We came in late today, due to the snow, and we’ll probably head home a bit early (due to the melting snow re-freezing as I type this).  So it was nice to sleep in a bit this morning . . . but it’s put me behind all day long.

All these little things, all necessary, but one thing after another keeps popping up that I have to do . . . none of it on my to-do list for today.  When the database freezes, I cant just put that off till later.  I keep getting calls like that, all day long.  Usually I dont mind, but today I’m trying to concept out a video that we’re going to shoot Thursday and show Sunday.  I have the main ideas, but I have to work them into an overall concept and then get down to the specifics of the thing.

The big project is the D-TOX video for Sunday.  D-TOX is our theme for the year here at DFA.  Getting rid of all the spiritual (and physical) junk that’s built up over the years is the jist of the thing.  It also stands for Discipline through Training and Obedience . . . meaning we need to get back into God’s Word and stop being lax about it.

But to come up with a funny (yet dealing with serious issues) video that explains the theme for the rest of the year . . . well that takes some thinking time.  Time when I dont have any distractions but can just kind of focus on the video concept . . . uninterrupted.  I guess all the interruptions, needed as they are  just keep blocking me from making any progress on a task that I’m already behind on. 

I wish my brain could come up with these ideas faster.  And you know, each time I do a video (like a good one, not just a mindless announcement video thing) I get a little better at it.  But it’s such a struggle to get these things started.  Then I read this on Ben Arment’s blog (found HERE) . . . he writes:

“God doesn’t allow one, single experience to be wasted on you.  What you think might have been a worthless endeavor, a big mistake, or a pointless job was exactly what God needed you to experience for what’s coming ahead.

What if heartbreak and setback were qualifications for your dream? What if your dream required thick skin and you didn’t have it? Would you be okay with facing letdown after letdown if it helped prepare you?

Oswald Chambers says, “Before God can use a man greatly, he must wound him deeply.” Are you willing to accept pain for greatness?”

Not that I’m after ‘greatness’, and I dont see any of this as a ‘set back’ . . . but lately my job has been increasingly difficult due to many factors (that I cant go into here or now) and I guess today it just all came to a head when I just couldn’t even get this huge project STARTED.

Though it’s frustrating . . . every ‘setback’ is just making me a better person . . . helping me to do my job better. 

Though today was a frustriating day, I did get a lot acomplished and helped a lot of people.  And if this video turns out crappy . . . well then so be it.  I’ll just have to make sure the next one is that much better.

It’s been a while since I posted any pictures.  This is mostly due to the fact that I have to format the pictures, save a smaller version (to display on the page for you to click on), and then upload the whole mess over a slow connection.  And lately, there hasn’t been much time for picture taking. 

But lately the business has been limited to small crisis’s.  Little things like getting ready for the staff Christmas party,  or cleaning up my office and getting rid of old computer parts, or . . . you know . . .  coming into work to find a server burned up (literally).  Little things like that. 

You know it’s going to be a bad morning when you open the door to the server room and our rushes 80 degree plus degree air, along with the smell or burning metal and plastic and ozone.  Yes, the magic smoke has left some of the components of the server.  However, with a new power supply the green light on the mother board lights up and we get half way through SCSI BIOS boot before it freezes !  So maybe there is hope yet for recovering at least one of the hard drives. 

Anywho, I decided to make a separate page for the pictures and such.  That way they can be a bit bigger (and I don’t have to make small versions as well as large versions and upload them both) and I can put comments with each pictures and not have to worry about the column width or anything like that.  I figured I’d do a few today, and a few more tomorrow.  I need to take some pictures of my fish too.

So, if you’re ready for a bit of load time, click the link below to proceed !

Click HERE !

Today we moved Veronicas office from the Student Center to the main office building (the brick house up the hill a bit from the main church).  There were only a few things to move (two book shelves, a few boxes of things, and . . . oh yes . . . a hanging file cabinet FULL of files) . . . but it still took all day.

Brian Vetter came in and helped move her phone extension on the phone system (which is a much easier task when you have the right tools) and I ran some new phone and data cables along the trim and around a closet so her desk could be on the other side from where the data port was. 

It sounds like such an easy task, move Veronicas office.  But it took all day.  And we literally didnt move that much stuff.  And we only went like 400 years . . . and up some stairs.  The stairs were the worst. 

Here’s to being finished !  Huray.

Oh, and like 13 days until vacation !

Staff bonding time . . . ah the ritual bonding time we as staff take to . . . well to bond.  I wasnt looking forward to this Staff Night Out too much mainly because I had almost forgotten about it and was in the middle of several things at the house.  Read more