Elaine and Gabe are off for the summer soon. Elaine will be serving at a camp in North Carolina. The Refuge is a young Christian Camp set in Ayden, NC. Actually only a couple hours from Emerald Isle, NC where we have been asked to provide summer camp programming the first week of July for a local church.

Gabe will be serving once again this summer at Camp Bethel in Wise, VA.

They will both leave out soon after Gabe’s high school graduation at the end of May. So from this summer on, things will NEVER be the same around here.

Anyway, as I stated above, they will be serving at separate camps all summer. In order to allow them to serve in these environments, we have to raise financial support each year. These positions, while not “voluntary” are not necessarily “paid” positions either. Their weekly “pay” comes from whatever financial support has been sent to the respective camp in their individual names.

So, if you feel so inclined, we ask that you prayerfully support them as they need to cover travel expenses, equipment, and lodging (in some cases), etc. Simply contact me through this website to learn how you can support a summer missionary! All donations are tax deductible (where allowed) through 501(c)(3) organizations.

Now, with that said, I am also looking for more web design work for the summer for just this reason. It takes money to spread the gospel… and hopefully YOU need a website design, or redesign! I can help. With VERY fair pricing and lower than most any others.

Here is my latest design. I hope to turn this one over to the client this week. http://fowphoto.com

Thanks and GOD BLESS!!

My most recent site is a Blog setup for Mercy Hill Baptist Church. http://mercyhillblog.com. Mercy Hill is a church plant in Shepherdsville that Elaine and I have become involved with. Realizing the need of this community and the impact this new church could have on our immediate area drew us to become involved. You can visit the Mercy Hill Baptist Church main page here to find out more about the church.

This Blog site is mainly for communication and discussion among those involved in Mercy Hills “Missional Community” groups, but is setup to allow anyone to read the Blog posts. This way we hope others will see what Mercy Hill is about and want to become involved.

The site includes many features I have designed and discovered while creating other sites over the last few years. Some of the details include custom fonts, email or text posting, specific category post pages only, custom user registration, auto-post-to-Facebook and MUCH customizing of CSS and PHP code.

The Camp Bethel and Camp Bethel Childhood Development Center websites have both also been updated/upgraded. Several un-noticeable details have been changed in both.

One major noticeable change at campbethel.com is the online shopping/payment. Now included is a much more manageable and much better looking layout that allows for easier implementation of new products and editing current products. Currently available is online payment for Summer Camp and Special Events and Summer Camp Media (photos/videos). We’ve discussed adding many more Camp Bethel related items like T-shirts, etc. before Summer Camp time rolls around.

I’m posting this here because I had so much trouble finding the solution that I wanted to share with the search engines.

The short of it was that I had a backup glitch on Small Business Server 2003 (SBS2003) this week and my CALs were reset from 20 down to 5, the original number that comes with the SBS2003 installation.

After Google searching, I could only find people with the same problem, but no fixes. Not wishing (that is DREADING) to call the original person who installed it to find if he had the license codes still, I did the next worse thing. I called Microsoft.

After getting transferred 5 times and explaining rather harshly to the last person AGAIN what my problem was, I had to apologize for taking it out on her. I didn’t get too nasty, I just let her know how dissatisfied I was with their product and support and their “Certified” professional that did us as much harm as good with original installation of the server…

So, expecting another day of waiting on the phone to find out I had to speak with another department, I first Google searched again before making the call.

This time, to my surprise, I actually found someone with the same problem, only this time with a resolution! And a simple resolution at that.

here’s the ORIGINAL POST FROM Chris Knight:
http://blog.chrisara.com.au/2006/09/small-business-server-2003-dreaded-5.html

Small Business Server 2003 – The Dreaded 5 CAL Reset Issue
A runaway process on SBS2003 decided to fill up all the disk space on C: in the early hours of the morning. The fallout from this was the System log was corrupt and the SBS license data was reset to the default 5 CALs.
The System log was easy to fix – reboot the server.
The SBS license data was an absolute pain. I’d never run the “Back up licenses” utility in the Licensing section of Server Management. Microsoft have KB article 888818 discussing this, which is either re-enter the licenses, restore the C:\WINDOWS folder or restore a backup of the licenses.
The first wasn’t an option as I was offsite and the person with the key to the safe wasn’t in. The second was just not viable – why Microsoft couldn’t specify which file/folder needed restoring I don’t know. The third would have been OK if ever I had run it.
After much stuffing about I found that the SBS2003 licenses are kept in the licstr.cpa file in the WINDOWS\system32 folder. Thankfully, Microsoft actually keep an automatic backup of this in autolicstr.cpa. The simple process was to stop the License Logging Service, rename licstr.cpa to licstr.cpa.old, then copy autolicstr.cpa to licstr.cpa. After this I started License Logging Service and used Server Management to confirm that the licenses had been restored.

http://blog.chrisara.com.au/2006/09/small-business-server-2003-dreaded-5.html

Literally. Thanks to some special people, we have a natural evergreen wreath on our front door. It’s filling up the house with CHRISTMAS smell! If there is such a thing as “Christmas smell” it must be this.

We are so slow here at work today that we have only had maybe two phone calls all day. Praise God I have a boss who will let us work even in the slow times. So slow here actually that as I write this I am listening to the sounds of this joyous season from a fellow co-worker who is playing Smule Magic Piano on their Iphone. Rather nice actually…

Mercy Hill decided to go a different route with the videos because of time constraints. May do something in the future for them.

Still a couple potential web site clients out there, but they are too busy this time of season to get anything setup right now. Maybe after the first of the year.

Also have another upcoming video for KASA in February.

Recently finished up rebuilding a laptop for someone. All I really had to do was replace the hard drive and reload Vista, but getting to that point was rather hectic. I finally got the drive recovered to the original setup with help from a RescueMe utility DVD. But then after installing all the Windows updates, it crashed on reboot. Dead… Nothing could recover the drive then. Replaced and reinstalled after much searching for the correct Vista Home Premium disc. Whew! Well worth it for a couple extra bucks for the season. … Interestingly, during my posting, he just stopped by asking why he cannot connect to the internet at home. I think we resolved he just needs to reset his wireless router. Laptop works fine here. We’ll know tomorrow…

Oh yeah. I was reminded this week of how much fun a kidney stone is… So much so that I actually went to the doctor this time for some pain meds. The first time in several years and several stones that I have had to have pain meds. Only needed one pill so far though.

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IF YOU NEED ANY WEB SITE DESIGN/HOSTING OR VIDEO WORK DONE, PLEASE CALL!! I am always looking for work. My services are VERY affordable! I can custom design a site for you quickly and offer hosting as well. Custom email, blogging, photo galleries, online shopping carts. I can make most anything work on your site in some form or fashion.

Take a look at some examples on the right side menu here to see what I have done and can do for you. Most are WordPress based, but are hosted on my server with your own domain name (no more sitename.wordpress.com, simply sitename.com). WordPress has a very easy to learn back office so you can maintain your site yourself, or I can do that for you as well.

I’m also available for video editing/producing work if you have any need.

Please pass my name along if you know of anyone needing Web design or video work.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

More KASA videos have been produced since last posting. Including annual Fred Award videos and New Superintendent Training menu driven DVD. Both of these were filmed by KASA staff and I edited and produced the final product.

May be working on three videos for Mercy Hill Baptist Church in the next few weeks. If so, they will be posted here after November 20, 2011.

An old sample site was hacked and account was shut down for a couple of days and then a few days later the same sight was reported for spamming. I’ve deleted that sight completely. No big loss.

Camp Bethel Day Care Center now has their own site apart from Camp Bethel Ministries. Still working on content, but for the most part it’s running smoothly. It will include a way for staff to post updates via text messaging and picture messaging. We’ll see how that works out after I teach the staff how it works.

A couple other sights you may see in the Design menu also.

Ministry work is in full swing. We are currently working on a fund raising letter and continuing to follow God’s lead in everything. Including seeking more Board of Director members.

Also currently working on a “Thank You” video for our summer mission supporters. Annual newsletter for TUM will be next. Both will be posted on the TUM website when finished.