Deh spacebar monkey.

Time to get all annecdotal on ‘dat bootay.

Back in December, our church (FBCD) put on a Christmas presentation ["what? a Baptist church putting on a Christmas presentation?! How original!!1] that had some elements that needed the use of the church’s media screens that could have images, lyrics, or video projected on them.

So I helped out. Went to the rehearsals, prepared for the ques, you know, that kind of thing. When it came time for the play/musical/whatev, they had a program that had the order of events and thanked all those who participated, listing their names and roles off. I looked at the back of it, and it said:

Media Coordinator…………………………..Eric Henderoxxor

(ok, it didn’t really say roxxor, but it looks cooler that way)

Given my [lack of] personality, I immediately started bragging to my compadres that who-dee who-dee whoooo, I was the blippin’ media coordinator, you better watch out. Then, I looked one line down, and another person was given the prestigious title of “Transportation Coordinator”… wait asecond… hmmm… thats just a fancy way to say Bus Driver… well hmm…what does that say about me?!

I decided that a better title for me, given this new ‘revelation’, would be the title of Space Bar Monkey, simply because, at the end of the day, all I do to operate the media system here, is tap the space bar every couple seconds/minutes, as thats the key that advances from one slide/lyric/image to the next. Put another way, once its setup, a monkey could be trained to smack the space bar.

Anywho, there you have it. Remember, when you have a fancy title, its probably just a fancy way to say you’re a grunt.

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