How to Watch or Download Joyce Meyer Videos

My dad likes to watch a preacher named Joyce Meyer preach. However, my family is considering cancelling their super expensive satellite TV subscription. About the only thing they will regret missing are Joyce Meyer's sermons.

Tonight my mom agreed to sew a pair of my pants if I helped her watch Joyce Meyer online. Fulfilling my end of that bargain is the purpose of this blog post. I like blog posts because they are impossible to lose, and can act as a living set of instructions (if updated.) There are five main steps to watching Joyce Meyer online, with her current webpage:

1. Go to www.joycemeyer.org
2. Click on BROADCAST
3. Click on the broadcast you want to watch.
4. Click on the full screen icon, if you want to watch the broadcast in full screen mode.
5. If the movie pauses when you switch it to full screen, make sure to click "play."

1. Go to www.joycemeyer.org
2. Click on BROADCAST

3.   Click on the broadcast you want to watch.

4.  Click on the full screen icon, if you want to watch the broadcast in full screen mode.

5.  If the movie pauses when you switch it to full screen, make sure to click "play."

If you want to download Joyce Meyer videos to watch later, the process is slightly different:

1. Go to this web page.
2. Right click the "download file" link for the sermon you want to watch. 
3. Click "Save Link As" 
4. Select a place on your computer to store the file you will remember later.
5. Click on the file to play it, after it has finished downloading to watch it later. 

Tile Table - Finished Product

The very first year I made yearly goals, one of my goals was learning how to fabricate tile from its (relatively) principle components. To me, this meant using clay, glaze and:

1. Rolling it out to an appropriate thickness (3/8 of an inch thick for a 1/4 thick finished tile)
2. Hand building designs on the tiles, if applicable
3. Drying them properly (very slowly, on newspapers so it can have some give, covered in plastic)
4. Trimming and sanding the dry tiles so they look smooth and finished
5. Bisque firing them in a kiln, which involves loading them in a not dumb way - this is where you find out if step number 1 left any air bubbles in them, creating bombs inside the kiln, instead of pieces of art
6. Applying glaze in the correct fashion (dipping), the correct period of drying between applications (2 days) and carefully cleaning the glaze off the portions that should not be glazed
7. Glaze firing them in the kiln, with all the same considerations as bisque firing, except now also being concerned with dripping glaze destroying someone else's project or permanently attaching my tile to the kiln
8. Bringing the hippy craft studio workers home made wine or beer, or nice microbrew (they were over 21) for the lessons in ceramics, keeping the craft studio open for me, and being extremely liberal in the material consumption policy 

In order to complete this table, I had about three times as many rejected tiles that I did not use. These tiles have since become accents in my father's construction project.

After giving the table to my father and mother for Christmas, my dad has since added an amazing cherry border to the table, as well as resurfacing the metal legs and framing. 

The bright blue with the Zias remind me of the New Mexican sky, and the sandy grout of the sandy earth we have in many parts of the state here.

Thanks to my buddy Jeremy Brewster for taking these picture! If things slow down with my software business, one of my plans is to start another, bigger, tile project at the UNM craft studio. It was a great deal of fun being involved in a creative process there, and that's where I met my friend Kevin Horschel (a.k.a K-Dawg.) 

Gone Ghetto Fishing - Part 2

Despite the recent success I have been enjoying with the new software company I own (blog post and grand opening party coming soon) I still have been going fishing with my friends. This is not to provide for a cheap or free source of animal protein, as I had originally anticipated while becoming 'self employed' / poor, but continues to be a good way to hang out and talk with my buddies in a relaxing way.

My friend Efrain Grijalva and I went down to Tingley Beach, and some kids gave me a (relatively) small catfish. We were talking with them for a while, and they planned on throwing the fish back. So far, I have only caught a couple of small blue gills, and I thought it would be fun to clean and eat the catfish. I asked them if I could have it, and they said sure!

I already ate the other part.

As Efrain and I were leaving, we noticed another person that was fishing down by us caught a gigantic catfish. This thing was super, super gigantic as compared to the other catfish I observed.

Phoenix Jones Needs A New Suit

For anyone that doesn't know who Phoenix Jones is, I pity you. Your life is not as rich as it could be. Phoenix Jones is a real life superhero that is based in Seattle, Washington. He breaks up fights, stops people from stealing buses, keeps drunk people from driving, gets shot at, gets arrested and then has all the charges dropped. Seriously. Phoenix Jones does all this crazy stuff. He has no actual abilities other than being super tough and a willingness to do things which may get himself shot or arrested while trying and help other people.

Yes, there are really people that dress up as a super hero and help people, sometime by using violence. Yes, they may be somewhat mentally unbalanced vigilantes. And yes, they are extremely awesome.

As you may be able to guess by now, my favorite of the real life superheros is Phoenix Jones. I always read news articles about him, talk with my friend Aaron Torres about him, read what he posts (in all caps for some reason?) on Facebook, and I generally think he is cool. Phoenix Jones is probably the most connected of the real life superheros - there is always something online about what he is up to.

Phoenix Jones needs a new suit that is actually bulletproof. His existing suit is bullet resistant, not bulletproof, and he's going to get shot if he keeps up his heroics. That is why I am donating some money to help him get a new suit. I actually think he probably should have accepted corporate sponsorship for his suit, and accepted their advertising on it. However, he did not, and I want him to continue his patrols and support him. This is the first blog post I've ever written encouraging people to give money to something, but I figure something as crazy as a real life super hero fits well with my blog.


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Gone Ghetto Fishing

I've been getting more and more into fishing with my buddies. My friend Jeremy and I went fishing in Quemado lake when we were elk scouting around there, and my buddy Efrain and I have been going to Tingley Beach, located in Albuquerque. Most of my interest in fishing comes from my:

1. A general desire to be able to survive general economic and social collapse.
2. The fact that my software based start up company may in part be subsidized by my fishing abilities if I run out of money and don't have any food (which may be able to be viewed as a localized, to me, economic and social collapse, depending on how my company performs.)
3. It's fun to hang out with my friends and do something other than drink beer, or work on projects.
4. I like practicing new skills.

When I was young, I remember fishing with my mother's father a bit. I was about five, so I don't remember much. He was nice to me, and I was scared of a garfish that he caught. Fishing with him was the only fishing experience I remember. Needless to say, I suck at fishing. Despite that, I've been practicing, listening to people when they give me advice, reading about it online, and trying to reason through different issues. This is with the goal of sucking less at fishing.

Tingley Beach

My buddy Efrain and I were going for cat fish down at Tingley Beach, and our bait kept getting robbed (eaten by fish, but we weren't catching them.) There were tons and tons of bluegill around, likely the culprits, so I switched out my large catfish hooks for smaller ones. I carefully baited the hook so the bluegill would have to get hooked in order to eat the bait. This strategy was successful!

Note the expert fishing equipment - rod courtesy of Efrain Grijalva 

After catching my first fish, I proceeded to rapid fire catch two more. This was all in about twenty minutes once I got the hang of it. Cheap hot dogs are kind of like crack rocks for bluegill in Tingley Beach. Another observation I made was that the fish slowed down and stopped biting as the sun rose - maybe this was because of the heat, or because the fish had been feeding like crazy and were full by that time. I'm not sure, but I think timing, and temperature, are both important while trying to catch fish.

Efrain and I gutted two of the fish, and I gave the third to a little boy that was fishing with his brother that had a fish cage to keep it in. The two brothers weren't catching anything, and I thought it would be nice for the older boy to teach his little brother how to clean a fish. Later, I fried up my fish after cleaning them a bit more, and ate them. They were bony, but good.

Some of my friends that are more into fishing are amazed that I go to Tingley Beach. It is usually crowded, kind of dirty, and the wildlife (especially ducks) are socialized and familiar with humans to the point of ridiculous, but it's fun. Tingley Beach is located right downtown by the river, it's easy to get to, doesn't require a costly and time consuming trip, and everyone I've met there has been very nice. For me, I'd much rather improve my fishing skills someplace close and easy to get to. Just make sure to bring your fishing license, the officials check!