Apr 8 2007
Free Cats
We are moving back to a condo and are looking for a home for our cats. Let me know if you’re interested.
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Jun 27 2005
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To start today, I was really tired. And so I’m going to try to get to bed before 12 tonight. Work was normal, I got a good amount of things listed. After work I stopped by another store like ours to see what it was like. I’ll have to say it was pretty professional. Anyway, then I went to the church because I found out earlier that we have enough money donated to have money to use on Brooke’s Visa. We’re having issues with hers ’cause of her name change from getting married. I have it figured out but I’m printing out the forms now ’cause she spelled something wrong on the first ones. Speaking of Brooke, she is at a girls prayer meeting. It’s the Brazil Mission Trip Girls. Speaking of Brazil Mission Trip. I found out our itinerary today. I guess Lucas didn’t know about it, speaking of which again, I need to mail that to him quick…. ok, got it. Now… anyway, after going to the church on the visa thing we went to gma and gpa steens and talked to them, then started home, Brooke had met me there after work and then I had to go to the bank so she went home. On the way home she saw a car hit the metal cable guards in the center on the interstate. She said she was going back to help the person since no one was stopping to help. She called me back to say that it was my sister. I guess my sister hit a hay bale and a person behind her swerved from another one and hit the center. It was so weird ’cause Brooke saw it happen from the other side of the interstate. The timing had to be perfect. Anyways, Lacee, my sister, was ok and the other girl was really short I guess and hit the air bag pretty hard in the face. Her mouth was cut open a bit but I think she’ll be ok. So after all that we came home and had dinner and I’ve been working in my office. Oh, we finished a movie we had started during dinner called the First Daughter and the end was horrible, I’m going to tell it to you so you don’t have to watch it. Basically she is the daughter of the President and he is up for reelection, she goes to college and the secret service are all over her. So she gets them to back off. Then she falls in love with her RA and eventually finds out he’s undercover secret service. She gets mad goes home, they finally hook up after her dad wins the election and then he decides to go back to the secret service and she goes back to college and the end, not together, dumb! Ok, I just had to say that. So, now I am scanning picture and trying to print off all this stuff for Brooke’s Visa and Passport. I’m going to go to bed now, it’s still before 12 :)
I almost forgot, here’s my picture of the day. A woman on this motorcycle. She has shorts on, no helmet and this huge tatoo on her leg, it’s looked kewl but weird. She wasn’t that heavy as the picture looks, I think her shirt is poofing in the wind, she was pretty small for that bike.
Jun 27 2005
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Today was a busy day and when I thought I had nothing to do this next week, I got lots of things from people at church to do. This morning we went in and set up the stage since we had it all messed up from the day before at the barbeque. Everything went well and I had the usual for breakfast on Sundays, a Casey’s donut, chocolate long jong, with pudding filling and a milk. Mmmm. After church a friend from church came over and was going to put some pictures in order that she had given me for her parents wedding anniversary. Unfortuneatly I couldn’t get the files to work and she had to bring the pictures to me later at church. So that’s my project for this week. We watched a movie and took a nap until church started. I played my video I made for the Youth and it went well. I learned some new tricks with my video editing. My passion for the Youth is really growing daily and I told the Youth Pastor I would like to be involved. He said that would be great and he will find a time to sit down and talk with us about it. After the service we had a Brazil Mission Trip meeting. We discussed a book we are reading and we had a great prayer time. The group is getting stronger and closer to God all the time. There are a lot who still need support and we still need about $800. Please pray for us no only for financial support but for our growth in the Lord. We gave Julia a ride home and came home and I’m going to bed now. Oh, and Dustin and Rebecca are ready to have their baby. She was having contractions like 7 min apart… I’m excited! Here’s some pics from tonight:
Julia, Ashley, Sean, & Brooke
Lucas (college pastor)
Ashely getting shot by the air gun.
Brooke getting shot by the air gun.
Julia getting shot by the air gun.
Sean Duegan
Rebecca at 9 months…
Dustin at 9 months
Jun 26 2005
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Owww… My back is sore. We had our back yard barbecue today and after carrying all the equipment in and out, my back is very sore. I thought it was going to be canceled due to the tons of rain we were getting but God, of course, is in control and the rain stopped just in time for the parade, carshow and cookout. Here are some pictures from today: 
Youth!
Face Painting
More Youth, Josh Nemmers
Saylorville Township Fire Department gave firetruck rides.
Mia, Josh Byers daughter, Josh is our church web designer.
More firetruck rides.
Pastor Pat and his wife checking out some of the cars at the car show.
Iowa National Guard from the parade talking to the youth.
My favorite car in the show. I heard it had a 454.
Kids and Youth playing in the blow up jungle gym.
So, now I am really sore. My and Brooke went out to eat later tonight after taking a nap when we got home. We went to Chilis ’cause we had some money left on our gift certificate. We also had a gift certificate left over to Dairy Queen so we went there too, we tried the Chocolate Explosion or something like that, a blizzard. I finished the video for the youth’s event for this week, SOS, Students Offering Service. It’s sweet. I’ll probably put it on my portfolio on portersmultimedia.com when that part is up and ready. Ok, so now I’m going to go to bed. I’m very tired.. Goodnight!
Jun 24 2005
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Ok, I promise this won’t be as long as yesterday, couple reasons, one the internet is being flakey so I don’t want to type all this and then have the net go down and not get anything.. and two, ’cause I’m really tired. I slept in today though until 10am, I haven’t done that forever, thank you to Brooke for letting me do that. Also ’cause my boss wanted me to work afternoon instead of morning since everyone had plans. So, I slept, got ready for work, slacked off and wore jeans, t-shirt, and mocosins. It was nice. I got a lot listed on eBay today, a lot of good stuff, and also took in some high dollar items. We’ll see how that goes. The company that is selling out is waiting on a making a decision for a few days. They have an offer to buy everything plus the building. But if they don’t take it then we get to sell it on eBay, I guess one thing is a corvette motor that was going to be used to break the land speed record. Ok, so then I stopped by the bank, deposed my check (cause it’s Friday), then stopped by the church to get pictures from S.O.S. (students offering service). I was supposed to video tape it this week but it’s just so busy. Tomorrow I have the backyard barbeque at church. There I’m doing sound and there’s a parade and car show. I’ll be busy all day for sure. We got the new computer for the sound room this week but it’s still in the main church office in the box, I’m tempted to crack it open tomorrow during the barbeque…. ah, better wait til after the sunday services… Anyways… I came home and made some hamburgers and worked in my office. Got some videos done of Pastor and now working on the SOS video. My program I’ve been testing to see if I want to buy runs out of it’s trial period in 1 day… now I have to come up with about $300 and also $300 for Brooke’s Passport and Visa. We have about 150 coming from money from donations towards that… but we also have to pay for about 800$ of her summer classes. Good thing we’re both working now. Ok, tired, very tired and Brooke is of course already asleep, she fell asleep reading a book, by the way, she is on her 3rd book this week, she is crazy! ok, going now, goodnight!
Jun 24 2005
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Here we go, another busy day. I started off as usual getting ready for work. I was trying to get there early so I could leave early because I had a meeting with Pastor to video tape some stuff for him. Anyways, I was also looking around for some CDs of a customers and was freaking out ’cause I couldn’t find them. Let’s just say I prayed a lot. I knew they had to be somewhere so I just focused on continuing to look. I had already checked the church the night before and the cars. I decieded to stop by the church again to see if I missed them, after looking all over in the office and sanctuary I went to the sound room. There they were right by the sound board. I can’t believe I missed them before. Anyway, after I got that settled I headed to work. We are very busy there and have a lot of items needed listing. I try to get into lising as much as I can but then some computer issue comes up and I’m off doing that. Getting to work didn’t help much either ’cause we got a new server and I didn’t want to touch anything til the owners got there. We got a company that is going out of business insterested in using us to list their items on eBay. The owner went today to check it out. Its a high performance racing parts store with older stuff too. We’ll see how that pans out. So, now we’re halfway through my day… I left to meet Pastor at 1:00pm but we wern’t to meet until 1:30 at a coffee shop off of 86th street, well I called him just to see where he was, he said he was on my street at Quizno’s. I told him I just drove by, acually he was at a different one so I just went ahead to the coffee shop we were going to video tape, or so I though, after sitting there for about a half hour, he called and I realized I was at the wrong coffee shop, about 1/2 mile away, again… nice. Anyway we got this video taped and also a special message for Sunday night. I also talked to him about running sound for our backyard barbque, It’s going to be fun. This Saturday. Free food after the parade. Ok, so after that I get home and call the Passport/Visa place to see how much Brooke’s stuff will be, it’s going to be about $300 to get everything. We have to get her name changed on it too ’cause she still has her maiden name on it. I need to get that all done tomorrow. Ok, so then Brooke came home and made dinner. I talked to Corey and Brian around that time frame too, hadn’t talked to Corey in a while. He said he sold his Alero and is buying another Grand Prix. Not much else news, we just talked about him wanting to get a new computer. After that we did Impact, which is our college group in Thursday nights at church. www.experienceimpact.com Check it out, soon I will be making a Multimedia page for it with pictures and more. Impact was good, Dustin spoke and he did a great job ’cause he’s so.. real. I appreciate that Dustin if you’re reading this. I gave him a hug too so I’m sure he already knows. I played basketball with Dustin, Lucas vs me and Sean. We lost and I’m sure it’s cause I’m out of shape. If I was still about 17, I would smoke them, but I’m old now so… I’m planing on continuing my exercise tomorrow. I want to be riding my bike or running or rollerblading or something every day. It will be good for me. Ok, so then after Impact we stood around and talked in the parking lot, then some people came to our house and watched the NBA Finals. I haven’t watched that since Jordan…. anyway, I had a great time and keep getting to know everyone more. I will miss Justin when he goes off to the east coast for Photography school. I am so jealous too. We were talking about Apple computers and what he should buy. Well they finally had to go ’cause they have to work early so now I’m here at the computer. I hope I didn’t miss anything important. Goodnight!
Jun 21 2005
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So much happened today. I don’t remember this morning much since it is so far away now. I had to call in to tech support at work today to fix a major issue with not being able to add new customers. This is at the eBay store. It’s going well but I seemed to be slowed down everyday by some glitch, soon we will be getting a server and I will have to do this all over again. It’s one of those things someone asks, “How long with this take” and you say it should take 30 min but it takes 2 days… I love it though, troubleshooting is my favorite. I got my office all cleaned up today and got some more computers going. Right now I’m using the one I bought from a friend at Church, his work was selling them. 1.6GHz with 40 GB with XP Pro for 135$, Sweet! and it’s working great so far, might use it for the webcam server. Anyway, enough with the computer talk. I got a little time to video a bad storm but it kinda died out as it hit us, I guess my mom had a semi blown over by her house and she live 30 min north of me. Darn I missed it. The girls from the Brazil Mission trip came over and they chatted and prayed at our house. It was fun even though I wasn’t supposed to be there… I’m so PROUD, Lily, our Beagle Puppy rolled over all by herself tonight with everyone there. I was so excited. She has learned how to lay down, and roll over in 3 days, and swim… but that’s not fair that’s an instinct. I also fixed my friend from church, Chad Decleene’s computer, it had the worm and needed Windows XP Service Pack 2 installed. And I edited Korey Pearson’s Video of his relative competing in state golf. It’s rendering now. I’ve been busy and it’s time for bed, see you tomorrow!
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