One of my church Search Committee cohorts suggested a number of these online de-motivational  posters to, ah... help us through our work. A few looked familiar, but most were surprises. Check out the whole selection of de-motivational aids.

It's a blustery rain storm.  In areas near streams and rivers, there will be traditional flooding.  Mud will slide. KBC radio has been in emergency "storm watch" mode.  For much of this early morning they've been commercial free.  One of their reporters lost his personal SUV in flood waters and had to break out the rear window to escape drowning.  (Frightening story.) The National Weather Service reported "GUSTS HAVE REACHED 68 MPH AT ANGEL ISLAND...51 MPH AT THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE...AND 47 MPH AT  SFO " Our Noe Valley weather station peaked the wind at 39 mph a few minutes [...]

I am on my church's search committee for a new minister. After we narrow down our list of candidates to four or five, we are flying them out to San Francisco and interviewing them on separate weekends. Part of the committee's job, of course, is to get them to fall in love with The City.  To do this, we are collecting San Francisco items to remind them of their stay.  It's a goodie bag of mementos -- it's not a bribe.  Really. One of the items we decided to include the gift bag is a DVD of a movie made [...]

So many ways to share pictures! This morning I tried Flickr .  It has no way to order the pictures the way I want them. On the other hand, they do have handy links to let people order DVDs or hard copy prints. I fought Roxio Easy CD Creator 7 last weekend trying for a DVD slide show of 40 pictures.  The program was seriously buggy, but would have good features (if it worked).  Does version 8 work better?  Is there a better slide show program online or on PC? Arrgh!  The agony of options!

Christmas is hitting me later and later each year, an inverse movement to the increasing early start of the commercial festivities which now begin their breathless “Buy!” message somewhere around Halloween. This year the holiday came about 7:30 Christmas Eve morning.  redozdachs, his brother Ric (sic ) from Reno, and I walked into Sear’s, the traditional downtown greasy spoon, for breakfast. It was finally holiday time. I let go of the real world during our eggs and hashbrowns fare. Afterwords, we strolled like tourists around Union Square. We gawked at the trees, lights, and early-opening stores offering one final chance [...]

I cannot update websites hosted at Webmasters.com from my RCN cable ISP service.  We have been updating these websites from RCN since we started RCN service about six months ago.  Other combinations of ISP's and hosting services work just fine. Any techie detectives like a challenge or have ideas?   The Gory, Gory Details

The chirpy ABC radio newsreader’s lead story was the death of comic Richard Pryor. Only after playing a taped bit of a Pryor routine did ABC segue to a mention that former Senator Eugene McCarthy died at 89. I don’t mean to minimize the death of Richard Pryor. Yet, the entertainment-focused priorities of a supposed news report is jarring.  […]

It seems that when it's time to ease back into the land of the living and blogging, one of these goodies lights the way back to the LJ home (this time with the guidance of airporter). I am gratified at my relatively high rating. I don't think I deserve it.