Mei-Li and Justin - A Slideshow For Your Viewing Pleasure

Here's another glimpse into the wedding of Mei-Li and Justin.  Enjoy!

Mei-Li & Justin

Just thought I'd give you all a taste of the good times that were had by all this past weekend at the celebration of Mei-Li & Justin uniting in matrimony.  Friday night was the rehearsal dinner / party, and Saturday, a beautiful fall day, included the ceremony at the Church of St. Michael and St. George, pictures at Forest Park, and a reception at the elegant Saint Louis Club.

Congratulations Mei-Li and Justin.

(As always, click on the collage for a separate page where each image can be viewed individually.)

World's Largest Garage Sale

Last Saturday Now & Forever bought some space at the "world's largest garage sale."  I'm sure the garage sale as a whole was a success but we learned a valuable lesson.  While we had some nice items for sale (frames, cookie tins, folios, etc.) they really weren't in the price range of things that people normally go to buy at a garage sale.  These were all new items and most of them kind of pricey for a garage sale.  We didn't sell anything but we did get a couple leads.

Here are the handful of shots I took.

Steve

If they ever learn to do brain transplants...

Watch out!   If they do, the slightest thing out of place could turn you into a whole new person, or worse off, you could appear dead!    It turns out that my motherboard wasn't dead after all.  I found out that it's sensitive to how well you've installed the heatsink against the CPU.  If it isn't snug and tight it just shuts itself off (at least with this brand).  So, it's running now.  The CPU seems to get too hot more often but it does run.  I may have to look into a new cooler/heatsink.

Can you imagine, in the distant future, if they've learned to do brain transplants, or if they just want to take it out to fix something, if they don't put it back in just right, you could keel over dead every time you try to get going in the morning. 

Steve

DOA - Trying To Revive By Hooking Up Life Support

Well, the new motherboard was dead on arrival.  After installing it I turned it on and it started to go through POST.  It would run for maybe 10 seconds or less and then just stop, just like it was shut down.  It never reached the point of finding the OS.  So what you see here is an attempt to ressucitate it.  Actually, more accurately, it's an attempt to stay one step ahead of tech support.  I just know they're going to ask me to (among other things) try a different power supply.  Well, I did (below).  It made no difference.

Anyway, being without my main computer is getting kind of old.  All the other computers on the network back up to this one, so right now I have no current backups.  I pray that God will protect everything until this one gets back online.  After this one gets back online God won't have to protect things anymore...(just kidding.)  What I should really be doing is thanking God more often that he has kept things together for as long as He did. 

Moral of the story?  Don't put your faith in anything that can break down.  Hmmm, that doesn't leave too many options does it?

Steve