Earle & Sierra Wedding Vows, August 20, 2011

Earle says:

Sierra, what drew me to you was your relationship with Yahuah; the fact that you were putting Him first the way I was striving to put Him first.  My goal for our marriage is for both of us to take on the heart of our Messiah and to encourage one another to become everything that each of us can be in Yahuah, to do all that He has for us.

To achieve this I promise to encourage you by my example.  I will not only pursue a personal relationship with Yahuah but also His plans for us as a couple.  I will place His plans over my own desires.  Scripture says that I as the husband am to be the head of the household, to love you above my own life.  I covenant with you today to step into that place.  Through submission to Him, I will lead you and our family prayerfully.  I do not take my responsibilities lightly.  I know the only way I can accomplish this is by doing what He asks me to do and following where He leads me to go.  I promise before Yahuah to do this.

I love you.  With all the nuance of that word, I vow to hold you as my wife and keep you for all the days that He grants us.

This ring is a symbol of my love and faithfulness.  I marry you with this ring, with all that I have and all that I am.

Sierra says:

I will forever wear this ring as a sign of my commitment and the desire of my heart.

Earle, it is your integrity before Yahuah, your willingness to go through what ever He places in your life without bitterness or anger, and your love for Him that drew my heart.  My goal for our marriage is that we would run after Him with every fiber of our being, to have Him be the center of every aspect of our lives.

To achieve this I promise to submit to you as I would to Him.  I will seek Him for you, and support you in any way that He leads you.  I will listen and not assume that I know what you mean.  I will hold your heart as the most precious treasure that it is.  Daily seeking Him to help me to be the helper in your life that a wife should be, I will lean on Him to teach me what He intended a woman to be, both as His daughter and as your wife.

I love you, and am incredibly honored that you would trust me with your heart, that He would trust me with your heart.  I vow to respect you and obey you, to hold you…for all the days that He grants us.

This ring is a symbol of my love and faithfulness.  I marry you with this ring, with all that I have and all that I am.

Earle says:

I will forever wear this ring as a sign of my commitment and the desire of my heart.

We were granted 853 days.  Sierra (Linda Jean Olson) Hartshorn, 1962 – 2013.

Psalms 121

I will lift up my eyes to the mountains;
     From where shall my help come?
My help comes from the LORD,
     Who made heaven and earth.
He will not allow your foot to slip;
     He who keeps you will not slumber.
Behold, He who keeps Israel
     Will neither slumber nor sleep.
The LORD is your keeper;
     The LORD is your shade on your right hand.
The sun will not smite you by day,
     Nor the moon by night.
The LORD will protect you from all evil;
     He will keep your soul.
The LORD will guard your going out and your coming in
     From this time forth and forever.

 — NASB

Sunrise 12/31/2012

Doesn't happen often, Mt Rainier casting a shadow on the bottom of the overcast at sunrise in Tacoma, WA.

Excel 2007 Multi Window

Excel 2007 by default opens all workbooks in one single window and instance of Excel.  Because there is only one instance of Excel running it uses less memory.  And, when you copy and paste inside of one instance, the copy is identical to the original, since all formatting and links are shared.  However, when you want to use two screens and view two separate workbooks one in each screen, this creates a problem.  You can only maximize to one screen (not two or more screens) and switching between programs, for instance between Access and Outlook and Excel, you can wind up viewing the wrong workbook.  Much easier to have Excel running in separate instances.

You can open two instances of Excel by changing the program parameters.  Then, have one instance running in the foreground and open a spreadsheet.  Minimize that instance, open a new instance of Excel, then open another spreadsheet.  However, this is a cumbersome work-around, and when you want to open 3 or 5 instances it becomes a royal pain in the you-know-what.

I went looking for an answer.  This is what works in Windows XP with Excel 2007.  I lifted and modified this from comments at http://brett.batie.com/software-development/open-excel-in-two-windows-excel-2007-vista/.


Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

; ----------------- This file is intended to allow dual screen working in Excel 2007 ONLY -----------------
; ---- It will not work for earlier version of Excel and modifies the registry so please use carefully ----
; Changes the /e to "%1" in the default and command keys to fix the issue that stops Excel opening .xls files
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Excel.Sheet.8\shell\Open\command]
@="\"C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\Office12\\EXCEL.EXE\" \"%1\""
"command"=hex(7):76,00,55,00,70,00,41,00,56,00,36,00,21,00,21,00,21,00,21,00,\
  21,00,21,00,21,00,21,00,21,00,4d,00,4b,00,4b,00,53,00,6b,00,45,00,58,00,43,\
  00,45,00,4c,00,46,00,69,00,6c,00,65,00,73,00,3e,00,74,00,57,00,7b,00,7e,00,\
  24,00,34,00,51,00,5d,00,63,00,40,00,49,00,49,00,3d,00,6c,00,32,00,78,00,61,\
  00,54,00,4f,00,35,00,20,00,22,00,25,00,31,00,22,00,00,00,00,00
; Deletes the ddeexec key and sub keys to stop Excel using DDE to open the .xls files
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Excel.Sheet.8\shell\Open\ddeexec]
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Excel.Sheet.8\shell\Open\ddeexec\application]
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Excel.Sheet.8\shell\Open\ddeexec\topic]
; Changes the /e to "%1" in the default and command keys to fix the issue that stops Excel opening .xlsx files
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Excel.Sheet.12\shell\Open\command]
@="\"C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\Office12\\EXCEL.EXE\" \"%1\""
"command"=hex(7):76,00,55,00,70,00,41,00,56,00,36,00,21,00,21,00,21,00,21,00,\
  21,00,21,00,21,00,21,00,21,00,4d,00,4b,00,4b,00,53,00,6b,00,45,00,58,00,43,\
  00,45,00,4c,00,46,00,69,00,6c,00,65,00,73,00,3e,00,74,00,57,00,7b,00,7e,00,\
  24,00,34,00,51,00,5d,00,63,00,40,00,49,00,49,00,3d,00,6c,00,32,00,78,00,61,\
  00,54,00,4f,00,35,00,20,00,22,00,25,00,31,00,22,00,00,00,00,00
; Deletes the ddeexec key and sub keys to stop Excel using DDE to open the .xlsx files
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Excel.Sheet.12\shell\Open\ddeexec]
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Excel.Sheet.12\shell\Open\ddeexec\application]
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Excel.Sheet.12\shell\Open\ddeexec\topic]

This can be copied and pasted into a .reg file.  

Open the registry and navigate to HCR\Excel.Sheet.8 and Export it, then go to .Sheet.12 and export that.  Then import the new .reg file.

NOTES:  If you do not understand ANY part of the above do NOT attempt this.  Go find someone who does understand it and who can explain it to you.

MORE NOTES:  I have reposted this for my own use (preparing for the next time my PC is re-imaged/upgraded/messed with by someone in IT.  Use at your own risk.  Understand the implications before doing this.  You will lose some functionality and benefits intended by Microsoft.

In You

I put my hope in You,
I lay my life in palm of your hand,
I'm constantly drawn to You, King
In ways I cannot comprehend.

It's the Creator calling the created,
The Maker beckoning the made,
The bride finding what she's always waited for,
When we find ourselves that day.

It's no secret that we don't belong here,
Those set apart by the grace of You,
And we look for the day when we go to a place,
Where the old becomes brand new.

[CHORUS:]
In You, where the hungry feast at the table;
The blind frozen by colors in view;
The lame will dance, They'll dance for they are able;
And the weary find rest,
Oh the weary find rest, in You

http://mercyme.org/home

Testing Live Writer

I heard more than a few times that Windows Live Writer is a useful tool for editing blogs.  I personally find it is not as intuitive editing at Blogspot as it was on WordPress, and I have had problems with Blogspot crashing during a composition and having to start from scratch, so I thought I would try Live Writer and see how it works.  I love the idea that I can create content locally and then post it when complete, we’ll see how it works for me.

I took a two mile walk today.  While on my daily walk I have been watching a couple of Cherry Trees that have, for the past couple of weeks, been looking like they are about ready to explode with blossoms.  While I didn’t walk past those trees today, I walked past several others, and on the first Cherry Tree I passed  I saw a couple of blossoms. 

I saw several other Cherry Trees with many more blossoms, appropriate for the first day of Spring I think, even though today is windy, rainy, and cool, with snow in the forecast for tomorrow morning.