windows es el diablo

"His high estate is as much at our service as was His condition of abasement. He who gave Himself for us in the depths of woe and death, doth not withdraw the grant now that He is enthroned in the highest heavens." c. spurgeon

I am well aware of the service that Christ has done for me in his death and penance. What i too often forget, as do most i would think, is that his Glory is equally available for our service. To the same depth of devotion and willingness as Jesus gave himself up for us in agony, he is able and equally willing to bless us with the glory of Sonship and all the accessories that come with it. But in this instance and all other instances throughout eternity, all these things will be given in ecstasy. How much more joy must it give the Father to give us the great things that he designed for us in the first place, than to give up his Son to pay for not only our sins, but to facilitate a preparation to give us that which truly makes him happiest; closeness with him, and all the blessings that come with that communion.

So yesterday was not a good day. in fact it was possibly the most frustrating day i've had in years. a little background on the day; we took my mom a new apple macbook this past weekend. I was so stoked about it, because she has been using windows. The only downside was that we had to use a program called parallels to actually run windows inside the mac OS so that she could use quickbook premiere (blah). i figured no big deal, and it actually works well.

so we come home (she lives 5 hours away) and she calls me yesterday and says she can't print! parallels is supposed to just transfer the resources from the mac to the "windows" install. so i figured (foolishly), of course the mac will print, so then the windows will too. nope.
apparently there is an existing issue with getting about 1 in 3 printers to work with this program. i spent 5 hours on the phone with my lovely yet somewhat computer illiterate mother trying to fix this problem so she could run her books and print. at one point she was so frustrated that she tried to push back from the desk in her chair to recline, but she had accidentally wrapped the printer cable around the back, and pulled the brand new macbook crashing to the concrete floor. of course it still ran, and functions fine except for the massive dent or crack on the side (i couldn't get an accurate description). of course at this time i had already slammed my phone on the ground (i was sitting on the floor) and broke the flip part. Ya i know, really foolish, but i'll admit i was really frustrated and had a momentary lapse of maturity.

so today will be spent continuing to try to fix the printing, and calling apple care to try to get the case replaced. of course chances are good that they'll just send her a new one, which would be great....except i already spend 20 hours installing all her software and configuring everything to work. and i'll have to go back for another 3 days to do it again.

i hate windows, and i need a snapshot camera to take pictures with...

and i love my family (how cheesy that my dog is included in that)

thanks blaine&bethany