200,000.00 dollar salaries for pastors, 100,000 dollar salaries for song directors. Doesn’t anyone think that is excessive ? Apparently not as it is becoming more and more the norm.

I have often wondered how the Christian community has gotten so far off track and now I have my answer, simple greed. Not much more to say on the subject except that I don’t think every Christian church has fallen into this, it’s just the majority and that is a real shame.

We have a church on ever street corner and yet we have people starving to death. The church is all engrossed in wealth these days but for the wrong reasons in my humble opinion.

I’m not saying every church is this way but I am saying the majority are. I know the churches do some good work but on the other hand do we really need 1000 dollar windows when we could use that money to help the members of the church who really need it? Old people eating dog food because they cant afford groceries, it’s a real shame.

It takes more than one person to make a difference, we have so many Christian churches and if they concentrated on helping rather than building, wouldn’t we as a society be better off?

The Suzuki Grand Vitara Luxury edition defines the meaning of the words “sweet ride” in every way. As a former owner of the Hyundai Sante Fe SUV with all it had to offer it came no where close to the handling and style of the Grand Vitara. I have been most impressed with the keyless SmartPass system that lets you open, lock and crank the vehicle without ever hunting for or even touching a key.

The heated seats and the 6 cd xm ready radio are just a couple of the little extras this quality packed family car has to offer. The quite but powerful 6 cylinder engine will get you where you want to go with no fuss and with 24 city and 30+ highway the gas pumps won’t get you down. I have been very happy with my experiences this far and am becoming more spoiled by this gem each day.

The only bad point I have been able to find on this vehicle is the cost of a spare transponder. $113.00 for the transponder ( Smartpass ) and $37.00 to program it. Oh yes and if your dealer says they don’t make a physical key for this SUV that is a lie, I know because I have one I had to go through a lot to get it but it is possible to get a real key that works without the smartpass and as a matter of fact you can’t program a new smartpass without the physical key.

SUZUKI SMART KEY KEYLESS ENTRY REMOTE FCC ID # KBRTS003 (KBRT5003) IC # 2111B-TS003 MODEL # TS006 (T5006)

Took my wife to work and she told her co-workers what happened. During the last week we have been struggling to find ways to get my wife to work because we work different hours and she can’t drive the blazer because it’s well old and hard to drive and she isn’t that good at driving a piece of shit that has to have the gas pedal pumped during start and hills.

Ok so we are screwed for a bit. Three days ago, Thursday my mom comes by my workplace because her car is acting up and she wants to trade it. She is test driving a car and wants me to drive it and see what I think about it so I do and it seems fine. She is going back to the dealer to discuss terms and wants me to come along. I am just getting off for lunch so I go with her.

While we are talking to the salesman about her new ride I tell him I would love to have a deal like this because my car just went kapoot and so he ask what I am looking for. I want an SUV but I dont have a lot of money to play around with so I need low payments. They had just got in a 2006 Suzuki Grand Vitara that day that someone else had traded and bingo bammo I got a sweet ride that is well within our budget.

I still can’t believe it, the next day one of my wifes co-workers that she was telling about our PT cruiser said her parents wanted to buy the Cruiser and do you know that Yesterday morning I sold them the car?

Some people might call that a sweet run of luck but I think there is more to it than just luck, we are not the best most well behaved children God has but he continually looks out for us and I believe that’s what happened here. There is just way to much coincidence to just dismiss it as luck.

Anyway that’s what I think, I don’t mind giving God the credit even if it was just luck cause he has done so much for us in the past but I really believe this was a gift from heaven.

I will post some pictures as soon as I take them.

Just go to http://godaddy.com and search for the name you want to use. During the registration process you will be asked if you need web space to host your new domain. The domain name will be about 8 bucks a year and the web space will be about 5 dollars a month for the least expensive.

The next thing your going to need is an FTP client to upload your html pages that you have created for your site. You will need to upload an index.html page as a minimum. That’s the first page that is loaded on a web site when you pull it up with your browser. If this sounds complicated it is, it is at this point your webmaster earns his keep. You can do this yourself if you have some html programming skill but if your a total beginner I would suggest an alternative.

Go to http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/webhosting and get your hosting and domain there. They have a web builder that will assist you is building your site with no html knowledge. It’s point and click all the way. The cost for the space is about 12 dollars a month. The only downside is they don’t allow multiple domains on your space. Your limited to one domain. If this isn’t a problem for you then Yahoo is probably the better solution for you.

I think I will sleep on it and decide later.

Update: 2/26/2008 - Well I went ahead and renewed choctawcreek.com for another year today, it’s so vulnerable right now due to several companies wanting to use the name that if I dare let it expire it will be gone within days so I won’t be able to pick it back up. I needed a couple of months to get my money right before renewing all these domains but it just isn’t going to happen so it was now or never. I renewed spacetoast.com too, it wasn’t in danger I don’t think but I am using the name for some of my email addresses so it was needed.

There was a time when I was very interested in these programs but that ship has sailed and today my only interest is in maintaining a repository of the files. I was a founding member of the chatnet.org IRC network back in 1994 and between then and 1998 I was very active in IRC ( internet relay chat ) but there came a day when myself and other key members of that network found we were no longer able to get along so I left and have not been back since.