Interests/Bio

Much of my background has to do with music in some form or another.

I was an avid photographer, then I had a dormant period for a few years. This is a love that I returned to. Some of my photo's were sold in a gallery and a couple were published in a magazine. I received a Cannon Powershot A20 digital camera (we had our choice of gifts) for working at the same place for 25 years. Two of my photographs "Follow Me" and "Bridge View" won the Guelph 175th anniversary contest. A cropped version of "Follow Me" was featured as the December picture for the 2004 Guelph calendar. In 2005 I bought a digital SLR. After careful consideration and much research, I decided on the Canon 20D.. There is an excellent review of the 20D at Digital Photography Review.

At work I was the Financial Secretary (from 1996 to 2006) on the BCTGM local 323T Union executive. I was on the Job classification committee for many many years and a union steward before that. I have also been on the negotiating committee (collective bargaining) for three contracts and attended numerous conventions.

I was a DJ at C.F.R.U. 93.3 FM for about 5 years. During my time there I was an Announcer / Operator for a program called "Heavenly Beat". The name of the show eventually changed to "Up From The Wasteland". It was comprised of cutting edge Christian music, playing as many mainstream artists a I could. There was at least 33% Canadian content. In depth artist / song information, music industry news, and other verbal enrichment was incorporated. This was an exhilarating experience and I 'm glad I had that opportunity.

I was a sound technician at the 2 previous churches I attended. At one I had an archaic hodge-podge of equipment to work with, some of which was gradually updated. At the other we had state of the art Bryston amps, A StudioMaster 32 channel mixer etc.

I am currently attending The Guelph Vineyard where I am one of the sound techs. The Vineyard churches are known for their music so as you would guess, I get to work with decent equipment here too. The board we use is an Allen & Heath. We have small groups that meet together on a day other than Sunday. We call these groups "cells". Click here for something special.

I enjoy working with computers. We currently have three main computers. They are networked and we have DSL.

The newest is an Acer Intel Core 2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.4GHz. It has a 320GB HD and I have added a 500GB plus I have a LaCie external 500GB. It is hooked up to a Samsung 22" LCD monitor.

The second is a Laptop, a Dell Inspiron 1501 with an External TV tuner.

The 3rd (I assembled) is an AMD 2400 XP with 2 Gig of DDR ram, An NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200,,128 meg dual head (2 monitor capable) video card, a TV tuner card, a 120 gig hard drive and an 80 gig hard drive, a 4X DVD Burner and a 40X CD burner. I use this one as a media server.

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