Spent the weekend in Chicago at an ELCA Evengelical Leaders - Let to Lead conference. Our church band was asked to play at the event. I of course got asked to take care of their sound needs for the entire conference. Ok, long days, but it went well enough. The crazy thing is, they […]
Went to see the Madison Symphony rehearse last night. They hold an occasional open rehersal that you can get free tickets to. It was kind of interesting. More laid-back than an actual concert. For the most part, they played the piece, then would go back and work on any trouble spots. For this […]
This morning’s paper had an article about a license plate issued by the WI DMV. The license plate was 666-KEN. It was just another random plate. But the even stranger thing, the guy that got it, his first name is Ken! Yeah, he was going to turn the plates back in to get something else […]
Uhg, spent an hour more at the dentist this morning than I was planning on. Went in for the semi-yearly cleaning, and x-ray’s. He looked and said a tooth that was being watched from previous visits really should have a crown. Oh, and we had someone cancel this morning who didn’t want to drive in […]
Picked up an iPod this week. Still getting used to the controls on it, but it is pretty cool. One of the things I tried doing was taking the broadcast video from Bethel’s TV Broadcast and converted it into a format that can be used on an iPod - yeah, I got the one […]
Monday morning is the big day. My big “iceburg” database project that I have been working on for weeks goes into effect. Well, phase 1 anyway. I think I have everything ready to roll. A number of things are already using the new database tables. This week I found a number of “broken” […]
As I have been driving home from work lately, there appears to be a new trend in advertising going on. That is to say, hiring people to stand outside and hold up signs. I started seeing this a while ago when a couple of stores were going out of business. People are standing outside a […]