Guitar Gear

As they say, bad things tend to happen in threes, and last Sunday was exactly one of those days:

1. First, I misplaced my passport and was freaking out about that because I’m leaving on a business trip to India in a couple of weeks. I have since found it, but damn!
2. I got to church and burned out about $1000 worth of pedals by using the wrong power supply with them. Ouch!
3. I guess I got so flustered with the first two things, that I forgot to turn up the volume on the mains on the PA! So all people could hear during our service was the sound coming from our monitors and my amp! And I was wondering why they weren’t participating as lively as they normally would – DUH!!!! Aiiiiiiyeeeee!!!

Needless to say, I was not in a very good space on Sunday. And to put icing on the cake, the battery on my T5z went dead in the middle of a Praise and Worship session with the youth ministry later that evening!

And guess what? The man who constantly preaches having spares of everything didn’t bring a spare battery! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Luckily, I was able to borrow a rechargeable 9V that’s used for the priests’ lapel mics. Whew!

I’m laughing at myself now. But it wasn’t funny at the time. It feels like that scene in “The Internship” with Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson where they went to Stanford University to find Dr. Xavier, only be punched in the nuts! Later in the movie, the team watched X-Men, and Vince Vaughn said, “Well, it wasn’t funny at the time…”