project for someone that is bored… I’m thinking that there has to be a site out there on the net where I can go and say I want to buy a (insert item here) and businesses/people submit bids for me to buy from them, something like the reverse of ebay…

I came across the ebay want it now site which is kind of that way, but you still have to make an ebay auction for someone to buy your stuff. I’m looking for something where say Rande posts that he wants a particular ceiling speaker and I come in and say, I’ll sell it to you for $150. Or Batch says, I want to buy a Treo 700 (he’s over the 650 already) and Sprint comes in and says, we’ll sell it to you for $650.

Does a site like this sound like a good idea to anyone else? Doesn’t something have to already exist? Maybe if it doesn’t, we should start it! Basically make the sellers do the work instead of the buyers!

Now… I don’t mind if someone goes and steals my idea here… but please remember who gave you the idea and send me some cash down the line!

A simple yes or no will work well… just answer the question:

Do you have a problem with us holding the North County Regional Airband Show on Good Friday?

A yes answer means that we need to find a new date.
A no answer means that you will go to mass at USD or your own chapel or you just plain don’t care about Good Friday (at least not in the airbands interfering way).

So once again it has been a while since I’ve updated. I keep getting too busy with things and end up with a choice between sleep and writing, and you can obviously tell which one I’ve been picking.

So let’s see. The week of the 12th I did a lot of working at the Bob. A freaking long school board meeting, ASL and Choral shows and then Festival of Cultures on Friday morning for ASB (in the gym).

Saturday the 18th, Amanda and I went and saw Sarah perform in the Nutcracker at the Civic Theatre in San Diego. That was fun… It was really nice to get to spend some time with Amanda and to get out and do something different from the norm. We quickly fixed that by going to The Cheesecake Factory after the show. Maybe we’ll have to start a new tradition… Amanda seemed to really enjoy the show – it was the first time she had ever seen any version of the Nutcracker, so I can imagine why. I thought the show was much better than the one that NC puts on and well worth the trip.

Last Sunday I had to work at the Grand Tradition cause Richie was doing Scrooge at the Mission… I remembered why that place drives me crazy, but such is life… I did kind of miss it.

This past week has been busy with airbands stuff. Chad, Bouse, Ryan and I went down to USD on Monday and did a quick site survey of the Jenny Craig Pavilion. The facility looks awesome, I can’t wait to do a show in there. We’re still trying to find an underwriter, so if you’ve got $15-20k you want to loan us for about 3-4 months… please speak up!

It seems like I got away with “boycotting” Christmas this year, or at least the whole gift giving process which seemed to work out fairly well. I got my fudge… that’s all that mattered! Tom also bought everyone lottery tickets worth up to $31M, but of course we didn’t win anything. It would have been kind of nice though…

Somewhere along the lines the other night it hit me that BYU-I starts up again in about a week and I should be there. I’ve really been missing it lately. I miss my ward and all of our activities and all the people… I miss the devotionals… I miss living in the apartments… I miss walking to and from school… I miss the Little Caesar’s pizza and spice packs… I miss sweet swap and ward prayer… I miss the prayers and songs at the beginning of classes… I miss Bro. Allison and the Rel 121 class… I miss the Tuesday movie nights with Tara, Shelly & Ben… I miss the nights with Allison and everyone else just doing whatever we found to do… I so wish that I could go back… If only I didn’t have bills to pay I would be there in a heartbeat… Idaho was wonderful… I’d give up just about anything to be able to go back, but then I realize that it has to end sometime anyway… For me it just seems to have ended before it really got a chance to begin. Maybe there is a chance that I could go back next summer or something… We’ll have to see what God brings…

I went to single’s ward today. I was hoping to see Becky, but didn’t see her. Maybe next week.

So everyone is already stressing out about airbands… It’s rather funny, or I guess it would be if I wasn’t in the middle of it. I’m hoping that this all works out somehow. Right now we’re waiting to hear if Lane is going to be able to underwrite us or if we’re going to have to find some money elsewhere. I’m hoping that airbands can be revived and that we can make everything work out… More to come later, now it is time for bed!

San Diego Airbands

Airbands 2005 is coming soon…

North County Regionals Friday, March 25, 2005.

San Diego Airband Finals Saturday, March 26, 2005.

Jenny Craig Pavilion at the University of San Diego.

iMix Dec 04

First Presidency Christmas Devotional

SILENT NIGHT: English – Silent Night, Holy Night
Silent night Holy night
All is calm all is bright
‘Round yon virgin Mother and Child
Holy infant so tender and mild
Sleep in heavenly peace
Sleep in heavenly peace

Silent night, holy night,
Shepherds quake at the sight.
Glories stream from heaven afar,
Heav’nly hosts sing Alleluia;
Christ the Savior is born;
Christ the Savior is born.

Silent night, holy night,
Son of God, love’s pure light.
Radiant beams from Thy holy face,
With the dawn of redeeming grace,
Jesus, Lord, at Thy birth;
Jesus, Lord, at Thy birth.

http://www.mormon.org/display.html?key1=1717990&key2=17801

ASB Office. Be there or buy your own dinner.

We have to get everything out of the hallway, classroom and storage room so that they can tile it tomorrow morning.

Come one, come all and bring a friend…

It was quiet that day, the guns and the mortars, and
land mines for some reason hadn’t been heard.
The young soldier knew it was Sunday, the holiest
day of the week. As he was sitting there, he got out an
old deck of cards and laid them out across his bunk.
Just then an army sergeant came in and said, “Why
aren’t you with the rest of the platoon?”

The soldier replied, “I thought I would stay behind
and spend some time with the Lord.”

The sergeant said, “Looks to me like you’re going to
play cards.”

The soldier said, “No, sir. You see, since we are
not allowed to have Bibles or other spiritual books
in this country, I’ve decided to talk to the Lord by
studying this deck of cards.”

The sergeant asked in disbelief, “How will you do
that?”

“You see the Ace, Sergeant? It reminds me that there
is only one God. he Two represents the two parts of the Bible,
Old and New Testaments.

The Three represents the Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost.

The Four stands for the Four Gospels: Matthew, Mark,
Luke and John.

The Five is for the five virgins that were ten but
only five of them were glorified.

The Six is for the six days it took God to create
the Heavens and Earth.

The Seven is for the day God rested after making His
Creation.

The Eight is for the family of Noah and his wife,
their three sons and their wives – the eight people God
spared from the flood that destroyed the earth.

The Nine is for the lepers that Jesus cleansed of
leprosy. He cleansed ten, but nine never thanked Him.

The Ten represents the Ten Commandments that God
handed down to Moses on tablets made of stone.

The Jack is a reminder of Satan, one of God’s first
angels, but he got kicked out of heaven for his sly
and wicked ways and is now the joker of eternal hell.

The Queen stands for the Virgin Mary.

The King stands for Jesus, for he is the King of all
kings.

When I count the dots on all the cards, I come up
with 365 total, one for every day of the year.

There are a total of 52 cards in a deck; each is a
week – 52 weeks in a year.

The four suits represent the four seasons: Spring,
Summer, Fall and Winter.

Each suit has thirteen cards – there are exactly
thirteen weeks in a quarter.

So when I want to talk to God and thank Him, I just
pull out this old deck of cards and they remind me of all that I have
to be thankful for.”

The sergeant just stood there. After a minute, with
tears in his eyes and pain in his heart, he said, “Soldier, can I
borrow that deck of cards?”

Please let this be a reminder and take time to pray
for all of our soldiers who are being sent away, putting their
lives on the line fighting for us.
Pray for the Military

sarahs__secret: This one’s for the girls
Girls are like apples on trees. The best ones are at the top of the tree. The boys don’t want to reach for the good ones because they’re afraid of falling and getting hurt. Instead they just get the apples that are on the ground, that aren’t as good, but easy. So the apples at the top think that there is something wrong with them, when in reality, they are amazing. That is why we just have to be a little patient and the right boy, the one who takes a chance to climb the tree and to get the good, right apple, will come someday…

Merry Christmas

Thursday I was going to go take pictures at the Mission, but was too busy with duplicating the dvds and dealing with other stuff to make it there. I had to go to the dentist at noon and for some reason my teeth hurt for about the next 24 hours after that.

Friday we loaded in Ballet Society’s Nutcracker at the Bob… It just wasn’t the same this year without James and Lauren…

Finally got the MCD video done Saturday morning without much time to spare and then had to drive it down to Pat in Escondido before immediately turning around and heading to the Bob.

Some of the girls yesterday during the show were looking at the ETC remote video on stage and were asking me about the seats… I came to find out that they thought the monitor was showing where people were sitting in the house. I explained to them that it was for lights, but I should have had some more fun with them and told them it showed how much the people weighed or something like that… Tell them that if we got too much weight in the building, it might slide away…

A bunch of us went out to Friday’s last night after work and saw Jeremy for the first time in a while… Let’s just say that if you weren’t there, you missed out on some stuff…

I’ve been working on adding more stuff to the store, a little bit each day and have just been dealing with taking care of the paperwork for all this stuff. I’m hoping that we’re able to get some business going here once we get a brochure out… We’ve got lots of ways we can go so hopefully we can find our niche…

Today is the final show of the Nutcracker and then we do loadout. I’m looking forward to getting to sleep in tomorrow and having the day somewhat off. Bouse & I are hoping to go down to USD’s Jenny Craig Pavilion to do a brief site survey before signing a contract for airbands. I NEED to get a letter out to the schools about the new date of airbands this year… It’s going to be Easter weekend (last weekend of March) – so book your calendars now!

Well, time to get ready for the show…

I hope you all can figure out the new blog… Pyro made me switch the other day.. I think we might still be working some of the kinks out…