Thursday, April 1, 2004 Spent the morning w/ tech support chat (Michelle) to try and get photofound.com up and running. Started w/ what I thought was a simple question, but ended up all out of whack :) Waiting on Level 2 Tech support now... They came back, and after some work, it seems to be running like it should. Great! Friday, April 2, 2004 An interesting day - drove to Wetaskiwin to help John move his
folks to an apartment. It's a lot of work, but when I got there,
I was pretty much useless. My back was hurting so much that I couldn't
walk straight. So, what did I do? Went to visit John (another) and
helped a bit sanding his new truck. Supper was at Krahn's - and really good. The drive home, however, was a real pain in the back! John Saturday, April 3, 2004 The morning called for setting up for the worship team. 10:30 AM was the target practice, and went well (though my back was quite sore.) After this, I went home and rested flat on the floor, listening to most of Isaiah. Sunday, April 4, 2004 Time Change! Back was sore, but better. Ran the sound at church, Brent was the
song leader. He spoke on Romans 6-7 - about serving God. He had
a lot of good things to say. Betty (Evans) invited me over for lunch,
and it was great to hang out with Bob and Betty (both for food and
fellowship!.) Came home (Kary's - still watching their house) and got a 35 min nap before the evening service at church. Gordon lead singing and Bevan spoke from 1 Kings 17 - talking about Elijah's obedience in God's commands - despite seemingly desperate circumstances. Monday, April 5, 2004 Spent the day recording video segments for Craig - the fellow that is going to be working on creating music for our video. John will take that in tomorrow to get him started on it. Supper at John and Janice's w/ Jerry and Ruth. They are on their way to CA. And a leper came to Him and bowed down before Him,
and said, "Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean."
Tuesday, April 7, 2004 Tax day! Got my taxes done, and all the pictures up-to-date on by website - photofound.com - stock photography Wednesday, April 8, 2004 Worked on the video and also the website. 10-2 audio, and put up some new photos. John came home w/ a CD of the audio created so far, but I didn't go pick it up - I'll get it tomorrow sometime. Thursday, April 8, 2004 Finished 10-2, and only have 10-3 to go (aside from the intro / ending, and one section that needs some more footage.) Friday, April 9, 2004 Good Friday - ran the sound for the service at church, and then went to the Kary's for Dinner. (It was a typical 17 course meal w/ turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, noodles, cranberries, pickles, buns, juice, pickles, salad, gravy - the list goes on. Then I went out to Boffey's to help John cut up some firewood - and help clean up some of the trees there at Boffey's place. We cut for about 3 hours, and only got about 2 loads of wood. Lots of little stuff - but it helps them out some too. Came back w/ my truck full. Saturday, April 10, 2004 Spent the day working on my website - learning about SEO - Search Engine Optimization. I fell like there's a ton to learn - not sure how long this will take working at it in my spare time. Need to setup for Jason - he's leading worship tomorrow, and I'm on sound this month. Sunday, April 11, 2004 - Easter! Brought Josh w/ me to be at the church at 8:00 AM. First thing I noticed was that Brent wasn't there - he's usually there before I get there. After finishing setup, Andy came in and said that Brent was sick - John will be taking his place. Oh, and Jason's sick too - and Cindy Palin will be taking his place! The morning for changes I guess! We had for instruments: 1 piano (it's hard to get two), 1 keyboard, 1 bass guitar, 2 acoustic guitars, 2 electric guitars, 1 set of drums and 3 vocals. All this for a guy (me) who prefers to keep things simple. Oh, well - it did work out well, for that I'm thankful. It was a full house - many people I've not seen before. After the two services, it took till 1:15 to clean everything up and be on my way home Kary's are still gone, so that's my home-for-now. Had lunch and slept for 2 hours that afternoon. No evening service today. Monday, April 12, 2004 Drove to Calgary - and had the B-Roll footage from Bethlehem Steel copied to a MiniDV tape so I could get it in the system (we don't have a BetaSP deck yet...) Joe ran the edit system there in The Edit Suite. Took the whole afternoon- just how it goes... Tuesday, April 13, 2004 Worked 03-1 - with the steel footage. Didn't finish - had to run it through Combustion to mask it to 4x3 ratio. Wednesday, April 14, 2004 Folded Gleanings Thursday, April 15, 2004 Stuffed Gleanings Friday, April 16, 2004 Sealed and labeled Gleanings! There was only around 1,450 this time. Saturday, April 17, 2004 Not much done today - not feeling the best. Slept and cleaned Kary's house, as they are coming home tonight. Took nap and set up the sound for Laurie - he was leading the practice for worship at 4:00pm. Then at 10:30 or so I drove down to pick up Trevor and fam. I was early because I had the wrong flight info in my head (only 30 min is all.) But they all came back in one piece, which was nice to see. The girls all had their head in braids - the micro type. Sunday, April 18, 2004 Andy spoke today, and I ran sound. He spoke on 1 Kings and the call of Elisha. It was good - getting us to think / remember what is important in life - it included (but not limited to) living dead men. Dinner was at Miles and Doris', along with Trevor / Esther / Mr. & Mrs. Sutherland / Mr. & Mrs. Kary and all the kids (Melissa, Amanda, Sarah, Mitchell, Joshua, Ryan, Timothy and Jarod -aka Harry.) It was the typical roast beef dinner - I think there was only about 7-8 things to eat this time! Home for a nap (2.5 hours!) and back to church for the evening service at 6:00. I ran the sound again for the hymn sing. Monday, April 19, 2004 The dreaded day came. Time for a reformat on the animation computer. Also figured out that I need to offer posters as an option on my website. Now for pricing and how to make it work. Still not feeling the best - but here regardless :) Some shots of the house I'm renting w/ Andrew. Tuesday, April 20, 2004 The dogs kept me up a lot last night. They bark at the horses - and that makes it worse because you know they are dumb dogs! Another rough day- trying to get my old edit machine to spit out files that I can work with to produce a DVD. Good luck! It's almost impossible - between not being able to export a file larger than 2g, and in a file that I can use. I couldn't get Adobe Encore to work either - good thing I got a demo and didn't pay the $500 they are asking. One problem today was going to the Avid website and looking at the new equipment. Man, it sure would be nice to have something that worked together well with itself --! One day, perhaps... But all in all, was able to install most of the software back on my animation computer which is a big step. Hate to say it, but I'm getting pretty good at this. Just don't tell anyone. Also contacted tech support for my Iomega 250g external hard drive I'm using as a backup. I think we got to a place where it's time to send it in and exchange it for another. Haven't heard back yet, but that's what I'm hoping for! Off to Jack / Brenda Lyttle's place for the evening to house-sit (till Sunday.) There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts
out fear, because fear involves punishment, Wednesday, April 21, 2004 Worked till 3:00 then took off to Wetaskiwin. I stopped at London Drugs to buy a hard drive for John, cause his is starting to whine. Filled the truck w/ 350 gallons of water and watered 2 rows of
trees in the evening. During which time I put the new hard drive
in. (Used Ghost and copied the drive over - worked slick as snot
on a doorknob.) John was getting his cultivator ready to seed. Later
we went to town for gas, and that was about it for the day! Thursday, April 22, 2004 Helped Friesen get his cultivator leveled over at Bill's. While he was working on that I help Bill and Joel stake off their 2 fields. Bill owns one 80 acre section, and Joel owns the other 80, and so we had to divide a quarter section in half. Once that was done, Bill talked John and I go go with him to the auction. Wish I brought my camera with! They bought a Skyreach lift to use on putting tin on roofs. Good deal - $6k for what should have been around 12-13k. You will see some pictures from 40' up later in life. Then we basically finished the cultivator, went home and watered the new row of trees. Friday, April 23, 2004 Office work today, haircut at 3:30, supper w/ John & Janice, planted about 60 trees w/ Miles and his boys. Saturday, April 24, 2004 Worked in the office in the morning - some on chapter 05-2, and some on pictures. It is getting VERY hard to work on a video - or anything inside the office for that matter - because it's so nice outside. I hope to help out a little getting some seed in the ground this next week. Sunday, April 25, 2004 My last day running sound for a month or so. We had Allen Bussard from Slovakia speak for the services, which was very good I thought. In the evening service we had John from the Philippines - Monday, April 26, 2004 In the evening I got stoneheadoriginals.com up for a friend from Indiana! Tuesday, April 27, 2004 Spent a little time in the morning getting krajec.com ordered to be hosted w/ Barney. Worked more on the video in the morning, and then ran the heavy harrow in the afternoon. We are expecting 10-15cm of snow by morning! Today it was 20ºc and in 10 minutes it dropped to 10ºc. By the time I got out of the tractor, it was probably around 0. An interesting day for sure. Friday, April 30, 2004 While we were waiting for a grain truck to be fixed a the local
mechanic's shop, we took the morning to try out the lift. First
thing was a flat tire, so a trip to town was required. On the way home from one of the trips to town, we stopped at the machanic's place. The parts should be in tomorrow morning ~! So, we stopped at Hundabey's and borrowed his truck to get us going. So, with that John got seed and we got started putting in wheat around his 80 acers. Towards the end of the day I started harrowing raking John's lawn, or should I say the dirt around his house. Got it all harrowed (loosened up) and a couple hour's worth of raking. Supper was at 10:00 I think... - Not Mary Ann's fault, it was our fault!
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