I think I don't like walnuts!

Today was day three of walnut inventory counting. I think the smell of walnuts is very gross. Every time we have to lift a lid on the walnut bin, I get a whiff and think...yuck, I can't believe I eat those. However, this is after three days of 11-12 hour days counting bin by bin to see what is in them, checking the weight, and verifying the computer.

I wasn't sure if I was going to make it through today. Monday was okay, it wasn't too hot, possibly in the 90's. Tuesday, it hit 100, and I was wondering what the heck I was doing out there. I thought I was going to leave Maritza in charge of this and I was going to stay inside and occasionally check on how things were going. Today it was 100 by 11 am, and it got to 108. It is still 104. I am still thirsty, but if I drink anymore, I would be able to float away. If I wasn't so tired, I would go over to the swimming pool and cool off. However, I think that if I jumped in, I wouldn't be able to swim and I would sink to the bottom.

Tomorrow I think I have 2-3 hours of counting left. I am crossing my fingers and hoping that it will be only 45 minutes, but I know I need to be realistic. There are about 80 bins left to count, and then the real fun starts. We get to try to reconcile the data and make sure everything is correct. Yeah....I can't wait.

I am almost happy we didn't finish today. I gave them some incentives for when they might finish. If they finished on Tuesday, I was going to buy them lunch. If they finished on Wednesday, I would bake them cookies. Then if they finished on Thursday, I would buy them cookies. Looks like I don't have to bake after all. That is a good thing since I really don't want to turn the oven on. :-)

Sunday School

So I was able to teach about Job today. Man, he was really tested. Couple of good points others brought up was that the Lord will not test us more than we can handle, so the Lord knew Job could handle all the trials he had. This could be a reason why he let Satan tempt him, and then it could be recorded for us to read later on. I also loved Job's answer to his wife in chapter two, when he tells her that she is foolish to believe that we only receive good things at the hand of the Lord. He was very wise because if we receive good, wouldn't it make sense to also receive the bad? If not, how would we really be able to distinguish the good from the bad?

I am also finding it is hard to not get a big head. It seems that every Sunday I get four or five people telling me that I taught a great lesson. I guess I am just one of those people that a little complimenting goes a long way, and more than a little is way too much. Maybe I am feeling more at ease with teaching scary adults that have families and kids. I am finding they aren't so scary after all. I also have to wonder how much of it is people just saying it was a "great lesson," but meaning "thanks for teaching, I'm so glad it wasn't me." :-) I know some people will tell the speaker or teacher it was a great talk/lesson, but it more of encouragement and thanks for giving it. Anyway, I should be grateful for the compliments, it could be worse, they could be telling the Bishop to get rid of me....oh wait, would that be so bad?

Excitement at work

We got a new phone system in a couple of weeks ago and now our voicemail goes to our email. It is kind of cool. However, not all of the computers have speakers. I fished some really old ones out of the back and couldn't find the power cord so I used another power cord from an older set that was from a different company. I was holding the speaker in my hand when I turned in on and I hear a small pop. I didn't think much of it until a couple of seconds later I realized there was smoke coming out of it.

I told the girl I was helping to quick unplug it, but I was still holding the speaker and not really sure what to do with it. It wasn't hot, and there wasn't any flames, but it was smoldering. I didn't think I could just throw it outside because what if it really started a fire. So the only thing I could think of was to calmly walk to the kitchen and pour water in it until the fire was gone. I am very surprised how much water one of those things holds. There was a lot of smoke that came out of it as the water went in, so it was probably a good idea to douse it. Then I let it drain and then doused it again and more smoke came out. Those things know how to burn when they get going. Anyway, when I felt it was safe, I drained it and threw it away. Crisis averted. :-)

So I came up with the coolest idea...or so I thought it was the coolest idea. I found this great stained glass software. You can digitally design your panels and resize it and color it with actual glass so you can see the finished product before you even start. You can even take a picture of where the panel will go, then you can put the pattern on top of the panel so you can see what it will look like installed and what you can see through the panel. Anyway, this sounded great, but what would make it better would to have it be able to also cut out the pattern instead of just printing it and leaving me to cut it up.
I have a Cricut, so I looked up and down and really tried to figure out how to get this program to "print" to the Cricut. It's just that you can't print/cut to the cricut from just any computer program. While Cricut has the design studio....I have a hard time calling it the design studio. You can't add your own straight lines or curvy lines, the shapes you can use are all predetermined. Sure you can skew them, enlarge them, flip them, or weld them, but you can't create them from scratch. This is what I would call a design studio.
So I emailed the stained glass software company last week to see if they would partner up with Cricut, because I can't be the only stained glass person that hates cutting out the patterns. I sure hope that they respond. If not, perhaps I will need to contact Cricut to see if they will allow this.