Will I miss it

Just learned today of a monstrous financial setback that will have us making some pretty significant adjustments. It would be easy to get depressed and whiny and all that. But hey. My God is my source. He knows what’s what. And He can handle whatever is in my pathway. I love God so much. He really knows how to help me and handle my future. I trust Him.

First purchase-coupon pouch. Second purchase-coupon scissors.

Tweets for Today

• 10:41 playing with ustream.tv today . if i am live it will be here www.ustream.tv/channel/tony-here #
• 10:50 i checked to see if elvis was twittering. sadly no. #
• 11:25 Dallas Stars won a game. Series is 3-1. Stars only have to win 3 more #
• 14:04 if I fasted supper but had icecream later in the evening does that negate the fasting #
• 17:51 twitter went down. lost some tweets. how neat twitter is. #
• 22:05 i just sat through the longest sports awards banquet ever. 3 hours. 25 minutes. i will never ever be able to get that back. ever #
• 22:06 tomorrow looks to be a packed day. on the road. working late tonight to get ready for it. then the round rock express game. mmmmm nachos #
• 22:06 i missed the office tonight. shoot. or is it shroot. #
• 22:30 following me on twitter is a lot like waiting for a dog to take a poop in the rain #

via twitter

Endurance

Tonight, I sat through the longest awards banquet ever. 3 1/2 hours long. The caterers set up late. The awards and speeches went on and on. The slide shows went on and on. And the time it took to get people to the podium was not a good use of time. It’s a public high school. A great school. Great athletic program. Great kids.

It’s hard not to sit back and be a bit critical. If you have been in church for any period of time, you understand how to move people through food lines quickly. You learn how to keep the audience engaged. You understand that videos that consist of still slides with no names on them are difficult to watch. And you also know that repeating content makes long presentations. And you know that if you are using pictures, the most amount of time for one pic on the screen is no more than 3 seconds. Throw in those really butt numbing metal chairs and a hot room with no circulating air and it gets a bit toxic.

So what is a person to do? Send an email and offer suggestions? Get on the steering committee next year? Skip the dinner and show up for the 3 hour presentation? Put a video cam in the back and watch it at home from a streaming web source? Pray that something comes up during the event next year?

The quandary for me is I want success. I want people to look good. And when I see this kind of presentation and I hear some of the groanings around me and I see people leaving early, it makes me want to find a way to help. Oh well. It’s over. Now I need to go lay hands on my buns and pray they come back to life.