Laughs at work... pt. 2... holes in ceilings

Ok, so I said I would write another post about funny things that have happened at work recently...  About a week ago, we were shooting another pick up shot for Prof Sock, and we blew a fuse with all the lights.  So, Brandon and I went into the attic b/c he was going to show me which fuse I needed to flip.  I couldn't exactly see where he was pointing, so I stepped on a beam and my foot slipped... yup, then my leg went through the ceiling!  But it wasn't any ceiling, it was the ceiling into our boss' office.  And as my luck would have it, Bill was in his office... and take it even further, he was in a meeting with Mark and a prospective INVESTOR!!!  So here I am, my leg dangling in the air in his office with them all in a meeting... It all happened so fast, that it took a minute for us all to register what had just happened.  When it did, Bill and Mark asked if I was ok, I said I was and then removed my leg from the hole... Meanwhile, Chuck heard something, and he came in and totally started laughing!  He made sure I was ok, but then had to leave because he was laughing too hard and didn't want Bill to hear.. But Chuck helped me make a temp. fix for Bill....

Laughs at work... pt. 1... green screen

At work, we made a small $8 green screen to do some pickup shots. 

It is 6 pieces of poster board held up with gaffers tape.  When we were putting the poster board together, we taped it with clear scotch tape... i mentioned that we should tape the back so that it doesn't show up on screen... my boss said that it would be fine on the front, so that is what we did... We shot some of what we needed, and we found that the tape was causing a little reflection and making it hard to key... so my boss told me that we should have done the back like i had originally said and asked if i would take it down and fix it...

. we had laughs about that!  

SO today, i was taking down the board and i started pulling off the gaffer's tape and my boss said that it wouldn't tear the poster board, immediately after he said that guess what happened?!?!?  THE POSTER BOARD TORE! hahaha!  Chuck was amazed!  He then said something along the lines of at least it won't rip the paint off the 

wall, and..  yup, you guessed it... IT DID!  we had such a hard laugh because (A) gaffer's tape isn't supposed to do that and (B) it was just so funny how the exact opposite of whatever Chuck said happened!  

Chuck quickly changed his facebook status to "Chuck Peters is disappointed with Gaffers tape..."

I'm so glad that I work in a place where we can laugh together.  It makes the workplace so much more enjoyable... 

like the title said, this is just part 1,  I need to get some pictures of another hilarious moment and then i will blog about that as well!

Strength will rise

Isaiah 40:29-31

"He gives power to the weak, And to those who have no might He increases their strength.  Even the youths shall faint and be weary.  And the young men shall utterly fall, But those who wait on the Lord Shall renew their strength;  They shall mount up with wings like eagles, They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint."

Franklin Classic 10K

For those who don't know, I am training with a group of people from my church for a half marathon (The Silver Comet).  Labor Day was a big day for me.  My first race!  We ran as a group and individually in the Franklin Classic 10K.  It was a great run and I finished at about an hour 20.  Although it was hot and humid (not the ideal running conditions), there was one thing that made it bearable...the breeze!  It wasn't a constant breeze, but it was there when I needed it the most.  So good!  Even though the breeze was welcomed as a way to cool me down, it was sometimes an opposition.  How?  Well, it is difficult running into the wind sometimes.  

Another opposition I was facing about half way into the run was injury/soreness.  My hip has been bothering me for about the past 2 weeks of training and that flared up again in this race.  But thanks to the comrades I had running with me, I was able to push through most 

of the pain, but walked when I needed. 

 Throughout the race I had a steady pace, but when I saw the finish line, I knew that I was almost done and almost to the point of accomplishing my goal for the day!  So I sprinted the last part of it...It was such a great feeling crossing the finish line, but while I was alone in my run,  I was welcomed across with my teammates cheering me on!  Such a wonderful feeling!

Anyways, back to the original reason for the post... While I was sitting in Utopia (a local coffee shop), I was praying about the day and thinking through some stuff and the wind from

 that morning came back to mind.  Even though it is wonderful, it can still be an opposition to a runner.  That is true of some things in life.  Although they are good, appear to be good, they can be an opposition to us (me) if it is not the right season for them.  Thinking about that reminded me that I must continually be in th

e Word and seeking discernment so that I don't chase after good things that aren't for me in the season I am in currently.  Constantly testing those things, words, opportunities against the Bible and taking them to the Lord to see if it is really for me now.