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TopFri, 29 Jun 2007
Jun 29, 2007, 20:09
[home/journal]
Vacation At Last
Tomorrow, as close to 5 a.m. as possible, we’re piling into the van and heading for Saskatchewan. We’ll be gone a month.
We’ve got our tent-trailer all packed and ready, the van is decked out with comforts and entertainments of every kind— hopefully enough to occupy the minds of children for a 40 hour drive.
Our plan is to break the driving up into six-hour days, with one day being a 10 hour drive. I hope we survive without too much trauma… say a prayer on our behalf!
We’re wanting to log our journey, so be sure to stay in touch.
~Jason
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Jun 29, 2007, 20:05
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Handed in the Keys
Well, today was the official last day of work— though I haven’t been in the office much over the last month. I handed my keys to Lane.
It’s weird— I never would have predicted the course of events that have occured over the last year. But I’m SO GLAD it’s all over. I feel tremendously free. I’m going to seriously take a break from church for a while. I’m all churched-out.
~Jason
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Thu, 28 Jun 2007
Jun 28, 2007, 15:01
[home/church_work] Last night we had an amazing celebration with many of the people from the music team… it was wonderful. There have been hundreds of musicians involved since we started seven years ago, and my closest friends among them came last night to support us and encourage us. Working for a church is such a weird thing. Every time we ‘move on’ from a ministry position, I’m reminded of how unbelievably non-organic it is. Yet somehow you all made us feel very loved, and I know that we’ll stay in close contact over the years to come. Thanks to all of you who came, and for the wonderful gifts! We love you all very much, and will seriously miss serving with you! ~Jason
Party at the Harvey’s
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Tue, 26 Jun 2007
Jun 26, 2007, 10:45
[home/music] I've uploaded the 30 second previews from my Moving On Again CD. Keep in mind that these mp3s are not mastered, but I think they still sound great. I'd love a comment or two— take a listen and tell me what you think! ~Jason
Previews Available for Moving On Again
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Sat, 23 Jun 2007
Jun 23, 2007, 14:59
[home/music] Two nights ago, I stayed up until 3 a.m. completing the latest album, which I’ve entitled, “Moving On Again.” It’s a kind of re-release of a CD I produced and sold back in 1999, except I’ve rerecorded all the parts and used real live instruments, instead of synthesizers. The reason I did this, is that someone bought a copy of the CD a few weeks ago, and I was too embarrassed to send it to her. So I emailed her that I was rerecording the whole thing, and asked her if she’d be willing to wait. I’ll upload a few samples here, so stay tuned— I hope you like it! Jason p.s. Thanks to Jeremy Siemens, who took this photo at an online web-concert I held a few months ago.
Moving On Again
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Jun 23, 2007, 08:52
[home/webdesign/perl_scripts] I've finally created something I've wanted to have for a long time! Now when you purchase a script at Intelliscript.net, a special download page is created just for you. You can come at any time, login, and re-download the files. This is great for me, because it can be so overwhelming to keep track of who has purchased the software, if their license has expired, etc. With over 40 separate scripts for sale, it was getting really hard to manage with my old system. And now when I release a new version of any script, I can instantly mail everyone who has purchased that script. I used to have a similar, although manual system a number of years ago, but it was a third party script, and it was written in PHP (yuck!) and it was very SLOW. I love it that my script automatically create accounts when new purchases are made, and sends out people's login and password too. ~Jason
Download Access
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Jun 23, 2007, 08:13
[home/journal] I've been preoccupied and so haven't written about all the things I want to write about. For example, I've finished a pretty good book and want to summarize it. I've bought a car (a 2003 Cavalier - standard transmission). Matt Collins taught me how to put new brakes on the van, and we did that a week or so ago. I've made some significant changes to Intelliscript.net which I want to summarize on here…. Hmm. What else? We had a great going-away celebration at the church a while back: the music team peformed about a dozen or songs that I have written over the last seven years, then we had lots of food. Oh, and the staff at Philpott took us out for lunch yesterday. Seth's had tubes put in his ears, and now is hearing is 100% restored! (He had lost something like 50% of his hearing in both ears!) I'm working on about three new web site designs for various clients, old and new. I've finished recording a brand new CD, called Moving On Again. I have mixed and mastered it, and need to copy and then mail out a couple which have been bought already. Lucas has started taking drum lessons from me, and he's a natural. I built two consoles for our van. The front one has all kinds of cubby holes for junk and a spot for two coffee cups and a thermos. The second one is made to accommodate the boy's game cube, games, and mini tv. These consoles will hopefully make our trip that much more convenient because we won't have junk lying around loose, waiting to get broken or lost. I'm sure there are other things to mention, but I can't think of any right now. I'll talk to you later! ~Jason
Things Passing
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Sat, 09 Jun 2007
Jun 09, 2007, 11:00
[home/journal] It’s been a challenging couple of weeks for me. It’s quite the list— you ready? As you can see, the output of money has been much greater than the input, and everyone has really frayed nerves. I hope things turn around soon! ~Jason
Quite the Week
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