It's not a right.

I am pro healthcare. I work in healthcare IT. I wish everyone could get the best care possible all the time. But I don't think it's a right. And if it's not a right then why are we paying for others rewards?

Life, liberty, property and the pursuit of happiness. Those are our inalienable rights. Nothing more. We are not entitled to things, but to the freedom to act. I have the right to work to feed myself and my loved ones. Clothe us, shelter us. I don't have the right to food, cloths and shelter.

If something is a right it is someone else's obligation to provide. If you have the right to food, I have the obligation to feed you. If it's a right you don't need to work for it. Isn't that in it's simplest form slavery? That I should be forced to feed you? No need to be grateful, it is your right to be fed. No need to ask for help, no need for the generous, caring and helpful. You have rights!


*I'm deleting the rest of what I wrote because it muddies the real point I want to make. No one has the right to things. If you work and achieve wealth and wish to share it by all means do. It's what a kind person does. But you cannot be kind if your wealth is taken from you because someone else has a right to it. That's just not kindness.

In a place without rain the Umbrella is of no use.

A friend of mine and I where talking about God today and this was my bit of wisdom. If I can call it that.

I find that I meet alot of people who think that God did something to them, or that God let something happen to them or those people You know you've heard it, or even said it, before. The idea is that if there was a God, or is he really loved us, life would be easier.

I think life is hard because he loves us. I believe that this life is the dress rehearsal. And if the director makes it easy on you how will you be prepared for the live show?

The title itself really encapsulates my thoughts quite well. If life is easy you don't need God's love and protection. God wants you to need him, to come to him with your woes, to seek his forgiveness. If this life where perfect you wouldn't need to be saved for the perfect life that is coming.

This world and this life are designed to be hard and ugly and unforgiving (in my opinion). If things aren't hard there is no need to make a choice. If there isn't a wrong choice to make then there is no choice at all. Without sin there is no forgiveness.

Life isn't easier for the saved and forgiven. They jsut know that it's temporary, and so it's harder to take seriously. To quote Maynard "We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion".

Just one fat guys thoughts on why life is hard.

Going Green

Are you green? Is that green? It says green on the bottle, it must be good, they can't lie about that.

Thank you Al Gore for the buzz word of a generation. So I just got an email explaining the new "greener" process for our company Christmas gifts. Well before I go off the deep end, read it.

In support of the hospital's goal to be green, the greeting card and envelope are made from recycled paper and the gift selection card is embedded with flower seeds and can be planted and watered to grow flowers after the card has been redeemed.

I'm sure if we plant these the flower will grow new gift cards that can be replanted, and so on and so forth saving the world from the evil of human kind. Only isn't burying garbage in your yard illegal? Don't land fills need a federal permit to do just that? But this time it's ok, because well it is stamped as a green product. And that's clearly a regulated term that can't just be stamped on anything right? No one would ever lie about that? And everyone has agreed what makes something "green" right? Yeah all of this has been worked out and we the consumer bear no responsibility anymore once we buy something that's green.

Why "green" by the way? Are the only living things that are good green? Should we destroy any plant or animal that does not have some green? Fungi are mostly evil by this narrow focus term. Only there is this really smart guy who thinks that he can save the world with Fungi. Check this out. Paul Staments on 6 ways Fungi can save the world.

I ramble more when I don't feel good. You're welcome!

I win the internet, again

http://superobamaworld.com/

You can make this kind of thing up...

but if you pick your friends correctly you don't have to. I have two friend in particular you wish you'll wish you knew after reading this. Or you won't. Whatever. I don't need you to approve my friends.

Anyway Don is a bit of a prankster from time to time, and doesn't always have the best gauge of what is appropriate work friendly material. Danny is keenly aware of who Don is.

So Don sends out an email with this video and the title "Pretty Amazing".



Danny replies:
"wow, I don’t think I've ever seen one that big disintegrate so quickly! I am definitely going to make sure I wear a rain coat next time I go to the Grand Canyon!"


Don replies:
"OH COME ON!!! That was at least kick ass!"

Danny replies:
"Yeah, but that guy totally would have been fine if he hadn't tried to go back for his hat."

I reply:
"I think the point Danny is trying to make here is that he's not going to open a video Don sends while at work. Spot on Danny. I failed this test and watched the vid. That is pretty impressive."

This leads to an IM conversation between Danny and I. *(I cut out the part of the conversation about tools drummer and how he reads music rectally. It was funny, but probably only to Danny and I.)
Danny:
heh
so what is the video?
James :
a guy with no arms playing "let it be" with his feet
Danny:
lol
wait, am I allowed to laugh?
James:
totally
Danny:
or am I violating that guy's civil rights since he can't just cover his ears?
James:
the guy can play gitar better than you, he doesn't qualify as ahndicapped anymore
I on the other hand do based on my total inability to type
Danny:
besides, his hands have already been "capped"
James:
and the vid said he was born without them. so he's not "missing" his arms
he evolved
Danny:
he's turning into a missile?
James:
next gen stealth, it lulls you into a false sense of security with beatles music
he's in the next xmen movie
he's toad's arch enemy


I'm James Snyder and I approved this blog post.

Fear and empty shoes in Utah.

I'm into month two of the Pharmacy job. I'm hearing good things about my performance, but I'm not letting any of that go to my head. I think I'm best served with a low personal opinion of my abilities for a while. The guy I am trying to replace knows more about the app's that I support than the vendor.

My feet are big, but the shoes I have before me are friggen huge.

Adding a StrikeThrough Icon and/or shortcut to Word

Stolen from Dreamboat at Ozgrid. Check this site out if you want to learn more about Excel/MS Office.

I don't know of one and wasn't able to find one. But you can do this:

Open Word to a blank doc.
Hit Alt+F11 or Tools-Macro-Visual Basic Editor.
On the left in the VBE, choose Normal.dot.
Hit Insert-Module.
In the code window at right, paste this:


Sub LuckyStrike()

Selection.Font.StrikeThrough = True

End Sub


Hit the SAVE diskette. Close the VBE with the X.
Go to Tools-Customize. Choose the commands tab.
On the left, scroll down to Macros.
On the right, click on your macro.
Drag it up to the toolbar if you want a toolbar button.
Click "keyboard" at the bottom.
Type the shortcut Ctrl+5
Ok.
Ok.
Ok.
Ok.
or however many times you need to hit ok.