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May 16 2004

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Hello. Church got canceled today. I feel kinda weird getting up and having nothing to do today. Church got canceled because there was a sewage backup in the basement. :( I shouldn’t say we’re doing nothing today. We got up and got ready and read our book we’re reading called “The purpose driven life”. It is really good. Brooke is also reading a book called “In The presence of My Enemies”. It’s about the missionarys that got captured in the philipines by terrorists. I’m also editing a video from Impact last week. It’s hilarious ’cause we were messing with the sound effects processor after the meeting. It can change your voice and add echo and all kinds of other kewl stuff. I guess we have two machines that do that. I’m going to have to learn what they do so we can use them better. I got a new external hard drive last night. 160GB. I need it to copy videos onto to edit them. I can do small 1-2 hour services with what I had but now I’m going to do weddings and I have like 6 tapes with 1-2 hours of video each and my hard drive wasn’t big enough. I felt really stupid when buying it ’cause the asked if we wanted the 2 year warranty and I said no. But then I thought about it and changed my mind in the car. I came back in but they were closing and I had to wait for another person to leave so I could sneak back in. But now if anything happens to it in the next 2 years I can take it back for a new one. Anything… I can drop it in my pond and it’s no problem!!! :) Here’s a picture of it. So far it’s working great. I transfered all my videos and files of my old external hard drive. (which seems to corrupt files every once in a while randomly) Ok… so now Brian and Andrea are coming over and we are going to saylorville lake for a picnic. Maybe I will take some pics!! Bye!

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May 16 2004

Day Three

Well, it’s sunday and I’m not working on the Fury…. But I am excited for the wheels to come tomorrow and see what they look like on the car. I’ll take some before and after pictures. I forgot to tell you that I tried to move is yesterday after Butch (a friend of my grandpa) adjusted the carburator a little. But the wheels that are on the car were only held on by two lug nuts and they were to big so one of the wheels fell off :( Anyway… we had just put those steel wheels on to keep it off the ground. I’m sitting here thinking about the offset of these new wheels and if they will stick out or not… I really hope not… we’ll see tomorrow I guess!

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May 15 2004

Day Two, Wheels, Transmission Update

Today my grandpa went to a friend of his and checked on a transmission for me but he wasn’t there. Then I went to the junk yard and found an old set of temporary wheels. They are off of a 1995 Chrysler Sebring. They are chrome 16inch. They should do for now. Better than the steel wheels that are on it now. I got the Sebring set of wheels for $200 with tires. Later today I went to our mechanic’s shop and told him my plans with the car. He will be doing things such as transmission work. He says that he knows a guy that can fix my transmission that I have. I would rather do that since I’ve already spent money on the transmission I have and know it has good cluches and new parts, just needs the bands worked on. He also says he has a set of shocks at his shop he was going to put on for me once but I never came over and had them installed. So, once the wheels get here monday, I’ll put them on and show a before and after picture. And I’ll take it to get the tranny worked on.

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May 14 2004

Intro

Ok, this blog is going to be specifically for my car, which is going to be a story in it’s own. I should start off by telling you about were I got the car and it’s past…

The first memory I have of the Fury is when I came to visit my grandfather and he took me out to a new car dealership to buy some cars. (He owns a carlot that I now run that that is a different story) When we drove this car back to the car lot I was thinking that it was a pretty kewl car. Now you have to realize that I didn’t know the difference between the wheel and the tire back then. (If you don’t know yourself, then you might as well stop reading this ’cause you’re not going to enjoy it.) (Speaking of tires, I have to go air up another one…brb) Ok two tires done, 2 more to go. So, back to the story. So I found out that it had a big motor and that a two door was kewler than a four door so I said, I’ll take it! We had the vinal top replaced and the seat had a little tear so we fixed that too. Later, after I beat the crap out of the poor car in high school, I got some kewl wheels and tires for it. That was about 4 years ago and now the top is bad again and the wheels and tires have been stolen. I have also changed the carburator to a edelbrock 4 barrel instead of the factory 2 barrel. Currently the transmission is out of commission and I even paid to have it fixed but the guy that worked on it only changed the clutches and things and didn’t repair the bands. I’ve tried adjusting them but I get nowhere. Other things that need immediate repair is the radiator and the valve cover gasket seals. Oh and the tire that are on it, I wouldn’t trust them to get me 5 miles to home :(

So, the plan is to get it running and use it as a daily driver. Did I mention it only has 66,000 miles on it? I know this ’cause it was a one owner and had around 47,000 miles when I got it. It was in perfect condition and was traded in by an older couple. The only accident or dammage the car had was in the parking lot of the dealership they traded it to. Some one back into them and put a small dent by the tail light. I’m planning on taking some pictures today so I’ll let you know where I’m starting from. Wish me luck!

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May 9 2004

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Well the first thing I want to say is SWEET to the new blogger.com website. It is designed so clean and sweet. Next I was just going to say what we did today. Basically after the wedding yesterday (which went great) we went to My aunt’s house (Brian’s Mom) and ate dinner and played some games. We were going to go bike riding but the weather got bad. Today we were pretty busy with church. After church we went to a restaurant called Ryan’s which is a buffet. Like you walk in and work like an assembly line to get your food. Kinda demeaning. But the food was good, and it was packed because it’s Sunday and Mothers day. After that we went and saw Nick’s new townhouse which is pretty kewl but would be kewler if they were really the $520 a month they advertise. Anyway, Brian, Andrea and Mattathias came over and we hung out till church. Brian and I worked in the sound room and we learned a lot. I learned a lot more by doing a “sound check” with Lucas tonight after the service, setting up for Impact on Tuesday. We messed with the new program we might get for the church. It worked AWESOME. With this program we can use moving backgrounds for our lyrics on the screens, or LIVE CAMERA VIDEO. So the band can be behind the words. Chris is going to be there to see how it goes. Ok, so that’s about it. In the morning I have a meeting with DMACC college to show my “portfolio” and see what they think about be getting into the commercial arts program. That’s all I have for now. Bye!

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May 8 2004

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Hey, quick update, we are going to be at the church all day video taping a wedding and reception.. then we will be with Brian and Andrea bike riding!!!! Bye!!!

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May 6 2004

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Goodmorning… I didn’t have time to write last night because I was doing some repairs on my website. I’m adding a quick links section on my intro page. I’m also going to be reworking my homepage so it fits well on all computers. I went to DMACC yesterday to talk to an advisory and seem to have gotten no where. I have to take a placement test, which I expected and totally understand. But I just don’t understand what each degree has to offer and where they fit with what I want to do. I have to set up individual appointments with two degree heads to figure it out… Speaking of college Brooke’s last final of the semester is today. Then she will finally be off for about 3 weeks. We are planning on going with my grandparents on Memorial Day to Wisconsin for some graduations and just time off. Tonight is the Friends Finale!!! We will be watching that and then I’m prolly going to be working on a powerpoint for a wedding. Tomorrow we’re going to run a practice video taping of the wedding at their rehearsal. This weekend I think we’re going with Brian and Andrea to both of their parents. Oh, and of course we have the wedding Saturday to video tape… Ok, so I’m off to mess with my website and then to work… Bye bye!

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May 5 2004

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Ok, we just got home from putting up the lights at church… 2 and a half hours… 30 minutes over what I guessed. But now it’s late and we’re off to bed!!! Goodnight!!!

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May 4 2004

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Ok, Wow I am awake! I slept for 12 hours last night. Is that crazy or what? Brooke was studying for her last final this semester and fell asleep reading. I came over to wake her up but ended up falling asleep too… at 7PM. I didn’t wake up till 7AM this morning. That’s weird when you usually only sleep 8 hours or less. I had my usual this morning, and egg with soft yolk and toast. Mmmmm…. Brooke came to work with me till 1PM and we’ve been working up a storm. First we worked on a website we created for my aunt. She is selling her house. It’s called . We added all the details and Brooke added the title and background. Then we had to extract some audio off of a video we taped from the church. I had to download like 3 programs and a decoder to get it to work but now I have an Audio CD of the service. I have a list of about 20 other things I have to do so I’d better get to work. Tonight we are setting up lights for the pastor’s daughter’s wedding like we did ours. Oh, and tomorrow I have a meeting at DMACC with an advisor about starting school this fall!!!

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Apr 29 2004

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Well, it’s been a while since I last wrote so you can probably tell we’ve been busy. Brooke is finally done with Grandview College for a while, but she is still going to DMACC for another week. Then June 1st she starts summer classes at DMACC. We went to MN last weekend for 4 days. We went to see her dad play in a pool tournament in Rochester. My cousin Corey was in MN working with my dad so we hung out with him. And Devin, Brooke’s sister, came down for the weekend too. Brooke’s dad took us to a shooting range. I shot a .22, .357, and a 9mm. All hand guns. It was fun and we got to keep our targets. We also went to a big church in the cities. The pastor was John Piper, a famous pastor and author. We stayed in the twin cities with her mom Thursday night and came up to eat lunch with her after church Sunday. We also got bikes! I bought one at target and she got her mom’s old one. We haven’t got to go yet, but we’re going to try this weekend, weather permitting. Business is slow again, but it’s always up and down. Other than that I’ve been REALLY busy with stuff at church. Sound, making videos of services, creating a video presentation for a girl going to Israel, working on new software that uses moving back grounds for our music lyrics on the screen during worship, wedding videos, and…. Obviously not my website. Sorry about that, we need to get some more topics going on the forum. Hopefully I’ll get some more time here soon to add some new funnies and stories. Don’t forget you can add your own stuff too!

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