07 May 2012
By Jennifer
" I can do all things through Messiah who strengthens me" Philippians 4:13. Wow, the power in that verse, but do I really believe it means "all thing"? In my mind I think "ohh that is only talking about things like handling temptation, surviving persecution, or the boldness to speak up for God". On the contrary all means all. I know the verse before is talking about Paul being content whether living in abundance or suffering. I still find I can apply this Philippians verse to all things, even everyday life, because we allow the mundane everyday things of our life to affect our hearts and dictate if we shine for God or not.
God cares about the everyday things. Look at Proverbs 31 or Titus 2 if you question taking care of those around us and our home is important.
When we do all our everyday things with out arguing or complaining we can shine like the stars of the universe and holding out the word of life to others (Philippians 2:14-16).
So today I pray.
"Praise you, Jesus, that you care about even the little responsibilities in my life and you will give me the strength and power to get them done. I can do all things, even wash my dishes and pick up my home through You, my Messiah, who strengthens me".
28 December 2011
By Cedar
This year has been a busy year. Last year as well as this year were difficult, but these past few months have seen healing and restoration. This coming year is going to be a good year. So what's been happening?
Throughout everything our children keep growing. It seems that always happens no matter what you try. Earlier in the year I explored some of the science and art of surveying and started writing a resection calculator. The experimental results were promising even though the angle measurements were primitive.
23 January 2011
By Cedar
We were finally able to upgrade the database server disks last September before the frenzy of PCI compliance consumed everyone's spare cycles. The old configuration was a three disk RAID 5 array, new configuration is a six disk RAID 10 array using 15k RPM disks. I finally got to write a TPS report:
OLD: 90-100 TPS
NEW: 400-415 TPS sustained, ~800 TPS peak
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So we're at about 400 writes per second, up from 90. To make fair comparisons I stuck with the same simple tests with ApacheBench.
03 January 2011
By Jennifer
I slowed down my reading of Raising Your Spirited Child because I felt I couldn't move on until I evaluated my kids and myself with the temperament traits talked about. I was afraid to do so. I didn't want to mess up and be wrong about my children's temperaments. Finally I took a deep breath and answered the questions the best I could. Rachael, Obed and I all landed in the spunky range. We may not be "spirited" but I think I'll still find some good strategies in the chapters to come. I think there is also a good chance this book may also help adult relationships, my marriage for example.
25 December 2010
By Jennifer
For a family gathering I offered to bring the bread. My plan was to alter the recipe to make it egg free so my nephew would be able to enjoy it as well. As I know substitutions don't always work I decided to make a test batch. Friday morning was low key and we were not going anywhere so I decide it would be a good time to bake. So I started the bread calmly expecting to just make some bread and not hilarity. All went as planned I used flax seed and water instead of eggs and the dough rose.
23 December 2010
By Jennifer
Chapter 2 of - Raising Your Spirited Child- talks about the labels spoken or unspoken we give to our children, especially describing the things that drive us crazy. The assignment is to right down the labels that are negative and make them positive.
22 December 2010
By Jennifer
Sometime I feel like I am a horrible mom or my children hate me, those times when I am crying just wanting someone to tell me how to cope or how to get my children to do what needs to be done. In looking for new ideas I am trying a new book, Raising Your Spirited Child by Mary Sheedy Kurcinka. As I have a hard time getting through book that is not a novel I will be sharing my progress and thoughts about it here for accountability.
11 November 2010
By Jennifer
Snow has finally come, now that we are in the second week of November. This is the first year in my memory that I didn't see snow by at least October. The kids are excited about the snow especially Rachael who has been asking me every five minutes if she can go play in the snow.
23 June 2010
By Jennifer
That's right, I left Facebook. Cedar dislikes facebook and doesn't like me using his computer to get on it. So rather than allowing facebook to add tension to our lives, I am gladly letting it go.
I am planning on keeping this website up to date with pictures and family updates.
I will miss my friends posts and being able to keep up on there lives, but I will find new ways to do so.
02 April 2010
By Cedar
This is a follow up to a writeup I did last year. Read the previous article about Drupal scalability for the back story. In five months nearly nothing has changed in the production environment at work. What has changed is my understanding of disk performance, as it relates to databases, and the power of higher level caching.
I couple months ago I spent many hours looking at disk stats in Linux with the iostat utility. How many writes per second can a three disk RAID 5 array do?
