wow. this was an amazing day. Closest I have EVER been to not being ready with the tech stuff for 1st service. Convention Center had wired their wall outlets 'incorrectly.' They had 26 circuits places along the wall where our stage is, in a twist lock, quad plate, and twist lock. They had used 3 prong twist lock sockets, but the sockets they used were actually 120v sockets AND THEY WIRED THEM AS 240v, with no neutral. So, we adapted our system to use this. Then the conf center figured this out. So, they changed in a way that placed a duplex outlet with the bridge clipped to install the sockets on individual circuits which replaced 1 twist lock. This was mostly fine, except we had to replace twist plugs with standard plugs. A headache, but not too bad. BUT on the other twist socket, they e-wired it to be correct as 120v. This we lost 5 circuits. Not a deal-breaker, but since we use 17 o more, going from 26 to 21 is a bit of a risk. So today, on the fly, we had to re-wire our twist plugs to standard plugs with little fore-warning. (We had been told a) the change was to be phased and b) the change was to start 2 weeks from today. So I was ready to re-wire 2 circuits per week in a mostly casual way, but NOT all 12 in one day.) Buy my brother and his cousin pulled a MAJOR rabbit out of heir butts and with some guidance on what was which, they were able to get the wiring done. We were even able to make a few extra twist lock to standard extension cords.
to top it off: AWESOME message, and I am told that we had about 40 people decide to accept Christ. Makes the headache and pressure (Which I secretly love, please don't tell Pastor Gary) worthwhile.
I simply LOVE the small references that tie series together. Today he comments on 'all-in' which was our poker series.
