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This blog is where I express myself to the world or at least to those who might stop by to read what I post 
. Maybe God will use what I post (I am a Christian and this blog will have a most decidedly Christian bent to it) to good effect in the lives of my readers.
I may turn some of my posts into a book. I may cease blogging here altogether. Who knows. But for now..I am content to post away in this, my own little corner of the world.
Rather than reading through my now lengthy list of posts you may wish to read what I consider to be my very best posts or you can just read the posts that deal with a single subject category that might interest you.
Please know that I am open to any input on any topic I write about. If you have something to say about anything you see written here please....feel free to speak up in the form of leaving a comment or sending me a PM (private message).
And if you are in San Diego and wish to meet the one and only Carlos (that's me)...drop me a private message. I always enjoy meeting one of my readers!
Thanks.
Carlos
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. Maybe God will use what I post (I am a Christian and this blog will have a most decidedly Christian bent to it) to good effect in the lives of my readers. I may turn some of my posts into a book. I may cease blogging here altogether. Who knows. But for now..I am content to post away in this, my own little corner of the world.
Rather than reading through my now lengthy list of posts you may wish to read what I consider to be my very best posts or you can just read the posts that deal with a single subject category that might interest you.
Please know that I am open to any input on any topic I write about. If you have something to say about anything you see written here please....feel free to speak up in the form of leaving a comment or sending me a PM (private message).
And if you are in San Diego and wish to meet the one and only Carlos (that's me
)...drop me a private message. I always enjoy meeting one of my readers!Thanks.
Carlos
PS. If you want to follow my blog such that you will get an email when I write new posts you can subscribe to my blog.
Frustrating day...though rather funny too :)...
I got up this morning with high expectations for my day. Unfortunately it turned out to be one of the most incredibly frustrating days I've had in San Diego...so far.
The day started out quite well...initially. The Lord touched my heart through a passage I read this morning about how He multiplied a few loaves of bread and some fish to meet the need for food of about 5000 people. I had been asking Him to re-assure me of His continuing love for me and to touch my heart through what I read...and He did!
It's one thing to know in my head that God loves me. That is all well and good...in fact great! Sometimes I must just walk in the knowledge that He does love me. Even if I don't feel it or don't understand how what He allows in my life could be seen as loving.
But it's also great to know experientially of His continuing love for me by having Him touch my heart in a special way through something I read.
I was struck, in reading what I did, that the Lord can do the same for me. That He can take the little I have and multiply it to meet my need too. I mean I have read that passage lots but this morning it came alive and spoke to me in a way that it has not before. That's what I mean by a touch from God through what I read.
When something I read, that I have perhaps read lots of times before, pops out at me and speaks to my particular circumstances in a personal way.
That "touch" re-assured me of His continuing love toward me. In a practical and personal way.
So...that's how my day started.
Then it went downhill...fast.
I felt lousy most of the morning. Weak and achy. After I went to the buffet I started to feel better but by the time I got home it was already late in the afternoon.
Just before getting home I tried to stop at a postal box type place to rent out an address and missed my stop...such that I had to come back on another bus. When I got to the place...they were closed! Due to the holiday.
On getting home, I tried to make some calls to solicit for window cleaning...but, the internet connection where I am at...kept failing on me. Such that I could not make any calls at all!
I then decided to go out and see if I could find a wireless enhancement usb card or something like that which could boost the ability of my laptop to pick up a wireless signal. I didn't want to spend the money but if I was to make the calls I needed to make...I had to get something.
Like many times before...I wasn't sure where there was a Best Buys (a good starting point for finding what I needed) but I remembered seeing one off the Orange Line trolley. So I caught the bus to Old Town with a goal of transferring to the Orange Line and getting to best buys.
On the way there...the bus driver said that he thought there was a Best Buys nearby such that I could walk just a couple of blocks to get to it. So...I got off the bus and walked two blocks and then round about some...and no Best Buys. So...I walked back...got on another bus and continued.
A little bit later...someone listening to music on the bus started to drive me nuts...so much so...that I got off the bus...and waited for another bus.
The next bus...there was someone listening to music AGAIN! But at least this time it wasn't so bad as the first time...such that I was able, more or less, to ignore it until I got to Old Town.
I then caught the wrong trolley! Thinking it was the Orange Trolley I ended up going on the Green Trolley. It was so dark by that time that I couldn't see hardly anything out the windows.
On the way to where I thought we were going...a guy gets on the trolley and wouldn't you know it...he has a really loud jive song blaring out of his iphone. He is listening to it without his ear plugs and just jiving along having a good ol' time...while I am sitting there on the verge of asking him to please turn it down.
Instead I try to be smart...get off the trolley and try and make it to another car where...hopefully I will find some peace and quiet. Well...before I get to the next car...the Trolley takes off!
I then catch the next Trolley...after pondering the meaning of my life while waiting for it...and finally, with the help of some passengers I finally make it to a Best Buys...way off in who knows where.
They didn't have what I needed or it was way overpriced so...after looking at the boxes of stuff over and over again and even reading some of the descriptions trying to figure out how I could get what I wanted out of there somehow...(trying to get blood out a turnip comes to mind for some reason) I give up and head back.
Only then, when I saw the name of the front of the Trolley did I realize that it was the wrong one.
I had spent close to two hours going to a Best Buys that did not have something I wanted to get! And it took me close to two hours to get home.
The whole time I was on the buses and trolleys I kept falling asleep. Nodding off when I wasn't irritated by the incredibly insensitive people around me playing jive or other hip hopping music, oblivious to the fact that others around them might not want to listen to their great selection of songs.
Nodding off...falling asleep, waking up, nodding off. I'm amazed that I actually woke up in time to get off where I needed to get off. At one point I was just drifting in and out of sleep in that state of mind of wondering who I am, where I am, and what I am doing on a bus LOL.
Not unlike what I am usually like in the mornings when I first wake up...only then I usually know who I am, I'm just not sure what to do on waking up and whether to put my clothes on or use the bathroom first. Brush my teeth or put my shoes on. You know...that type of thing.
If you are not a morning person...you'll understand exactly what I mean.
Once I got to my stop at home...I stopped in at Jack in the Box and had me some comfort food (partly that but mostly I didn't want to get hungry at home without any food around). A breakfast burger (at night) and an Oreo milkshake (yum, yum). Just the healthy kind of food I needed
Pretty frustrating overall. Actually kinda funny looking back on it. But...still frustrating.
The highlight of my day was meeting a fellow window cleaner. A member of the bucket brigade. Those homeless guys who go around with a simple bucket and squeegie.
If what he told me is to be believed...he is making more than I am! By going around and offering deeply, and I mean deeply discounted window cleaning. Whereas I might charge $25 he might charge $5. That type of thing.
Maybe I will do his type of window cleaning.
I suspect though, based on how many businesses didn't even let me give them a quote, that the amount he makes is a bit less than he indicated it was.
Still...he is making something. And that was encouraging.
On top of that...he said that he had some clients who wanted a quote on doing their houses (no doubt for double his usual price of $5) but that he could not do it without a ladder (makes sense).
So...I graciously offered to give him, a fellow window cleaner, a 5% cut of what another window cleaner has offered me for jobs I may bring him. 5% of the 15% that I am being offered.
Such that one job will feed three window cleaners. The big cahuna window cleaner getting 85%, me %15, and my new window cleaning buddy...5%. We'll see if any of that pans out. Sounds almost like a Laurel and Hardy arrangement but who knows...maybe something will come of it.
The 5% that I offered him seemed to cause his eyes to light up a bit. I wish I could have offered him more but if I had done that...I might have ended up making $5 an hour and I didn't want to do that...at least not yet and if I can help it.
Tomorrow...I guess I will go back to hitting the pavement again since I can't really make calls from my computer. I hope to visit a hundred places tomorrow (ouch for my feet).
I've got to make the rent on Feb 1! I've just got to or I will move out. I can't face my landlord if I can't do that since staying beyond Feb 1 without paying rent would be an abuse of his generosity in allowing me to stay this month in exchange for some work. Without my paying any up front cash.
I do believe that the Lord will provide for me again somehow but it may be down to the wire again. We'll see.
Stay tuned....
Carlos
The day started out quite well...initially. The Lord touched my heart through a passage I read this morning about how He multiplied a few loaves of bread and some fish to meet the need for food of about 5000 people. I had been asking Him to re-assure me of His continuing love for me and to touch my heart through what I read...and He did!
It's one thing to know in my head that God loves me. That is all well and good...in fact great! Sometimes I must just walk in the knowledge that He does love me. Even if I don't feel it or don't understand how what He allows in my life could be seen as loving.
But it's also great to know experientially of His continuing love for me by having Him touch my heart in a special way through something I read.
I was struck, in reading what I did, that the Lord can do the same for me. That He can take the little I have and multiply it to meet my need too. I mean I have read that passage lots but this morning it came alive and spoke to me in a way that it has not before. That's what I mean by a touch from God through what I read.
When something I read, that I have perhaps read lots of times before, pops out at me and speaks to my particular circumstances in a personal way.
That "touch" re-assured me of His continuing love toward me. In a practical and personal way.
So...that's how my day started.
Then it went downhill...fast.
I felt lousy most of the morning. Weak and achy. After I went to the buffet I started to feel better but by the time I got home it was already late in the afternoon.
Just before getting home I tried to stop at a postal box type place to rent out an address and missed my stop...such that I had to come back on another bus. When I got to the place...they were closed! Due to the holiday.
On getting home, I tried to make some calls to solicit for window cleaning...but, the internet connection where I am at...kept failing on me. Such that I could not make any calls at all!
I then decided to go out and see if I could find a wireless enhancement usb card or something like that which could boost the ability of my laptop to pick up a wireless signal. I didn't want to spend the money but if I was to make the calls I needed to make...I had to get something.
Like many times before...I wasn't sure where there was a Best Buys (a good starting point for finding what I needed) but I remembered seeing one off the Orange Line trolley. So I caught the bus to Old Town with a goal of transferring to the Orange Line and getting to best buys.
On the way there...the bus driver said that he thought there was a Best Buys nearby such that I could walk just a couple of blocks to get to it. So...I got off the bus and walked two blocks and then round about some...and no Best Buys. So...I walked back...got on another bus and continued.
A little bit later...someone listening to music on the bus started to drive me nuts...so much so...that I got off the bus...and waited for another bus.
The next bus...there was someone listening to music AGAIN! But at least this time it wasn't so bad as the first time...such that I was able, more or less, to ignore it until I got to Old Town.
I then caught the wrong trolley! Thinking it was the Orange Trolley I ended up going on the Green Trolley. It was so dark by that time that I couldn't see hardly anything out the windows.
On the way to where I thought we were going...a guy gets on the trolley and wouldn't you know it...he has a really loud jive song blaring out of his iphone. He is listening to it without his ear plugs and just jiving along having a good ol' time...while I am sitting there on the verge of asking him to please turn it down.
Instead I try to be smart...get off the trolley and try and make it to another car where...hopefully I will find some peace and quiet. Well...before I get to the next car...the Trolley takes off!
I then catch the next Trolley...after pondering the meaning of my life while waiting for it...and finally, with the help of some passengers I finally make it to a Best Buys...way off in who knows where.
They didn't have what I needed or it was way overpriced so...after looking at the boxes of stuff over and over again and even reading some of the descriptions trying to figure out how I could get what I wanted out of there somehow...(trying to get blood out a turnip comes to mind for some reason) I give up and head back.
Only then, when I saw the name of the front of the Trolley did I realize that it was the wrong one.
I had spent close to two hours going to a Best Buys that did not have something I wanted to get! And it took me close to two hours to get home.
The whole time I was on the buses and trolleys I kept falling asleep. Nodding off when I wasn't irritated by the incredibly insensitive people around me playing jive or other hip hopping music, oblivious to the fact that others around them might not want to listen to their great selection of songs.
Nodding off...falling asleep, waking up, nodding off. I'm amazed that I actually woke up in time to get off where I needed to get off. At one point I was just drifting in and out of sleep in that state of mind of wondering who I am, where I am, and what I am doing on a bus LOL.
Not unlike what I am usually like in the mornings when I first wake up...only then I usually know who I am, I'm just not sure what to do on waking up and whether to put my clothes on or use the bathroom first. Brush my teeth or put my shoes on. You know...that type of thing.
If you are not a morning person...you'll understand exactly what I mean.
Once I got to my stop at home...I stopped in at Jack in the Box and had me some comfort food (partly that but mostly I didn't want to get hungry at home without any food around). A breakfast burger (at night) and an Oreo milkshake (yum, yum). Just the healthy kind of food I needed
Pretty frustrating overall. Actually kinda funny looking back on it. But...still frustrating.
The highlight of my day was meeting a fellow window cleaner. A member of the bucket brigade. Those homeless guys who go around with a simple bucket and squeegie.
If what he told me is to be believed...he is making more than I am! By going around and offering deeply, and I mean deeply discounted window cleaning. Whereas I might charge $25 he might charge $5. That type of thing.
Maybe I will do his type of window cleaning
. I suspect though, based on how many businesses didn't even let me give them a quote, that the amount he makes is a bit less than he indicated it was.
Still...he is making something. And that was encouraging.
On top of that...he said that he had some clients who wanted a quote on doing their houses (no doubt for double his usual price of $5
) but that he could not do it without a ladder (makes sense). So...I graciously
offered to give him, a fellow window cleaner, a 5% cut of what another window cleaner has offered me for jobs I may bring him. 5% of the 15% that I am being offered. Such that one job will feed three window cleaners. The big cahuna window cleaner getting 85%, me %15, and my new window cleaning buddy...5%. We'll see if any of that pans out. Sounds almost like a Laurel and Hardy arrangement but who knows...maybe something will come of it.
The 5% that I offered him seemed to cause his eyes to light up a bit. I wish I could have offered him more but if I had done that...I might have ended up making $5 an hour and I didn't want to do that...at least not yet and if I can help it.
Tomorrow...I guess I will go back to hitting the pavement again since I can't really make calls from my computer. I hope to visit a hundred places tomorrow (ouch for my feet).
I've got to make the rent on Feb 1! I've just got to or I will move out. I can't face my landlord if I can't do that since staying beyond Feb 1 without paying rent would be an abuse of his generosity in allowing me to stay this month in exchange for some work. Without my paying any up front cash.
I do believe that the Lord will provide for me again somehow but it may be down to the wire again. We'll see.
Stay tuned....
Carlos
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