yawn

what a weekend, it actually feels like my weekdays are more relaxing, which sounds like i have my schedual backwards, but here’s how it goes. during the weekday work hours i sit at a computer storing up engergy that needs to be released. on weeknights and definately weekends i release that energy.

*Production Update*

easter production is on the horizon and planning and work is well underway. which is what has been taking up some of my weeknights and weekends, but i love it. yesterday for example ryan and i spent the whole afternoon in between services rehanging a projector. not really on the easter to-do list but it had to be done along with everything else on every other list. it was actually kind of funny how one starts to act at 3 in the afternoon when they havent eaten anything all day while still trying to think. but thats nothing that a little wendy’s cannot fix.

see when you do what i do all day as my “job” you would want to get out and physically work and burn off some energy, and if i am not required at the church i give all of my evergy to the YMCA, and trade it in for some muscle, not that bad of a deal to me.

i have now been home for about 5 weeks. and it has gone by pretty fast. so i am not worried about my seven months to go. just a few more bugs to fix with full sail and it will be smooth sailling until august, not really but at least thats what i hope.
*Cool Quote*

so i found this quote and thought it was post worthy

“We the willing, led by the unknowing, do the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long; that we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing”

jfaz

light at end of tunnel

so another BCG day has come and gone, and i finally figured out why everyone there drinks a ton of coffee. it is because you need it to stay awake. my job isn’t hard, but i can’t put it in the fun category, but hey i can’t complain. so the plan is, as of now, i should be leaving for Florida on the 30th of August, and i can’t wait. it’snot that i don’t like it here in good old new jersey, but that is what i still think of it as, my old life, i am ready for a new chapter and it feels like i am stuck in the abyss of what i am trying to do and what i am doing now, but it will pass soon enough, i know this because i have already been home more then a month so as slow as it feels, it’s not that bad.

i do have to change somethings though, i had promised friends that i would hang out more since i would be home, but i actually think i saw them more when i was at evangel. so hopefully i can make some relax space to hang out with a few people. i had to make myself busy because i started loosing my mind but God is good and has lots of patience which always helps me out.

*my dream*

so for those of you that we wondering what i actually plan on doing with my life i will try and explain it with pictures taken from the current red hot chili peppers concert.

see i want to be a touring audio engineer which means i want to tour with a band going across the country and maybe the world stopping in cities doing a show. this would be my home. all pictures taken by DAVE RAT on the current RHCP tour.

this is the front of house sound, controlling what the audience hears for a show like this

and i know that i probably won’t start at a tour of this caliber but hey its a dream and i will get there someday.

until later

jfaz

team wilson

so yesterday, Ashley said that we should start a facebook group for everyone that has worked at BCG in the past, so far we are up to seven members and the posts are pretty ridiculous. it is now only 10:42 and i already feel like i need a nap, but its all good because i really don’t have to be awake right now and there is coffee available if i every should so desperately need it to function, but for now ill just sit and write as i nod off.

*Production Nerd Speak*

last night the demo went well, we got all three lights in the house catwalk and working, but lets just say that we didn’t make them safe rigging, so be careful if there is an earthquake. its funny only one of the lights came with rigging hardware, and it happen to be the martin 700, the more pricey of the bunch, the robe color spot 575 and wash, we rigged test worthy and that’s about it. its very tedious deciding to make a purchase, especially when the lighting console, HOG PC, doesn’t let you bring all the lights up at once, very funny trying to see Ryan making up names for the objects that start getting on his nerves. but all is in order, and i shall stop rambling about this since only 4 people would get it.

*end nerd speak*

so now i continue waiting for Wilson to come in to work today, he called my cell giving us about 45 minutes of work including a double check and he still isn’t here, his voice was very sickly sounding if you know what i mean.

today is wednessday, which means youth group, i wonder what problems i will face tonight as i try and get the best possible sound out of a less then crap system, we shall see.

 *after youth*

well i was proved wrong, that had to be one of the best sounding services since i have been home, not perfect, but what is perfect, it sounded good, a lot of energy, so it was very fun to mix for me at least. and Juliet did her special, just voice on a 58 and her guitar mic-ed with a 57, sounded very good, not bad for a throw together set up i managed while pastor Dave was introducing her.

* end after youth*

so i might actually get to sleep before one, yippee this is big going on that i haven’t since i have been getting no more than six hours a night for about a week, oh well sleep is so overrated.

goodnight to all

jfaz

waiting…

nothing worse then waiting for wilson to get out of a meeting, esspecially when he leaves me one minute of work. but i fear not, because it is officaly 1:42 pm and if he keeps me all day that mean i have less then two hours left. but tonight i am actually looking forward to. i am gonig up to the church to set up a lighting demo for randy, we are goning to compare 3 different lights to each other to decide the best one in performance as well as price so that should be fun. production time always cheers me up reguardless of how tiring people think it to be. and this easter is looking to be very promising as far as performance quality so i cant wait. and yup let me look 20 degrees to the left and yup the door is still closed meaning i can still write.

*BCG Profile*

Mr. Bowtie man: there is this one guy that every single day wears a shirt wih a bow tie, exeption is casual friday, i mean whio wouldnt take advantae of that.

MEETing out must hide

now i am adding new employees to the lists and i have to put MR. or Ms. and some of the names i have no clue so i am currently guessing, and if they are wrong i am sorry, but in my knowlege the names Dorit or Faigy dont ring any male or female bells, for crying out loud. then you have the names like antonio gonsalez who could make up half of mexico, and names like Yitzchok Hershkop, where i couldnt put a finger on it

Till later

Jfaz

BCG lifestyle

Ah the BCG working crew, nothing of what i hope to be doing in the near future, but it does fill my pocket with valuable pieces of paper, so it will have to do. Currently i am working there with one other temp, Juliet, whom i have known since my early LCA days, also very cool to work with. My day starts at 7:35 am with a twenty minute wake-up shower, breakfast and TV, and a ten minute drive to my 9-4:30 job. That is a picture of me waking up. i have the privilege of working under the easiest boss Wilson, but he also knows how to get the job done along with multiple quality assurances. Besides work i continued helping the technical crew which involves me assisting in the set up of youth group on Wednesdays and both services on Sundays, and it is worth every second. For not only have i gotten extremely close to the people i work with but i also learn about and get to use equipment i wouldn’t normally touch, so it all works out. i must say though it is hard to be home for a semester without the freedom of living in Springfield MO, but ill get over it as in i only have seven months until my Full Sail adventure in Orlando FL.

*Mind Wander* 

see i spent a whole semester at evangel university but i was studying film, which is not for me. i have nothing against evangel, i love it and the people but it was not worth the investment if i wasn’t going to end up close to where i want to be. which is a touring audio engineer. now i know that full sail is not a cure all, but it will get me closer and faster. i must clarify that it is not easy going from my lifestyle at evangel, which for the most part was lazy and i could do anything at anytime, with very little responsibility, then going to a full time job in an office along with all of the responsibilities i had in august hits kinda of hard. but that is why God put people in my life to help me out like my parents, Chris Owens, Ryan, Randy, Tom, and my friends that seem to stick with me regardless of how many times i ignore them. if i have learned one thing in my first month home, its that you cannot rely on yourself to get through anything. first God is there regardless how much i may want him to be sometimes, but its worth it, and i learned that friends are good, at least the friends that tell the truth when i don’t want it. so here’s to everyone that helps me out and keeps me in line. regardless of where i abide, our stories live on. so i am in the midst of waiting to go to Florida.

*End Mind Wander* 

i am tired of rambling on, until i write again. JFaz