looking out the window

BIG BOSS MAN

I was looking through some pictures and found this one... figured I'd put it up. That dude is my boss Dean and I think that is uber volunteer AJ behind him... not sure though. (AJ is the man!!!) If anyone is hiring a full time Audio Engineer (and I do mean engineer) for their tech arts dept. let me know. We don't want AJ to leave us but dang... he's good and would love to be an AE for a church full-time! So anyway... Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

UPDATE!!! It should be noted that AJ's only gifts are not in being and AE. He IS REALLY talented in pretty much anything that deals with electricity..... Mostly low voltage stuff, video, audio, and pretty much anything else you can imagine you might need to pull off something creative.... just fyi :-)

good

There is an endless song
Echoes in my soul
I hear the music ring

And though the storms may come
I am holding on
To the rock I cling

How can I keep from singing Your praise
How can I ever say enough
How amazing is Your love
How can I keep from shouting Your name
I know I am loved by the King
And it makes my heart want to sing

I will lift my eyes
In the darkest night
For I know my Savior lives

And I will walk with You
Knowing You'll see me through
And sing the songs You give

I can sing in the troubled times
Sing when I win
I can sing when I lose my step
And fall down again
I can sing 'cause You pick me up
Sing 'cause You're there
I can sing 'cause You hear me, Lord
When I call to You in prayer
I can sing with my last breath
Sing for I know
That I'll sing with the angels
And the saints around the throne


- Chris Tomlin

no sleep and a great weekend!!!

We had a GREAT weekend at ICYC! We had two technical glitches but other than that, everything on the programming side went off without a hitch! Pretty good for a team that has never worked together NOR practiced together. Here are a couple pictures of the weekend from my constant vantage points.

me and the green lady

So me and the green lady have a love hate relationship. Fact is, I like coffee.... Fact is, I don't like Starbucks coffee.... The problem with it is that I feel like I am drinking a cigar when I drink it. Until that fateful day last week when AJ (who is THE MAN!!! I might add) met me at starbucks before a long night of shooting video and BAM!!! enter the white chocolate mocha!!!! I don't know that my life will be the same again. So here it is 10:30 and I am really just getting started for the night... Many hours of HD video to render and edit... I'll be posting more than once tonight I think.

one more reason I LOVE CHICK-FIL-A

So here I am, in the thick of crunch time for ICYC. An event for teenagers from all over the state, of which I am the Director of Programming for. Basically that means that I am in-charge of everything that happens in the main auditorium with is A LOT!!! So I've been trying to get stuff done in the office to no/ very little avail. So I decided to head a good ways away from the office and work at Chick-fil-a.... This is really the first time I have been able to do this and the danger for me is that it will become the norm. I REALLY LIKE THIS!!! I am getting a ridiculous amount of work done.

UPDATE: After looking at the picture, I do find it funny that I talk about the amount of work I have been able to do, and yet macrumors.com is up on my computer in the picture. HA!

last min

Here is a picture from a last min. photo shoot.... this is a good gang to work with...

love it...

So I really love the place I work!!! Let me give you the top ten reasons why....

10. I get to use Apple Computers all day long
9. The possibilities!!!!
8. The fast pace (though draining, I think I like it!)
7. The forgiveness
6. Being able to discover and learn
5. The freedom
4. My team {mike, dean, stacey}
3. The people @ Park Chapel and the volunteers I get to work with
2. Equipping this staff and solving problems the stumble upon
1. I get to work with my wife!!!

mobile xbox 360

So I've had this theory ever since I discovered the joys of xbox. If I were to have a caravan moving down the road to say.... I don't know.... a conference AND we had tv's in each car (preferably flip down lcd or headrest lcd)... could we set up one vehicle with a wireless router and play against each other from van to van all the while moving down the high way....????

This smart dude named Clif Guy might have actually done it... well not with xbox's but with wifi nevertheless....

http://appianway.blogspot.com/2007/10/rolling-hotspot.html

my hopes are still alive!!!!

one thing i like to do....

One thing I like to do after attending a conference is to review my notes about a month after it is over. Now I know it has not yet been a month but it is close enough.... So, this afternoon I took a few moments to review my notes from my time at Granger and here are the highlights....

1. The transparency of the Granger staff was EXTREMELY impressive.
2. The quality of delivery and execution was high.
3. Too many vendors... but overall they were good quality for the most part.
4. Granger's IT staff.... I cannot say enough about these dudes!!! I don't know what Granger is paying them but they should triple it!!!
5. The middle screen rocks!!! The stripe is kinda annoying but I could live with it.
6. I have discovered a new favorite speaker.... actually two.... Rob Wegner and Guy Kawasaki!!!! I'll listen to them any day of the week and twice on Sunday's.
7. Granger's IT staff.... (They really are worth mentioning twice)
8. Speak through the noise of life to MAKE CERTAIN that people know they matter to God!!!
9. If yahoo! calls.... accept the job
10. To be innovative, you HAVE be two curves ahead....

**NOTE** Though the IT round table was not officially part of Innovative it is worth noting I left as/ more encouraged from those few hours than I have in any other few hours within recent memory. Thanks to EVERYONE who came and thanks to Jason, Ed, Kyle, and the rest of the GCC staff who made it happen. YOU GUYS ROCK!!!

look at this!!!

Yes friends that is fiber laying in my front yard. Fiber is coming to my front door (actually back door.... actually just the back of my house). These dudes have been working on my road for about a month laying conduit and I came home today to a note apologizing for leaving all this fiber in my yard and promising it would be gone tomorrow morning... begging us not to run over it with our car. So, the way I see it, if you need a couple hundred ft of fiber stop by and cut a section.... they won't miss it.