Wake Up Game

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I love new things. They fill my heart with so much glee. When life becomes so mundane and unadventureous, when something new comes around, it brings about freshness to the air. It’s like when your car adapts this certain smell (most likely your body smell), when you put an air freshner in it, it brings about this freshness. You have an all new vigor about driving it and your passengers are just as excited about it.

That’s how I felt when I finally got my computer for work. My job got exciting all over again. The difference between this computer, which is a Mac Pro, and my MacBook is simply the OS. Tiger to Leopard. The changes, while pretty big, are fairly small when you’re not using the whole OS. Still, seeing Leopard’s default bright, pruple, glowing flare of a wallpaper rather than Tiger’s default, bland sky blue wallpaper was a nice touch.

I have mixed feelings about the screen. It’s nice HDMI screen but it’s really hard to calibrate it and I don’t have puck to help me get the color right. It’s also too dark in it’s midrange brightness and when you turn the brightness up so you can see, the colors get washed quickly.

What suprised me was the amount of programs on there. It had all my essential Final Cut programs like Final Cut, Motion and LiveType but it also Photoshop, Dreamweaver and if I have time to fool around with it, After Effects!

Who doesn’t like to fool around with new stuff?

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It’s good to be thankful for things you have even though they may piss you off at times. This goes for anything. Today I experienced a moment where I had to make myself thankful.

Because my computer hasn’t been in, my boss and I have been digging for ways where I can progress in my projects despite a lack of editing programs. Today, we came to a wall. In response to the wall, she gave me a project that had absolutely nothing to do with my job description–after I had already gotten my computer hooked up and running. What did I have to do? Find the names of all the faculty in every college and get their names. Originally, I was supposed to find out if they had Twitter profiles but after searching about twenty names, I came to the conclusion a mass e-mail would be a lot more effecient. Can you imagine trying to find the Twitter profile of someone when there name is “John Anderson?” How do you know which one is which? Let alone, how am I supposed to know if “so-in-so” is the right person?

This led to strange rage inside of me. I told my boss when my computer was setup, I could start working out the brainstorms I went over with her earlier in the day. Well, there it was. Pretty too. The first program I open up on this computer was not Final Cut, not Motion, not Photoshop–no–it was Microsoft Word. My job description is all video related. If you have used Microsoft Word, it is certainly not video related. Then again, neither was this project.

I could go into the details about my attitude toward the project but let me sum it up for you: bad. As I’m working, God tells me get happy. Not because I have to do this work but because I have work. He reminded me that He didn’t have to get this job for me and even though I’m not doing something I remotely enjoy, I am getting paid. That woke me up. It wans’t an easy transition to PO’ed to bursting with joy but eventually, with a little help from the All Michael Jackson station on AOL Radio, I straightened up my ‘tude.

Moral of the story, be greatful for what you have.

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DistinguisheD

Tomorrow is the big concert at the Del Mar Fair. I think it’s big at least. It is the fifth annual Gospel Fest and while DistinguisheD is not going to be on the grand stage as I thought we were, we are still going to bring the Spirit to the people. With bass thrusted, joyful songs to our soothing yet strong worship, God will move on the people as he tears open their hearts. We ain’t messing around.

People will be led.

If you live in San Diego and you’re going to the fair, check us out at 4:00pm. I’m confident you’ll smile and maybe even dance a little!