Sprint Steps Up

So I was debating the whole phone issue. My contract isn't up until November. My son's contract (Cingular/AT&T) isn't up until September, and my wife . . well she's been a very happy customer for Cingular (now AT&T) for a very long time. I was on the fence on what to do and started looking at costs vs. want/need. A retention person from Sprint called me back to see if I had made a decision yet on contracts and what I was going to do. I hadn't but he offered to at least make things a bit easier for me -- giving me a 1000 minute plan (up from the 900 I had) and dropping the rate $20. (!) Yeah . . . I was pretty amazed at that too. My wife has been with AT&T since 1995, but I don't know that they'll be quite that flexible (desperate perhaps?) compared with Sprint. My phone does everything I need it to, I just have some problems with syncing it to my Mac . . . but that's a feature of the software and not any fault of the phone nor the Mac. For $20 cheaper bill, and perhaps an overall savings of $80/month (figuring out plans/etc... for when we're all swapped over) I'll definitely keep my Sprint contract.

On tech matters with the church . . . we're working diligently on the sign-in information for the kids program. We have a target to get the sign-in portion done by, since it would fall in line with one of our big gatherings where we have the whole congregation together for food and worship. That would be a fantastic time to announce the new security features of the child check-in program. I guess the only boundary now is getting the whole thing wrote and implemented! God will provide the talent/skill/time I think . . . I just need to work on the trusting and planning a bit here and there. I've already figured out what I'm going to use for the system -- the LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PHP) stack, but I will forgo the MySQL database for my more familiar and robust (IMHO) Postgres one. I was very spoiled using it since my VOIP billing days at a local provider.

I know it's a bit of the cart before the horse, but I've already came up with one name idea for the program: Akoloutheo (http://www.studylight.org/lex/grk/view.cgi?number=190) - to follow one who precedes, join him as his attendant, accompany him