Beginning Anew

Had lunch with the worship pastor and his lovely wife yesterday. We had a great time (although, not so great food). The restaurant was overpriced and the food was mediocre... but ya don't know until you try, right?

Ann and I managed to make it over to our new life group last night. We had the best time, and a pretty good Bible study. The fellowship was awesome. First time in a long time we've felt that at home in a Life Group. Right now there are only 3 couples. One of those couples didn't make it last night so it was just us and the Thornton's. They are an unbelievably on fire couple who really want to see relationships forming and an opportunity for us to help one another grow.

We're finally settling in to a church. It feels good.

Labels: church, Life Walking

or "What I got out of Life Group this Morning"

Wow. So out of everything I got in Life Group (this particular instance is more like Sunday School... but either way), the most memorable of all is the teacher, Leon, has a theory that if you hang around people who are losing weight they leave stray fat molecules in the air that are picked up by those not losing weight.

Hence, "Leon's Theory of Ambient Fat".

We're trying a new life group tonight too.

Heath

Labels: church, Fat, Life Walking, weight loss

This morning, I had the conversation that I end up having with every new employee who is moderately computer saavy.

"No, I won't give you administrator privileges. It's bad policy, it gives you too much access to things you don't need and you will break it eventually if you are admin. Not going to happen"

I was then informed (by that wonderful "i'm joking, but i'm not really joking" tone) that the user would annoy the crap out of me until I did.

"Feel free to come by and let me know what software you need installed, they pay me to maintain these machines, I don't mind."

So it took all the way until this afternoon before I get the e-mail.

(Paraphrase) Since i'm not administrator, I can't put shortcuts on my desktop (end paraphrase)

That's all well and good, except that it is in no way the truth. A guest user (which has virtually no privileges) can put shortcuts on the desktop. Now, they won't be there when the user logs off or shuts down the computer, but it will place one on the desktop during that session.

Anyway, i'm rambling.. sorry.

So, I walk down to the users office and here is where I am validated...

"I guess it won't let me move it because it's in my system32 folder".....
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That's right... he was screwing around in the folder that (as administrator) deleting, renaming or possibly thinking bad thoughts about a file can corrupt and damage the entire OS.

And THAT is why users can't be administrators....

Geez.

Labels: BOFH, users, Windows