- That was weird.
- I was just telling someone yesterday that we do a good job of covering everything that we know to do, but occasionally the unexpected happens.
- Today the unexpected happened multiple times.
- It started this morning with breakers blowing in the gym.
- Guessing as cold as it we were using extra juice.
- Speaking of cold, I was making the long walk in from the furthest parts of the parking lot this morning and my hand froze to my water bottle…wish I was kidding.
- More to come on the water bottle later.
- At the end of the 1st Experience the band was singing and then all the sudden you could hear Brian singing another song…What?!
- Our sound board has a USB port to plug a thumb drive into. We record everything directly to it, but it filled up and apparently the default is to automatically start playing the files on it.
- So you we hearing not only Brian live but also from a few weeks back.
- Memo to self: Check the space on the thumb drive each week.
- The next weird thing happened after I came off the stage from doing the announcements in the 2nd Experience.
- I grabbed my water bottle from backstage and was walking down the hallway so I could watch the rest of the music from the back of the gym before then heading back to the stage to preach the message.
- As I was walking I took a big swig and swallow of water….one problem…it wasn’t my water bottle…in fact it wasn’t anybody’s water bottle from today.
- Very rancid water that burned all the way down.
- Immediately my throat was burning which made it hard to preach then…also as the sermon kept going on I felt my stomach getting more and more upset.
- Needless to say I’ve spent some quality time this afternoon catching up on some reading. :)
- Oh but we’re not done…one more weird thing happened.
- After the bumper video in the 2nd Experience I walked out on stage and…nothing…no lights…waiting…waiting….I think it was probably no more than 20 seconds but it seemed like forever.
- Our light operator accidentally hit a quick launch key that starts a DVD player on the laptop.
- Apparently it’s not so quick and froze our lighting program until it opened.
- In the words of the great theologian Bart Simpson….”Aye Carumba”.
- Some weeks I don’t have much to report from behind the scenes…today…too much.
- Other than those blips though, I was happy with both of the Experiences.
- I think the chairs on stage were a cool visual.
- Brian brought in a lawn chair from home that was hilarious…it was about 2 inches off the ground.
- I asked him if was custom built for Vern Troyer.
- Andrea kept saying she was going to sit on one for the whole Experience and I’d never know, but she chickened out.
- Looking forward to next week…get to do the same message again 3 more times in the sanctuary.
- Have a great week and don’t forget to invite someone to come with you!