Cheerleader Gets Run Over By Football Team

I'm on a video sharing kick right now. Ouch!!!

TV Tonight!

Oh, I just can't wait for TV tonight!

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Well, here it is. This I think will be the last one that I do before I deploy. Unfortunately, we can't blog or post video's or anything from the ship. :-( Well, leave me some love and I'll see you guys soon!

TopGear: Bugatti Veyron versus Eurofighter Typhoon

I just thought this was really cool!

Green Bay 19, Denver 13

Anyone watch the game tonight? I did! WOW! You can get recap here.

I'm not a terribly huge Green Bay fan, but I have mad respect for Bret Favre. Last year Green Bay was 8-8. As of right now in week eight, they're 6-1. They're doing a lot better then my team, the Chargers who went 14-2 last year and are currently standing at 4-3. They did however layeth the smaketh down on Houston the other day, 35-10. Oh, and we did loose to the Packers this year. Hmm, so how far is Bret Favre's team going this year?

Wet Dogs

Ryans First "Solid" Food

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Here it is:

Family Pics

The dogs were making sure I was changing Ryan's diaper correctly...

Ryan's first solid food. He liked it.

What bad dogs...They won't be doing that again.

Map of all Fires

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What a handsome guy...

Need I say more?

Evacuation?

So today I was talking to some of my co-workers and the subject of what to take and do during an evacuation came up.

#1: I'd load my truck up with my Guitar, Drums, Sitar, Computer, mixing boards, and my Motorcycle.

#2: I just bought my big screen TV, so that'd be the first thing I pack up.

#3: My dog.

#4: My babies (in reference to her two cats).

#5: Let it all burn. I've got insurance.

Well, answer #1 might be okay if you're Karl Verkade, but what about the rest? I could buy #3 since I consider my dogs my children and I suppose even #4 even though Cats and I don't get along all that well. I feel that answers 1, 2, and 5 would be the most dissapointed in the long run. I'll tell you what we prepared with today:

1. Pictures of our family
2. Cody's ashes (we had to put down our 9 month old puppy a while back and still haven't been able to let him go fully)
3. An external hard-drive with all of our video's and pictures since we don't have many photo albums anymore.
   
4. Important documents (either take with or put in our fire proof box that lives inside our fire proof safe).
5. Combo/keys to sed safe.
6. Medications
7. Address book with Contact information for family and friends. (A laptop would be considered okay in this instance)
8. Diapers, clothes and toys for Ryan (our 3 month old son).
9. Food/Treats/Leashes/Beds for our dogs.
10. A few days worth of clothes/toiletries/water/snacks f0r ourselves.

What would you take?

California Fires

We live in Murrieta California which is kinda in the middle of all this mess. We're actually not to far from Alex. Our house and family are not in any danger at the moment, but we're not far away. The biggest problem we have is road closures and traffic. Took me 2.5 hours to get home today because I had to go way North to come back South. If you know what I mean...





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Simply Adorable

I love my baby girl! How can you turn down a face like this?

Say a Prayer, please!

So, my brother-in-law and his family were robbed at gun point last night at their home. Everyone is doing just fine. Bob did the right thing and didn't try to be a hero which is hard since he's in the Army. The robber got away with $4, a wallet, a purse, and some bruised ego's. Why?

Street Racing

So, I live on this street that's roughly a half a mile long. Straight, wide, low traffic, perfect for street racing. Well, Stephanie was doing her homework and coudn't get over that lovely pitched "ricer" running up and down the street so she called the cops. So they just showed up, where by this time the kids were just sitting in their cars. Apparently he said something, and pulled away.

"...lets get out of here before they call the cops again..." Or something to that affect. Off they go! I don't mind if kids want to put the pedal to the metal and see what their vehicle's got, but do it legally and safely, not at 11 o'clock at night. I guess this is where the hypocrite comes in. I'm guilty of it. In fact, today I did a 0-60 run in my truck (8.6 Seconds). I wasn't street racing though. I also did it in broad daylight with no cars around between driveways so that I knew no kids or cars would pop out and make for an unfortunate events. I guess not legal since I think the speed limit is 35 on our street, but I would consider it a little bit more safe. Plus I own a Ford F-350 with a Powertsroke Diesel. Now rice in this baby!

Updated Blogroll

Alright guys,

I've finally updated my blog list on the left side of the page. Check out the guys I've added:

Andy
Rob
Tim

Welcome guys!

Deep Calling to Deep: What is a Sound Engineer?

Guys and Gals,

A friend of mine, Rob Tremonte, has written this awesome post on being a Sound Engineer. You really need to check this out if you are a sound engineer, or if you're looking for a sound engineer. I only hope that I'm doing my best to hit all these requirements.

Deep Calling to Deep: What is a Sound Engineer?

My Wife

I just wanted to tell the world...I LOVE MY WIFE. She is so amazing. There's no real reason for this post other then to say what I just did...

Yes, I wrote this, not her! Ha ha...

My 1st Guitar!

So here are the pictures:



























































And then, here's some video of me butchering a D:

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Here it is:

Guitar Lessons?

So, I finally bought a guitar! I got an Ibanez AEF Accoustic Electric. I'll post pictures of it later. Anyway, stumbled across this. Thought it might help since I don't have a clue...

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Sound for Dummies

So, when I went on my first work up, it was kind of short notice. I decided that since I have my nice new Macbook, I would record a Sound @ Life Church for Dummies. It's just me blabbing to the lappie on my way home. Not edited, all rough, and unscripted. Hopefully it helps somebody, someday, somehow. Here they all are:

1. Basic Setup (i.e. the first thing you do when you show up at 6:00 am)
2. Mic'ing the Stage
3. Aviom Setup
4. Trouble Shooting (can be used everywhere, but covers our setup.)
5. Miscellaneous things (covers our final mix and accessories.)

Alex requested I blog about it, so here it is. I apologize for how "primitive" it is. Like I said, I dummied it down so that any volunteer should be able to at least plug in the FOH speakers and reproduce something. I don't remember if I went into detail regarding Unity Gain, or mixing, but that's always personal preference and style.

Well, that's all for me for now. I'm off on another work-up. You can e-mail me here for the next couple of weeks. See you soon!