A Mayonnaise Jar & Two Beers…

When things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours in a day are not enough, remember the mayonnaise jar and the 2 Beers.

A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him.

When the class began, he wordlessly picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls.

He then asked the students if the jar was full.

They agreed that it was.

The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly.

The pebbles rolled into the open areas between the golf balls.

He then asked the students again if the jar was full.

They agreed it was.

The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar.

Of course, the sand filled up everything else.

He asked once more if the jar was full.

The students responded with a unanimous ‘yes.’

The professor then produced two Beers from under the table and poured the entire contents into the jar, effectively filling the empty space between the sand.

The students laughed.

‘Now,’ said the professor as the laughter subsided, ‘I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life.

The golf balls are the important things—your family, your children, your health, your friends and your favorite passions—and if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full.

The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, your house and your car.

The sand is everything else—the small stuff.

‘If you put the sand into the jar first,’ he continued, ‘there is no room for the pebbles or golf balls.

The same goes for life.

If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff you will never have room for the things that are important to you.

Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness.

Spend time with your children.

Spend time with your parents.

Visit with grandparents.

Take time to get medical checkups.

Take your spouse out to dinner.

Play another 18.

There will always be time to clean the house and fix the disposal.

Take care of the golf balls first—the things that really matter.

Set your priorities…..

The rest is just sand.

One of the students raised her hand and inquired what the Beer represented.

The professor smiled and said, ‘I’m glad you asked.’

The Beer just shows you that no matter how full your life may seem, there’s always room for a couple of Beers with a friend.

The reason for this post is that I have either worked with you on your personal computer and/or you know that I work on computers during my off hours (i.e. 6pm to 11pm)

I have made some changes on how I will be working with my after hour clients from now on… please see below for the rate changes.

Also, if you need help with your computers and/or networks, please visit the site listed below to request help.  I will respond with 24 hours to your request.

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Hey what are you working on…………

“Solutions that haven’t been found yet”

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Every mistake is a gift because it tells you where there is a possibility of improvement.

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God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; the courage to change the things I can; and the wisdom to know the difference.

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"Every man I meet is my superior in some way. In that, I learn of him." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Do or do not. There is no try." –Yoda

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"There’s a lot to think about, but there’s nothing to worry about." -Matt Koepke

The story hit me pretty hard then.

This clear and concise story casts light on a perspective we can often miss as parents.

Children don’t know what we know. It’s up to us to have the love, the patience, and the kindness to teach them all they need to learn, and remember that they do not know what we know.

Think of this story before you decide to criticize somebody, especially a child, even if you think you are right.

Father Forgets:

Listen, son: I am saying this as you lie asleep, one little paw crumpled under your cheek and the blond curls stickily wet on your damp forehead. I have stolen into your room alone. Just a few minutes ago, as I sat reading my paper in the library, a stifling wave of remorse swept over me. Guiltily I came to your bedside.

There are the things I was thinking, son: I had been cross to you. I scolded you as you were dressing for school because you gave your face merely a dab with a towel. I took you to task for not cleaning your shoes. I called out angrily when you threw some of your things on the floor.

At breakfast I found fault, too. You spilled things. You gulped down your food. You put your elbows on the table.  You spread butter too thick on your bread. And as you started off to play and I made for my train, you turned and waved a hand and called, ‘Goodbye, Daddy!’ and I frowned, and said in reply, ‘Hold your shoulders back!’

Then it began all over again in the late afternoon. As I came up the road I spied you, down on your knees, playing marbles. There were holes in your stockings. I humiliated you before your boyfriends by marching you ahead of me to the house. Stockings were expensive – and if you had to buy them you would be more careful! Imagine that, son, from a father!

Do you remember, later, when I was reading in the library, how you came in timidly, with a sort of hurt look in your eyes? When I glanced up over my paper, impatient at the interruption, you hesitated at the door. ‘What is it you want?’ I snapped.You said nothing, but ran across in one tempestuous plunge, and threw your arms around my neck and kissed me, and your small arms tightened with an affection that God had set blooming in your heart and which even neglect could not wither. And then you were gone, pattering up the stairs.

Well, son, it was shortly afterwards that my paper slipped from my hands and a terrible sickening fear came over me. What has habit been doing to me? The habit of finding fault, of reprimanding – this was my reward to you for being a boy. It was not that I did not love you; it was that I expected too much of youth. I was measuring you by the yardstick of my own years.

And there was so much that was good and fine and true in your character. The little heart of you was as big as the dawn itself over the wide hills. This was shown by your spontaneous impulse to rush in and kiss me good night. Nothing else matters tonight, son. I have come to your bedside in the darkness, and I have knelt there, ashamed!

It is a feeble atonement; I know you would not understand these things if I told them to you during your waking hours. But tomorrow I will be a real daddy! I will chum with you, and suffer when you suffer, and laugh when you laugh. I will bite my tongue when impatient words come. I will keep saying as if it were a ritual: ‘He is nothing but a boy – a little boy!’

I am afraid I have visualized you as a man. Yet as I see you now, son, crumpled and weary in your cot, I see that you are still a baby. Yesterday you were in your mother’s arms, your head on her shoulder. I have asked too much, too much.

- W. Livingston Larned

This series is the result of my recent MCITP training that I attended last month.

During that time, I gained a ton of information about Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 2008.  It is my hope to pass this information to anyone who is willing to read, write and listen to me

This information will be housed at:

http://ask.connectedgeek.net/

The site is still an on going project and still needs a lot of work; however, I need to get this information out of my head on the web.  So, the content will be there either way

Thanks again for your future support!

If you don’t know who Amanda Tapping, Martin Wood and Damian Kindler are… they are minds behind the TV show Sanctuary on SyFy.

So, this evening, a good friend of mine and I had the honor and privilege to chat with these wonderful human beings.

We talked for 45 minutes… it was BRILLIANT!!!

The whole experience is beyond words and beyond belief… I am still in shock

About a year ago, I created a site (a fan site)… that was dedicated to the show; however, I never put much effort in to it… reason, the show disappeared for a while so they could sell the idea to SyFy.

Either way, I am going to start breathing life back in to it (the site)… the team of Amanda Tapping, Martin Wood and Damian Kindler have re-kindl-‘ed’-er my interest in to the site again   Sorry Damain

Here is the site:

http://sentient-beings.us/