Just Another Day In My Life
I awoke at 6:35 A. M., did my early morning prayers and
then read chapter six of Daniel. A
fun-filled chapter with a lot of activity in it. Got dressed and ate a bowl of oat cereal with
vanilla soy milk. Delicious. Went outside in the smokey cold and fed the
dogs and cats while I tried not to breath in all the fumes from the neighbor's
morning trash burn. Coming back in
where it was much warmer, I got a pleading call from one of the young Bible
students that lives here in San Vicente, her computer was blocked and she asked
if I could help her. She said that she
was trying to give a password to a personal file because she wanted to keep her
information private but instead of doing that, she had accidentally
blocked the whole system. And then, she immediately forgot the password she had just thought up. So, I went over to her place and from the
shallow depths of my very limited knowledge I tried everything I could to
remove the password but all of my attempts were unsuccessful. So, I drove back home and went on-line to get
some professional help from those that know a whole lot more about computers
than I do. Shortly, I found a couple of
sites that offered me a few things to try.
So then, I drove back over to her house.
After about a half hour or so, when the tricks I learned didn't work, we
decided to pray and right after that God placed the forgotten password back in
her mind. Carefully typing in the
password, the screen opened up, the password worked! The system was then unlocked and ready for
use.
Sorting the gifts and the baby clothes
When I got back home, I instantly got another call from a
friend who works at an OXXO store in town.
It's a small grocery store, like a Circle K or 7 Eleven. Earlier in the morning seems that someone had moved
the store's big ice machine and also unplugged it. Not only was the programming lost, the move
itself had broken the water inlet tube and the store's warehouse was
flooded. PVC tubing is easy to fix, once
you find out where the water main is located, shut it off and get everything dried, then the repair job is a piece of cake.
The machine's visual display screen was in English, for that reason I
got called in the first place, as I am bilingual.
Wading through the ankle deep water, I quickly read everything I could
find about the controls, programming and settings of the machine. All in the Queen's English. Even with everything being written in
English, it was still confusing to me.
So, I just started pushing buttons.
It always seemed to work for Moe, Larry & Curly. And, by doing that, I started to be able to
walk my way through the screen's menu and found several things that I figured I
should try. After a long while of
pushing and reading and resetting and such, the machine was finally reset and
would automatically restart itself and return to prior programming in half an
hour. And, in the process, I discovered
that I was able to change the screen's language from English to Spanish. Of course, before I left, I advised my friend
and the other employees to not unplug the machine and not to move it without
unhooking the water pipes, first.
Lining up for the toys and candy
Then I drove back
home and got cleaned up and went to Ensenada, first to visit a friend in the
hospital who is suffering with a parasitic infection. He's doing much better but is still weak. Since he hasn't worked in more than a week,
his wife and children were without food.
So, I loaded them up in my truck and we went to the local Calimax grocery store and
got them some food, drinking water, diapers and clothes washing supplies. Then, I drove them home and quickly drove myself
to the Bible school in El Zorrillo.
Gabriel and Charo pass out the gifts and baby clothes
Being a Thursday, it was my night to teach, my subject
was the second chapter from the book of Jonah, one of my favorites, and it went
well. After class, we had cupcakes and
punch, made by yours truly, the day before.
Plus, we divided the wonderfully donated baby clothes among the new moms
or those that would soon be moms. They
were very happy and really grateful for the special gifts.
Everyone is thankful for the blessings the Lord sent through you
Afterwards, about nine that night, I drove the hour home,
thanking God for helping me through another day at Rancho Santa Fe Mexico
Mission. When I got back I noticed I was
hungry so I ate a cheese sandwich with a glass of vanilla soy milk and crawled
into my waiting bed. I said my prayers
and turned on the TV, and, much to my great enjoyment, they were showing a
Laurel and Hardy short, in Spanish, and it was just starting, La Vida Nocturna,
(The Night Life).
Samuel is happy with his brightly colored glow-worm
When I finally shut the set off and closed my eyes, I
knew that tomorrow would probably be just about the same as this today. And, to no one's surprise, it was.
Here I am, playing guitar and singing, as usual
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