Back again

I know, I know. I haven't blogged in a while - at least not on my person blog page here. I have been going a little crazy between episodes of Where in the Java... are Seth and Erik? and school. Even though it's week six, it seems like nothing has really happened with any of my classes except for two "major" papers that were due in the last couple of weeks. My Organic Chemistry class is crawling along at what seems like a snail's pace - which is a good thing considering I need some extra time to learn the material over. It's been about four years since I've had any chemistry classes at all. My ecology class is not as cool I thought it was going to be. Right now we're talking about pathological diseases. Yeah, the class is centered around pre-med students with enough actual field ecology exercises and theory to be a formal Ecology course. Oh well. The class I'm getting the most out of this term is actually my Biometrics class. To me that seems like the true ecology/biology class this term. The funny thing is, it's actually a statistics class. In the biometry class we are analyzing data that is collected from different studies that the professor has actually collected in past studies from along the Pacific Coast of the western US.

Until next time...
"Where in the Java" am I?

The blooper reel none of you have been waiting for...

This video will also be posted on the Fisher's Landing blog page as I have now acquired approval from certain parties who shall remain unnamed at this point. Though I'm sure you know exactly who they are.

God is with us every step...

So, I'm sitting here at WSU-Vancouver waiting for my ecology lab later today and thinking just how blessed I am. I've survived through three years of college so far. I've gone through a hard, isolated relationship. Yet looking back, despite my lack of walking with God and living for Him, He was right there every step of the way. Every thing I've been through has tempered me to be the man of God that I am. I'll admit, I still have my downfalls, I make mistakes just like everyone and I need grace every waking moment. But despite all the challenges to God's power I encounter every day in my classes, I know that God is. It seems that we loose sight of this fact or maybe we just shut God out because we forget, like the Israelites in Egypt. But God told Moses when he was wondering why the people would listen to him, "God said to Moses, "I am who I am . This is what you are to say to the Israelites: 'I AM has sent me to you.' "" (Exodus 3:14).

I don't know what next week, next month or next year holds. I do know that God is here with me, and that if I only stop and listen to Him that I can remain in His blessing. We need to learn how to become desperate for Him and to listen to what he says.

I would sign off with another quote from Invader Zim, but that wouldn't be appropriate here.

Sitting at WSU and pondering life,

Wy'East Tech Guy




PS Sorry I didn't put a title on this one... I didn't notice that, I just started writing....

Washington Man

I feel that I need to apologize to a few of you at least. Dianna, Dan, and Mike, I'm sorry I haven't had time to script and film the first installment of Washington Man yet. Now that my summer really is over, I'm not sure if I'll be able to film any time soon outside of video blogs for the church. I'm glad you all like the idea and are anxiously awaiting the arrival of episode 1. That gives me more encouragement than you realize. Thanks, guys!

Until next time,
Why is his head so big?

What a weekend...

Well, we survived the craziness of yesterday. For those of you who weren't there, the tech team and the set-up/tear-down team at Wy'East was at an all-time low. Luckily, for the 9 AM service our other sound guy, Scott, from NEMLU.com showed up. That allowed me to run the easyworship set for our worship. It ran decently well. We had some issues with switching to video at both the 9 and 11 services, but I will get this all figured out. I need a separate monitor so I know what is going to be running live when I switch the settings on the DVR unit. Oh, another thing is meeting the on the Saturday morning so that the worship leader, campus pastor, and tech team are all on the same page and we know what everything will (hopefully) look like.

Today I went and picked up an external DVD burner for my MacBook. I like having this so that I can burn video files directly from here without having to transfer files to my PC (which works sometimes) and hope that the files are readable by the stupid thing. Oh, and half the time the program I use to burn DVDs on my PC tells me that the project file is too large for the disks. This should really not be. A single layer DVD should hold about two hours of standard definition footage. The last file I tried to transfer was about 8.5 gigs at full quality and was about 45 minutes long - my PC hated it. With a passion. Now I've got the Noah video and two services from this past weekend burning onto one single-layer DVD. I'm happy.

Anyhow, not much going on in the world of the Wy'East Tech Guy other than that...

Until next time,
Look for the mini-moose!