Archive for October, 2005

Maze in the dark

Wednesday, October 26th, 2005

Tonight our youth group went out to one of these giant corn maze things. First, of course was the hayride, then the maze, then the fire for s’mores. I never have done any kind of life size maze before. Was interesting - and yes, I did manage to go through a few loops ending up […]

Chipping away at icebergs

Friday, October 21st, 2005

The work week has ended. Hooray. For the last few weeks I have been working on a major database redesign project. Inspired by the desire to increase security to sensitive data, bring more flexibility to granting access to various systems we run, and just bring the whole design into something, well, just better (can you […]

Changed again?

Monday, October 17th, 2005

The view from my office window is a block that appears to be a hard place to run a business. When I first started working for CAE, the block had a Cousin’s Subs, McDonald’s, Milans (another sub place) and Schultzy’s Pub. The Cousin’s and McDonald’s closed a few years back, and a large […]

Hate it when that happens

Tuesday, October 11th, 2005

Doing that chore of giving the yard a haircut this evening. Got half way through and ran out of gas in the mower. Fine, trudge to the garage and grab the gas can. Doh, that’s empty too. *sigh* Of course we are at the time of year where I need to guess how much […]

Whew - its done

Monday, October 10th, 2005

The big celebration service is over. For those in the audience, things went great. Comments from people after were positive and it “felt like a worship service, not a concert” (which was a big concern). The morning setup didn’t go very well tho - at least for the TV recording crew. It was over 3 […]

Its almost here

Saturday, October 8th, 2005

Tomorrow morning is Bethel’s 150th anniversary celebration. We are holding it at the Madison Overture center. Hopefully we can pull it off after months of planning. I have to head to church in just a bit to help record a special TV broadcast as we won’t be broadcasting our normal service tomorrow morning (the 150th […]