my geek life

Ok, I’ve made a few websites before. I’m a web programmer, that’s what I do. But I’ve never actually made one for myself. For whatever reason, I’ve toyed with the idea and checked for domain name availability several times, but never made the final leap. Well, I’ve done it. I made my very own website at my very own skeemer.net (also skeemer.info and skeemer.org).

Here’s the crazy part. The reason for doing it is that I bought a camera … I’ll just let that hang out there a bit to see if you can figure that one out. Actually, my goal, starting tomorrow, is to find something to take a picture of and post every single day for a month. No exceptions. That may sound crazy, but I spent about $1100 total on the camera and accessories and I think I should get into the habit of using it. I can say no exceptions because I’m really geeky and can hook my laptop up to the internet via my cellphone if I have to. I’m not sure if I will blog every single day, but I will be uploading it to my gallery. I’ll hopefully get it so the picture automagically shows up in the sidebar, as well as a link to the gallery. So that’s why I finally made a website. To force myself to use my camera. How dull, oh well.

Please leave comments on what you think about this or in response to the other posts.

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I got the chance last week to have a lot of fun. I took off Tue,Wed,Thur to prepare and setup the sound for a Christopher Cross Concert in Hanford, CA. It was part of a benefit for a local Adventist Health hospital. Tuesday and Wednesday I was in Coarsegold helping get all the equipment ready. That meant (re)making snakes(the big cord bundle thingies) and moving gear around to the proper racks(the big boxes you see near the mixer dude). I also got to tear into a Midas Verona 480(the mixing board) and rearrange the panels(just guess). For the astute, we moved the stereo fader bank to the right end. The picture below putting in the last screws after the switch.

We packed all the gear up Thursday morning about 3:30 and got two hours of sleep before heading down and setting it all up. The next pic is the board all set to go after the sound check.

During the break I headed over to where the Gala was being held and slipped in the back door to grab some food. Oddly enough, both PUCites, Gemabelle and Ruthie, that I know are living in the area were at the event and volunteering. Quite a surprise. Then I went back over for the concert and got to sit back and enjoy the concert. Here’s a shot from my favorite part, the acoustic set.

After the concert, we were dragging really bad. We finally did get it all packed up (thanks to the awesome guys helping us) and grabbed some Taco Bell. I got four hours of sleep and then it was back on the road for me because I had to work that day. That’s a very short version of a very busy three days.

cheers!

hmm, gotta keep this short. pretty much just registered skeemer.net .org .info and setting up my site. that’s enough until later.

cheers!