Well, my site appears to be broken (at least for posting and commenting). It is nothing of my own doing this time, so I’m wondering if there are upgrades going on, or if someone hacked me using some vunerability in MT that I haven’t bothered to patch. So I’m writing here instead, cuz I feel like writing. Oh, and before I forget, the wedding pictures are all online now. Well the photographers pictures…I haven’t gone through the table cameras yet and scanned any of them.

I went Christmas shopping this weekend, we finished almost all of it. That was cool. Except my feet hurt really bad afterwards. I returned the one Ipod and picked up the 40 GB photo Ipod. My opinion of Itunes is still mixed. I don’t like it overall, to much guessing what I want to do, not enough fine tuned control. It handles the photo part really poorly. Any of my Mac fanatic friends know if Iphotos or whatever the hell that software is handles the new photo stuff better? And if it does, is it available on Windows yet? I do have to say, that having stuff right there in front of me, sortable by any ID3 tag field is nice. It is making my re-tagging, and sorting go fairly well. But I don’t like how it updates the Ipod, so I messed with some stuff, screwed up my Ipods database, and decided to reformat, and not load any music until it is all tagged corectly – artist, song name, and genre. Also, I need to figure out what I want to do with a making a playlist to associate with the wedding slideshow.

Well, at any rate Ipods are cool, and I’m thinking about how to use PodCasting to distribute sermons…what was a great idea Rob had, and I’m very interested in it now. It is essentially the idea of using RSS feeds with files linked to them to collect things while you sleep so it is available in the morning. People have alread writen software to do this for you, and then it dumps it onto the Ipod. Very nice.

My laptop is broken, I have it at work with me, and I’m going to work on it after 5. Lauren is going to a meeting, so no hurry to get home. Other than that Naruto is pretty cool, on episode 51. Just after the Rock Lee vs. Gaara fight. Very cool. That Gaara guy seems like a punk though. Kinda sux he has this stupid magical shield of sand, and can get his ass kicked and it still works. Rock Lee had some cool techniques though, even though he can’t do any illusionary things. Also, I need to finish metroid, because 2 looks cool and I want to finish this one before I get (or recieve in the case of Christmas) the next one.

Thanksgiving…I’m leaving either tuesday night or wednesday morning. If anyone wants to catch me in Madison or Chicago, leave a comment, cuz I haven’t planned anything for sure yet, so I have time to work.

Finally, I’m feel kinda out of place here. It seems like everyone is starting to figure things out, and settle in. But in everything I do, I’m just accepting how it is, and moving forward, not fitting in. Last night we were talking about starting a service for the church plant, and I so totally would have nothing to do that I’m good at. There is no tech for acoustic worship without a projector, even if there was I don’t like doing tech all that well unless I get to really go nuts with it. Even the sound board gets boring after a while….which is why I doze off and forget to turn peoples mics on/off at the appropriate times. Also there are these pillar things that are in Jeffs “diagram” for our church vision…I suck at all of them. They are like charity stuff (I’m not using social justice because I think that is just a popular buzz word for doing charity), being silent and contemplating, discipling, worship, supernatural stuff, and evangelism. I suck at all of those. Lauren tried to tell me I don’t suck at discipling, but I don’t know if I agree with her. Hell I can’t get my own self straight, let alone help point people in the right direction.

At any rate, I’ll probably just work really hard at whatever needs to be done with the service just to make sure things get done, since I’m not actually good at anything that needs to be done, or there is someone else who is better or percieved as better. So no where to fit there either. But at least I can help things move along. I can set up chairs, pass out stuff, fill a seat and make things look like it is more popular..etc. So that will be what I do to take my mind off the fact that I don’t have anything to do that I feel like is actually worth me doing. Also I want to point out I will be right back where I said I would never be again setting up tables and chairs, and helping prep stuff for a service. At least I decided I want to go to this church…better than just being dragged into doing it like it was with my parents leading the church.

Work is going a little better, I’m doing some important stuff. Mostly with this bastard program called “Crystal Reports” which will not connect to our database for some reason. I blame microsoft and the database software for distributing this crap across the network with dynamic links to configuration files.

Well, I’m back to work, and then fixing my laptop and finishing re-tagging my mp3′s…fun stuff.

X-posted to my LiveJournal.

Well, my site appears to be broken (at least for posting and commenting). It is nothing of my own doing this time, so I’m wondering if there are upgrades going on, or if someone hacked me using some vunerability in MT that I haven’t bothered to patch. So I’m writing here instead, cuz I feel like writing. Oh, and before I forget, the wedding pictures are all online now. Well the photographers pictures…I haven’t gone through the table cameras yet and scanned any of them.

I went Christmas shopping this weekend, we finished almost all of it. That was cool. Except my feet hurt really bad afterwards. I returned the one Ipod and picked up the 40 GB photo Ipod. My opinion of Itunes is still mixed. I don’t like it overall, to much guessing what I want to do, not enough fine tuned control. It handles the photo part really poorly. Any of my Mac fanatic friends know if Iphotos or whatever the hell that software is handles the new photo stuff better? And if it does, is it available on Windows yet? I do have to say, that having stuff right there in front of me, sortable by any ID3 tag field is nice. It is making my re-tagging, and sorting go fairly well. But I don’t like how it updates the Ipod, so I messed with some stuff, screwed up my Ipods database, and decided to reformat, and not load any music until it is all tagged corectly – artist, song name, and genre. Also, I need to figure out what I want to do with a making a playlist to associate with the wedding slideshow.

Well, at any rate Ipods are cool, and I’m thinking about how to use PodCasting to distribute sermons…what was a great idea Rob had, and I’m very interested in it now. It is essentially the idea of using RSS feeds with files linked to them to collect things while you sleep so it is available in the morning. People have alread writen software to do this for you, and then it dumps it onto the Ipod. Very nice.

My laptop is broken, I have it at work with me, and I’m going to work on it after 5. Lauren is going to a meeting, so no hurry to get home. Other than that Naruto is pretty cool, on episode 51. Just after the Rock Lee vs. Gaara fight. Very cool. That Gaara guy seems like a punk though. Kinda sux he has this stupid magical shield of sand, and can get his ass kicked and it still works. Rock Lee had some cool techniques though, even though he can’t do any illusionary things. Also, I need to finish metroid, because 2 looks cool and I want to finish this one before I get (or recieve in the case of Christmas) the next one.

Thanksgiving…I’m leaving either tuesday night or wednesday morning. If anyone wants to catch me in Madison or Chicago, leave a comment, cuz I haven’t planned anything for sure yet, so I have time to work.

Finally, I’m feel kinda out of place here. It seems like everyone is starting to figure things out, and settle in. But in everything I do, I’m just accepting how it is, and moving forward, not fitting in. Last night we were talking about starting a service for the church plant, and I so totally would have nothing to do that I’m good at. There is no tech for acoustic worship without a projector, even if there was I don’t like doing tech all that well unless I get to really go nuts with it. Even the sound board gets boring after a while….which is why I doze off and forget to turn peoples mics on/off at the appropriate times. Also there are these pillar things that are in Jeffs “diagram” for our church vision…I suck at all of them. They are like charity stuff (I’m not using social justice because I think that is just a popular buzz word for doing charity), being silent and contemplating, discipling, worship, supernatural stuff, and evangelism. I suck at all of those. Lauren tried to tell me I don’t suck at discipling, but I don’t know if I agree with her. Hell I can’t get my own self straight, let alone help point people in the right direction.

At any rate, I’ll probably just work really hard at whatever needs to be done with the service just to make sure things get done, since I’m not actually good at anything that needs to be done, or there is someone else who is better or percieved as better. So no where to fit there either. But at least I can help things move along. I can set up chairs, pass out stuff, fill a seat and make things look like it is more popular..etc. So that will be what I do to take my mind off the fact that I don’t have anything to do that I feel like is actually worth me doing. Also I want to point out I will be right back where I said I would never be again setting up tables and chairs, and helping prep stuff for a service. At least I decided I want to go to this church…better than just being dragged into doing it like it was with my parents leading the church.

Work is going a little better, I’m doing some important stuff. Mostly with this bastard program called “Crystal Reports” which will not connect to our database for some reason. I blame microsoft and the database software for distributing this crap across the network with dynamic links to configuration files.

Well, I’m back to work, and then fixing my laptop and finishing re-tagging my mp3′s…fun stuff.