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OK, I don’t usually go on and on about my spiritual beliefs, but I will say that I do believe there is a God and that things do happen for a reason. What God is, I’m still trying to figure out, but I’ve narrowed it down to two things: the energy that is like the duct tape that holds the universe together and the ‘Dude’ who is like an amazing chess player who is always 10 steps ahead of you no matter what choice you make. And I think Angels are all around us, both in the people we know and the entities we can’t see.

Anyway, this story made me smile. Here’s the skinny: A guy in Chicago is shoveling snow off his mother’s driveway when he feels chest pains. Does he call 911? Nope. Instead he figures since his chest is hurting and he’s feeling numbness in his jaw and arm, that it is a great time to discuss his wireless calling plan, so he calls AT&T. (It is interesting to note that this guy worked in an ER and was very familiar with the symptoms of a heart attack.)

*Holds tongue about the rant of why the hell don’t men go to the doctor…*

The gal at AT&T who answered the phone ended up calling 911 for him and saving his life. The doctors told the man that he had more than 90% of his heart blocked — how he even walked out the door without losing his breath is a feat in itself.

But ‘rest of the story’ is even better. The phone rep’s name: Kelly Hart. Like I said, there’s such thing as coincidence, and there *are* angels.

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This is one of the best motivational videos I’ve seen. It really makes you think.

“Please do not be cynical. I hate cynicism, for the record, it’s my least favorite quality, it doesn’t lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen. I’m telling you, amazing things will happen. I’m telling you, it’s just true.” — Conan O’Brien

That is probably the best advice I’ve heard from anyone. Conan O’Brien’s farewell speech from the Tonight show is here.

The Girls Guide to Homelessness is one of the most positive written blogs I’ve seen. It shines a light on the fact that the homeless are not always the stereotypical bums you see laying on the street.

When I got my father a Flip Ultra for Father’s Day, I didn’t realized that I had created a monster. He called me that day and told me to FedEX a tripod out to him the next day. He ran out to the field and began filming to put youtube clips about his wheat on his web site.

Now, a little background about Dad, he told me just last year that when I first told him about putting up an Internet site for Reisig Seeds, he did it because “You were my daughter and you were so excited about it.” He didn’t actually think he’d get sales from it. Last year, he had to buy seed from other farmers to supply the demand he got just from his site. He is now a believer in the web. And really, as farmers go, Dad’s pretty hip.

So for the past 3 weeks, I’ve been fighting video software to edit these clips into something presentable. I’ve learned a lot: how to work with audio, edit out wind noise, and when I couldn’t do that, add subtitles. I had to work with 3 pieces of software to do this, and each has its own little quirks. I had to figure out how to make the Reisig Seeds Logo into a “video logo” that moved. And, I had to search through hours of music to get a ‘theme song’ for Reisig Seeds. And then fight the software after it was all edited together to convert it into a YouTube friendly format that didn’t compress all my hard work into a blurry piece of crap.

But after all of that, I think the results turned out pretty good, if I do say so myself.

Anyway, if you want to see the official Reisig Seeds Youtube channel, here it is. I’ve got quite a few other clips to edit, so there will be more videos up as soon as I can get them.