Cheap Date?

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As many of you know, I got the opportunity to go to winter camp with FRC's High School students. Well, on the way back home, we stopped at a what I think is the nicest freaking McDonald's I have ever been to. Seriously folks, this place had gold ceilings, a warm fireplace, and even a baby grand piano playing classical music. I was surprised there wasn't a concierge at the door offering to take our coats. I have talked to friends that are so cheap that they've told me that if they could, they would take their dates to McDonalds. Well, my cheap friends, I have found that place. All I know is it is somewhere between North Carolina and South Florida. Good Luck finding it.

I did it!

That's right...I did my patriotic duty!...did you???

U23D Review

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Ok, so I don't want to offend anyone, but believe it or not I am not the biggest U2 fan. Don't get me wrong, I really like them and I know like 15 songs of theirs (out of the 100,000), but I wouldn't really consider myself a die hard fan. A few weeks ago, I saw that U23D was coming out and I was like, "huh, that looks pretty interesting". But I wasn't counting the days until it came out like some of my friends. However, this Sunday when I went to church, I spoke to some friends who had gone to see it the day before. They told me it was an emotional experience, and my brother in law even said it was "the most amazing musical experience of his life". Another friend even told me he cried. Ok, they convinced me so I went.

All I can say is ___________________!!!!!

In other words, I was speechless. I honestly thought it was gonna feel like I was at a U2 concert, but it was totally different than any concert I have ever been to. There are about a million different angles and I felt like I was right there on stage with them. The sound and picture quality was absolutely jaw dropping. There were times when Bono would reach out to the crowd, and I'm not lying when I say I had goosebumps! I won't say anymore because I don't wanna ruin it for you guys but all I can say was it the best 12 bucks I have spent in a while...And I'm going to watch it again on Tuesday. WATCH IT!!

Winter Camp Re-Cap

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Sorry for disappearing for a while but it's been pretty hectic around here lately. As most of you know, I came back from Winter Camp this week. I must say it was an awesome experience. I got the opportunity to go as a leader and helped in the tech area, PLUS I got to lead worship one of the nights due to Duce spraining an ankle. It was an awesome weekend full of skiing, worship, and life changing moments. I even got to witness one of the guys from my room make the decision to follow Christ (that was so freaking cool). As far as the skiing went, I must admit that after 2 days of "trying" to ski, I got pretty stinking good. The first day I did terribly, however the second day I did much better and managed to only plow down about 4 or 5 people. Oh yea and it was 10 degrees outside (not including the windchill factor on the way down the mountain). The second day we went skiing, I went down the mountain once and when I got to the bottom of the mountain, my face was literally numb so I went inside and bought a ski mask (it really did help). Actually, a funny thing worth mentioning (or not so funny) was that while I was on the slopes, every time I would see a paramedic van driving to the lodge or ski patrol people carrying a body in a stretcher down the mountain it was an FRC person every single time. I'M NOT EVEN KIDDING!!! We had a total of 5 people go to the emergency room in 2 days. I'm not sure if this is totally accurate, but I believe we had 1 person with strep throat, 2 sprained limbs, 1 concussion, and some other bad injuries. Maybe the slopes are just not for us Floridians. Read more about it here.

Announcement

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Today I found out I will be going to Winter Camp with FRC's Student Ministry "The Road". I will be doing tech and will be serving as a leader to the high school guys. All I can say is that I am FREAKING EXCITED!!! I plan to share plenty of pictures and experiences so stick around. in the words of IE, "WOOT WOOT"

Blog Contest Winner

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Well, the numbers are in and we have a winner for the first ever mind of bert Blog Contest. 

After carefully examining the answers, it came to a close run between Martin and B-Vas. 

Before I reveal the winner, here are the correct answers. 

1. Video Chatting with Cristian Garcia
2. Reading Mindful Existence (Aka - Stacie's Blog)
3. Applications on Dock (From Left to Right)

• Finder
• Safari
• Firefox
• Dashboard
• Mail
• itunes
• Photoshop
• Pro Presenter
• ichat
• Skype
• idvd
• imovie HD
• imovie '08
• Pro Tools
• Logic
• Live (Freebie)
• Smaart 
• Peak
• Garage Band
• DVD Player
• iphoto
• Microsoft Word
• Stickies
• Mac Sword
• Quicken
• Photo Booth
• ical
• Address Book
• System Prefs
• Documents Stack
• Trash

     3. Icons in Menu Bar

• Quicksilver
  
• Twitterific
• Soundsource 
• Spaces
• Bluetooth 
• Air Ports
• Volume
• Battery Life 
• Clock/Time/Date
• Spotlight

43 Possible Correct Answers

And now their answers...

Martin's Answers

I BETTER WIN THIS!!! ( i think i have an advantage)

hard to tell but gonna have to say thats cristian...

reading stacie's blog

application on dock: finder, safari, dashboard, mail, itunes, photoshop, propresenter, ichat, skype, idvd, dvd player, imovie, protools, logic, garage band, preview, word, stickies, macsword, quicken, photo booth, ical, address book, system preferences, documents, trash

icons on menu bar: quicksilver, twitterrific, itunes thingy, spaces, bluetooth, displays, battery, clock, spotlight

Total Correct Answers = 34

B-Vas' Answers
Chatting with Cristian Garcia

Reading Mindful Existence - Stacie Gonzalez (old design)

Apps: Finder, Dashboard, Firefox, Mail, iTunes, Photoshop CS3, Pro Presenter, iChat, Skype, iDVD, iMovie HD, iMovie 08, Garageband, Audio Hijaak Pro?, Soundforge?, DVD Player, iPhoto, Microsoft Word, Stickies, quicken, Photo Booth, iCal, Address Book, system preferences, a stack, trash

Menulets: quicksilver, twitteriffic, ?, spaces, bluetooth, airport, volume/speaker, battery, time/date, spotlight

Total Correct Answers = 35

That's right, the winner is non other than the ipastor himself. It doesn't surprise me since he is 96% addicted to Apple. Great job B-Vas and thanks for playing. You will be getting your itunes gift certificate by email. As for everyone else, thanks for playing. Maybe you should brush up on your apple skills. Or just spend a week shadowing the iPASTOR!!! 

Yes I was a Band Geek!

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Well I just got home from school and I was planning about blogging about something. However, I just saw a Video on Heredes' Blog that brought back alot of memories. You see, it turns out Heredes used to be in marching band just like me. For some of you this may come as a shock since I don't really come across as the geeky type. (yes I am also sarcastic). To this day, whenever I have a funny band story I am about to tell, one of my friends always interrupts and shouts out "this one time at band camp...". Miguel and Carlos actually attended to one of my games when I was in high school and sometimes like to imitate me marching. I have always been teased about it but it really doesn't bother me. In fact, I even make fun of myself alot. I played trumpet and baritone and those 4 years were ones I will never forget and I would do it again in a heartbeat if I could. I tried to dig up a video like Heredes' but had no luck. I did however find some pictures. Enjoy!! (Sorry for the bad picture quality)

First Ever Blog Contest!

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The other day I was going through my computer and I found an old picture I took during a video conversation with a friend. I was looking at the details of the picture when I got an idea and here it is.

Welcome to the First Ever "Mind of Bert.com" Blog Contest!

Ok so here is how you play!

Examine the picture below carefully and answer the following questions using the comment box. (Mac Users have the upper hand....Sorry HP!)

1. Who was I Video Chatting with?
   
2. Which Blog was I reading at the time?
3. Name as many of the Apps on my Doc (Bottom) ..Hint: I changed alot of the Icons so take a guess if your not sure.
4. Name as many of the icons on my menu bar (Top Right hand Corner by the clock)

The first person to answer the most questions correctly wins (There will be a prize!...I just don't know what yet)

The Winner will be announced in exactly one week....BEST OF LUCK!!

I Finally got my car back!!

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Well, after over 5 long weeks, I finally have my car again. You have no idea how great it feels to be driving my Corolla. I must say this whole experience really did teach me to appreciate my car. Don't get me wrong, I have always been thankful for my car but I always just saw it as "my little Corolla" and I would sometimes think, "man, I wish I had a better car or a cooler car". However, after driving around for over a month in an ugly little yellow car with no CD player, a bad radio with a horrible sound system and a tiny trunk where I couldn't fit any of my guitars (yes that's a big deal to me), it made me miss my corolla so much.
I even got a few laughs from people when they saw the rental car. One of my co-workers called it a giant mustard stain, and even my grandpa called it "the canary car" and said it looked like a huge Tweety bird. The day I got my car back, I drove around in it and honestly felt like royalty. It felt like I went from a pinto to a limo. My only complaint was that the body shop did take kinda long, but they did an awesome job with it. They left it looking like new. They even went all out and pimped it out for me. Check it out!!

Before

AFTER!!!

Just Kidding!!...that's actually an old picture!!

Check out my sweet photoshop skills...hehehe

Apple Addict

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Thanks to Stacie Gonzalez for leading me to a cool site where I found this
68%Honestly, I thought it would be worse...