Live the day for tomorrow we will die...

Actually I had another post in mind today but this one is more on point. You see this attitude has been a live and kicking for thousands of years. Even today we feel this way. Some say things like "I want a good retirement". Others repeat the words above simply in the way that they live their lives. I have one friend who does not have faith in the things that I do. I got out of meeting him one week, yet the next week he keeps hounding us to hang out with him. 

Todays daily scripture hits this issue right on the head. People who live a life saving treasures on Earth realize that they "ought to enjoy the moment". Why? Well, as we age and time seems to fly by so quickly. They do not have a hope in everlasting life here on Earth. They laugh at the notion that this might be even possible. The bible calls these ones "scoffers". 

This is an area I need to work hard on. Paul when quoting the bible mentioned that we need to be careful. Associating with the wrong group can lead to the "practicing of sin". Right away this removes us from Jehovah's favor, his peace, and puts us at odds with him. Sin creates a barrier between us and Jehovah. That barrier is bridged through Jesus, yet we can not be practicing sin! Woah, I feel so relieved to read these words. I feel driven to make sure we do not make the same mistake again! 

The thought of living for the moment means we waste our lives. We waste our time thinking that the only best days of the week are the weekend! So instead of improving ourselves by reading God's word and readjusting ourselves. Instead of telling others about the goodnews of the Kingdom, People live lives that run counting Friday night, and Saturday night as days of note. Days were we can enjoy ourselves "eating and drinking for tomorrow we will die!" What a wrong way of viewing life! 

We have been in situations recently where gross sin was being practiced in the bathroom attached to the singing room we were in. If I keep spending time with these ones I will end up "practicing sin too!" No thanks so I will cancel the plans I made. I will let them know I am not available. 

Likely, I will explain at a later date the real reason why.

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Good Fun for couples.

  I have been married for over 22 years. We will celebrate our 22nd anniversary on October 13th. One thing I have learned is that as a couple the best fun we can have with each other. No other persons. For example, when I was younger I would think if we are going to have a dinner out with drinks we should invite "other" people. This led to a loss of peace between my wife and I. When we would meet many of these people would want to talk about politics. Other's would try to get between us. Still others had major issues with anger management, or drinking problems. Those problems then became our issues. What a loss of peace.

During 2021 there was a strict curfew where we had to get indoors by 12am. Most restaurants closed at 10 or 11pm. Our solution Love Motels!

Many couples use these places as Korean homes are small and getting adequate privacy is difficult.

Of course prostitutes, and those engaging in illicit relations use these places as well. Also it should be noted that families use these places during big holidays. 

I will post pictures of place that we go to. We use it as a extension of our home and to have some private time together. 

The room are equipped with two gaming computers, a 40 inch tv that is connected to one of the gaming pcs. There is a large bed, a small table, along with a small couch. The bathrooms a tub and are clean. 

So what we do? We enjoy ordering food. Then the real fun begins for us. We start talking about our day, and things that are on our mind. Usually, topics from our bible study, and recent news events. We also make plans and discuss older plans. We just hang out together. I plan to spend more time  doing this. I do not want to meet with people in the community so often like I did before. It did not yield good results. We feel that as the time is drawing nearer to Jehovah's day we need to focus on spiritual things. Not things of this system of things.. When we meet with people in the community they often discuss politics. They are in full support of this world. Not the one that is coming. They call it the "the great reset".

Also when we go to these places we bring our game files in usb thumb drives. Our entire game has been installed on it. So we just plug it in and load up our game. We are playing Archeage these days. 

Ok I have to go Amanda is sitting in the same classroom, she is stressing me out. 

Below are some pictures of the motel we use for our fun time together.

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I dreamt another dream..

Every time I close my eyes I dream. I am a lucid dreamer. I can interact within my dreams. This can be exciting. But then I get dreams that I call The Dream. These are unusual dreams. They almost seem prophetic like someone is telling what things will occur. Yogita gets these dreams too. For her they point out the way in which she (and myself) should walk. As soon as she has such a dream she is quick to tell me about it. Even interupting my sleep to tell me. I value this. The messages she has been getting have all be very helpful. Not scary or strange. But rather reinforcing bible principles. Showing her (and by proxy me) what we are doing wrong. 

I had a dream this afternoon. Let me relate it for future reference. Our son George might want to use this information in his writings. 

I was in some place outside of our home. I want to say it was a park as Yogita and I spend a lot of time in parks. Well as we were in this park I felt relaxed. Suddenly, I heard a voice in my hear say "Go home to the inner room of you house!". I was shocked! I looked at Yogita and well she had heard the same command. Immediately we headed home. We told our boys what we had heard. I went over to the window and looked at the sky. I saw that the moon was red. A deep red color. Not like the red moons we have been seeing recently. I told the boys go into the other inner room. They wanted to follow me but wanted to be with Yogita for a short while. I felt that I would get another signal to call them into the room with us. We were talking for a short while and in my heart I felt that I should call the boys into the room Yogita and I. I called them in and we sat on the floor. 

At that moment suddenly we were wisked high into the air! I could see apartment below us. Then higher we were pulled! And even higher! It looked like we were at an altitude where the satilites orbit the Earth. However, it was not cold. In fact it was warm and comfortable. I felt doubt in my heart and stated something along the lines that I was worried. A man nearby looked at me and said "We are going to be ok, at least we are not down there!". I looked down and yes I could feel that being on the surface of the Earth was not a place I wanted to be. In fact I felt safe up in the air. Suddenly 

I was in another place. This area seemed to be like a waiting room. People were sitting about, and the mood was very relaxed. Unlike court waiting rooms in this system of things. Yes, this place looked like a court! I was warned that there were rules. I remember a man whispering in my ear "To stay seated and if I didn't listen three times I would be expelled." Well there was no way I would break any rules in this court. 

I was then ushered into another room. This room was the court! 

At rear of the room there was a raised desk and two very kind hearted people were sitting there. They were speaking in low tones with people one on one. There were no lawyers. I have to admit I felt some trepitdation. I am a sinnful man. I have made mistakes. I have faith in Jesus's ransom sacrifice but I am still weak. I am learning more to be happy to aware of my spiritual need. Well, with this feeling in my heart I looked at one of the judges. She looked to be of South Asian descent, while the other judge looked to be of African descent. What struck me was how kind they looked. The female judge looked at me and gave me such a kind reassuring smile. Everything would be alright. I just needed to be ready to listen, ready to accept readjustment. Fear melted away from me and I woke up close to tears. In fact that day Tuesday of this week I felt loved by Jehovah and Jesus Christ. I should note that as I looked at the judges I remarked "Ah! they are of the annointed, members of the 144000!". What loving, meriful persons to be judging us! Thank you Jehovah!

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Chinese Food!

Yogita and I really do enjoy eating food together and with our boys. As we enjoy food we find the scene changes with regards to popular cusine. For example years ago grilled meat was king. Then grilled duck places. Eel became very popular then it became too expensive. Many restaurants closed as a result of this. 

Today, Chinese food is becoming more and more popular. Ma-la-tang is problaly the most popular of all. My wife, boys and I really enjoy Chinese food. 

I will look at 3 dishes that really make our stomachs happy! 

This is a dry version of Ma-la-tang. Spicy, fragrant, and topped off with a nutty dipping sauce it is awesome. I enjoy veggies more than meat with this dish!

This is a stir fry with lamb, and various veggies. Those peppers are spicy but not too overwhelming.
 I am sure we can make this at home with some really nice firey peppers.

This last dish is egg plant deep fried then cooked in a delicous savory sauce with wonderful pepper based oil. I hated egg pant when I was young. Now, thanks to Yogita I love this veggie! This dish the egg plant is so nice as it absorbs all of the flavor of the spices, and peppers.

I will make another post about what is perhaps my favorite Chinese dish, and another which Yogita I enjoy eating from time to time. 

Last week was truly a wonderful time!

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Holildays are arround the corner..

This is always an odd tme of the year. Middle school students are having mid term tests in a couple of weeks. There are two weeks with holidays in October. In the past we would closely examine if the holidays fell on a weekend. If it did we would not get any week days off. Well the central goverment found out that this practice slowed spending. 

Now we will get a weekday off which leads to more families heading out and well spending money. Actually, it is not just families but singles, couples, and groups of friends and families usually take advantage of the time off. Just go any popular place to relax like camping sites, resorts, beach front areas and others. You will see large numbers of people gathering.

We are learning a valuable lesson. If we want to keep and maintain our peace we should associate with those who love, respect, and want to imitate Jesus Christ, and Jehovah God.. We do not do this if we are constantly spending time and "rubbing" shoulders with those who put faith not in Jehovah but in this world. 

In the past we would just do our own thing. It was me who would go over and "rub shoulders" with them. This took our peace away. I was a root cause of many conflicts with my wife because I was spending time not with those whose faith is in the living God.  I was spending time wth those ready to debate, argue, even fight for them. I know we can not avoid them, but we need to make an effort to not "rub shoulders" with them. 

Ok time to go for now.

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Cleaning your PC

    Yesterday while gaming Yogita's pc again started to heat up. Well, 10 minutes later she was back up and running. The main culprit is dust. I need a compressed air blower to clear the dust out of the CPU heat spreader. The dust gets in between the fins on the spreader (the fins allow for increased surface area for cooling). When this happens the cooling effect of the fans is reduced. However, the dust can build up to a degree that the fan blades come into contact with the soft dust lowering the RPMs of the fans and leading to even less efficient cooling. 

    I saw the same thing on both of our graphic card cooling fans. I am going to have to do some maintenance on the GPUs as well. It is enjoyable to me to keep older systems running well. Then upgrade 7 to 8 years later. We are getting close to that point of needing some minor upgrades. Mainly, cooling upgrades. I want to install a water cooler on Yogita's CPU, then overclock it a bit.

Ok, soon dinner will come. Our bible study took a bit of a long time to get started because of my shower.

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War might be winding down...another sign?

So in the Ukraine thier troops have broken through Russian lines. Ukrianian forces have noted that the Russians are dropping weapons and equipment and fleeing. Likely this will continue. Indian and Chinese troops have pulled back from thier northen borders. There was a lot the tension there some monthes ago. 

The bible states that in the last days that mankind would state they have achieved peace and security on Earth. The bible then states that sudden distuction will be brought upon them. It seems that things are heading in that direction. Another thing stated in the bible is that people call out to goverments and big banks to save them. Yet these would fail. The world stock market is set to crash, yet again. The global economy is in free fall, despite governments saying that this situation is temporary. In fact for over 20 years my bas salary has not gone up way it should "normally". Instead, I work extra hours to make up for the short fall. My  wife works full time as well. If fact many families seem to be doing well. However, the reality is that we are all teetering on the edge of a cliff if we put our faith in this world. 

The Korean won is loosing value against the global reserve currency the US dollar. When I arrived in South Korea 20 years ago the extange rate was 1135 won per US dollar. Today, it is 1390 won to 1 USD. So banks and governments have failed mankind. We are seeing the 24 aspects of the last days everyday! 

One of the horsemen mentioned in Revelations brings pestilence and disease to the Earth. Of course it does. Mankind was told to "spread out and be fruitful". What did we do? We collected by the thousands to tens of millions in cities. We have had an unprecendented spread of disease since 1914. Starting with the Spanish flu. Some I have seen: AIDS, SARS, MERS, AVIAN FLU, H1N1, Ebola, Covid-19 and I am forgetting many others! Poli is showing up again as well. Bible prophecy is being fullfilled. People need to learn about the true nature of Jehovah God by reading about Jesus's life on Earth. If we have seen Jesus, we have seen Jehovah, Jesus told us this. 

I look forward to many things. The end of this system of things, the 1000 year reign of Jesus Christ along with the 144000. But, I am preparing myself to make the right choice when Satan is released at the end of the 1000 year period of peace, and education!

Ok my work part of the day is almost over. I am looking forward to witnessing to my sons with my wife. 

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A Wednesday Thursday

Since we got our current car I have been able to get to my work place extra early. This reminds of Gunsan when I was the one opening the school most days. I would often have time to make post on this blog. 

As this is a short week with middle day of the week will feel odd towards the end of this work day. 

One thing that I have seen in my over 22 years of teaching experience, and working life is that people like to "stretch the truth". For example people that I meet in Gunsan who know my wife and I but are not close to us often tell us a more truthful account of thier time here in South Korea, and how many years they have spent teaching here. Actually, many of them do not see it as a badge of honor. Some are even embarrassed, feeling like they could not be successful "back home". 

I often tell these ones a job is a means to an end. If it helps you support yourself then keep supporting yourself. Others will view you as they want to view you. No matter what we say or do, others will still view us in the way they want to. We can not change that.

However, my boss comes to mind as the other group. The ones who look to the time spent working in South Korea as a badge of honor. Since I met him he has told me his school has been open for 11 years. However, after working here and signing my 4th contract they are celebrating the 10th year anniversary of running thier school. Huh? You see the truth has a way of always coming out. When I arrived likely they were in year 6. They had rapid success, opened two locations. They sold one location to another person and had a bad falling out. It split the community down to this day. Sometimes the simple truth is best. So many people that I meet have only been here for about 10 years max. Most seem to have arrived in and around 2010. Now, I was told an exaggeration. Usually, this is done to impress others. I know I have done it. Bragged about this and that. What a fool I was. So does it really matter? No! All those involved are doing well. They might not have peace with everyone from those days. However, trying to impress others I have learned, is sowing treasure in this world. This current system of things. It is said in the bible that those doing so will get their reward in full. They really do! When poeple say "waaahh", or "woooow"! My wife I and I were at a party and people were bragging about gifts they got from students. We get gifts ALL OF THE TIME.

We looked at each other and kept our mouths shut. I have learned striving to be humble, being mild, and kind feels so  much better. 

So my thoughts are to show off is a form of foolishness. 

My thoughts today. 

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Typhoon coming today...

So it is a Monday even though this is a short week. We are going to hit by the edges of the storm system. Likely it will mean heavy rains and parital flooding in low lying areas. Our place is slightly elevated so placecs like Young-deung dong might get some parking lots might get flooded.In Gunsan one year many families lost cars due to flood damage. It is raining right now but it is not too heavy. Many schools have canceled classes, switching to online classes for tomorrow. We will see. I know that we will be coming into work tomorrow. I also think that we will be experience the full force of the storm over night. Tomorrow, might be very rainy, with some wind but the really nasty stuff is coming in several hours. 

We might go to Costco to pick up some food items. I saw some really nice steaks, sandwiches, and other items that we can enjoy. I am going to have the boys bring things related to thier hobbies.

So two short weeks are ahead of us workwise. I intend to enjoy time with our family and avoid meeting others for some time. We met some really strange people the other night. That is for another post though. 

But I want to post another picture of a Korean dish we enjoy! Perhaps I will on Wednesday. It is getting late today.

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Our holiday!

    We had a very nice time this 3-day weekend. However, it could have gone a bit better than planned. First Yogita found a nice dog hotel in Gunsan. However, after we arrived they refused because Oskar is not neutered. Ok, fine Yogita then called other places which turned us down. Mainly due to our dog's size. Then I decided fine our boys and the dog can be taken back home. Yogita and I would then go and meet up in a nearby city to get some shopping done. 

OK, fine we headed out. As we were getting closer to that city Saejong city we got a message from my friend that Costco was closed! So we drove back to Gunsan and had a nice time there. I drove over 250 km. It was nice to just be back on the road. We recently purchased a second-hand car. I will post pictures and information about its capabilities in a later post.

We enjoyed our time together. We sang songs and even danced. I get the feeling that my friend just wants to be around people who he feels comfortable with. A stark contrast to him says 10 years ago. 

However, the next morning all I wanted to do was to get back to Iksan. We drove back and relaxed at home. 

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PC repair sometimes diy is king+

So months ago I am conducting a bible study. During the bible study, I hear an odd whirring that seems to be intermittent. Afterward, I ignore it and have a normal evening. However, these odd sounds keep getting more and more noticeable.

So I load up my diagnostic software and notice that the CPU is running a bit warm under load. I have a water-cooled CPU. This just should not be happening. So I realize that the sound is the fan slowing down due to lubrication burning out. Ok, fine I replaced the lubrication by spraying some wd40 like oil into the bearing of the motor.

It worked for serveral monthes. But a few weeks ago it started to make noise and slow down. Yesterday I noticed that the temps were just too hot! So, I used one of the case fans and swapped the bad cpu fan out. I was also able fix the issue I created when I unseated my RAM chips. I have 64 Gbs of DDR3 ram. However, I was only using about 32GBs because I had to remove RAM chips to get to the cpu fan during the first operation.  I was able to reseat all of the RAM chips so I am back at 64Gbs of RAM. Also my CPU is running cooler than when I purchased it second hand in 2018. I will buy a new 120 mm Fan and put that on my CPU Radiator.I love using water cooling. It is easier to manage. Air cooling means more cleaning of dust than water cooling. Less time maintaining my system is a major plus! So next time I will replace the CMOS battery and CPU radiator fan. It will take only 20 minutes. 

My computers specs are

CPU i7 4930k 

64 GB of DDR3 RAM

GTX 1060 6GB I will be upgrading this more.

750 Watt branded PSU

The motherboard has two cooling fans on it.

2 TB of SSD (3 drives) I will be upgrading this more.

two ethernet adapters. One is wireless.

Ok time to go!

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Korean food again!

Thursdays are special days for our family. We have a bible study shortly after coming home. Ok, sometimes its held 30 minutes or more later. However, I am going to institute a change and try to have our bible study much sonner.I will try to have our study tonight in about ten to twenty minutes after coming home. We will review the onvention or this year. I think we will ned two days of review until we resume our regular bible stuy. 

Now, after our study we usually order food! This is one of two highlights during the week after our bible studies. 

I am leaning towards ordring this!

This week maybe we will order Jokbal. In English this called pig trotters. Basically, it is the front portion of the rear or front legs of the big. It is so tasty. It is very juicy soft, and can get crunchy when you make a wrap with garlic, kimchi, and other side dishes. I really enjoy this dish. But it is fatty, and quite rich, so we do not eat it very often. 

I am in good spirits these days. I was able to get in a very nice walk with my Yogi yesterday. It was so nice to walk and talk about matters close to our hearts. I do not understand couples who say "We have nothing to talk about."

Today I have a special mission to plan out our menu, bible studies, exercise, and entertainment during our holiday next week.

Ok time to start this work part of the day!

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