Regan library

The whole fleet of vehicles that Regan used. I love going to museums with my mom. It's like my own personal tour guide that can actually answer all my questions.

Bulkhead

Wasting time in denver airport. Wish I was here under better conditions.

Lost Thailand Aventures

I finally got some pictures of a crazy night in Chang Mai Thailand. I had rented a scooter for the week. Grant and I followed some new found friends to a local restaurant.

NYC! From the Razor

Coming up the glass elevator in the 5th ave Apple store

Turkish Delight

A new friend of mine from a recent trip to seattle bought me some turkish delight. This is her struggle.


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Jon,

I want you to know, that what I had to go through to get this turkish delight was a pretty incredible act of heroism on my part.

So..............with it being Memorial weekend and all, it was extremely busy down at Pike Place today. Lots and lots of people, especially the homeless. So anyways, I'm on " Pike " St. and I park my car and I can see the " Turkish Delight " sign clearly in view. I start to make my way towards the entrance and as I enter, the smell of turkish food and the quaint open windows of the small cafe were simply delighting (maybe that's why they call it Turkish"Delight"?). I start analyzing the various different types of delight and I decided on two that I think you will be very

pleased with! I paid for the delight and started to make my way out of the cafe when all of a sudden........a homeless man running down the sidewalk runs past me and GRABS the delight out of my grasp and takes off running down the busy street. I started yelling " stop him, stop him, he has my Turkish Delight !!!!! " People were looking at my like I was the crazy one, but that's when one must assume they've obviously never tried Turkish Delight! So I start running, and running and.......then I see HIM!!!! Sitting on the street corner covered in powdered sugar! It was a dead give away, this was the man who stole my (YOUR) turkish delight, as you probably know by now I am completely appauled. I make my way to the man and asked him what in the name of @**$#% he was thinking??? And then....I punched him in the face! Uh oh...I mean what was I thinking??? Then, I saw the look in his eye (face still covered in powdered sugar) he was about to come at me when about that time a pol ice officer started making his way across the street! I was extremely relieved, now I could explain how this man was a theif! Not so fast.......the officer didn't want to hear my part of the horrific trama I had just been through. All he saw was my offense towards the man when I punched him in the face. HE CUFFED ME ! Can you believe this??? Here I am sitting in the back of a police car, and empty handed at that!!! By this time I'm almost in tears! Not because I'm scared, but because I'm furious about the Turkish Delight! The homeless man had the officer convinved that HE BOUGHT the Turkish Delight and made up some story about how I've come after him before, and he thinks I have a mental disorder. The officer buys into his story and let's him go, Turkish Delight and all! He then proceeds to make his way to my side of the backseat of the police vehicle and asks for my side of the story, even though I knew he already believed the homeless guy. So I tell him everything, I gave hi m tears and emotion and everything I had to give and then.........he looks at me and said " lady.......you must be mental, cause noone likes Turkish Delight enough to go through what you've just gone through! " Then he uncuffed me and told me to " get help "!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And to be honest, by this time I'm feeling alittle " mental " ....all I could do was laugh, and I did......I was laughing so hard I could barely breathe. And what did I do???? I crossed the street........and there it was again .....the" Turkish Delight" sign. I made my way back into the quaint cafe, a few strange looks but I didn't care. I got our Turkish Delight, paid for it, and hung onto it with a kung-fu grip like you've never seen and I ran........I mean ran not walked to my car! I got in, locked the doors and drove home. And here I am writing you. You better savour this like you've never savoured anything else in your life!!!! In fact, you shouldn't even eat it, you should frame it or something ! Yeah that's a great idea........enjoy .......

By: Amber Pettit

Vacation Home

I took a little trip home to TX. Here is the childrens park in Tyler.


 

Seattle Shannangins

The Sound

The Orginal Starbucks


Some friends of Andrews at the Space Needle

Day 5 & 6ish

SO much has happened and i'm not sure how to say it all. I've been to something called an "Unformal settlement." Which basicly means the slums. These houses are made of sheet metal and rock. There is nothing. No runinnig water, no toilets, nothing but the dirt and the tin. These people live in these slums and then go into the city to work. Most of them do not have a job by the standards we hold. The sell items on the side of the street to passing cars. They walk among the cars at stop lights trying to pedal things like soda, wooden bowls, even a world map or globe.

Seeing this place has really weighed on all of our hearts. We're completely taken aback by the unbelievable poverty that we've seen here. But equaly as stunning is nearly the same side of town has a huge mall that houses hundreds of the worlds top brands of materialism. Sadly that's where i am right now. The only place that i could find internet.


Here is a picture that Chris took at the settlement of some of the children and I. I was trying to get them to sit still so i could fit them all in the shot. But I made the wonderful mistake of showing them the preview screen with their pictures on it so they all run after me to see the show. This picture makes me so sad and yet i was laughing and enjoying myself the entire time.

There are many more pictures of this village to come; I don't have them with me right now.

God bless this settlement

On the other side of town we had to do our jobs as international professionals. We went to a radio interview for the one and only christian station in town. It was a far change from the place we had been the day before.

Day 4 - South Africa

Well writing with very little time to spare. We have to role out to our concert in a bit. It's been a wonderful trip so far. We've been to the "Lion Park." It's a large spot of land that the've set aside to keep several animals for viewing.
Sadly I don't have time to type much but here's some pictures.

Minneapolis, MN

Boise, ID

Singapore

Alright, I haven't got time to say alot. I'll come back and add more.

So I'm in Singapore. It's 2;30am here and i'm really tired. But i have a 26 hour flight time in a few hours so i need to stay up so I can sleep on the flights. The strange thing is we arrive only a couple hours after we leave. Yet there is 26 hours registered to my body clock. Weird.

Anyway there is pictures and thoughts yet to come.

Lincoln Nebraska

Sonic Rainbow
Originally uploaded by Jon Allen.

Well, this was a pretty good show. It was SOOO hot it hurt. During sound check the sun was right on me with no tent. BLAH!!

Anyway I thought this shot was very cool with the rainbow behind us.

Y! Festival (Oshkosk, WI)

So i'm not so sure i put my best foot forward today. I get pretty unpleasant with the production company staff today during our soundcheck. Let me start with why...

When we showed up today we where suppose to start our soundcheck. Since there was a "headliner" after us they get their soundcheck before ours. They decided that they could show up about an hour late and still take more then they were suppose to. So they drug on and on going way over their alotted time. To be honest they were a bit snooty about it too. We couldn't start our soundcheck until they were finished. It was about 45min into the time for us to check and the venue was wanting us to hurry up.
I was using a digital console that I had only used once before and for only a short time. So before the show i asked the tech to give me a quick lesson. He told me the basics that i needed to know. So when it finally came time for our soundcheck they saved the page information of the headliner and cleared the console. I stepped up to run our soundcheck like we always do. We try very hard to run a well timed and quick check. Unlike most of the people we run into.
As i began to gain up each of the channels I noticed that none of the signal was making it to the AUX outputs (the outputs that run each set of in-ear monitors for the guys) Well no signal to the ears, no soundcheck. So i'm at a dead stop until we can figure this thing out. So I ask the tech what might be wrong. He can't give me a straight answer. He doesn't know, the other guy doesn't know. They said, "Oh yeah the guy before had the same problem. What did he do to fix it? I don't remember." Well these are not words i want to hear.
So due to the time crunch the people before us left us in and the fact the crowds were starting to pour into the seats, I had to get this fixed quickly. I ask the tech, "Who do we need to ask to get this figured out." He said a name then walked away to work on something else. Well in a few minutes I tell him that i still can't get the Aux's to work. He says i need to talk to ________. I still don't know who this is. I asked him where this gentleman is. He says,"Oh he's up in the light truss focusing lights for ******** (The unamed headliner that messed us up) So again they are busy with their own thing and prohibiting us from doing what we need to do.
After several attempts to get him down, he finally just yells down what needs to be done. So the tech and I figure it out and begin sound check.

The problem is here that during this process I yelled rather forcefully at the tech to either give me a straight answer on how to fix it or find someone that can. Mistake1. Later on the Front of House tech came back and had to do something on my console. Well i'm still doing soundcheck and he came over and started pushing buttons.(Which on a digital console is going to affect what i'm hearing and where the faders are) With my in-ears in i can't hear anything else around me. From my perspective i was working very quickly and this set up hands just shows up and starts monkeying with things. I didn't even look to see what was going on. I yelled, "Hey cut it out, i'm not finished yet." I think do the time crunch and the frustration of not fully understanding the console the grabing hands thing pushed me over.

Well stan brought it to my attetion that the house guy complained about me. My worse nightmare. I DO NOT want to be looked at as the guy that can't keep his cool in high stress situations. Stan was extreamly frustated the whole day too, but he managed to never show it. I'm glad Stan brought it up so i can learn from it. After the show I found the FOH guy and apologized.

Some day I hope to hold the reputaion of the guy that can perform calmly during all types of stress.

God and Country Festival

hello nampa
Originally uploaded by thill59.

This is a big 'ol festival in Idaho. Actually I found out that we're about an hour from where they filmed Napolian Dynamite. Man what i wouldn't give to go see that. Why do i love that movie so much? I don't know. Anyway it's a nice day. Good weather. Really nice gear today.

Amazingly there was 17,000 people at this show. I've never been in front of that many people so far. I'm impressed.

Tulsa, OK

A big'ol festival on the ground of a theme park. Kinda small park but huge stage and good crowd.

14 Days galavanting across
the UK!!

I
certainly did not deserve this chance to roam all over the history rich
place. My dear sweet parents declared this as the last big who-ra! So we certainly
went out with a bang. I plan on coming back to write down all the amazing things
that we visited. There were 20 students from my mothers high school, Grace Community.
The same high school i went to a million year ago. It was good to see some of
the good folks coming out of there now. This trip was a wonderful little break
from real life. I spent most of the time with my cousin James and his friends.
The strange thing is for some reason all the kids liked me. It was weird being
the "cool kid." I was everbody's freind in high school, but never part of the
cool people. So it was strange that this diverse group thought I was worthy
of thier attetion. James
and I spent the time acting as high school boys do. It's like I regressed for
a few days. Back to strange noises, weird voices, pretending like girls have
cooties, and making fun of anything that moved. I'll have to admit it was a
bit refreshing. It's nice to know i still have the high school spunk left in
me, despite how many times James tells me I'm an old man.

All of the kids had a wonderful time I think. I know I sure did. I plan to
post a ton more pictures online as soon as i get the big daddy Flickr account