Tech Crew maintenance day

Spent most of the day in church today doing maintenance stuff for tech crew cos of the public holiday for Vesak day yesterday.
Thanks for all of you who came today. Joe, Daniel, Yong Fa, Isaac, Cherlyn, Evelyn. Managed to do the following.
1. Move all the musical instruments from the stage to the creche (Aaron you owe us a big one here)
2. Set up for rehearsal in the creche
3. Clean up the stage area (incredibly dirty!!)
4. Wash the drum carpet (yuck!!)
5. Repair one Peavey speaker by cannabalising another
6. Resoldering microphone cable XLR connectors
7. Modification of the Mackie 1202 mixer Aux 2 from Post to Pre fader (thank Daniel)
8. Clean up and packing of all cables in the PA cabinet
9. Testing an old Peavey CS400 amplifier that was flooded before (thank God it didn't blow up!! And it still works!)
10. Collating of microphones, repair of chapel microphones, labelling of mics
11. Packing of Chapel PA cupboard (the kinds of stuff you can find in there!!)
12. Reconfiguration of chapel mixer for monitor mixing
13. Installation of monitor speaker, eq and amp for chapel musicians
14. Set up of monitor speaker at grand piano in sanctuary for Aaron's wedding including re-patching of monitor send line
15. Installation and testing of new Songbook software (thanks Joe). Ready for deployment and download
16. Update of notebook computers
17. Lunch of pizza combo from Canadian 2 for 1 pizza (yum!)
18. Made new network cable to replace missing one at sanctuary PA

Wow!! After looking at that list, it's no wonder I'm so tired.
Time to go sleep.

Another busy day tomorrow.
1. Pick up Projection screen and lamps from Hawko and E & Lect
2. Deliver to Church of Christ for installation - meet Frank for installation
3. Oversee and discuss installation
4. Go to Axiom for video encoding and transfer to VHS
5. Set up SubScribe in office
6. Edit menus for 7 miracles DVD
7. Author DVD
8. Asset replacement for Sony training DVD

Going to be a busy week.


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Bible DVD finished?

Finished the (hopefully) last check disc of the Bible DVD project on Friday and handed in to COOS on Saturday. Waiting for their response this coming week before doing the final DLTs for the replication. Finally the light at the end of the tunnel!
Still working on the edit of Mr Seet's video as well. Most people don't realise the amount of time and effort needed to edit a video.

Hectic week - short break

It was a hectic week last week, with the NZ partner here, lots of meetings, the leadership conference on Friday and Saturday, and then trying to finish both my GST and personal taxes for submission before 30th April. As usual, me and my last minute.
Glad to say I finally got them done. Doesn't help that my accounting software is messed up, giving me the Cost of Sales 10 times more than the actual!! So imagine my initial shock when I saw the report as having made a loss of $300k last year!!
If it were true, I'd probably have Ah Longs knocking down and my door and I might be forced to eat the pig's heads they hang and trying to scoop up the broken eggs in the mailbox!! Hehe.
Last year was kinda slow year, so income has dropped. Hopefully, will do better this year.
Had a good 2 sessions with John Ng and Mark Chan from the Eagles at the leadership conference. One of the most important things I learned was that any marriage is destined to fail from the start. Huh?
Considering the very different backgrounds, temperaments, families, experiences, attitudes, values that 2 people have, putting 2 people together in a marriage is a disaster in the making.
It takes a lot of conscious effort, time and dedication to overcome it's natural tendency to fail.
A relationship is like riding a bike on a hill slope. You cannot stop and hope that it will stay still and then pick it up where you left off later. You either work hard and move it uphill, or it will slide backwards.
Took Monday and Tuesday off(extra holiday declared by me!!) back to work today.
Still wondering about what God wants me to do next.
Pray pray pray.