What a palaver!
This morning was the special Culte de la Réforme (Reformation Sunday service).
That meant there were lots of hymns to type in from A Toi la Gloire and various extra bits to put in the Powerpoint. The order of service arrived early, before I even went to the student centre, so I set to it.
Well - I did a typo in the chorus of a hymn, which meant that FOUR TIMES we sang le flamme instead of la flamme. FOUR TIMES! The irony was that I know perfectly well that flammes are girls, and I had said la flamme about 5 minutes earlier in an intro I had to do.
Yes - today it was my turn to introduce the confession of faith and the offering.
Well that's ok, now I have my natty PowerPoint remote, so this morning was the first time to use it in anger.
And it didn't work! We went from page 1 of the confession of faith to ... stubbornly stuck on page 1!
How irritating!
Still, the offering bit went OK.
Then Sammy had done this slide for 2 Tim 3:16, with words twirling and all sorts - but he left out that part of the service completely, so that meant that during the short prayer after the reading I had to press the button several times to get past all the twirls onto the blank slide just before the final hymn.
Andy (PowerPoint man in Deeside), I never appreciated you like I should have.
R E S P E C T, man, respect.
That meant there were lots of hymns to type in from A Toi la Gloire and various extra bits to put in the Powerpoint. The order of service arrived early, before I even went to the student centre, so I set to it.
Well - I did a typo in the chorus of a hymn, which meant that FOUR TIMES we sang le flamme instead of la flamme. FOUR TIMES! The irony was that I know perfectly well that flammes are girls, and I had said la flamme about 5 minutes earlier in an intro I had to do.
Yes - today it was my turn to introduce the confession of faith and the offering.
Well that's ok, now I have my natty PowerPoint remote, so this morning was the first time to use it in anger.
And it didn't work! We went from page 1 of the confession of faith to ... stubbornly stuck on page 1!
How irritating!
Still, the offering bit went OK.
Then Sammy had done this slide for 2 Tim 3:16, with words twirling and all sorts - but he left out that part of the service completely, so that meant that during the short prayer after the reading I had to press the button several times to get past all the twirls onto the blank slide just before the final hymn.
Andy (PowerPoint man in Deeside), I never appreciated you like I should have.
R E S P E C T, man, respect.
Comments
Le Patron http://lepatron.tapor.ualberta.ca/ would catch wrong genders, but I was in a rush this w/e! I normally run the text through it. It's a great genderchecker!