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Pat it says Job what are you reading? This interview in Lynchburg is 200 miles from his home in Charlotte NC.

Hi everyone.  Read a few messages this morning and just now writing a post.  It is another hot day here and still no rain. 

Our daughter was discharged from the hospital this morning and is glad to be back home.  The doctor thinks her elevated liver enzymes are due to the medicine she has to take.  They have increased her diabetes medicine once again. 

I have had a pretty restful day and have just taken things at a slow pace.  I was gone most of the morning but have been napping and watching Virginia Tech beat Boston College.  My best friend is happy as he is a VT graduate engineer.

Etta Sue, with Network Magic you decide which files on each computer you want to make available to the other computers that make up your network.  If the printer is connected to your desktop then from the Network Magic program running on the desktop you select share your printers.  The same is true for your files.  Pat has a printer connected to her desktop and it is shared so I can print to it from my laptop, which has no printer connected directly, just via Network Magic.  The program must be installed on each of the computers.  Obviously, the desktop or Pat's computer has to be running for the appropriate printer or files to be accessible to the other computers.  It sounds more complicated than it is.  By the way, I have no financial interest in the program, just think it is a great program. 

Marilyn, I certainly hope your son is successful in his job quest.  That would be a long commute.

Judy, I filled my car with gas this morning and it was $2.49/gallon.  I do remember when our gas prices were over $4 per gallon.  I know there is a conversion factor between liters and gallons.

Liz, it seems that politicians have an unstoppable appetite for more and more taxes and that is always the answer to every program.

Did I tell you I was stressed??  Hunh??

Well, my last catastrophe was I connected my GPS to my computer to get the latest updates.  I was saving my items to my computer.  It was taking too long so I 'aborted' the save.  I put the GPS in my car and no maps!!  What?  Then when I tried to reload them, it said not enough space on the device.  I tried everything I could think of.  Finally I looked a location to buy another.  Walmart at Noblesville.  Open 24 hours.  So at 10:24 I went to Walmart and bought another GPS.  Not as a good of a model...the old one has more bells and whistles.

So when I got home I opened up the drive that I have the old GPS in and it said I had maps but not all of them.  So I deleted all the maps.  Bought some online and it took 3 hours to install them.  Now I think I have my old GPS back.  I will see today.  If so, I will see if I can take the new one back and get credit for it!

Other than that and packing and making the brownies for tonight, all is fine at the Gann household.  I need sleep but maybe tonight or tomorrow night in a motel.  I have my AAA Tour books so if I don't make it to Precious Moments, I will stop and still have a few days of rest! 

The Fish Fry was great...the food and the seeing people I hadn't seen for awhile. 

Hi everyone.  I am ready and waiting until it is time to go to church this morning.  It is overcast here today and in the very low 70s.  It is to stay in the 70s today with 100% chance of rain by 5 pm.  We sure need it.

Nothing new to write about so will be brief this morning.

Etta Sue, the last few days have been very frustrating for you.  It sounds like you are ready to get away and relax with a change of scenery.  Hope you have a great trip.

This is something every high school, college and university student should read.  Let us strive to be honest in every "dot and crossed t's" in our lives.  We are the example to them.


What's wrong with a little plagiarism?

"I hate and abhor all falsehood, but I love your law."

Psalm 119:163 NLT


Kidnapping of the Brainchild
"In an essay for Time magazine, Lance Morrow writes about "kidnapping the brainchild":

book critic for a newspaper plagiarized an old essay of mine. Someone sent the thing to me. There on the page, under another man's name, my words had taken up a new life—clause upon clause, whole paragraphs transplanted. My phrases ambled along dressed in the same meanings....It argued and whistled and waved to friends. It acted very much at home. My sentences had gone over into a parallel universe, which was another writer's work....The thoughts were mine, all right. But they were tricked up as another man's inner life, a stranger's...

The Commandments warn against stealing, against bearing false witness, against coveting. Plagiarius is kidnapper in Latin. The plagiarist snatches the writer's brainchildren, pieces of his soul...

The only charming plagiarism belongs to the young. Schoolchildren shovel information out of an encyclopedia. Gradually they complicate the burglary, taking two or three reference books instead of one. The mind (still on the wrong side of the law) then deviously begins to intermingle passages, reshuffle sentences, disguise raw chunks from the Britannica, find synonyms, reshape information until it becomes something like the student's own. A writer, as Saul Bellow has said, "is a reader moved to emulation." Knowledge transforms theft. An autonomous mind emerges from the sloughed skin of the plagiarist."

We had a wonderful response to the latest challenge -  "Churches", which was Judy's choice.  And we're now voting on the 51 entries! 

Check out the wonderful photos HERE and cast your vote.

Since I am super busy today, I am taking this opportunity to make a new posting place for all you Christian Photographers while I can! 

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