Traveling fun…
I've been traveling a fair amount lately. As I write this I'm sitting in the Denver airport waiting on my delayed flight, apparently the sky is falling in TN right now and that is affecting my flight. As long as I get home tonight then I should be fine, getting stuck here tonight would not be fun because I have to turn around and head right back out on Sunday. Anyway, enough of that.
I've been learning a lot about myself lately. It's been very worthwhile to spend some time thinking about what I like, what I'm passionate about, and what I want to do with the limited time I have been given. Turning these idea's into goals and then applying some planning to them has helped to give me a lot of direction in life. Even if I haven't achieved all my goals in 10 years, at least I will have spent the time with a purpose, instead of just drifting through my life walking through whatever doors happen to be open at the time.
Wait, snow? Where am I?
So I had to rethink where I was this morning. I was pretty sure that I flew back from Denver the other day, but when I stepped outside this morning, it felt more like Denver than Nashville. And it's snowing! and some of it is actually staying on the ground, who'd of thought? On the flip side, the roads are a predictable disaster, people here just completely freak out whenever anything frozen hits the road. I was amazed to find out that some of the schools have decided to remain open though, I guess you just never know. Here are some pics from my trip. I'll get the pics from San Diego up shortly...
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| From Breckenridge ... |
CA, party shuffle, and other good times…
So it's been a while since I've felt the motivation to post anything. I don't really have any new fun pictures to post, but I should have some cool stuff next week. This Friday I'll be flying out to San Diego, CA for a corporate gig and it looks like it's going to be a lot of fun.
This business is so weird sometimes, even though these corporate gigs are soooo much easier and require half the skills necessary to put on a decent concert, they pay like 2x as much and give the tech staff perks that are better than what most of the bands get in the Christian music industry. Keeping in mind that on this trip I'm just a low-level tech guy, I'll be getting computers connected to projectors, setting up screens, taping cables, etc.., they're putting me up in my own room in a hotel that goes for about $300 a night. Out of discretion I won't give any more specifics about perks or pay, but I just wanted to make the point that it's insane how different this stuff is from the entertainment industry. It also explains a lot about why most of the people I have met who specialize in corporate are so arrogant, they're used to getting treated like rock stars for doing a job that I could train most freshman at Belmont to do in a few hours. Fortunately all the people I have met so far that will be going on this trip seem pretty cool. Hopefully I get some good pics of the city while I'm there and will have lots of fun stories when I get back.
On an unrelated note, I love the Party Shuffle feature in iTunes. You can tell so much about a person's personality by just turning on Party Shuffle in their iTunes and seeing what pops up, even your own! I tend to forget about how much really old school christian rock I own that really shaped my tastes in music growing up. A few minutes ago I was writing with the background music of some Newsboys from the Going Public album, now I'm listening to P.O.D. and it looks like John Mayer is up next, it's just a great thing.
until next time...
dtm
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas!
I'll be heading back to Dallas tomorrow evening for a two week stay so I'm looking forward to seeing all my friends from home. Call be me if you want to hang out.
Update from Laura
Hey everyone,
Laura's Ecuador mission's team has blog that they have been periodically updating. Yesterday Laura wrote the post so if you are interested you can see it at: http://rhccinecuador.blogspot.com/2007/11/thursday.html
Right now I'm on the bus with the SHOUTfest crew as we're on our way to West Palm Beach, FL (something like a 16 hour drive on the bus), so we've got lot's of games and movies. On a side note, I've been reading a book lately called Too Small To Ignore by Dr. Wesley Stafford that has been very thought provoking. I think I'll be working on a post where I'll try to outline some of what I've been learning.
I also got some cool pictures of The Afters at our last show:
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| From SHOUTfest 07 |
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| From SHOUTfest 07 |
And this one is Pillar...
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| From SHOUTfest 07 |
Until next time,
dtm
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