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July 25, 2008 by Gilbert Leave a Comment

  • Seriously people, the world does not end if I don’t post for a few days.
  • I’ve had at least 5 of you that I can remember check in to see why there hasn’t been more posts this week…I appreciate the support, but if you’re just hitting the refresh button all day, then wow find something else to do.  🙂
  • Part of the reason for the inactivity has been that this is another one of those weeks that I needed to get 2 weeks worth of stuff crammed into 1 week, so that Lisa and I can head down to NC next week.
  • Doesn’t mean things haven’t been happening though…although I can’t remember much past yesterday…which included the following:
    • We have a new printer/copier in the office and we got our training on it yesterday.  This thing does everything but cook and clean for you. 
      • At one point the guy mentioned that it prints very realistic looking money, but that it put the machines serial number on top so that it’s easily spotted as a counterfeit.
      • It then became the showdown at the OK Corral between Earl and myself to see how quickly we could unholster our wallets to give it a try…I won by the way, but that’s beside the point.
      • The copier guy lays my $10 bill on the glass, hits the start button….and the machine quickly says “Illegal copies trying to be made” and locks down the copier.  I mean seriously locked down…turned off and everything.
      • It took him a good 5 minutes to figure out how to get it going again.
      • Much to the laughter of us all.
      • Of course we were joking that the FBI had already been called and when it did start back up it spit out some sort of test page, which when Earl asked what it was the copier guy said, “Your summons to appear in court.”
      • Perhaps the funniest thing he said was, “Hmmm, never actually had someone who wanted to try that before.”   Leave it to Earl and I!
    • Last night’s practice (if you want to call it that) was terrible.  Andy was gone and we couldn’t get the sound board to boot up to the proper settings so we had to go with an old setting that created basically nothing but feedback and bass from the bass guitar and kick drum. 
      • By 7:30…an hour in to when practice was supposed to begin…we gave up…went through each song once even though no one could hear and then went home.
    • Pray that we can get things back in working order by Sunday.
  • Afterwards I tricked my former intern Brian into going to dinner with me despite the fact he had to get up at 4am to go to work.
    • I told the waitress that we were in a hurry and that her tip would be directly proportional to how quickly we got out of there.
      • Let’s just say I left her a big tip, because we were in and out in only 20 minutes.
  • I had to order more invites this week, which means we’ve given out 1000 invites in the first 2 weeks for the upcoming God at the Box Office series.
    • By the way if you haven’t seen the promo video, check it out here.  Send your friends on-line as well to watch it…I think it’s good enough to inspire people to come.
    • Still need another 25-40 of you to switch over to the 9:15am Experience.
    • Remember this…the unchurched will most likely attend during the 10:45am time slot.  This means that in order for them to have a seat so they can hear about Jesus…others of you who already have a relationship with Him need to sacrifice your preferred time so that seats are free so they can hear the good news.
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