Yeah, been busy last few days. Most of the GS projects I have are on hold, but that’s ok, because there’s more to do. The other 3 projects I’ve been working on are awaiting imput from others, so I just need to wait on them. That’s good, because I have a lot of loose ends in the works. One of which is shooting photos for friends of mine who run planeticthus.com - a Christian Gift Store. I’m not sure of how many products I’ve shot last night and tonight, but I have 232 photos to show for it. Some products only take 2 images, but I would guess I shot 50 pieces or so. Not my favorite job, that’s for sure!
We at GS are also looking at some Digital Asset Management software, and my current ‘project’ is to learn how to use that and take it for a test drive. Extensis Portfolio is the name. It’ll be good to get something in the works, because it’ll really help us out if this works we. I really need something for my pictures - I have over 20,000 sitting on my hard drive. Just try to find one, eh? I’ve tried a few, and found them lacking. Hope this new DAM software will work well!
Yesterday a few of us went to help Barney move his mother in law out of her old house. She will be eventually moving into Barney’s place, but not quite yet. We have been talking of putting an addition on his house, but it looks as though they will try to fit in as it is now and see how things go.

Pardon me for not keeping better up to date. It’s been a long week, and not much happening, other than sitting in the office working on stuff. I don’t like to write that I sat in the office all day working on stuff, so find it hard to get here to type that in.
Spent most of the week working on The Lamb PowerPoint / DVD, and at the end started on formatting the German Lamb. I’m waiting to hear back from the boss on the Interactive DVD and The Lamb PPT, so that’s why I started another project. Right now, we have 4 translation projects to do.
RS and KW had a gift clearance sale on Saturday, but didn’t do too well. Think they just missed the Garage Saling season for the year.
I reckon that’s all for now.

First thing was to count inventory for Faith. This is my new job, second time doing it. There’s a lot to go through, amazing really. Just a few years ago there was only one book, now there are over 60 items that we carry, around 40 being GoodSeed material. Lots of translation work (link to the GS Translation page.)

Well, after counting books, I finished the questions for The Lamb PowerPoint today. Took till about 10:30pm to get it all done and print hard copies so it can be proof-read. We still are working on the booklet that goes with this, and have yet to do a DVD of the same, though I have questions about how to put the DVD together right now…it’ll come I’m sure.

Today was a long day - not because of large amounts of work that needed to be done, but just getting started to get home to actually arriving at the driveway was just an ordeal. I was still pretty wiped out from climbing trees, and so Barney drove the way as I studied my eyelids from the inside. I didn’t see much.
Just before Tri-Cities, we stopped to look at the trailer, as Barney thought it was acting strangely every once in a while. Good thing we did, because there was only 1 lug nut holding the right tire on, and that is an over-statement. So, with the help of a friendly camper who lent us a 13/16”, we were able to steal a couple one off the other side, and make it to the nearest Walmart.
Here at WM, it took 3 tries to get the right size lug nut. That means we bought a set, didn’t fit, brought it back and tried again. Eventually we made it just fine, except for the fact that I broke one of the lugs back at the rest area. No worries, 3 will be just fine for a small trailer and 200 miles.
We arrived at around 8:30 pm. Good to be home, and ready to start work again!

Today for me was a good rest day. Needed too. I had breakfast, took a nap. Had lunch. Took a nap. Watched Field of Dreams. Had supper. Die Hard and went to bed, but not after a couple books of the 66 was read.

Today we finished up the work that we were going to do here. And in this we had help as 3 brothers (from 13 to 17) came to work. They fed the backhoe as Frank drove - cleaning up what we’ve cut the day before. Couldn’t have finished without them. For me, the day involved climbing and trimming 4 trees, trimming countless others on the other side of the driveway with a pole saw, finished cutting and picking up the branches of the day, and putting tools away.

This morning, cut 4 trees down, and trimmed another. Fortunately, today I have photos, and will put some up later.

Trimmed 3 trees, and ran to town for internet. Roast beef for lunch, steak for supper!

Yeah, another road trip. This time Barney and I went to see his dad, to deliver a wood stove, work on plans for the addition for the house, as well as trim some trees. We took Barney’s mini-van and Russ’ trailer for the stove. The drive over was fine, a stop at Multnomah Falls was in order, and we climbed to the top again. It’s about 600’ climb to the top, a mile long.
We arrived at the house by 5:00, and trimmed 3 trees today. Frank bought home some Chinese food for supper and watched a movie - Foxfire w/ Clint Eastwood. The movie was made it ‘82, and boy, what a cheezy effects they had back then.
Plan is to go back home on Sunday - we’ll see.

Some may say that no news is good news. I say that no news is busy times. See, it’s been a lot of long hours in the office, working first on the Interactive DVD, but then switched to The Lamb PowerPoint presentation. DC started this a while back, and is now in Seminary, and I’ve been slated to finish it off. Not a small project either - but it’s taking shape. One turn of events that happened today is to basically scrap trying to put audio on the PowerPoint (PPT) and just do a DVD instead (which was the plan after the PPT and audio was finished.) Working with PowerPoint to me is like living in a mud house for you. There’s a lot it can do, but it’s not a precise program—guess and by golly are the rules as far as I’m concerned. Case in point -  I timed the program to the audio precisely, and when I played it back it was off quite a bit. But no worries, the DVD gives me much more flexibility and control to produce something that will be so much better.

In the office all day today. Worked on the Interactive Book Closed Captioning - up to Chapter 9, Section 2. Today was my day on phones as well, but it wasn’t too busy that way.
After supper I took product photos for Russ - for the PI website. Little stuff - rings, bracelets, and pendants.
Over lunch (which turned into a couple-three hours) I went house shopping. Barney went with, as he saw some housing that he though for sure would be cheap enough for me to get into. It was a pre-fab neighborhood, and when I called a realtor, they were asking for $145,000 for a used place, with no garage even. Well, that’s out for me!
We stopped at another place, and it was 1,300 square feet, no basement (I think), new, $165k.
I had the bright idea of stopping at Habitat for Humanity to see if they had some possible solutions for me. I can build it, but just needing help w/ the finance part. But they aren’t accepting any applications right now, and if they were, it’s a 2 year process to boot.
Not sure which direction to turn just yet… so for the time being I’ll stay w/ the Legers!

Today was the last day for meeting at the local school for church. The new building is just about ready, and we are planning on meeting in there next Sunday, which will be nice. Phil brought another mixer today, so it was a little interesting in getting the sound set up (every board is different, though similar. Last week was a different arrangement, as was the previous week!) But all in all, it went well. Folks said it sounded ok, so I’m glad it worked out ok. Just so you know, we only had 7 channels - #3 didn’t work so we cut TJ’s mic. Debbie was on vocals / lead guitar, TJ played classic guitar, Phil - vocal and drums, Chandra and Monica on vocals. Rick just had to pull a vocal to use for the message - the last half of Acts 5.
After church, I came home for a nap, read, supper and watched Left Behind I with the fam. Worked a little on tweaking the website after that - getting the previous / next article links to come up on the top of each individual article page.

Still rather tired from the trip yesterday, but still had enough energy to get in and start up on the Closed Captioning on the new video. Problem is, this type of work is the hardest type to do when you are tired! But managed to pull of 3-4 chapters (not sure where I started.)
Went to Barney’s tonight to chill. There’s talk again of helping him put an addition on the house - but nothing set in concrete just yet. It’ll be a nice break from the office if it comes to be.

Today was just a long day. Left Berthoud at around 5:20, drove to the Denver Airport to pick up Tom, Mica and Titus. At the airport, I waited about 20 min for them to show up (which was good, as I had to get my bike out of the back seat, and on the bike rack on the back, among other things!)
Well, we drove (I did the driving) for about 16 hours after that, arriving home at 10:30. Yeah, it was a long day.

Oh, we got up and went to Johnson’s Corner (world-famous truck-stop) for breakfast. Filled us up good, so it did. I split a cinnamon roll w/ Mathias, as Russ and Anna split one too.
I took a look at Matt and Anna’s mission trip to Mexico - as well as some of Anna’s photography from a class in school. They were pretty good if I say so myself!
Back home, we decided to go fly a bit, so Russ and I took the Porsche over. We flew over Berthoud, then did a touch-and-go at Greeley. Total flight time was around an hour.