Friends and Family,

I am excited to let you all know that I am participating in St. Baldrick's Day this year at Larkin's on the River (downtown Greenville, SC) on March 14th. Cody and myself have been following a blog about a 6 year old girl Kate Mcrae who has brain cancer and has hit really hard on our hearts. Below is her website.

http://prayforkate.com/

So, I will be shaving my head in solidarity with children who have cancer and typically lose their hair during treatment, while raising critical funds for childhood cancer research. The St. Baldrick's Day Foundation funds more in childhood cancer research grants than any organization except the U.S. government, more than $12 million in 2009 alone.

I am now asking for three things. First, if you are interested in shaving your head too, I am looking for as many people to do this with me as possible. Along with a few other dads from Stone Academy, the "team" is called the Stone Heads. If you would like to join our team, simply go to the site below to register to be on the team (there is a green link on the right hand side of the page that says "participate with this team"):


The Team site:
http://www.stbaldricks.org/teams/mypage/teamid/66203


Secondly I am asking that you pray for all who have cancer and those of us who will be involved in this wonderful opportunity to serve others. Pray for people to donate above and beyond what they fill is “enough” so we can further this research and help save lives.

Third and most importantly, I am asking for you to please give to this great cause. Please forward this to as many people you know that might be willing to give as well. Thank you for your help...my goal for the Stone Heads this year is $2000... but my “Personal Goal” is $1000. I know if we can spread this out it can happen. Please help us meet this!



Below is the link where you can donate online to my site. All donations go straight to St Baldrick’s and not to me. If you would like to submit to me you can and I will donate to the site.

https://www.stbaldricks.org/donate/donationinfo/participantid/380485/nouser/1


Thank you so much!



Josh Wyatt

DJ ACRIS

Yep the seasons are changing and the sickness is invading.

You know if you have kids, "if one gets it, they all get it." Well praise God that wasn't quiet the case for us as Meccia just battled through what the doctors say was H1N1 Type A. We quarintined her to her room for about 5 days and knocked it out without getting it spread to anyone else. Just a note: 6 year olds do not like to be in the same room for 5 days. So then, Easton started a croupy cough and had it for a few days and Carson started some sinus issues which I believe to be a spreading of what Easton had just in a different form. So, Cody caught that and has felt like crap for a week with a BAD cough and has started on a ton of medicine to clear that up. Hopefully the meds can knock it out of her quickly because I now feel it coming on. Nothing terrible just the "Season Changing" stuffy nose and itchy throat cold.

I said all that not asking for simpathy but to prove a point. "Seasons Change" and you have to adapt and conquer the change to make the upcoming season work. I am in a few "Changing Seasons" in my life right now. One with the actual seasons and another with my life in general. God talks quietly alot and I can usually pick up on things and other times he is in my ear with a megaphone and I have no idea what he is saying.

As a lot of you may know I am kind of a "Techy", not a "Trecky"(no offense to you Star Trek fans), so my life is filled with internet and electronics on a daily basis. I mean I work from home on a computer and I have five computers in my house, three of which are in MY office. I love audio/video, mograph and static graphic design as well and most of the time I am on a computer doing something. It is very hard to disconnect for me becuase most of my life is spent trying to connect others.

So some thoughts crossed me this morning as I was walking my girls to their classes "late again" and while I was reading Perry Nobles blog about being frustrated.

#1 - I do not get enough rest.
I cram all day long thinking if I don't do this or get that done the world will end....It wont. Life is a funny thing, you can't do without it but it can go on without you.

#2 - I can't usually say "No". I want to help everyone but then don't have enough time to help the ones that really need me. I have to prioritize better the things that I "need" to do and the things that I "want" to do.

#3 - I DO NOT DISCONNECT. This I think is a large part of a lot of my failures. To my wife especially, the phone has to be cutoff and the attention needs to be on what I am doing not what I need to do later. Be in the moment...The present is named that for a reason. Enjoy the gifts of life's moments and not the failures of life's pasts or the upcoming future.

There are definitley more things I could list but would rather not put myself in a more depressive state than I am already in. Thanks for listening and I hope you can use my life to better yours.

God Bless
Josh Wyatt
DJ ACRIS

Sup blogworld,

It has been a while and I wanted to be able to post something profound and mind altering...but I haven't ever done that so I don't know why I would start now. I basically wanted to jot some things down that I have been wanting to do and see if any one else would be interested in helping or would like to be a spectator.

There are a few things I have been thinking about doing...

1) I want to throw a concert. I was thinking of getting a large Christian Hip Hop act such as R-Swift, Mars Ill or KJ-52, someone along those lines. Then, bring in local groups, whether they be bands of local Christian Hip Hop artists. I haven't thrown a show in a while and just love doing that kind of thing.

2) If not a Hip Hop feel then do a local concert. I know that The Channel is all over the local Christian Band Scene and do not want to take anything away from what that ministry is doing but also would like for it to be to big to fill that spot. Still using all local acts with maybe on Headliner that could bring the masses.

3) I used to use Livestream(formerly Ustream) to stream church services live on the internet and would love to start a weekly or even BiWeekly show that is me spinning records and maybe interviewing local artists. Kind of like a readio show but using video and live streaming on the internet. It would take a lot of planning and be somewhere that had a large internet capacity. I only have a 256Kb upload, which is not going to be good.

The main thing is finances. I am by no means asking people for money but would love for people to volunteer their time, venue and donations to get these things started. I have no plans set in stone right now but would like your input to see if anyone would like to get involved in some or all of these things.

Give me a shout or hit me up on one of my many avenues.

DJACRIS.COM
FACEBOOK
MYSPACE
EMAIL
TWITTER

I must say we had a good time at Carson's 3rd birthday party.

I wish I could say I did nothing on "Labor Day" but that would be a false statement. Although I will probably not be able to move in the morning I did get a pretty good bit done.

So for the past few months my Friday's have been crazy and this one was no different.

I have at least 4 conference calls each Friday for my J O B and sometimes 6. On the days I have six my schedule is as follows:

9am - 10am
10:15am - 10:45am
11:00am -12:00pm
1:00pm - 2:00pm
2:15pm - 2:45pm
3:00pm - 4:00pm

Today was one of those days. On the days I have four calls I don't have the 10:15am and 2:15pm calls which are for new reps and usually there are no one on those calls but I have to sit on a conference number for about 5 or 10 minutes just to make sure no one shows up. It is a very lonely feeling when that happens.

On Fridays I try to use the time in between calls to play around with the Adobe suite(After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator) and some other stuff like Reason, Pro Tools, and my latest addition to my toys the wonderful 15" MacBook. I am still in the process of loading Pro Tools and Reason on the Mac but will have to eventually by the Adobe Suite for Mac when I can scrounge up a couple thousand dollars, unless one of you who are reading this want to be super generous and sling me a few G's to get that started.

Here is my latest test on a series Revolution Church is starting on September 20th. This is just a test and more than likely the finished product will look nothing like this. I have been trying new things and most of the time realize that it looks terrible so I have to ask some design pals of mine for help.

Moral = Go to college!!!

Here is the link. Hope you enjoy and let me know your opinions...PLEASE!!!!

Have a wonderful and safe Labor Day Weekend.

Hey guys

I hope all is well with you and your families.

I am going to try a Blog a Day schedule and wanted to explain and start that with this post. I am basically going to use this a a way to communicate what 140 characters can't explain. I will probably not be posting super profound messages but things that relate to my everyday walk and things that are happening to me and my family.

I want to first thank everyone who reads this, if there is anyone. I love being able to let people know what is happening with my family and I, even though you may not care :-).

With every day I come across decisions that will effect myself and my family and just ask that you pray for us as we try to make the decision God would have us make. The first thing right now is Budget. We attended the Joe Sangl Financial Learning Experience last night at Newspring Anderson and had a blast. Check out his website for awesome budgeting tools and links that can help you save money.

Another thing is our family Schedule. We are going to be sitting down to plan out our time so we(@acriswifee and I) can make sure that we are spending enough, and quality, time with our children, each other and alone.

As a father I have lately come to realize that sitting on the couch in the same room is not "quality" time with my family. That is why we are going to "schedule our fun". Making and taking time to cut off from the world and focus on my family, my wife and myself. I pray that any fathers who read this will do the same because other than God these people are all you got. MAKE IT COUNT.

So that is today's blog fart. I hope you enjoy.

Josh(ACRIS)