Load Up

For some strange reason, every time Bob Rays has a party, the next morning we have load-up. It never fails. Brad, Bob, Eli and I do load up and take down at church on the first and fifth Sundays of the month. We show up about 7:30 AM on the given Sunday at the school where our church meets. We unload 20 or so 8'x5'3' crates into the auditorium, setup the chairs, screen and unload some of the sound gear with Mark, Les and Mike. After church, we do the same thing, but backwards. It's not the hardest thing in the world, but 7AM on a Sunday morning just feels early and we finish around 12:30ish. In breakfast, hang out and catch up on life - which is one of the big reasons we do it.

As I said before, 7:30 is early. It's even early if you show up at 6:30 because you forgot about daylight savings time and then sit around for an hour thinking your friends blew you off. If you did all of those things this morning, your name would be Eli. We assumed the best about Bob this morning when he didn't show, figuring he had broken his leg, had liver failure, or misunderstood the daylight savings time concept, thinking that it was a 12 hour shift in time, and showed up this evening.