June 4th (Day 21)

Well today my nightmare finally came true, haha. It's not that bad so don't panic or anything, but I'll explain later. My day started off with me heading into the office and getting there at 8:00am, as usual. I set up my computer and got busy sending emails, making phone calls, organized documents, updating my personal spending records, etc. James arrived around 8:30ish or so, and he started working on trying to finally nail down a pre-service song for this Sunday. After a little bit of bouncing ideas off of us and discussing various points about each one, he finally found a "nonpoint" version of the "Phil Collins" song "In the Air Tonight". So I got busy changing the key for James and then tabbing out the song for the rest of the guys and gals. Once that was done, I sent off a few more emails and made a few more phone calls. When lunched rolled around, Jeff, Tyler, James, and I made our way over to Qdoba and had a good ol' time :-). After lunch it was back to the office for more work, except I was pretty much done with all I could do for the moment until either James got back, or someone needed my help. So I pulled out my acoustic guitar and started learning "By Your Side" by Matthew Mayfield. It's an awesome song and I love it. It didn't take me too terribly long to figure it out. Then to ensure that I wouldn't forget it, I recorded myself playing it so that way I could watch my hands and figure out how to play it again if I forgot. Once I was done with that, I help the guys with a few more things on a video for this Sunday. When our eyes were all bloodshot from staring at the computer screen for so long, we noticed that it was 5:00pm. So for the first time ever in the history of my employment at Momentum Church, I left before 6:00pm, haha. Once I got home I decided I would work on some guitar. I ended up making two sandwiches and eating a small individual package of carrots for dinner. Then I checked my email and that's when my nightmare came true. James talked about how I'm playing lead guitar, even though I don't think I can as well as many others around here. While sharing this and laughing about it during a conversation with Dave, he took sides with James and said the scariest thing I've ever heard, "Hey man, we all going to grow and be stretched together." Haha, so I guess by the time I'm back at KCU, I'll be a little better at guitar....maybe.....haha. For the past hour or so, Dave and I have been working on guitar stuff for the band (the past 2 hours I've been working on scales and trying to get better at lead guitar so James and Dave don't kill me with this stuff...). But I guess overall today was a good day! :-) And to those who have waited for FAR too long, we finally uploaded the "Mo Group Starts at 7ish" video. You can find it by following this link:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqzOiafvh7I

Go ahead, have a good laugh and enjoy it! :-) Till tomorrow!


Pat