8-27-2001

10:30 PM

Did I just write that it’s going to be an ugly day…? How about a seriously ugly day?
We were up at 5:00 AM, dressed and eating by 6:15 for our buss to arrive at 6:30 so we could be at the church by 7:00 to set up and play by 8:30…
The buss arrived at 8:00, we got there by 8:20 and were playing by 9:00…no sound check, no balance in the monitors and I had begun a reasonably frustrated mood.

The day was supposed to be:
5 – 6:30 Get up, ready and load in the buss for church
7 – 8:30 Stage set up, sound check and run through songs with Pastor Friday
8:30 – 9:00 Worship team
9 – 10 Pastor or Bishop preaches
10 – 10:30 Stage reset
10:30 – 11 Worship Team
11 – 4:15 Our time to lunch, exchange currency, shop & change
4:30 – 5:00 Worship team
7:00 strike


Here’s how the day ended up:
5 – 8 Got up and ready and waited for the buss
8:20 – 9:00 stage set up and cable
9 – 9:20 Worship, Band
9:20 – 11 preaching
11:00 – 11:30 Worship, Band
11:30 – 2:45 Lunch, exchange money, shopping and return to lodge
2:46 – 4:25 track down a pastor who was in possession of money that Pure Works needed and look for our electrician to establish power for tomorrow morning.
4:25 – 6:30 Waited for the 2:00 session to conclude…
7:00 – 7:25 Worship, Band, choir back up band
7:25 – 9:20 Waited for service to conclude, bought dinner sandwiches, choked on smoke from a brush/trash fire that was consuming a street corner, one block away.
9:20 – 9:50 strike and load

It is 11:17 PM.

I will write about the wedding party crash and the dogs therein as well as my shopping spree in the down town rural shopping alley. Chickens in the market place too.

I love you.
me