andrew dodson

I’ve been having blogging withdrawal. I haven’t had a chance to get on here in the past couple of days. Here’s the run-down:

Friday: I planned on going to the gym after work. That didn’t happen. As soon as I got home, exhaustion hit me. It had been a fairly busy week, and it finally caught up with me. I fell asleep for about an hour. By that time, I needed to make a quick run home, then back to church for a Vertex meeting. The Vertex meeting lasted until 10 p.m..

Saturday: After an early-morning dress rehearsal in Lexington, I spent the afternoon milling about in Lexington. It’s been a long, long while since I’ve been able to hang out in Lexington. I made stops at Carl’s Music, CD Warehouse, Circuit City & Meijer. I netted a nice new hands-free ear piece for my cell phone (finally one that doesn’t fall off my ear!).

Saturday night: A group from church went over to Justin’s for his birthday party. Justin - our resident board & card game buff - broke out several obscure games for us to play, and I think everyone had a really good time. Oh yeah - we also ordered pizza and watched Napoleon Dynamite. Wow - what a stupidly funny movie (you must see it!).

Sunday: Church this morning was great. The praise band set went fairly well, and Rick’s message was good. I skipped out on Sunday School due to having to be in Lexington early this afternoon. The Lexington Brass Band performed our third concert of the season. It was a good concert, but fairly boring for the percussion. It seems the French have some sort of bias against percussion parts in their music.

Sunday night: I just had a mixing session with Quincy of IN3 Entertainment. We also discussed the website, which I will be working on at some point this week.

Off to bed!

I’d like to take this opportunity to publically (I use the word loosely - “public” being the 4 or 5 people that actual read this thing) thank Mr. Mike Barnes. At the same time, I’d like to designate him Minister of Breakfast.

Very faithfully, Mike makes a stop at Dixie Cream on Sunday mornings and provides doughnuts to the Transitions class. He’s a hero to those of us who miss out on breakfast before coming to church.

To my surprise, Mike showed up at CLS this morning. In tow was a bag of cinnamon rolls and a bag of breakfast burritos from McDonald’s.

Thanks Mike!

Rick Long says:

I think we Christians need to be promoting what we are for. The world knows what we are against. Actually, the world thinks we are against pretty much everything outside of baptism and designated offerings. I am sick of hearing the self-rightous and pious point out the filth, and much of it is indeed filth, while leaving the love of Jesus out of the equation.

I couldn’t agree more. Specially, this whole “traditional marriage” debate. Do Christians realize that our aggressive support for one man/one woman is being viewed as hatred toward homosexuals?

Shouldn’t we instead focus on reaching out to homosexuals? Instead of trying to interfere with how they live their life, we need to show them God’s love. We need to support and encourage anyone who may be struggling with this issue. Help is available.

http://www.exodus-international.org/default.asp
http://www.peoplecanchange.com/
http://www.becomingreal.org/

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Ok, so the title is a really bad reference to the 80’s song “I Wear My Sunglasses At Night.” Isn’t that Corey Hart or something like that?

(as I’m typing this, the UK-South Carolina game has just ended. Ugh.)

ANYWAY…

I’ve finally learned how to use my camera at night. Needless to say, my camera’s value or worth just increased. I went on a tour of downtown Frankfort tonight, taking pictures of some of the “landmarks.” I’m going to set up an actual photo gallery on my website, but for now, I’ll show one of my favorites from tonight:

(un-Photoshoped picture of the new Transportation building)

I thought this was an interesting read:

Matthews’ spiritual searching apparently became a little more focused after the album’s recording. A fall 2003 episode of VH-1’s Top Twenty Video Countdown replayed footage of the artist on location while filming the video for “Gravedigger” at a church. It so happened that a youth retreat was being held there during the shoot. The kids, obviously thrilled to meet the superstar, excitedly asked him if he had gone through any recent faith changes. Matthews affirmed that he had been through “a lot of faith changes,” but also added that he had been “washed by the blood of the lamb—that’s where it starts.” When asked if he would pray with them, he declined saying that he preferred private prayer to community prayer, but then encouraged them to pray for him on their own. We shall indeed, as Dave Matthews continues to wrestle with the greater questions of life.

Here’s the full article.

I’ve struck up a relationship with Quincy Thurman of IN3 Entertainment. I’ll be helping him out as a recording engineer and webmaster.

I spent a few hours last night and an hour today recording at the Holiday Inn here in Frankfort. An artist that IN3 is looking to promote came down to record vocals on a couple of songs. It was my first experience recording R&B, but I had a good time, and everything went well. Quincy and me will sit down at some point this week to mix and master the recordings.

I’ve registered www.in3entertainment.com, and I’ll begin working on the design sometime this week. It’s looking like 2005 is going to be a good year for my business.

The real Vertex site is coming right along. The lead team settled on a color scheme at our meeting tonight. I’ve spent the past two hours inputting content. I still have more content to add, and pictures as well. There is a very real chance the site will be up-and-running by late this weekend. That’s the plan, at least.

What do you think of the new blog colors?

As my 25th birthday approaches, I’m a little disappointed in the weather forecast. Yes - it will be cold (the usual on my birthday). However, it looks like there will not be snow on the ground this February 11th. I’ve never kept a record or anything, but it seems like it snows every year on my birthday.

WeatherBug is forecasting a 40% chance of snow on Thursday, but they’re not even going as far as listing an accumulation amount. Friday’s forecast? Sunny and 42 degrees.

Oh well, maybe next year.

I’d be in full support if Franklin County’s public school system wanted to go this route.