General – Bill Glick .:. tech . art . God . life

A Deal on a Sony PSP and Game

My teen ordered some PSP gear without permission. Let my loss can be your gain.

Sony PSP 2000 – Piano Black $155
Used about 1 hour till I confiscated it from him. In excellent
condition. Comes with opened box, battery, and power charger.
http://www.amazon.com/PSP-2000-Console-Piano-Black-Sony/dp/B000UA0LXQ/

God of War – Chains of Olympus – for Sony PSP $28
New in sealed box. Never used or opened.
http://www.amazon.com/God-War-Chains-Olympus-Sony-PSP/dp/B000R3BN4M

Email me if you’re interested in either of these items.

IlliMex Egg Hash

Every once in a while I get a creative cooking itch that I just have to scratch. Recently those itches have involved rice and cheese. Tonight I wanted to explore what I could do to use up some eggs that had been in the fridge for a while.

As I explored the cupboards I imagined an egg and rice hash that had a bit of kick to it. After exploring some recipes for ideas I began to create my new IlliMex Egg Hash.

INGREDIENTS:

7 eggs
1 cup of milk
2 tablespoons of Worcestershire sauce
3 cups of cooked rice (brown or white)
black pepper
1 15oz can of corn, drained
1 7oz can of green salsa verde
1 16oz can of diced tomatoes, drained
2 cups of grated cheese

DIRECTIONS:

Blend the eggs, milk, and Worcestershire sauce in a small bowl. Then cook the egg mixture as scrambled eggs in a large skillet over medium heat.
Add the cooked rice and a drained can of corn to the cooked egg mixture. Add black pepper to taste. Brown the hash mixture for about 10 minutes over high heat.
Once the hash has slightly browned, mix in the salsa verde and diced tomatoes. Simmer for about 5 minutes over medium heat.
Top with shredded cheese and let sit for 10-15 minutes before serving.
Serve over toast.

Serves 4 people.

OPTIONS TO CHANGE IT UP:

Try hash browns instead of rice.
Use traditional salsa or picante instead of the salsa verde and diced tomatoes.
Add some ham or sausage to the hash mixture.
Add onions or green peppers to the hash.
Add some Tabasco sauce for a bit more kick.

Let me know if you try this off the cuff little hash recipe. Or shoot me ideas of ways to improve it. I’d love to hear your thoughts.

What If…

Last week I was reminded that in January of 1994 I’d signed up to attend the JB Hunt truck driving school. I was totally into truck driving and the transportation industry back then, and I was searching for where God was wanting to lead me professionally and personally. If I remember correctly, attending that truck driving school required me to drive for JB Hunt for the next 3 years after graduating. For some reason I changed my mind about 10 days before the school was to begin.

A month ago I was also remembering how I’d signed up for the Navy ROTC program when I was a college freshman. I’d initially applied for NROTC for the tuition scholarship that came with the program. But, I ended up getting another full scholarship that didn’t require me to sign over my life after college. So, after the first 2 weeks of college and NROTC, I began to question why I was still in NROTC and ended up dropping out of it before I had any commitment to our US military.

While ‘signing over’ a few years of your life to a trucking company or to the military might not sound like your cup of tea, I think either experience could have been good for me. I’m sure my life would have been both better and worse from either experience and I’d likely be in a whole different situation, better or worse, than I am now.

I really like where I am now. It’s not perfect, but it’s good and God has definitely worked some big stuff in my life over the past few years. I don’t regret any of the big life-choices I’ve made, but I sometimes just wonder how things might have been different.

God, thanks for leading me along my life’s journey. Often times life’s choices are hard and unclear, but you are willing to offer us guidance and wisdom about such decisions. Thanks so much for your guidance in my life. I can’t wait to see what lies ahead along our path!

Techno Savior

This is the first part in my series on 5 life lessons that I learned from Labor Day weekend in 2005, while volunteering with efforts after Hurricane Katrina.

On that Monday and Tuesday I served in a temporary data center for a 6,000 person shelter that had been setup at the River Centre in Baton Rouge, LA. As a computer guru and web application developer, I knew that a few technology tweaks could make this data processing much more useful. It was frustrating to be there and know that something better could be done.

Then on the drive back to Illinois on Wednesday, we were listening to a Steel on Steel podcast and they were talking about how technology could possibly solve our oil shortage. I was like, “Yeah… technology can solve any problem.”

Then, suddenly, I realized what I was saying. I really did tend to think that technology can fix any problem. Technology is amazing. It can solve starvation, resource scarcity, data analysis, recovery from natural disasters, etc. It can literally save people. Or can it? Can technology fix all our problems? I sure tend to think it can if we can just wrap our minds around a solution.

I realized that much of the time I look to technology to fix us, instead of God. The world’s core problems can only be solved by God. My deepest problems can only be made right by God’s miraculous touch.

If I don’t watch myself, I start to worship technology, rather than the one who created order to our world and gave us the left and right parts of our brains in order to develop and apply technology to our worlds.

Lord, help me to rely only on you and realize daily that technology is something you created for us to use to glorify you.

How do you tend to worship technology? What else do you worship instead of God? Politics? Wealth?

5 Lessons from Katrina

At the beginning of this year I tried to post a series of blogs about what I learned in 2007. I never did get past the first post, because I quickly realized that I didn’t really grasp yet what I’d learned in 2007. It’s often hard to look at your recent past and fully understand what you’re in the process of learning.

But, tonight I was reminded of a huge thing I learned during Labor Day weekend in 2005. That was the weekend following disaster in the Gulf Coast, known as Hurricane Katrina. As I was thinking about this one lesson that I learned that particular weekend, I realized that there were some other lessons I learned that weekend. And each of these were really huge, significant lessons that have shaped my life since then.

So, this is an introduction to 5 key lessons that I learned from the weekend after Hurricane Katrina. Read about my 5 lessons here over the next few days:

Techno Savior
A Little Less Action, and a Lot More Talk
Pray Tell What?
It’s Safer Driving from the Back Seat
Shouldn’t This Be Less Fun?

One of the habits that I want to develop is documenting my life lessons and glimpses of when I’m certain God showed me something. These lessons from this one weekend are just that.

How do you remember when you learn a life lesson? How far after an experience do you typically need to be to understand what that experience has taught you?