CRWRC gave me a laptop earlier this week and I couldn’t get the sound to work. CDs would look like they were playing, but nothing played sound! I spent about an hour and a half one night troubleshooting to try to make it work, and it still wouldn’t work. Swallowing my pride at not being able to fix it, I brought it up to the IT Center at CRWRC. The computer guy looked at it, listened to me patiently, and then proceeded to turn on the computer, turning up the volume as he turned it on! Reddening, I said, “I think you found the problem!” He graciously answered that there might actually be something else wrong, but of course there wasn’t. The whole thing, besides putting a dent in my pride, also made me think about how we often completely miss the problem (something so simple, a lot of times) when we think we can fix ourselves. We can troubleshoot all we want, but if we’d just actually just focus on one thing, in this case, the volume control, in life God, then our problems might work themselves out a little easier. . . and without looking like such an idiot!
Even aside of that, I’ve had an interesting last few days. My birthday was yesterday, and I got to spend various parts of the days with various friends in different places (I even got to see Lindsay and Eric–thanks for the amazing ice cream at midnight!). I came home to my parents house yesterday afternoon. They aren’t around because they’re temporarily living in Nebraska, so their house has been empty of people, but not furniture. I never knew that dining room tables could mold! Apparently their house has been a little humid. The table had blue fuzz growing on it! So did the dictionary. And several other things. I’ve spent most of today trying to buy a dehumidifier (not an easy task), and bleaching mold off of things. Once more, I am humbled, and once more, I want fewer things. Less stuff=less mold! Spiders seem to like empty houses as well. Good thing I’m not afraid of spiders (not daddy-long-legs anyway–the one that looked like a brown recluse was a different story).
But it’s been fun–I can crank up the music and laugh at the thought of my first reaction on seeing the mold (astonished disbelief with a side of laughter). Have a wonderful day filled with blessings, peace, and hopefully no fuzzy blueness.
Look–MOLD!! Guess which half of the table I had already washed?
Awh Sharon I loved reading that! Happy late birthday!!! I may have already told you this but when I read your blog I can totally hear your voice because of how you express yourself in writing.
Good times! Have a great week and don’t eat the mold! 
Comment by Mel — September 2, 2006 @ 9:25 pm
it was good to see you too! thanks for the book, i read some of your comments in the margin and was cracking up! be careful in the moldy house…
~E
Comment by Eric — September 6, 2006 @ 9:52 pm