the david crowder band/third day concert was fun, but tiring as expected. i am now an expert with the credit card machine, since that was my job. we got to see a good amount of the concert, and since we were "staff" we were allowed to watch the concert from wherever we wanted. o and i went to the mezzanine (is that what it's called? the balconies on the side that are close to the stage?) since it was still very close to the stage, but up higher without any obstructions of our view. i ran into a couple of people from all parts of life - i even heard our high school biology teacher was there! (but didn't see her since i wasn't at the main merchandise booth but off on the side swiping credit cards.) the most tiring part was after the concert, taking inventory, taking everything down and packing, etc. but i did get to come home with both a third day CD & a david crowder band CD.


bob, andy, and chris before the doors open.


all my concert pics are blury, but here are a few.


david crowder band.



third day.

i took a whole bunch of videos too, but i'll just post one. this was during the david crowder band, when the entire audience was jumping up and down. pretty fun to watch from up above. for some reason my hand wasn't so steady while shooting this. :)






olivia, me, chris, and... some other random volunteer at the merchandise booth. this was during the concert when there wasn't much going on, and we had already come back from taking our turn to watch the concert.

the rest of the pics are here.

andy has some good pics from his post. looks like he went closer than we did. my knee needed a chair. :)

you know, at the chris tomlin concert, it was seriously like 90% asian. everywhere i turned, i would bump into someone i know. it was like the norcal gathering of the asian christian community (where everyone knows someone who knows someone...) so we figured last night's concert would be the same. but it wasn't - there actually weren't that many asians, just a sprinkling here and there. why was the demographic so different? are chris tomlin songs more popular in asian churches? was word of mouth about the chris tomlin concert much faster in the asian circles so all the asians bought up all the tickets? or are asians just cheap? (chris tomlin tickets were $15 for everyone or i think $5 for students, third day/david crowder tickets were as much as $50.) go figure.

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this morning, as i approached my cube, i saw an orange dot sticker on one of my chairs.



i didn't think much of it since every once in a while, our company takes inventory and sticks those dot stickers on the things they already counted. but then... i walked further into my cube... (now you can see my messy desk/cube.)



my response: what the. WHAT THE HECK? i hear coworkers in the background trying to hold back laughter.

i walk in further.



"PETER!!!!!!!!!!!!"

he hadn't arrived yet, so what do i do?

"If someone strikes you on one cheek, turn to him the other also." -Luke 6:29

nah. it's all about lex talionis. ;)






i had stuck stickers upside down on his chair, knowing that he'd probably see them and take them off before sitting down. oddly enough, he did see them, but sat down right on top of them.



this is the result, after he got back up to check out the damage he did to my cube again. later he told me he thought that i had found white stickers. he didn't realize i had just put them sticky-side up.

pics of our damaged cubes here.

(you know, i realized i'm now much faster at uploading pics after i discovered the SD card reader on my laptop. i'm such a dork, i still can't believe it took me 1.5 years to discover it. i do have a separate SD card reader, but i was always too lazy to pull it out. and now i can upload pics while at work. :) it's super fast!)

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we're stuck at work, and want to watch the cal game pretty badly. we can't use cbs's MMOD because they stinking black out the local game to make you watch it on tv. since our work ip address is local, all the pac-10 games have been blacked out for us. we have no tv around us... so we have to be creative. first, we tried net meeting. we asked a coworker on the east coast to connect with us, but the connection was so slow, it wasn't worth it. so our solution? we're going to remote connect to her laptop. and it works! awesome. yes, i am contributing to the $14M/minute loss in america, or whatever that figure is.