I haven't posted in over a week, so thought I would see what's going on here tonight.

I decided that I need to have something else to keep my mind busy, so I started loading music onto my hard drive and cataloging it, as I did old pictures and slides a few weeks back. While doing so, I wandered the web and stumbled onto something that I thought might be entertaining for a ministry. I have begun making plans to get an Internet webcast going. I was an announcer/DJ for several years; my first real job out of school. Spun real records too. No digital music in those days.

I have tons of Christian music that I accumulated over the years. I spent the better part of a week getting most of it loaded onto my computer, and then using a software program to edit for cues, rotation schedules, etc. I am continuing to work on the music, as I found another 12 CD's of music late yesterday. I will have the process of loading and editing them yet.

There is a long way to go in getting this project up and running. I have to get a website and the site developed. I have to get streamhosting and licensing for the music (I need to keep this above board, you know). Then there will be the usual glitches in getting something new started; test runs and such before a real launch.

With my days of feeling up and down, I have been able to work on this when I have the energy, which is good. Once the station is up and running, I can even turn it over to the streamhost for automation when I don't want, or can't be attending to it manually. So, when I'm tired, or especially for the overnights, I will have automation take over.

I am looking forward to getting this started. It's been much work, and a daily learning process. Everyday I find new aspects of webcasting that I want to employ as part of this station. What started out as a relatively cheap project, however, is now starting to require a little more capital than I had originally intended for it. I will keep pressing on anyway. I'm having too much fun not to!