October Arrives

     Today is the first day of October. In a few minutes I will walk down to the apartment clubhouse to pay my rent for the month. I am thankful for a new paycheck the other day in my bank account from Fastteks. It has been a busy week with my on-site tech support job. I had to clean up several Windows machines from infected malware files. One site that I read some articles from about computer security and removal instructions is at www.2-viruses.com. I use Open DNS for my internet connection servers and it works great to keep I.E. from being re-directed to rogue anti-virus and spyware websites. I also setup a BIOS supervisor password today on my Vista desktop, just another way to increase the security level. In the news today I read about a worm that is infecting computers in Iran, called the Suxtnet worm. However, this one targets industrial computer systems, not home PCs, like the ones that I deal with often. I enjoyed playing a new puzzle and concentration game that I got for my Windows 7 laptop, called Brain Games2. The jigsaw puzzle game is my favorite so far. There are alot of birds outside my window this morning, enjoying the bird seed in the bird feeder. Small, fast birds, red cardinals, gray colored birds, and brown ones. At one point, it looked like five or six birds flying around. Yesterday I went in a PetSmart store at Beaver Creek to look at the fish and birds. I saw a beta fish that looked very similar to my ECU fish I had for a few years. A couple of other activities I did last week, attend the SAS golf tournament at Prestonwood on the free day to walk around, and take pictures, and go to a tennis meetup group at Pullen Park. Thankfully, this area got some much needed rain last week. It finally stopped raining today, after two full days of heavy rain, over 6" in Raleigh, and over 22" at the coast, and is now sunny outside. This weather and my reading on a Christian prophecy website, reminds me of Noah's Ark. In fact Noah entered the Ark during this time of year, thousands of years ago, which is late October to November. After safe in the Ark, the 40 days of rains began, which maybe is a foreshadowing of the final seven years of Jacob's trouble or the tribulation that may begin soon. After those seven years I expect the Lord to return to the Mt. of Olives along with the church to start the new millenium. I downloaded some Christian mp3 files to my sansa clip player and listened to them while walking on a greenway in Apex yesterday. The songs are positive and encouraging for the challenges I face each day. Here are some pics from my various travels the last few weeks:

Fast moving water after lots of rain



Driving range at Prestonwood CC




Tennis meetup group at Pullen Park