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April 20, 2008 by Gilbert Leave a Comment

  • Another great Experience!
  • The process of getting there…uhhh not so much.
  • The morning started out ok except for the terrible weather which as I thought ended up keeping a lot of people home.
  • During set-up it took me 3 times to get the computer booted up that runs the lighting software.  Then later I noticed the computer had died…and by died, I mean it died and so we had to go to a back-up.
  • Then during practice this morning our digital drum set died.  Luckily Dr. Andy as you can see in the picture above was able to operate. 
  • Basically Andy tore the entire component apart, did some soldering, and reassembled it all in the low low time of 28 minutes.
  • I’m so thankful for Andy’s knowledge and for the fact we thought enough to add a little work area in the AV closet.
  • The bad part was he never finished up until about 15 minutes before we were to start…uh yeah I was getting nervous.
  • Once we got started though, I thought the band had one of their best sets ever.
  • Great energy from them and the crowd.
  • Jan Krull ran lights today for the first time and did a great job.
  • Someone (I guess that would be me) forgot to turn the Air Conditioner on so wow was it hot.
  • I thought the message went fine…I was really unsure whether to share the story at the end or not, but I had quite a few people afterwards tell me that they were glad I did and that it was a real wake up call to them to get their financial priorities straight.
  • I really did think I had left my mic on during the announcement video and thought, “Oh no everyone just heard me gulping water.”  It made me think of the scene from the Naked Gun where Lindsay Nielsen forgets to take his mic off before going to the bathroom.
  • I wasn’t kidding about how when I mentioned next week’s message would be about sex eveyrone’s heads popped up and looked at me….hilarious.
  • Seriously though, next week’s message on sexaul temptation and getting margin in your morality is something so many people need to hear…do whatever you can to get people there with you.
  • I’m not sure what created our technical problem with the mic at the end…ahhhh I hate things like that.
  • Oh well considering how much worse things could have been with all of our equipment dying earlier in the morning, I guess I’ll take it.
  • Funniest line of the week came from a 7 year old who told her mom after last week’s Experience…”Mom I just don’t have any financial margin at all.”
  • Funniest story of the week was about one of our members who was in a department store the other day and really tempted to buy a treadmill.  She shared though that every where she turned there I was saying no…I was on the TV screens saying it…my face morphed onto other people’s heads, etc. 
  • Ok nap time…my big ole meal from Red Robin is starting to kick in.

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