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Hello All.
I would like to talk a bit about saint Francis.
Most people know Francis and animals and nature.
And he did love that, but he really rebuilt the church.
Francis first heard God at a small church in San Damiano Italy.
And he heard God tell him to rebuild his church. Like most guys he took it literally. He went and got the supplies to fix the church he was in since it was so broken down, he also fixed some other churches also.

Eventually he realized that rebuilding the church was just not fixing them but making the church better and more people following the Lord. He started the Friars Minor and he and the brothers, they were also called the brothers of penance. They also devoted themselves to poverty and God. They Preached to everyone and begged for the poor. Soon many people wanted to follow him a. A woman named Clare wanted to follow him also so they were called the Poor Clares. Soon many people followed him and several were family people and couldn’t leave them to follow Francis so he created the Secular Franciscan Order or Third Order back in his time. It was made of people like you and me, people that didn’t want to be Brothers or Sister and just wanted to live out the Gospel but within family.
Jesus was a true rebel, he did things very differently than any one else.
St.Francis of Assisi was also a rebel. The Franciscans tag line is
we bring the Gospel to life.

Being a Franciscan is fun and rewarding. Our fraternity has ministries we follow. One is helping the poor, we do that several ways. One by giving money, another by filling grocery bags for a food shelf that give people thanksgiving day food. Another is helping get things for a homeless place for people to stop in and get out of the cold and have something warm to drink and get new socks and such. There are many more. Saint Francis’s spirit is everywhere. My hope is I become a better Franciscan and person. Luckily I have my Franciscan family to help me.

Hi All. I will be telling more Walmart stories. Some Black Friday some everyday Walmart silliness.
I will first tell you about my second black Friday. I was a veteran by now with a year under my belt. One of my managers said i would be helping to run things and over all help out at electronics.
On Thanksgiving morning I was told we had everything ready to go and were preparing for the next few days. All I remember is the SouthPark episodes where it is Black Friday on the show and the gritty head of security runs the place like a real police force. Black Friday is coming.

Thanksgiving night came and we had special deals for Thanksgiving. One was a great deal on a tablet. We also had good deals on video game systems like Xbox Ones and PlayStations. Xbox’s were in jewelry. and PS4’s were in sporting goods where they could be locked up and be sold more securely. Once the sales hit I was super busy in TV’s and video games right off the bat. I was behind the electronics counter getting Nintendo 3d systems to sell when the crowd for the tablets rushed one of the assistant managers to grab a bunch. He tried to push back the crowd but the person up front pulled back and punched him. After that people just swarmed. I slammed my hands on the counter and asked people to get back but nobody listened. The manager was taken in the office in the back to get taken care of. There was a one per person limit but that went out the door once the manager left.I was back helping people find specific deals when there was another rush for TV’s and people became angry that they couldn’t pick up their TV right there. We made them go in the back and pick them up at the dock with their slip of paper stating they get one. I talked to one of the workers that unloaded the trucks and he said people tried to stab workers to get them. The police were there already up front to make sure nobody went nuts up front by the registers. After my break I came back I saw more people being rude and mean to get the product before others and people were using their carts like cow pusher on an old fashion train. About an hour after my break all of our registers were going non stop. I was asked to go to garden department to run that register. It was only so the person that works their could get their lunch break. I said yes because I am a good worker so I went over and Immediately remembered all the extra Christmas toys were behind a barrier in the garden area. That and it was very cold because we didn’t have real walls in two parts. Just fences and a tarp on them. Being out there for an hour was not fun but at least I wasn’t there for the whole night. It was very busy and people had no patience to wait. After my hour I only had a couple more hours to go until I could go home. I spent the time back in electronics getting people set on all the sales and checking them out and getting video games. It was a long night and I wouldn’t wish that on anyone.

Hi All.
I have been thinking for a little over a year to start my own business.
I wouldn’t quit my job, it would be something on the side.
The only reason I have never started is because I am not a math guy.
I am really bad at math, that’s why I have not started it yet.
I would have a hard time figuring out taxes and all that stuff.
A co-worker told me that there is software for that and that if i set it up it will just work. I went to a class about entrepreneurship at school and took one that the State offers for free. I want to go to another one that goes through tax stuff. So I am hoping by next summer I will have a new graphic design / web design business.

But the work I have to do to make that happen is monumental.
I have to work on my portfolio, which will take months to get everything I want together and make more things for it.
Then I need to get my branding down and social media.
I would be a foolish designer if I didn’t do my own. But I would want to anyway, because it’s my company. I need to figure out if I use my name as the business or make one up. Then when i get all that done I need to make a website and social media up and going. Then the real work starts but hopefully I will be getting paid for it.
I am hoping to be ready by April or May of next year. But i hope to get some side hustles before everything’s done just to make extra money.