Faith in the Workplace

It started out as a normal day in my life; take one of my children to an appointment, pack my laptop in my backpack, load my mountain bike up in the truck and head towards a nearby favorite workplace.

I parked the truck and pedaled a few miles more with my laptop on my back to a groovy little coffee shop called "Crowfoot Coffee" to get a 1/2 caf Soy latte. It was gorgeous outside, so I took a seat on the porch. Everything was cool, but I noticed that my laptop needed charging so I packed it back up and headed back in side to find some "juice" for my laptop. Then it happened...

The 2nd bam was about as painful as the 1st as I watched my Gateway Tablet bounce into the grass from the concrete porch. All at once in about 1/2 a second, I realized that I should have checked ALL the zippers, when the last time I backed up was, how much this was going to cost me, and how far I would have to ride back to my truck with a piece of junk in my backpack.

No real ugly physical damage, but after plugging it in, there were no lights, no fan, nada. OK for most folks this would be a bummer, but for me, this is one of those moments when my wife makes sure all the kids, animals, herself, and everything else is not within audible distance.

My Spiritual journey this week has been one of figuring out how to deal with life from a Spirit filled perspective instead of from my normal humanly flesh self. Now its pop quiz time. Believe it or not, no curse words, no shouting, and I didn't even cry.

I sat down and started to pray and read my Bible. I tried to find all the verses where God took care of physical stuff like making sure the Israelits shoes never wore out or when Elisha made the axe float in water. I needed one of these cool physical miracles. I prayed and waited and tested the laptop again. Still nada.

A fellow named Daniel came by and asked what I was doing, and as usual, I spilled my guts. He was also a man of faith and sat and talked with me a few minutes and eventually prayed for my laptop.

I left the coffee shop feeling encouraged but with a non-working tool in my backpack. I decided to take it to Dave, a friend of mine who happens to own a PC repair shop and happens to be a client as well -http://www.inavid.com/.

As soon as Dave plugged it in, voila! All lights, disk spinning, and now here I am a few hours later using it to type this blog as a credit to God for bailing me out once again in such a cool physical way.

Some balk at faith in the workplace, specifically in my industry where we rely so heavily on intellect and resources. But me, I believe that without my faith, I am nothing and with it, I can track down and defeat a whole army that comes against me.

What a blessing that we have such a great God and that we live in such a cool country that we can worship Him freely. Thanks to the men and women who have and are physically fighting for those freedoms, and thanks to those who fight on their knees to keep faith alive in this dark world! Let's you and I strive to make it less dark...

Randy Fair
CEO DewEye Consulting, Inc.

Shout Outs

From time to time, we get various thank yous and 'ataboys' from our clients. Some folks like to call these testimonials. I thought I would include a few from our recent archives just in case folks are wondering...

"Awesome guys; I knew you could do it."
-Jason with inAvid

"We are moving forward with quarterly reporting using your reports. Just wanted to say thanks again for all your hard work and for making them look so good."
-Jeff with Redstone Consulting

"I just want to let you know that you and your team did a great job on the software. Please extend my thanks and complements to them."
-Chris with ERA Beyond Radar

"Thanks for all of the great work and support you have given us!"
-Deborah with Southwest Regional CPR

"I just viewed the web site. Great Web Page!! It was nicely put together and easy to use."
- A.Knight a client of Devotion in Motion

"GREAT JOB EVERYONE - thanks for the extra support and analysis this weekend. It wouldn't be successful without you all."
-Kate with FirstRate Investment Systems

I feel very blessed to be a part of a team that frequently receives comments like this and to work for clients who are cool enough to share their positive comments.

Randy Fair
CEO DewEye Consulting, Inc.

What's in a Name?

I have often been asked how the name DewEye came into being. Well it's a sordid tale complete with foreign espionage and double entendres...

Basically, a few friends of mine went to see the movie Austin Powers. Evidently, because I have never personally seen it, the main spy character says on a couple of occasions in a very overly done British accent, "Do I make you Randy?"

Because I go by the name of Randy, the guys started calling me "Do I." Several spellings later, DewEye became my programming moniker (AKA hacker name) and eventually I used it for our company.

I still dig the name and although it has a somewhat questionable past, I believe it has become a trademark of off the hook coders with unquestionable skills and integrity.

Randy Fair
CEO DewEye Consulting, Inc.

Reeled of Dreams

DewEye just helped the owner's of inAvid.com launch their dreams of becoming the online video training company. DewEye was responsible for the design, coding, implementation, art direction and even the cool name in-a-vid!



We are very proud of this effort and what the folks at inAvid are doing. We believe that they will indeed fulfill their dream of "if we build it, they will come."

Please join us in becoming members of this quickly growing community of computer literate teachers and students.

Here We Grow Again...

Again demand has increased for DewEye support. We have added some new top notch folks from my personal contacts.

Aaron Couchman is an old colleague living in Dallas who will be helping us with some Crystal Reports modifications. Aaron has an extensive background in report and application development with FirstRate Investment Systems. We are blessed to be able to get his help with our reports as well.

Adam Avilla is a recently married and recently graduated cousin of mine living in LA. Adam has quickly become a go-to guy for system integration and development for an LA based IT firm. Adam will initially be helping with our data acquisition and integration contracts.

Josh Hamit is a Baylor student who is quickly becoming a real development contender! He will be working with our website development and continuing his education.

Please join me in welcoming these new outstanding gentleman to our DewEye family.

Randy Fair
CEO DewEye Consulting, Inc.