Woke up a bit earlier today.
Nerve issues flared up a bit. Not comfortable. 🙃
Did some dailies and chatted with the Big Guy. Ate some breakfast and then spent the rest of the day pretty much working on taxes (both for 2024 and 2025), file recovery, file backing up, and working.
Lots of uncomfortable blessings today.
Some comfortable ones as well.
I think the writing might be on the wall for me to cut ties with JustAnswer. It’s just… not a great place to be, and it just gets worse and worse.
So… I guess we’ll see what’s next. 🙂 Not likely that much will happen in the next 7 weeks before I go back to New Zealand for a good, long time, as I’m heading back to Arkansas here in the next couple of weeks or so, then back to SD to try to help more with the house, and then to Utah.
Not gonna be much time to make major changes unless they fall in my lap.
Anyway, challenging work day. Just about zero good questions to answer, and the crappy questions took forever, and then unhappy customers.
Doubtful I’ll get bumped up this Sunday. Wouldn’t be surprised if I get bumped down.
It’s getting quite close to not being worth working for them. Maybe I’ll jump ship and hook up the AI wagon, and churn something new out.
Lift The World.
Wish I had a logo. Haven’t really tried too hard to make one.
I’ve also been thinking about starting a gospel-centered YouTube channel dedicated to becoming.
Maybe all of the above.
Spent the day pretty much doing all that stuff while hanging out with Heather.
Had some people go to look at my trailer in Arkansas, but as luck would have it, someone accidentally caused significant damage to the trailer today–right before they came, so… they didn’t buy it. 😅
I’ve done pretty well at handling it well, gratefully. Would have been really nice to have gotten that sold. I’d like to get all my Arkansas loose ends tied up before I skip the country for half a year. 🙃
But… Let go, and let God. It’s His stuff anyway. I’m just a steward of the gifts He’s given me, and He can do with them as He pleases. If the trailer needed to be in good shape today, it would have been. Is what it is.
Gratitude to My Father:
- I’m grateful to be handling the trailer thing well, at least for the moment. Hopefully, it doesn’t turn out like the demotion thing, starting out well and then spiraling. 😅
- I’m grateful that I was lightning quick in my reaction when clicking on a YouTube video commenter’s profile popped up pornographic video thumbnails. That happened this morning, and within minutes, it was almost like it never happened. I didn’t want it. 🙏 Sure, the unsavory guy 👹 had tried to bring it back to my mind a number of times, but… no thx. Gratitude to God for the changes He’s making to my heart.
- I’m grateful that as I continued pouring over the folders in my computer, I found copies of all of my main Business credit card statements, going back years, in my downloads folder. That was probably the most important account, and now I have everything again. I’m still lacking other statements for other accounts that are important, but that was the most important one. 🙏
- I’m grateful for the cool weather. It was downright chili last night, I think getting down into the 40s, and tonight I think it’s going to get down to 42? Maybe even the 30s… which makes me nostalgic for going on a Great Western Road Trip with my mom. We’d be leaving right about now were we to do our third annual trip. 🥺
- I’m grateful the poison ivy rash on my left foot/ankle is mostly healed up. The dead skin is flaking off, and there’s no itch to speak of. 🙏
We. Celebrate. Successes!!! 🥳:
- I’ve handled multiple uncomfortable blessings better than I would have in the more recent past. 🙏
Reflections on Where I Can Improve:
I’m still struggling, mightily, to put the most important things first. The less-important things feel more urgent, but the number of those less-important things never seems to diminish, so… I don’t really ever get much of the more important things done. Want to correct that.
Thought of the Day:
I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare. In other words, if our expenditure on comforts, luxuries, amusements, etc, is up to the standard common among those with the same income as our own, we are probably giving away too little. If our charities do not at all pinch or hamper us, I should say they are too small. There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditure excludes them.
~ C.S. Lewis
Love that message from brother Lewis. 😊
We’ve got this.
Lift the world.
Bring it on.
~ stephen
Lift the World 