CIY and beyond
This one’ll be long. Here goes…
As you should know, I was at CIY all last week. For those of you that are unfamiliar, CIY is an acronym for Christ In Youth, and it is an organization that puts on a summer conference every year for high schoolers. At this conference, The students can worship, listen to some world-class speakers, and participate in a small-group bible study.
Since Becky and I are leaders for our high school group We went with them. The summer conference we attended was in San Luis Obispo and was held at California Polytechnic State University. We stayed in the dormitories, and our main sessions were held in the gymnasium.
Becky and I also led a discipleship group (D-group). We split our youth group up by grades, and Becky and I were leading the eleven juniors.
To make a long story short (too late), we had a fantastic time. If you want to hear all about it, give me a call (If you don’t know my phone number, I’m not sure I want you calling me).
Now I’ll tell you about once I got back…
Arrived back at the church at approximately 1600 on Saturday, 30 July 2005. Got my bags off the bus and went straight to help Billy out for the service that night.
Service went ok, we were showing a video clip from Seabiscuit, and it’s rolled without a hitch. Afterward, Becky and I went out to eat at Round Table Pizza with John, Billy, and his family. Good times. I beat Billy’s score on Galaga.
The next morning, I got up, went to the church for two more services (for those that don’t know what I do at the church, we have these three large projector screens that we iMag onto. We have three cameras, a presentation computer, a DVD player, and a VT computer. All these video inputs route through our video switcher, and out to the projectors, our Fountain Valley campus, and three on-site venues. I direct the video, and run the video switcher.) As I had mentioned, we had a Seabiscuit clip to show during the sermon. First service this morning went great. Second service rolls around and I hit play on the DVD player, fade in the source, and I get a call from Billy (who’s running FOH sound). He tells me that we don’t have any audio. By the time I turn around to try to figure it out, the speaker is back on stage explaining the video clip that we were trying to show, so we scrap it.
After the service we do some more troubleshooting and find out that when I had hit play on the DVD player, I somehow activated the secondary audio and Billy was hearing the director’s commentary. Oh, well. two out of three aint bad.
After church, I took a nap.
Today, Monday, I went back to work.
Since I had been gone a week, I had some e-mails to lurch through, and some other stuff to help out on. Occasionally, as network administrator, I get to do some investigatory work that I really enjoy.
While I was gone, Matt (our PC tech) was going around to all the computers on our network and performing periodic maintenance (software updates, checking inventory, etc.). Part of what he was doing was changing computer names. Well, he ran into some trouble when he tried to change one particular computer name. It said it was already in use. He found that there was indeed a computer on our network with this computer name, but he didn’t know where it physically was so he could change it. Here’s where I came in.
(If you’re not into that whole technical jargon, you can skip this paragraph, just know that I did track the computer down)
First I pinged the computer name to see the IP and/or if it was on. It was, and I got the IP. Next, I ran a query on our DCHP server to get the MAC address. Done. Now, I consoled into our main router to see the accounting tables. I found the MAC address being forwarded to one of our intermediate switches. consoled into that one. Found the MAC address forwarding into another switch, consoled into that one. Here, I found the port that the tables pointed to, but it wasn’t labeled, so I hoofed it over to the physical location and traced the wire manually. Found it: switch 21, port 19; Room 216.
After my superb Sherloquian investigation, I received a phone call from our mailroom notifying me that a had a package. I went to get it. I got it. Our camera was in! I ravenously ripped into the package and started charging the battery. It said it would take 90 minutes to charge. So I went to lunch.
Mike suggested we go to this Italian deli that we had had before and was really good. We all agreed it was fine, but half of us needed a credit-friendly establishment. I called the restaurant and asked if they were credit-friendly. They were, but they were not open on Mondays. Pah!
Mike’s next recommendation was a deli in downtown Fullerton that he had not been to, but had heard about. We adventured.
It’s called Roscoe’s Famous Deli It was classy, and had really good food. I particularly enjoyed the jumbo pickle and the potato salad. I found this review about it.
Came back from lunch and my camera was charged. I snapped a few photos. Good fun.
When I got to Becky’s house, she snapped a few as well. (I’m not going to link them all, check out the overview page yourself)
After the new camera fun, we went to the movies. We saw Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Becky and I liked it. If you didn’t like it, you’re wrong.
Came home, balanced my checkbook, Becky fell asleep on the couch with the iPod, and I’ma bloggin.
August 2nd, 2005 at 16:32
Glad you had a great time @ CIY and the ‘classy’ place found favor with your taste buds. Hoping to see the movie soon. Did you balance? LUV to you and Becky. Mom