What I Do

My normal work schedule is...oh wait. I don't have a normal work schedule. My "planned" work schedule is to work Wednesday through Sunday. I am here Thursday all day until around 10pm as a long day to make up for shorter days on Saturday and Sunday.

However, I actually work whenever I'm needed. For the last few months that has meant 7 days a week, sometimes up to 14 hours a day. I've been working on getting footage from my Israel trip onto a DVD on Mondays and Tuesdays. More on that next time.

Yesterday (Friday), I arrived at 9am for my normal day. I stayed until almost 11pm. After my workday was done, Milo and 6 other volunteers came in for a special project. We took down our lighting cyc and put carpet padding up behind it to help with sound on our stage. We had to move everything to the front of the stage, set up scaffolding and take down the cyc. Then we put up some 2x6 and 2x4, stapled the carpet padding to it. We took some test recording prior to and after the padding went up. What a difference! I'm looking forward to seeing how it helps for the weekend services. After it went up, we replaced the cyc, cleaned the stage (twice) and replaced all the equipment for the weekend services.

Today, (Saturday) I was back at the church for a marriage seminar. The seminar is being broadcast live via satellite to our auditorium. I arrived, fired up lights, sound, video and the HVAC. An hour later, its only 64 degrees in the auditorium. Several texts and phone calls later, I've got an HVAC guy on the roof while the seminar is in progress. The heat started working...sort of. I still have 1 RTU that is shut down and won't be working until the first of the week, but the other 2 are keeping it comfortable. We're replacing the controls so very soon many of the problems we've been having will be fixed and I will gain about an hour a day of actual work time, instead of trying to fix the HVAC.

The sound is giving us a few problems too. I got online for a forum that is available during these broadcasts (www.ccn.tv) and made a couple of phone calls. The sound got better but never really cleared up. I guess I'll be making some calls this week. After the seminar is over, I'll have about 20 minutes before my tech team shows up for service.

Its difficult to explain everything that my job involves. As the only tech guy on staff, my duties are many and varied. I still get people asking me what all I do at the church. I tell them, "Read my blog. In a few months, you'll know."