Yearly Archives: 2015

Loved that song when I was young.

Hi ho, hi ho, its off to work we go

Off course when I learned it, we put new words to the song.  I was in school and we were captured by how much work we thought we were doing.  So the song developed into – “we learn some junk, and then we flunk.”

Now that I’m older and working on a project I initiated, I think I would try to create new words!

“We watch you tube, so we don’t boob.”

Or something like that.

Amazing how a few years gives us new perspective.

The past builds up over the years.  In a good sense!

Yesterday I was asked to assist in setting up a new sound board at our church.  My evening was made available and I headed over at 6:00 pm. 

Now, this was fun, and I didn’t get away for 3 1/2 hours.  I had to join with another fun-seeker and finally say it was time to go home and see our wives.  Otherwise we would have been there all night!

As we began to work, I realized that the others were looking to me for guidance.  At first I didn’t understand this.  We all had backgrounds in various areas:  computers, mechanics, farm work (which means you know everything!).

Then the light dawned on me.  I had been working with this particular sound system for ten years.  I knew the wiring and capacities as well as any of our sound people.  As well, I had spent a decade in another church working with sound technicians, engineers and electricians to build and maintain a sound system that was well capable of satisfying a crowd of up to 700 people.

As questions arose last night, I would first say to myself – “I’ve encountered that before.”  Then I would have to do a bit of recalling and as I did things began to come back to me. 

In the end, with each of us contributing our little bit of knowledge, we had the system up and running in short order.

Now, all we have to do is learn the intricacies of this new sound board.

Easy-peasy!

The last words of a dreamer??

With the new electronic approaches to communications (and there seems to be something new each day), receiving a paper based communication is always fun.

I go to our local post office each day.  There I find flyers for various stores, bills and sometimes a personal letter.  Not as much as in the past.  Back when stamps were inexpensive and handwriting was normal.

Yesterday we received written words that dealt with insurance confirmation, financial dealings, irrelevant fundraising, awaited licensing, duplicate information – and a flyer or two!

We have a rule about written mail.  We only open what has been addressed to us.  Even though we may be 99% sure of what is in the letter, if it is not addressed to us, we don’t open it.

Which makes for some real suspense – not a bad thing.

I wonder what will appear in our post box tomorrow?

Today at the job site (what a nice way to describe renovating your home), we got more done than expected.

A closet needed to be torn out – done!

A room needed to be gutted (again, not a desirous term) – done!

A water heater needed to be moved (thanks to a plumber who also made sure our shut offs were worker and arranged for our gas meter to be moved outside) – done!

Oak stairs revealed under carpeting – done!

Visitors toured through the house – done!

Only slight physical injury – done!

As they say – “all in a day’s work!”