iPhone App, and while making a picture post, it automatically adds the image into the post content. Since the theme uses just the featured image feature of WordPress to display the image, having the image inserted in the post content made it appear twice in the theme. He didn’t mind the need to just delete the inserted image from the post content, but I can see where that could eventually get annoying, and I want the theme to ultimately work as flawlessly and easily as possible.
The function below prevents images from being displayed in the post content when it’s placed in the functions.php file of your theme, and the_content(); is changed to the_content_no_images();
Back before my work merged with another, we were on a bi-weekly pay schedule that gave the employees their checks every other Thursday. Pay checks were based on a 75 hour work week. Then the merge came and the headache of a pay schedule came with it. We changed to semi-monthly, with paychecks going on on the 15th and 30th of each month, each being based of 86.6667 hours. A semi-monthly pay schedule makes no sense to me. One week you’ll get paid on a Monday, and another it could be a Thursday, all depending on the month. Some people liked it, just because certain bills were due on the same day each month, and they knew then the date they would get paid and could schedule accordingly.
I’d much rather be paid on the same day each week or every other week. Which is kind of funny, considering now we are swapping back to bi-weekly. You would think that would be a decently easy change back, but it’s not proving to be. First comes the confusion. Confusion of going from 24 pay periods a year, to 26, but doing half the year each way. Going from 1 time-sheet a month to two, being in an entirely different format as well as different submission instructions as before. The first check we got after swapping back to bi-weekly was for 88 hours, and the next one will go back to 80 hours. All because they were originally going to start the week on a Friday, which made a whole lot of sense when we were first told that (sarcasm).
when my arms are wrapped
in a tight embrace with you
I feel my greatest
The President’s latest scare tactic to try to persuade a debt ceiling deal is just horrible and wrong. You don’t go and scare the senior citizens into thinking they won’t get their Social Security checks if the debt ceiling isn’t raised. Not many in the news will tell the facts, but the Federal Government brings in much more than is necessary to ever not pay the interest we owe and avoid a “catastrophic” default. Things really don’t change, and it’s unfortunate that our President will take advantage of the senior citizens’ positions in life to gain support for anything that he deems necessary for his agenda and the special interests’ agenda. Threaten their checks, and they’ll do whatever you want, Mr. President.
What’s even more unfortunate is that those that are dependent on their checks, and will support whatever means necessary to ensure they get those checks, don’t understand the whole grand scheme of things and how caving to any deals out of either selfishness or necessity, will ensure an entire collapse. They don’t understand that while they are getting their checks and ignoring the real problems we’re facing, they’re also being ripped off by the devaluing of the dollar. You may still get your check and be happy with it, but when you go and buy things, and your check doesn’t go near as far as it used to, maybe then your eyes will open.
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Working around the house has been the project of the past few weeks. From throwing stuff away, to re-mulching with some nice red mulch and weed barrier, it’s making a huge difference. Not to mention that it’s nice to stay busy. Here’s a quick before and after pic of the area that’s been the most deserving of attention over the past few years. We still have quite a bit to go, but I’m hoping that once this is done we can move on to building a new cedar fence around the backyard and then on to other things that’s been needing done.
Love is an action. Just saying it makes it no truer than saying the sky isn’t blue. Saying it reaffirms it—if it is there. If it’s not felt on the recipient’s end by past or current actions, then saying it is entirely pointless. Perhaps a waste of breath.
It’s sometimes easier to look at what love is not. Love is not getting angry and yelling at someone. Love is not having near non-existent patience with some. Love is not hanging up on someone out of anger. Love is not avoiding someone. Love is not hiding from someone or acting like you don’t see them. I’m a KJV guy, but some of the wording of the NIV version is wonderful, and describes entirely my feelings of what love actually is.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Instapic is a fun theme styled after the popular Instagram, allowing you to mimic the features that Instagram offers (minus the photo filters), yet run the photo blog on your own. Instapic features Google Map support, as well as a ‘like’ counter to keep up with what your followers most enjoy.
Instapic is my first WordPress theme that I’ve created to release. It’s bound to need some fixes or have adjustments made, but as with all things, it’s got to start somewhere. I’m really pleased with the functionality, and how the overall theme has turned out.
The tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.
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