leg 2

tonight starts show 3, of our easter season, and even more exiting then that is we have 5 shows in three days, one tonight, 2 on saturday and two on sunday after church. sounds like fun. and next week how about we try 7 in five days. a wednesday, thursday, 2 on friday, 2 on saturday and a finale easter show. the last is always my favorite. not only does it mean we are done, but it is always packed full, very responsive crowd, and everyone seems to give more into their performances and duties, so its a night that a lot look forward to. plus every rental and set has to be packed into the trucks for load out. which is a time where many different department humans hopefully work simultaneously so we can leave as early as possible.  well i stayed until 1230 last night trying to get most of the prep work done for tonight but i felt like getting at least one night of sleep more than 5 hours before we start up, so i left about 3/4 done, which will make it a little bit of a rush tonight but it all seems to work out in the end anyway. well as soon as i finish here in the office ill head over to fountain to continue my prep work. hopefully it will be a good crowd tonight, i love weaving in and through thousands of people in my way, always adds excitment.

until later

jfaz

tease

upon waking up this morning, my body temperature was a little higher then normal, which led me to believe that the outside world was a little warmer. and i love warm weather, its my favorite. i just don’t like it when it gets warm then hot then freezing cold all in the course of three days, like it did two weeks ago. but i shall enjoy the beautiful weather, by going to the Y, since i went back yesterday after a 18day skip for the sake of a little more erst needed.

ah but this is day two of “offness” for the Easter production and man does it feel great. i actually got to watch 24 when it aired instead of watching it Tuesday night after downloading it to my computer. and before that at like 1pm yesterday i killed myself at the Y, trying to up my routine from 18 days ago, which felt good, and so did the two hour nap after. just trying to get my body ready for another 5 run of shows in 3 days. i have a system of not letting my body crash , and it works pretty well, first its volunteer work meaning i have a choice on how late  i stay, so if i have to go into the office in the morning, i like to be home by 1am, to get some sleep. and i also sleep whenever i can. and on a day off , i will go to the gym, i also “try” to eat healthier and take lots of vitamins. and this system seems to work as far as not getting sick, but as far as energy and dealing with some people, well that is all God. because some people just try and push nerves and i know he is calming me down.  which makes for a mostly productive time.

and so on this beautiful day i shall spend most of the sunlight hours in an office with no visable windows so i cannot see what i am missing. sounds like fun, cant wait, oh yeah i am already here, i guess i better start working.

jfaz

dress

dress rehearsal was last night, and i did not stick around to hear how it went on micing wise, but if anything was really bad, they would have told me over the headset, so i think the pre work i did turned out satisfactory. lighting and staging has the most work to do. i just have to do some fine tuning on making it easier for us on stage to hear the mics without bothering the booth. over all it wasn’t as bad as some dress rehearsals in the past.

*production speak*

so i get a lot of question about what am i at the church i work for. since we are a rather big church that puts on concerts and theatrical performances throughout the year. us in the tech crew get  a piece of everything. this is my 8th Easter production i am on the working staff. i started in fifth grade having one job, to 8 years later having a more. this year i got the privilege to programming all of the wireless handheld and packs and programing our digital console. but other nights i worked with lighting and staging. so back to the question of what i do there, where-ever i am needed for the most part. but i love audio. i really do not like titles for the most part. i did not put stage audio tech on my headset. i put J-Faz, cause that’s what they call me.

i will try and get pictures of the show and the people who make it happen up soon, tonight is my first night off in about three weeks so i plan on taking advantage of it.

well the office work load seems to be going through a valley of emptiness on my desk so i think i will head home early and hang out with my dad, since even though my room is about ten feet from his, i have not seen my folks since Sunday night.

signing off

jfaz

good olde.

ah easter time, a time when tens and tens of people come together for weeks to put on a show that 20 something thousand people will see. when i am in new jersey this is my favorite time of the year. some people start complaining about how tired they get and all. i put it this way first of all, it is volunteering, no one is forcing us to do this, and second, you are only as tired as one makes themselves. for example last night i could have worked until 4am, but at 12:15 i left knowing that i needed sleep. now there are some people with more on there plate then me, so they do stay later then me, but i am trying not to get over stressed this year. and i will admitt, i am enjoying it a lot more. ill tell you, it is something to look forward to after sitting in an 6×5 cubicle all day long. nothing like getting around wires and screens and boxes that go boom to get me all excited and in a good mood.

*is doing audio work harder then office

it is all dependant on how you look at it, for me no,first of all i hate office work with a passion, i also have a new respect for those humans who can stand to do this for a living. but for me, get me around roadcases and wires and load noises and there i am home. is it more physically draining, probly, but i love it. so the long days and even longer nights are enjoyable. like last night chris and i mapped out all of the mic changes and plotted scenes for micing, and we had fun doing it. its all a matter of loving what you do, then the thought of working never comes into your mind. and that is why no matter where i live i will always try to visit fountain during easter, just becuse its fun. and for th most part we all get along upstairs, but there are a few disagreements and tempurs to deal with, but that just makes it all the more fun.

so there is a nice production love ramble. to all that are involved in the show God speed, may we touch the lives of many thousands this year. for it might be my last as working full time on easter.

until later

jfaz

redundant day 2

so i am now on my second day of doing the exact same thing here at BCG, and i still have 3 more days left of this project, can i get a whoop whoop. so its kind of sweet. one computer i am running the project on, and i brought over another so i can be on the Internet all day. so its not that bad. so tonight begins another production night for the Easter production. some of the expensive toys i did research for and ordered are in so i get to play with them tonight and make sure it will work with the correct scenes and that is is safe. should be fun. i love taking on new responsibilities. its my kind of rush. especially with a deadline, thats cool too. also tonight starts dance rehearsal, and as much as i like watching 50 ladies dance to sing hallelujah, for the most part they just get in my way, which erks me. but hey we all have to share the stage for now, at least until i can hide backstage during performances. well i am almost done my 9-5 then off to rehearsal. if i have energy to sit up in bed tonight i shall update, but you have a better chance of me actually wanting to go to work tomorrow, ha.

until later

jfaz

nerd speak

so yesterday i was told by George (president of BCG) that i ha to work with shawn bedford on an all day project that need finishing pronto. well as shawn was trying to explain the project to me he himself was getting confused and he told me that he’d call when what he had it figured out. this is the third time so i thought it was blog worthy, now this dude is one of the smartest guys here. so yesterday he set up the project before he left and now that he is exp[laining it to me, he is going “well i can do that differently, wait a second that doesnt work, uh jared let me call you in a little.

funny stuff, oh well. so i was laying in the catwalk for a while last night as a martin 700 decided to be stupid, after reseting it probly at least three times and going though settings, ryan and i decided to call it a night so we could spend a few hours with the manual. sometimes technology just does that to annoy me. and its not like the light is in an esy access cat walk, no its in a cut out hole that randy cut out probly 3 days ago and its a sweat shop trying to work up there. the hole is located in the PWO section of the roof. that stands for ply-wood-only. why because if you step anywhere else you shall meet you maker, but before you meet him you will met the ground fifty sum odd feet below landing comfortably on a nice pew. but hey its all for the lve of production. i am expecting a lot of this easter production. i have put in a lot of research for some cool special effects that i will not go into becaue that will spoil the surprise. man i cant wait to get paid to do this kind of work.

*break through*

i figured something out this morning, when i would work the carrie underwood concerts, i would be up at six am, in bed at 2 am, then up again at 8 am the next day. i needed less sleep to do production work, that is a little physical, but for this office job, if i dont at least 7 peaceful hours of sleep i will be miserable all day, because the work is so lax, and i sit all day, so i almost wake up when i leave this place, because from my production job this is practically sleep and does require more energy to stay awake.

later

jfaz

cubi[kool]

ah nothing like my very own cubical, its very nice, i ave a corner desk the takes up most of my space with lots of cool roller drawers that have nothing in them and a printer on the floor that seems to have no place to go. i still have yet to figure out how to change the time on my phone. i tried resetting it like the instruction email told me to but it still reads an hour off. oh well, at least my computer and cell phone are correct. i am trying to find out what my extension is, not that i need a phone but hey its next to me and on so heck why not. i think i shall decorate soon. let everyone know who i am by bringing in pictures of concert setups and expensive toys i like to play with. i love it the work is a little more then with Wilson but still nothing hard or stressful because all i do is overflow for the most part. i do have enough space to sit with my legs fully extended while still looking like i am working. even though i am still a temp i plan on taking advantage of my cubicle, and i still have yet to figure out what that actually is but hey i got plenty of time.for example currently i am getting paid to wait to go home. because my contract says from 9-5, and if they don’t have work its on them not me. i don’t mind getting paid to blog. as-easy as this job is i still cannot wait until my concert life will start. until them i will settle for an Easter production at the church for the next month. two weeks at the end of June for creation. then at the end of august my audio training will begin. so tonight why don’t i do something for a change and go to the church and work. yeah that sound unique and different.

jfaz

Mondays are not my friend

ah good old Monday. 7:45 am, a joyous noise of futuristic on my cell phone makes me happily open my eyes to the sunshine infiltrating my room. as i was about to gracefully throw my phone across the room, i thought again to realize that i might need that phone later. so i settled on throwing a pillow. and after pointlessly standing in my shower for 40 minutes eating a bagel, 2 cups of coffee i am now awake at 9:40 sitting at work.

new duties*

so Wilson is running low on sparatic work to give me so i move to across the building to a different department today, not that i am complaining because i now will have my own enclosed cubicle which i plan on calling “the magic office”. i will also have a very nice chair with a phone and a huge desk, but it is what is on the desk that i do not like. piles and piles of data entry to sort through. oh joy. you know

*concert ramble

so this past friday was the Michael W. Smith concert at church and let me tell you, i would mind doing that every day for the rest of my life. unlike what i am doing now, for if i do office work any longer then i have to i WILL go insane if i havent already. did you know i even brought a suitcase just in case they needed someone for the remainder of the tour. but i was not so fortunate to leave new jersey that night and i am still here for some reason. well i guess my time will come soon enough. until then i am importing sloppy handwriting into excel because whoever sent this in thought that the directions did not apply to them so now i get to do it. oh well, i am still in need of 7000 pieces of paper with a  one on them, though more is welcome.

well i must be getting to work since i took off on friday, my work pile is filling up.

until later.

jfaz

passing

the mixed feeling i am having right now made me want to write. Juliet, whom i have the privilege of working with told me this morning that the person she was living with passed away, this person was very involved with fountain, and she will be missed. she stopped regualry attending church once her cancer kicked into high gear, and only recently had she taken a turn for the worse. but in a situation like this one can only be happy to see her leave this earth. no more suffering, and in heaven what more should one want.

*dilemma*

and thus we make it to my dilemma of wanting to live a nice full life, do everything on my to-do list and die happy and peacefully of old age. on that list is world touring for some awesome band. getting married, going on a month honeymoon, having kids, watch them have kids, but then there’s God. i never really try and think about it but it seems to be the hot topic these days. and that is the “last days” it always makes me feel weird when they are discussed in conversation or church. i mean dont get me wrong i want to go to heaven and leave this place, but i also seem to have fallen in love with wordly sucess and shallow living, which really bugs me. currently i have been living as just on a day to day service and if God decides to come, so be it. but it is really hard to not want to live here. i watched a video on wenessday in main service on heaven, and after that i was ready to go. i was liek get me out of this earth, lets go. but for some reason that would seem so pointless to me.

*dilemm part 2*

this leads me to my other dilema of choices out of school. i will soon be attending one of the top production schools in the world, and i will face a decision when i get out. employors arew set up there to review students who fit they requirements based on everything. and the school will contact them saying we have a student that you might be interested in. now here’s the problem, i dont know what to do if a larger secular managment come to me saying we want you on this world tour with this band now, but the band has poor morals. do i promote them to the world by going, or let my light shine to the tour staff. or settle for a smaller job with a church hopping christian band. that is where i am stuck now, and probably will be until i  make the decision.

well i think that is enough of random rambling for now. until later

J Faz