There are just some things I cannot resist ... and this is the most coolest, incredible thing ever:

Backstory: I'd planned on heading to service like I do most Wednesday nights. But this time, work intervened. We simply had to wrap up a project last night and it ate too deep into the schedule. Had I made it to church, I wouldn't have been able to record this, however ... well, I could. I just haven't mastered the intricacies of doing so yet.

Anyways, I noticed about an hour earlier that for some odd reason I had no sound on my machine. None, nada, zippolla. I looked for everything to fix it. Nothing worked. Best I could figure, my laptop was running a bit too hot and some things were just not behaving normally (it happens late in the day when the laptop has been taxed too heavily). So I'm recording this service - no sound - and notice they're focusing in on Michael Hodge a bit more than ordinary. I catch that he's doing something kinda cool and showy and I re-test every fixit option for my sound card all within the span of about 10 seconds. I leave it to the recorder to capture whatever coolness it is that I'm missing, though. Sound will just have to wait.

So I get back to work this morning ... sound card is humming along nicely ... and crack open the recording of last night's service. And all I can say after hearing Michael wailing away like that is "Wow!" I still haven't even made it through the rest of the recording, I was just in a rush to show this bit of genius off.

Needless to say, Michael Hodge is one of the numerous (amazing, even) well-kept secrets at Lakewood.