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Song: If My Wife Knew (She Would Slap Me)
Since we didn’t get to put out a show last week, I thought I’d give a little something extra. Here’s my first geek song, “If My Wife Knew”.
Lyrics are after the jump. Enjoy and share-alike!
If My Wife Knew
My wife is great she let’s me do the things I like to do,
but there’s always been a limit to the geekenies, it’s true.
I can have a podcast and I can draw picture online.
Even World of Warcraft would be fine.
The Wii is great she likes it to, the 360 and iPod too.
she doesn’t mind my friends online as long. As they don’t show it’s fine.
my twitter doesn’t bother her, my skype instead of call.
But there’s some things she won’t allow at all.
If my wife knew she would slap me.
If my wife knew she would slap me.
I’ve never dressed up as a Jedi, though it is something I’d like to try.
I’ve never painted a figurine, played Warhammer back in a comic book store scene
I would like to call myself by my online name you see
Mr. NLCast your table is ready.
I’ve never participated in a flash mob, never worked EB as my job.
I’ve never been to a convention, not E3, not New Media, not Dragon.
I’ve never watched all 6 Star Wars movies in a row,
But I take my lappy in the bathroom when I go.
I try to hide my secret shame. I’m not ashamed but I should be
When she sees me dressed like C3-PO I can only hope
that she won’t laugh at me, just long enough to leave.
These aren’t the droids she’s married to you see.
I’m to far gone it’s not my fault my wife knew what she did,
when she settled down with this here geek and had a couple kids.
I’m hoping that they’ll look like her but become geeks themselves.
It’s looking good but still to soon to tell.
I Love ScoreKeeper 2
I recently had the honor of working with KidzTurn Labs (and by working, I mean emailing and nagging) in influencing the creation of some awesome score keeping software called Score Keeper 2.
If you keep score for teams (boys vs girls or Team 1, Team 2, etc) and have a video projection system, this is a MUST HAVE.
I’ve been wishing for something like this for years… I always had an idea of what it would do to the kids to know their standings in real time, but I couldn’t imagine how much excitement it brings to the service.
We have our group divided into 5 teams (by grade 1st through 5th) and so having up to 6 teams is great. The scores can be placed anywhere on the screen and will stay on top of your powerpoint or media shout presentations. I use it with SongShow Plus with no troubles at all.
I urge you to check it out Score Keeper 2 – It’s only $10 through the end of September!!
100 Push Ups Illustration and Affirmation
I wanted to share a post I put on Nobody’s Listening about an illustration I was able to use from a real life challenge and it’s effect on me today.
How to forward a feed with a question mark in it to Feedburner
I haven’t actually found an answer to this question anywhere on the internet. I’ve seen the question asked… but no answers.
How can I forward my dynamically generated feed (http://mysite.com/?feed=podcast) to Feedburner using .htaccess?
I’m no code genius, and if someone finds a better way, please let me know… but here’s what worked for me.
# Add the part of your url that is after the quesion mark between the ^ and the $
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^feed=podcast$
# This line stays untouched. It keeps FeedBurner from doing an infinite loop
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !FeedBurner
# This line sends the match from the Query String to the new feed. The ? at the end drops the feed=podcast part
RewriteRule ^$ http://feedproxy.google.com/yoursite? [R,L]
Hope it works for you! I have no help for you if it doesn’t. Sorry.
Guide to Interactive Worship Video
This is great stuff!
(Thanks Dave!)
Volunteer Breakdown Followup
I’ve been using my Volunteer Diagram mentioned in the last episode. It took me a while to get it completed. I’m ashamed at how out of touch I was with my own ministry positions and who was filling them. That is a thing of the past now.
I have right at 127 ministry positions. Ninety of which are filled and 37 of which are not. That’s a lot of Not’s… but it’s nice to have this in a tangable format.
It’s also allowed me to create an exact list of what positions are open which I have made into a simple half-page flier and will hand out to ministry coordinators and potential volunteers.
How many open positions do you have?
The B-word
We’re still in the process of installing and defending our new check-in system. It’s simple, great and wonderful… even for the parents…
Except those parents who want to send their kids to class from the car and expect to be able to pull them out of line before they’re in class properly afterward.
Today one of my leaders asked a parent to wait until the kids were transferred from Children’s Church into Small Groups before pulling them out. They pitched a raving fit and stormed off mumbling how she was a female dog.
I’ve been in inner-city ministry for nearly 10 years now… I’ve been called everything in the book… but never in the walls of my own church.
We’re going to ask our Pastor to address parental behavior during the next service. Once they hear that he’s behind it 100%… I’m figuring we’ll hear less and less of that.
I’m also going to find out who this parent was and talk to them face-to-face. That’s the great thing about check in… built-in accountability!! I figure about two weeks of their kids sitting in service with them should help them appreciate those who serve them. 🙂
The Laborers are Few, way to few!
I can’t help but get discouraged at times about our lack of workers in the children’s department. It’s easy to stay optimistic until your faced with a classroom with one teacher and 20 girls… and the teacher needs to go to the restroom. That’s when I can get a little frustrated… and yes… even angry.
Where are the people!?! Where are they for the love of God? They’re all here… they’re just in service right?
Well it must be because I’m doing something wrong. I’m not promoting the need enough… or I’m doing it in the wrong way… and now we look needy. Check the bulletin ad, make a cute or heart-tearing video. Have the pastor make an announcement. It’s all the same… 12 applications and maybe 2 people start working. But in the time it took to process those 12 applications there have been three put in their 2 week notice.
At the end of the day the only thing that has given me peace is that Jesus had the same issue. Luke 10:2 “He told them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.”
If the greatest human/God/man that ever walked the earth had worker shortages… then who the heck am I to get frustrated? But let’s look at this verse starting from the back. Who’s field is it? God’s! Who’s job is it to provide the labor? God’s! Who do we ask? God!
Where’s the advice on recruiting?
So I’ll continue to put the need out there in print, video, and verbals… but after it’s all said and done… I’m praying to the Lord of the harvest to send me some laborers. It’s His field.
Plus, the right people, God-called people, they’re worth waiting for.
How to simplify your multimedia presentations
If you’re like me, volunteers are hard to find and when we do find someone, we need them with the kids. It makes it hard to keep someone free to work sound and media. Let me share the tools I use that have greatly simplified my media presentations during service and released me from the need of a sound person (for the most part). Continue reading