Just started 2010 and already want a Do Over!!!

I am about to tell you a very funny story on myself.

Sunday started with the one thing someone in the Worship Ministry hates to have happen: A pre-7AM phone call. The volunteer that runs my broadcast audio mix was sick and could not make it to the services on Sunday.  No big deal, because I can always push the front of house mix to the TV and Radio feeds, not ideal, but in a pinch will be fine.  It was 6:30, so I decided to go ahead and get in the shower. I got my towel and put it on the rack, went to turn on the water.... nothing.  The inlet pipe going to the house had frozen. So I was truly in a predicament, my backup was sick and I now had an issue with my plumbing, and had to be at church. I called my dad, had him come out to the house to check on the pipe hoping nothing had burst.

Looking in the mirror posed its own set of challenges.  I had not shaved in a few days and having cut my ponytail a few months before, I now had a horrendous case of bed head!  Had I still had long hair I could have just brushed it out, pulled it back and went on my merry way. This was not the case.  I was sporting a back fauxhawk that was aspiring to join the band Flock of Seagulls. My hand groped for the gel, and after several attempts finally had a hairdo fitting a 2nd year college student heading to a Fraternity party. The facial hair would just have to wait.

I walked outside and found that it was 7 degrees outside, and the door to Camilla was frozen shut. Camilla, by the way is my Camry, who was handed down to me from my Brother-in-Law.  At this point I was beginning to REALLY regret waking up at all that morning.  I was able to pry the door open, but a new problem now presented itself.  The lack of an ice scraper was daunting. After tearing apart all three cars I finally found one and got acceptable visibility.

Surely the fates were done playing with me, and I had a refreshingly pleasant drive to the church.  I walked in and everything was looking up.  I got everything configured and ready for the service, but I noticed that the room was on the chilly side. This poses a problem for the pipe organ as cold air causes it to play flat.  I was ready to set up the Korg Triton that we have as we can tune it to the organ, but the problems reach farther than that.  It was so cold that the organ wasn't even in tune with itself, and was fluttering. Luckily it was relatively in tune with the piano so I did not have to go to the keyboard. Then we lost power. All of the PC's; Mediashout, Powerpoint, Video record and Broadcast, all had to be restarted. Also the organ had to have all of it's stops reset.

Finally it had to be over...

Other than a small setback of having the confidence monitor not want to come back on the service went off without a hitch.  We got the radio broadcast playing, the band rehearsal for the contemporary service was going, and all was well with the world. Until I realized I had almost forgot to put up a pulpit mic for the second service, as we do not use the pulpit for that service. The sanctuary was beginning to fill, and there were probably 120 to 130 people in the sanctuary to witness the ultimate topper of the day.  I turned, stepped toward the stairs off the side of the stage, and missed.  I fell three steps sliding on my backside landing on the floor, to the chorus of inhaled breath then laughter. I played it off, got the mic, set it up, returned to my crows nest and did not move until most of the people in the sanctuary were gone after the service. 


I returned home, fixed the insulation that was damaged during the repairs we affected during last February's ice storm, with the help of my father and went to bed around eight pm. 


Because I was horribly sick with a TERRIBLE COLD ALL DAY!!!