Well there are many reasons I haven’t been blogging recently, here are a few: (first a thought: I certainly don’t do all this well.  Personally and professionally, I struggle daily to glorify the Lord–and fail often–which is the most important thing. SO this list isn’t to impress, but to inform.  I live in a production world and here is some of what we’ve been producing in my world):

500 4-disc DVD sets (that’s 225 runs in our duplicator, 1500 prints for labels and case-inserts [I had a lot of help])

authoring 4 DVD’s for the above sets (everything from the encoding, to authroing the menus [one disc had six menus complete with "Play All" scripts],and even using flash slideshows and an html menu for our photo disc this year)

Editting two videos (one with interviews, the other a review video to music)

250 MP3-CD’s (for Graduation gifts from our Provost)

directing 3-camera recording shoots for 2 live events

Running lights, now for the second time (for our student talent show, Spring Sing)

lining up three different equipment rental packages from two companies

keeping track of the budget for all-of-the-above

Add to that running sound for the following special events: A Music Dept. concert at Forest Lawn – Hollywood Hills; Good Friday and three Easter services at church; a couple funerals at church; an on-campus Shai Linne worship night concert

Also, overseeing media for two more events at the College

And, helping Chorale record a small sampler CD for their Israel tour.

Finally, starting to prep for two Audio Training Seminars over the summer

And Lastly, starting today, running Saturday rehearsals for the Resolved Conference Band, Enfield.

Not to mention: meeting with three or four great guys weekly about our walks with the Lord, including a new friend in whom the Lord is just doing tremendous things. These guys are one big part of the encouragment the Lord gives me to keep going.

Geeky things I’ve learned along the way:

how to do Layered Menus in DVD Studio Pro

how to direct cameras (I’ve got a long way to go)

how to use an ION lighting console and run lights for a show,

how to make a slideshow data-DVD autoplay

Some very basic html programing [very, very basic]

Trying some different piano microphone techniques

how to better encode Dolby 2.0 files for our DVD’s

What’s left you ask?  Well: a two-hour grad video to edit, then another DVD to author, then another 300 DVD’s to duplicate, label and package.  Then: archiving files from this year, hundreds of Mp3’s to add meta-data to for a big summer project and making DVD’s of all the previous Master’s College Year End Shows.

I hope to post more often.  Also this summer I’m planning on reading “Humility” by C.J. Mahaney and “Holiness by Grace” by Bryan Chapell; as well as finishing some other books I’ve started but not finished. And plenty of other geeky stuff.