Open Source With The Mrs.

I showed Eryn a rough draft of the DVD that I'm making to shop for senior/teaching pastor jobs. Always a good idea to let the wife see things. Get her support on things first, then move forward with the project. She didn't like one of the pictures on the menu page, so that will have to be updated.
Most of the project is coming along fairly well. Hopefully I'll be able to start burning sometime next week. JM

Avid Free DV

I downloaded Avid Free DV tonight. I don't know why more people don't take advantage of the free versions that professional software companies produce. It seems like the masses are content with Windows Movie Maker. Personally, I'd rather have the limitations of a professional application that is offered for free. The learning curve will be greater, but the capabilities are so much more immense. Hopefully I can figure it out fairly easily. It will be cool to be able to make DVD's of Noah and Ana for the family, plus creatively edit stuff just for my personal enjoyment. JM

Senior/Teaching Pastor

I took a first step towards me becoming a senior/teaching pastor today. I still think it's years away, but I typed up my resume and made it current. I probably won't start applying to positions for a while, and I'll probably revise my resume many times over the next year, but it's cool and scary to begin down that road. I'm excited about what God has in store for me.
I saw a job posting last night for Mid Rivers Baptist Chapel, which is a church just down the street from where I grew up. It might be interesting to apply to that, although they are probably looking for experience and seminary.
So now I need to create a DVD of me speaking and start looking into seminary. As far as the DVD goes, I looked around for some DVD authoring software and I discovered what kind of firewire cable I need for my laptop to communicate with our miniDV camcorder. JM