Steve's Blog

No Water

2010-02-07T23:54:00.003-06:00

We did not have any water at the house we are staying in yesterday. The pastor and deacon came over and got the water going. When Mary and I came home last night we had water but no hot water. While I was searching for the hot water heater I found a huge water fall coming out of the ceiling in the building next door. I shut the water off immediately. When we got up this morning we had to get ready for church without any water. Today several folks came over and found a way to get us water without it going to the building that had the huge leak. They found the hot water heater in the attic and lit it. Tonight it appears that we have lots of water and the hot water is working. This is a very big and very nice house but the two bathrooms do not have a shower. They both have a huge Jacuzzi bath tubs. Weird!

Big Setup Day at Freedom Baptist

2010-02-06T22:02:00.003-06:00

We spent the day setting up our equipment at the Freedom Baptist Church in Bogalusa, Louisiana. The people are always so very nice to us here. The church family spent the day cleaning and sprucing up the church while we did our setup. The ladies fixed us all a very nice lunch in the felloship hall. We enjoyed the day at Freedom Baptist.

Travel to Bogalusa, Louisiana

2010-02-05T23:58:00.000-06:00

We were suppose to leave for Bogalusa, Louisiana this morning but we did not get out of town until about 4:00 p.m. We arrived at the very nice house where the church put us up for the week going on 1:00 a.m. We did not get to bed until about 3:00 a.m.

Supper with Preston, Drew, and Angela

2010-02-04T23:54:00.002-06:00

Angela invited us to have supper with them at the Great Buffet in Benton, Arkansas. We had a great time together. Preston enjoyed a huge plate of Crawfish while Drew had a plate full of Sushi.

Great Night At Our Church

2010-02-03T23:03:00.002-06:00

The Spirit of The Lord was very much present tonight at Heritage Baptist Temple. We are so glad we did not miss church tonight. It was great.

Mary's got me hooked on this Farmville thing. I must stop spending so much time with it. We have to leave for Bogalusa, Louisana Friday and I'm not anywhere close to being ready to leave. There is so much yet to do. DVD and CD labels to design. An album cover to design. Loading the van and I can not forget anything or we won't be able to do our job when we get there.

Bryant Versus Central High School Girls Basket Ball

2010-02-02T23:50:00.003-06:00

We went to see Bryant Girls Basketball team beat Central High School tonight. Our granddaughter was featured in the half-time show. Her team showed how the "Team of Tomorrow" would handle the basket ball. They were very good. We had to leave before the game was over but the girls basketball teams seemed to be out for blood. It was a good game to watch. They played hard.

Nero DVD Images

2010-02-01T23:01:00.001-06:00

I am tired of carrying around all the master DVD disk all over the country. They have become a big load and bulky. I started today making Nero DVD images and saving them to a hard drive. This will help a little with the load we carry.

Missed Church

2010-01-31T23:55:00.002-06:00

We looked out at the white road in front of the house this morning and decided to stay home. We watched the live service on the internet and then we caught the live service of North Valley Baptist Church in Santa Clara, CA. It was fantastic. We enjoyed the being at Heritage this evening. The message was just what we needed.

Ice - A Good Reason to Stay Home

2010-01-30T23:25:00.002-06:00

There must have been over 20 people sledding down the hill in front of our house today. Mary and I stayed by the fire again today.

Winter At Home

2010-01-29T23:25:00.000-06:00

While Mary and I enjoyed a warm house my brother and his clan were out in front of our house sledding down the hill. Looked like fun but we enjoyed watching them.

Unusual Day - We Stayed Home

2010-01-28T23:36:00.002-06:00

I don't know why but today we did not get out of the house. We just didn't have anywhere we needed to go. I shipped a cd to a preacher in Eldorado using PayPal. I worked on my 4 router/repeater setup for those situations where we have to access the Internet at some distant location. And then Mary has got me hooked on playing Farmville on Facebook as if I don't have a million other things I need to be doing.

Tripp-Lite PV700HF Power Inverter

2010-01-27T23:15:00.000-06:00

I finished the install this afternoon of our 700 watt Power Inverter in the van. It was much more work than I thought it would be. Glad that's done. Now we can better enjoy our mobile office while we travel to meetings around the country.

Colonoscopy

2010-01-26T23:50:00.002-06:00

This morning I had a colonoscopy. Dr. Smart said I did not have any problems. Everything looked normal. That is wonderful news. Thank you Lord.

I spent the afternoon running 4 gauge wire in our van to hook up an inverter to run our portable office while we travel. That project turned out to be a lot of work. I did this in our old green Dodge van years ago but I must have forgotten how much work it was.

WiFi Repeaters Working Over Half Mile

2010-01-25T23:07:00.003-06:00

I did it. The ultimate test of my new Netgear WNDR3700 Routers setup as repeaters. One as the base station plugged into a router with internet acess. The other working in repeater mode picking up the base station a half mile away and then a DLink Router plugged into the repeater which serves the internet to all my wireless and wired computers. This is great! Maybe now I won't have to run hundreds of feet of wire across parking lot or through the woods to get to the internet for our broadcast.

PHP Coding For Heritage Baptist Temple

2010-01-24T22:04:00.002-06:00

Every once in a while my past life at Sprint in Kansas City comes back and I have to do some coding. My brother does the web pages for our church and needed some help with archiving the video and audio files for the church. I reworked some code from my website and it seems to be ready for implementation.

Netgear Wifi Repeaters Is Easy

2010-01-23T23:28:00.003-06:00

Now that I have spent many hours working with the two Netgear WNDR3700 Routers, setting them up to function as repeaters is easy. I hope this will allow me to hookup most church internet routers with ease. Even if it's across the parking lot in another building.

Netgear WNRD3700 Repeater

2010-01-22T23:53:00.002-06:00

I spent most of the evening trying to make two Netgear WNRD3700 Routers talk to each other. One as the Base Station and the other as a repeater. I have to go to bed and it's still not working. I hope I do not loose sleep over this thing. It's about to whip me.

A Day In Town

2010-01-21T23:51:00.001-06:00

We went to town (Little Rock, Arkansas) today and tried to catch-up on things like: Fire Department(pick up weather radio), Post Office, Physical Therapy, Waffle House, Bank, Drug Store, Wal-Mart, Sam's, Carlton Bates, NAPA, Sonic, and Best Buy. I thought we would never get done and back home.

Wireless Cable

2010-01-20T23:54:00.002-06:00

I have been studying this evening how to extend a CAT5 wire accross a parking lot wirelessly. I think I have it figured out. I have a Linksys WAP54G Wireless Access Point. If I buy another WAP54G I can configue it in Repeater mode and it will talk to the Access Point that is connected to the internet with a wire to a DSL modem. Then accross the parking lot I can pick up the internet with the repeater and continue on with my CAT5 wire to my WiFi router where I can connect several computers with CAT5 and WiFi. I think it will work. WOW!

Glasses for Mary

2010-01-19T23:12:00.002-06:00

Mary's glasses were so fogged up she could hardly read. She has been struggling for many weeks trying to see. She could not see to drive at night. Today I took her to the glass place in Park Plaza. It cost us dearly but now she can see again. She said everything is bright now. Now she can help me drive again at night on these long trips.

Supper with Master Logan

2010-01-18T23:34:00.002-06:00

Scott, Lacey and Logan joined us for supper at the Super King Buffet in North Little Rock tonight. I ate too many crawfish while Logan slept. We enjoyed our time with Scott and Lacey.

Warning Ticket

2010-01-17T23:25:00.001-06:00

We did not get away from Houston, Texas until a little after 3:00 p.m. this evening. We did not take I45 to Dallas and then home. Instead we took the shortcut on US59. It seemed like we hit a little town every 5 or 10 miles and the speed limit dropped. I don't remember where but I did not realize it and I did not slow down quick enough. We were very attentively listening to the live church service on my laptop from Heritage Baptist Temple when the state trooper pulled me over and gave me a warning ticket. Thank the Lord for warning tickets. It didn't cost anything and does not affect my insurance. I was more careful after that.

Pappadauex Seafood Kitchen

2010-01-16T23:53:00.003-06:00

Mary and I spent a very hard day packing and loading our equipment at Shady Acres Baptist Church here in Houston, Texas. When the work was done we went to Pappadauex's Seafood Kitchen and enjoyed a Seafood platter. I think we over did it, but it was very good.

Last Night of the Winter Campmeeting

2010-01-15T23:57:00.002-06:00

We enjoyed the final day of the Winter Campmeeting at the Shady Acres Baptist Church in Houston, Texas. They worked us to death this afternoon making DVD's and CD's. It seemed like everybody wanted a DVD album of the entire campmeeting. We ran out of albums. That's a first.

A Nap

2010-01-14T23:53:00.002-06:00

I was so tired that I did the unthinkable. I went to the motel and took a nap this afternoon. I hope I don't make a habit of this.