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.

The Vineyard of my Beloved

I will sing for the one I love a song about his vineyard: My loved one had a vineyard on a fertile hillside. He dug it up and cleared it of stones and planted it with the choicest vines. He built a watchtower in it and cut out a winepress as well. Then he looked for a crop of good grapes, but it yielded only bad fruit. "Now you dwellers in Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard. What more could have been done for my vineyard than I have done for it? When I looked for good grapes, why did it yield only bad? Now I will tell you what I am going to do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it will be destroyed; I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled. I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and briers and thorns will grow there. I will command the clouds not to rain on it." The vineyard of Yahuah of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are the garden of his delight. And he looked for justice, but saw bloodshed; for righteousness, but heard cries of distress. Woe to you who add house to house and join field to field till no space is left and you live alone in the land.  Yahuah of Hosts has declared in my hearing: "Surely the great houses will become desolate, the fine mansions left without occupants. A ten-acre vineyard will produce only a bath of wine, a homer of seed only an ephah of grain." Woe to those who rise early in the morning to run after their drinks, who stay up late at night till they are inflamed with wine. They have harps and lyres at their banquets, tambourines and flutes and wine, but they have no regard for the deeds of Yahuah, no respect for the work of his hands. Therefore my people will go into exile for lack of understanding; their men of rank will die of hunger and their masses will be parched with thirst. Therefore the grave enlarges its appetite and opens its mouth without limit; into it will descend their nobles and masses with all their brawlers and revelers. So man will be brought low and mankind humbled, the eyes of the arrogant humbled. But Yahuah of Hosts will be exalted by his justice, and the set apart Elohim will show himself set apart by his righteousness. Then sheep will graze as in their own pasture; lambs will feed among the ruins of the rich. Woe to those who draw sin along with cords of deceit, and wickedness as with cart ropes, to those who say, "Let Elohim hurry, let him hasten his work so we may see it. Let it approach, let the plan of the set apart One of Israel come, so we may know it." Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight. Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine and champions at mixing drinks, who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice to the innocent. Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of Yahuah of Hosts and spurned the word of the set apart One of Israel. Therefore Yahuah's anger burns against his people; his hand is raised and he strikes them down. The mountains shake, and the dead bodies are like refuse in the streets. Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away, his hand is still upraised. He lifts up a banner for the distant nations, he whistles for those at the ends of the earth. Here they come, swiftly and speedily! Not one of them grows tired or stumbles, not one slumbers or sleeps; not a belt is loosened at the waist, not a sandal thong is broken. Their arrows are sharp, all their bows are strung; their horses' hoofs seem like flint, their chariot wheels like a whirlwind. Their roar is like that of the lion, they roar like young lions; they growl as they seize their prey and carry it off with no one to rescue. In that day they will roar over it like the roaring of the sea. And if one looks at the land, he will see darkness and distress; even the light will be darkened by the clouds.

Isaiah 5:1-30

The Spirit and the Bride say "Come"

When one of those at the table with him heard this, he said to Yahushua, "Blessed is the man who will eat at the feast in the kingdom of Elohim." Yahushua replied:

"A certain man was preparing a great banquet and invited many guests. At the time of the banquet he sent his servant to tell those who had been invited, 'Come, for everything is now ready.'

"But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said, 'I have just bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please excuse me.' "Another said, 'I have just bought five yoke of oxen, and I'm on my way to try them out. Please excuse me.' "Still another said, 'I just got married, so I can't come.'

"The servant came back and reported this to his master. Then the owner of the house became angry and ordered his servant, 'Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the town and bring in the poor, the crippled, the blind and the lame.' "

'Sir,' the servant said, 'what you ordered has been done, but there is still room.'

"Then the master told his servant, 'Go out to the roads and country lanes and make them come in, so that my house will be full.

(Luke 14:15-23)

And His servant Isaiah says:

"All you who are thirsty, come to the water! You without money, come, buy, and eat! Yes, come! Buy wine and milk without money -- it's free! Why spend money for what isn't food, your wages for what doesn't satisfy?

Listen carefully to me, and you will eat well, you will enjoy the fat of the land. Open your ears, and come to me; listen well, and you will live -- I will make an everlasting covenant with you, the gift I assured David. I have given him as a witness to the peoples, a leader and lawgiver for the peoples.

You will summon a nation you do not know, and a nation that doesn't know you will run to you, for the sake of Yahuah your Elohim, the set apart One of Israel, who will adorn you."

Seek Yahuah while he is available, call on him while he is still near. Let the wicked person abandon his way and the evil person his thoughts; let him return to Yahuah, and he will have mercy on him; let him return to our Elohim, for he will freely forgive. "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways," says Yahuah.

"As high as the sky is above the earth are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. For just as rain and snow fall from the sky and do not return there, but water the earth, causing it to bud and produce, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater; so is my word that goes out from my mouth -- it will not return to me unfulfilled; but it will accomplish what I intend, and cause to succeed what I sent it to do."

Yes, you will go out with joy, you will be led forth in peace. As you come, the mountains and hills will burst out into song, and all the trees in the countryside will clap their hands. Cypresses will grow in place of thorns, myrtles will grow instead of briars. This will bring fame to Yahuah as an eternal, imperishable sign.

(Isaiah 55:1-13)

Weather Update

Gray and wet today, but I noticed on my noon walk that a lot of trees have buds on the branches, and I found this flowering shrub.  I think it may be a camellia; I know it is not a chrysanthemum or a carnation.

To Know You

To know You is to never worry for my life
To know You is to never give into compromise and
To know You is to want to tell the world about You
‘Cause I can’t live without You

To know You is to hear Your voice when You are calling
To know You is to catch my brother when he is falling
To know You is to feel the pain of the brokenhearted
‘Cause they can’t live without You

More than my next breath
More than life or death
All I’m reaching for, I live my life to know You more
I leave it all behind, You’re all that satisfies
To know You is to want to know You more
To know You is to want to know You more

To know You is to ache for more than ordinary
To know You is to look beyond the temporary
To know You is believing that You’ll be enough
‘Cause there’s no life without You

All this life could offer me
Could not compare to You, compare to You
And I count it all as loss
Compared to knowing You, knowing You

All this life could offer me
Could not compare to You, compare to You
And I count it all as loss
Compared to knowing You, knowing You

And I count it all as loss
Compared to knowing You, knowing You

Casting Crowns

MARK HALL, JASON INGRAM, BERNIE HERMS

2 Corinthians 1:3-5 / 2 Corinthians 4:18 / 2 Corinthians 5:11-12 / Ephesians 4:20-24 / Philippians 3 / Philippians 4:12-13

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Running with Horses

Whenever I complain to you, Yahuah, you are always fair. But now I have questions about your justice. Why is life easy for sinners? Why are they successful? You plant them like trees; you let them prosper and produce fruit. Yet even when they praise you, they don't mean it. But you know, Yahuah, how faithful I've always been, even in my thoughts. So drag my enemies away and butcher them like sheep! How long will the ground be dry and the pasturelands parched? The birds and animals are dead and gone. And all of this happened because the people are so sinful. They even brag, "God can't see the sins we commit."

Jeremiah, if you get tired in a race against people, how can you possibly run against horses? If you fall in open fields, what will happen in the forest along the Jordan River? Even your own family has turned against you. They act friendly, but don't trust them. They're out to get you, and so is everyone else.

I loved my people and chose them as my very own. But now I will reject them and hand them over to their enemies. My people have turned against me and roar at me like lions. That's why I hate them. My people are like a hawk surrounded and attacked by other hawks. Tell the wild animals to come and eat their fill. My beautiful land is ruined like a field or a vineyard trampled by shepherds and stripped bare by their flocks. Every field I see lies barren, and no one cares. A destroying army marches along desert roads and attacks everywhere. They are my deadly sword; no one is safe from them. My people, you planted wheat, but because I was furious, I let only weeds grow. You wore yourselves out for nothing!

Yahuah said: I gave this land to my people Israel, but enemies around it have attacked and robbed it. So I will uproot them from their own countries just as I will uproot Judah from its land. But later, I will have pity on these nations and bring them back to their own lands. They once taught my people to worship Baal. But if they admit I am the only true Elohim, and if they let my people teach them how to worship me, these nations will also become my people. However, if they don't listen to me, I will uproot them from their lands and completely destroy them. I, Yahuah, have spoken.
(Jeremiah 12 EH after CEV)

Who Am I?

Who am I, that the Lord of all the earth
Would care to know my name
Would care to feel my hurt?
Who am I, that the bright and morning star
Would choose to light the way
For my ever wondering heart?

Not because of who I am
But because of what You've done
Not because of what I've done
But because of who You are

I am a flower quickly fading
Here today and gone tomorrow
A wave tossed in the ocean
A vapor in the wind
Still You hear me when I'm calling
Lord You catch me when I'm falling
And You told me who I am
I am Yours, I am Yours

Who am I, that the eyes that see our sin
Would look on me with love
And watch me rise again?
Who am I, that the voice that calmed the sea
Would call out through the rain
And calm the storm in me?

Not because of who I am
But because what of You've done
Not because of what I've done
But because of who You are

I am a flower quickly fading
Here today and gone tomorrow
A wave tossed in the ocean
A vapor in the wind
Still You hear me when I'm calling
Lord You catch me when I'm falling
And You told me who I am
I am Yours

Not because of who I am
But because of what You've done
Not because of what I've done
But because of who You are

I am a flower quickly fading
Here today and gone tomorrow
A wave tossed in the ocean
A vapor in the wind
Still You hear me when I'm calling
Lord You catch me when I'm falling
You told me who I am
I am Yours, I am Yours, I am Yours

Whom shall I fear?
Whom shall I fear?
'Cause I am Yours, I am Yours

Casting Crowns

At Your Feet

Here at Your feet I lay my past down
My wanderings, all my mistakes down
And I am free

Here at Your feet I lay this day down
Not in my strength but in Yours I've found
All I need, You're all I need

Jesus, Jesus, at Your feet
Oh, to dwell and never leave
Jesus, Jesus, at Your feet
There is nowhere else for me
There is nowhere else for me

Here at Your feet I lay my future down
All of my dreams I give to You now
And I find peace, I find peace

Jesus, Jesus, at Your feet
Oh, to dwell and never leave
Jesus, Jesus, at Your feet
There is nowhere else for me
There is nowhere else for me

Here at Your feet I lay my life down
For You my King, You're all I want now
And my soul sings

Jesus, Jesus, at Your feet
Oh, to dwell and never leave
Jesus, Jesus, at Your feet
There is nowhere else for me
There is nowhere else for me

'Cause I am free here at Your feet
All I need is at Your feet
And I find peace, we're at Your feet
We're at Your feet

I am free here at Your feet
All I need is at Your feet
I find peace, we're at Your feet
We're at Your feet, we're at Your feet
We're at Your feet

Here at Your feet I lay my life down

Jason Ingram; John Mark Hall
www.CastingCrowns.com

Urgent vs. Important

"... in too many cases we find that we are constantly dealing with what is urgent, and not with what is important.  They are not the same."

Psalms 27

[By David:] Yahuah is my light and salvation; whom do I need to fear?  Yahuah is the stronghold of my life; of whom should I be afraid? When evildoers assailed me to devour my flesh, my adversaries and foes, they stumbled and fell. If an army encamps against me, my heart will not fear; if war breaks out against me, even then I will keep trusting. Just one thing have I asked of  Yahuah; only this will I seek: to live in the house of  Yahuah all the days of my life, to see the beauty of  Yahuah and visit in his temple. For he will conceal me in his shelter on the day of trouble, he will hide me in the folds of his tent, he will set me high on a rock. Then my head will be lifted up above my surrounding foes, and I will offer in his tent sacrifices with shouts of joy; I will sing, sing praises to  Yahuah. Listen,  Yahuah, to my voice when I cry; show favor to me; and answer me. "My heart said of you, 'Seek my face.' " Your face,  Yahuah, I will seek. Do not hide your face from me, don't turn your servant away in anger. You are my help; don't abandon me; don't leave me, God my savior. Even though my father and mother have left me,  Yahuah will care for me. Teach me your way,  Yahuah; lead me on a level path because of my enemies - don't give me up to the whims of my foes; for false witnesses have risen against me, also those who are breathing violence. If I hadn't believed that I would see  Yahuah's goodness in the land of the living, . . . Put your hope in  Yahuah, be strong, and let your heart take courage! Yes, put your hope in  Yahuah!
(Psalms 27:1-14)

Frustration

Trying to get stuff moved here from Wordpress is an exercise in frustration.  The Wordpress export is not compatible with the Blogger import, even though both are in an XML format.  There is a conversion utility that works mostly OK, but it ruins links and picture labels.  The export does not contain photos, only text, so all my photos are still hosted on Wordpress and linked from Blogger except where I have uploaded the photo to PicasaWeb and linked from there, which I admit is really sweet.

The worst part is when I try to build a page it crashes with an error "bX-z4dl8u".  Because this is the new and improved version linked to my Google+ account, there is no help for this error.

Always fun to be on the bleeding edge of life!!

Hudson Taylor Quote

Mark 16:15-18 (NIV)  He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well."

How are we going to treat the Lord Jesus Christ with regard to this last command? Shall we definitely drop the title "Lord" as applied to Him? Shall we take the ground that we are quite willing to recognize Him as our Saviour, as far as the penalty of sin is concerned, but are not prepared to own ourselves "bought with a price," or Christ as having claim to our unquestioning obedience?...

How few of the Lord's people have practically recognized the truth that Christ is either Lord of all or He is not Lord at all! If we can judge God's Word, instead of being judged by it, if we can give God as much or as little as we like, then we are lords and He the indebted one, to be grateful for our dole and obliged by our compliance with His wishes. If on the other hand He is Lord, let us treat Him as such. "Why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?"  ~~Hudson Taylor, from "Spiritual Secret of Hudson Taylor"

Until The Whole World Hears

Until The Whole World Hears

Lord, I want to feel your heart
And see the world through your eyes
I want to be your hands and feet
I want to live a life that leads

Ready yourselves, ready yourselves
Let us shine the light of Jesus in the darkest night
Ready yourselves, ready yourselves
May the powers of darkness tremble as our praises rise

Until the whole world hears, Lord, we are calling out
Lifting up your name for all to hear the sound
Like voices in the wilderness, we're crying out
And as the day draws near
We'll sing until the whole world hears

Lord, let your sleeping giant rise
Catch the demons by surprise
Holy nation sanctified
Let this be our battle cry

Ready yourselves, ready yourselves
Let us shine the light of Jesus in the darkest night
Ready yourselves, ready yourselves
May the powers of darkness tremble as our praises rise

Until the whole world hears, Lord, we are calling out
Lifting up your name for all to hear the sound
Like voices in the wilderness, we're crying out
And as the day draws near
We'll sing until the whole world hears

We'll sing until the whole world hears
We'll sing until the whole world hears

I want to be your hands and feet
I want live a life that leads
To see you set the captive free
Until the whole world hears

And I pray that they will see
More of you and less of me
Lord, I want my life to be
The song You sing

Until the whole world hears, Lord, we are calling out
Lifting your name up for all to hear the sound
Like voices in the wilderness, we're crying out
And as the day draws near
We'll sing until the whole world hears

We'll sing until the whole world hears
We'll sing until the whole world hears
We'll sing until the whole world hears
We'll sing until the whole world hears
We'll sing until the whole world hears

Songwriters: Glidewell, R; Hall, John Mark; Herms, Bernie; Mcarthur, Jason;
https://castingcrowns.com/