Psalm 130:1

From the depths of my despair I call to you, Lord.

Telus

So, Telus representatives have been calling and offering me Internet, TV, and phone service bundles recently.  They keep on calling.  What they are offering sounds like a good deal.  Unfortunately, they won't confirm it.  I asked them to send me details of the offer.  They say that they will send me details of the offer.  Instead, what they send me is a bunch of marketing bumpf, which doesn't provide the prices that they quote me over the phone.

I run into Telus people at trade shows.  They offer me even better deals!  They offer me the terms that the telephone people offer me, but while the telephone people tell me that the federal government forbids them from offering me these prices on a long-term contract, the people at the trade shows say that yes, they can offer me this pricing for a longer term!  So I ask them to send me the details!

And they don't!

And there seems to be no way to get Telus to stop having the *same* people call me, and bother me ...

Romans 15:2

Each of us should please his neighbor for the good purpose of building him up.

Plans

I had a rough plan for today that involved a lot of walking.  Since I've been sick, I've been short on walking time.  But another event came along and made it difficult to accomplish the walking.  So that plan was out. 

I had another plan that included some trail work, but the trail crew has gone radio silent, so that plan was out.

So I had another plan based on getting some work done early, and then getting on with other things.  And I even woke up early enough that I can get a start on it.  But then, as I started up, there was something on Facebook to react to, and possibly develop.  So I made a note and put that aside.  But then there was *another* item to react to.  And it seemed to be more important than what I had planned to post.  So I reacted to and posted that, instead.  And then there was another thing to react to, and so I've made a note of the things that I had planned to do, but didn't get done, because these other things came along.

And I'm probably okay with that.  The things that I had planned aren't necessarily urgent, and I've made notes to myself, and I've got an awful lot of notes to myself buried in my email, but they're still there, and I may get to them eventually, but then if I don't, these other things may be more important.

Yes, I know that sticking to your own plans in the face of changing circumstances is foolish.  Yes, I've learned that lesson.  I've learned that what comes along, and is more important, is what you should do.  It's a little bit more difficult for me, because, after Gloria's death, it was difficult to get myself to do *anything*.  I had to set up some fairly rigorous structures, and plan my day, and plan my week, and even to a certain extent plan my months, so that I would do anything at all.  And these plans were important, and still are important, so that I don't just sit and do nothing.  But you have to recognize what is important, and what is *more* important.  It's not so much that "man plans and God laughs," or that "life is what happens when you're making other plans," as much as there's a continuum of importance, and you are constantly faced with the admittedly difficult task of figuring out where the things that come up are on that continuum.  And maybe the things that you had planned to do aren't as far along as what just pops up.

(By the way, I wrote this several days ago, and I'm only just getting around to posting it now ...)

Psalm 142:1-2

I call to the Lord for help;

    I plead with him.

I bring him all my complaints;

    I tell him all my troubles.

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(Bearing in mind that I got my start in security researching malware, and know every *possible* way to trick people into running potentially unwanted software on their machines ...)

Genesis 2:18

Then the Lord God said, "I see that it is not good for man to be alone.  I will make the companion he needs, thus completing him."