 the time to know them and loved them according to who and how they were.
So it is in God’s family. God has no favorites. Because we are His favorite. We are loved more than we can imagine or understand. Let us rejoice in the knowledge of His marvelous love.
It was a beautiful morning. While it was still too early for the sun to shine fully, the sky was cold and clear, giving promise of a beautiful day. Just yesterday there had been muck and mud to walk through as I made the trek to the barn to feed and water our cattle. Today the ground crunched happily under my feet. The ponds that had threatened to flood the day before, had freeze dried and were no longer a danger to the hay. I rejoiced, even though my toes were cold inside my rubber boots and the socks that were too thin to protect them. Tomorrow I would choose a thicker pair.
The evening before I had plugged in the stock tank heater, anticipating a change in temperature as predicted by the weatherman. The heater would keep the water warm for the cattle, and prevent the need to chip ice. As I approached the trough I noticed that, in spite of my efforts, a thick white layer covered the water. Shoot. The cattle had hooked their nose on the cords. One end of the electrical plugs was frozen in the ice. The other dangled uselessly in the air.
Caution is the word around electricity and water. Since there was no power to the cord attached to the stock tank heater, I was able to carefully chip the plug from the ice. Triumphantly, I dried it off and attempted to slide it into the other cord, which was live. Shoot again. Water had frozen solid into the receptacle, and I was unable to rejoin the two ends.
Several funny thoughts ran through my mind. I could place the live cord in the water trough and attempt to rinse the ice out. I could stick it in my mouth and melt the obstruction that way. Maybe I would tuck it under my armpit by navigating through the many layers of clothes I was wearing, and hope not to get shocked in the process. Or... I could cup the chord in my hands and blow, allowing the warmth of my breath to melt the ice.
I must say, I was pretty proud of myself. After several attempts and another chuckle at the thought of hyperventilating and passing out on the ice, I was able to reconnect power to the water heater.
As I walked back to the house in triumph, an awareness came to my mind. Sometimes WE get disconnected from OUR source; God, and ice begins to form on our hearts. It stops the flow of His power in our lives and prevents access to the Life Giving Water of our relationship with Him. Sometimes it is due to circumstances, busyness, our own actions or the actions of others. It may simply be a matter of misplaced priorities. Whatever the cause, the solution is the same. We can allow the Lord to take our heart in His hands, and gently blow the breath of His Spirit upon us. Not as the shallow wind that comes from our own mouths, but as that which is deep, from the very Heart of God.
As we come before Him, God is faithful to show us those things that are between us. Then as we allow, He helps us to remove them from our lives in the way that is best for us. It is His great desire to provide us with the power we need to walk through each day. It is His great desire to stay connected to us.
As a Domestic Utility Reassessor, I ensure that all household utilities, utensils, and simple objects are put to their best (and often creative) use. Also, I try to not spend any money on new stuff. A large part of my duties as DUR is to simply look at things that need to be done or things that have broken with utilitarian eyes and wonder: what can I use to have that working again? Or, what can I use to do this at its lowest possible output? Or, what in this house can I use to do that job so I don’t have to go buy stuff I don’t want to buy?
As DUR, I have reassigned spatulas as poop scoops (metal ones were built to remove poop), metal tea strainers to portion cat food, (unused) toilet brushes as backscratchers, and a broken microwave as a storage cabinet for bread and crackers. But it’s about fixing things as well. Blue tac makes a hell of a fix for cabinet doors that won’t close and I swear that belts and neckties are the duct tape of the accessory world.
I know many other DURs. A friend of mine has converted his fridge into a bookshelf, another friend has converted her dishwasher into a storage unit for shoes. I was also brought up in a house which was heavily influenced by a DUR lifestyle. I was twelve before I realized that other people didn’t keep knobless doors closed with neckties. I was twenty before I first faced a television whose stand wasn’t a bigger, broken television. It’s impossible to adequately describe or exaggerate the importance of orange milk crates in my home.
So when the first drying rack’s leg snapped like a blue twig, I had already figured out the rig. I propped its lame side up on the radiator. Obvious. The metal wires even fit right into the radiator’s slots and the rig even helped keep the one side raised higher. Job well done. But when the opposite leg snapped, I worried that I might have to bite the bullet and buy a new one.
But I wasn’t doing that without a fight, so, like a any good DUR, I scout the flat.
Fixing it is out of the question. Every now and then I get it into my head that I need to fix something. This thought usually takes place about an hour before I am bleeding and on the phone with my landlady either explaining, apologizing, or asking her which emergency authority would be best to direct my call. So I just look around for things.
It’s at this point, that I find the obvious rig: a chair. Not only does it fit perfectly, the clothing hanging above it provides enough of a curtain to make it interesting for the cat. So it’s a three-in-one, drying rack stand, cat toy, and chair. I win.
Should you need a DUR in your life to come and help you reassess old furniture, household items, or utensils, feel free to call on me. I charge a nominal fee (2 beers, 2 Becherovkas) and I bring my own tape measure (glued together with blue tac).1 unstable release
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mack is to music files as black is to code formatting. It enforces standards around both consistency of the metadata (eg. ID3 version) and the metadata itself (eg. "feat" tagging).
Examples of fixes
- Moving featured artists from the artist tag to the title
- Enforcing a consistent "feat" format in title tags
- Whitespace normalisation
- Renaming files to format "{artist}/{album}/{track} {title}"
Usage
mack [DIR]
You can also see what would be changed first using
--dry-run.
Building
You need TagLib installed on your system to build. This can be found in the following packages:
- Arch Linux: taglib
- CentOS/Fedora: taglib
- Gentoo: media-libs/taglib
- Ubuntu/Debian: libtagc0-dev
After that,
cargo build as normal.
Performance
mack has a strong focus on performance. Files which were not updated since the last mack run will not be examined at all. On a sample modern laptop with a mid-spec SSD, this means that we only take 0.02 seconds to run over 5000 files under most circumstances (0.2 seconds on the very first run).
Configuration
In a similar philosophy to black, most things cannot be configured --
you either use mack or you don't. There is one thing you can control though: if
you don't want a particular file to be touched by mack, add
_NO_MACK as a
substring anywhere in the comment tag.
Dependencies
~3.5MB
~52K SLoC
- clap 2.0
- lazy_static 1.0
- regex 1.0
- taglib 1.0
- walkdir 2.0Quinoa has now become a household name and rightfully so. It is not actually a grain but an edible seed that is free of gluten and a complete protein. One serving size equals about 8 grams of protein which is very high for a plant based food.
Now you can find a red, white or black variety on just about any supermarket shelf. Each has it’s own texture and cooking time and I use all three interchangeably. Quinoa is a great substitute for other grains and is easy to prepare.
This salad is one of my “go to” recipes. I make a large batch at the beginning of the week and use it in many different variations. It is excellent for breakfast with a fried egg on top, alone as a light lunch, or a hearty dinner alongside chicken, salmon or a sweet potato.
3. Drizzle Salad with olive oil and lemon juice.
4. Stir it all together and enjoy!
vegetable you have on hand to make your own creation.Discussion in