April 21, 2004

God Will Make A Way

There is horrible fighting going on in Iraq today. Lest we think the fight is in vain read the April 18 post by Dr. Ays at Iraq at a glance. I loved his punch line, in speaking of the foreign terrorist that have instigated the Fallujah/Basra mess

"Iraq on the way of prosperous future in spite of you, so forget us.."

I sort of feel like that regarding the trouble we have here in Hawaii just making it. "We are on our way to a bright future in spite of...(fill in the blank...) so forget us... " Trouble that is..

We had a horrid week at the shop last week, wrote less than 100.00 worth of business. Then my website has been shanghaied by my hosting company to another one not of my choosing that is so lousy that I now have my 10 POP email boxes sorting into Hotmail accounts so I dont have to deal with THEM...My old Host sold their hosting and website biz to this other company and I had no say in the matter, but was told that it would be a smooth ride. NOT! This is not the way to do business so I am looking at new options which also may mean a new website... Like I have this money to spend.

Getting Woody to Kona and back is a financial timebomb. For a 300.00 a week job he has to spend 130.00 on room, meals and gas. He's not living at the Taj Mahal and is eating Costco deli for meals. Hes dropped 20 lbs in nearly 4 weeks. Its burning hot and he's out in the sun for 5 hour streaches. Hes not getting enough rest and I think that in the long run this job is not going to work out. I pulled 1200.00 out of the store to keep us going and now the bill collectors,trademen that worked on the store move are screaming. I dont blame them. I feel like I am drowning much of the time...I The technology demons are bad after me again...spent most of the day on the phone with HP with my none functional printer again but I think its finally working right for the first time ever...Once it started working at 2PM I began a task I had been putting off...Writing "Im sorry but I cant pay you right now please give me some time and I will clear up this bill soon..."letters. Woody asked me for the 130.00 for the Kona run, which I didnt have...

I didnt cry but close and then...

We had a guy come in a buy a ring that his friend had wanted for a long while. It was a great sale and one I hadn't counted on. Another friend who has a shop of his own was there and after the customer left even with our friend Joseph there I found myself bursting out into song...

God will make a way
When there seems to be no way.
He works in ways we cannot see
He will make a way for me
He will be my guide
Hold me closely to His side...
With love and strength for each new day
He will make a way
He will make a way

(c) Don Moen 1988 Hosanna Integrity Music
(I give credit where credit is due on the copied stuff!)

There was no way I could get Woody to his job...He gets his first check Friday but we need to confirm the room on Thursday. Or he sleeps in his car. He suffers enough on this gig that would be too much. He was going to go to the Toyota guys (his old co-workers...Id have died of shame but he is shameless.) to see if he could borrow 100.00 to get the room squared away. Maybe Id be shameless to if I had no place to sleep.

I know that eventually this will pass. I had a blessing today in that some long awaited goods from people that we buy from but are now friends in Hong Kong, came and the stuff will fly out of the store its so sweet. We also had a guy that really wants to buy the large Tahitian Pearl strand come look again and if that sells trouble would be over for a while. I dont know but I have a bit of hope.

There was a write up in the Trib on the convention center event disclosure rule change. Its bad so if you could check out the previous posts and send a message to Gov. Lingle I would appreciate it. We dont want our beautiful islands to become the meeting place for hate groups ect. Mahalo for your Kokua

On the frogs, we have a little opera singer now right next to the bedroom window. We wouldn't care except that he has no sense of time and chirps out of time and for us musicians its most annoying. Better get used to it...