Man Vs. Computer

I'm trying out a video editing program for the first time in years, and it could have gone better. I spent a good portion of the day figuring out how to make a slideshow behave how I want it to. When I went to burn it, the computer blue-screened and re-booted. This had also happened the other day when I burned an mp3 disc using iTunes, so I suspected something other than the program.

I had just rebuilt the system from scratch a few days ago, but I did install Windows XP service pack 3 against my better judgment. It made setup faster, but I've had several blue screens of death with the exact same hardware & software that has been running great for over a year. Anyhow, I rebooted and tried again, with the same result.

One more reboot, and I uninstalled a drive emulation tool to see if that helped. I went to open my video project and it was corrupted! Fortunately most of the day was spent figuring out how to use the program, not actually making the show so I was able to reconstruct the video in about an hour. Burned with a different drive and it worked.

So here it is in all of it's low quality YouTube goodness. This is a slideshow of my Grandmother's memorial and burial service. Just still photos, but I've got a hankering for a DV cam now. Expanding expensive hobbies is always good, right?

Best Worship Ever?

The caption on youtube is 'Words are inadequate to properly describe this travesty'

This is the most cringe inducing thing I've seen. All hype, no worship, and extremely painful hip-hop clichés taken from several sources. I was with him up until the point where he mentioned socks.

Bust A Move For Jesus

Everything is better if it's Christian, right? So why not break dancing? (well sort-of breakdancing) It would be so painful to be one of those musicians on stage. I would wear a fake mustache and maybe my emergency wig.

Inspriational Break

I haven't been writing in the last few days but I wanted to share this with everyone. You may have already seen it because it's becoming a web phenomenon, but you can play it over and over and it just doesn't get old. When I get back to leading worship I'll be sure to add this to our repertoire.

"He is like a Mountie; he always gets his man." Brilliant!

How To Overcome Obstacles. (end of video)