When my wife came home and told me all of the problems she had helping with vacation Bible school, I saw a need and now I'd like to propose a solution. Using a computer with a webcam and a web browser, you could keep all of the kids' information organized and photographically verify that you were sending the right kid home with the right adult. (I know churches are careful about releasing kids these days.) Some of my wife's problems involved not being able to put names to the faces of all of the visiting children and not having access the the food allergy information that had been collected, but a well designed Drupal site could solve those problems too.

I'm working on a solution using CCK, views, and workflow and I would love to hear people's input. Would this be practical to use? Would it be useful or just another solution in search of a problem? How would you suggest I approach this problem using Drupal? If I'm barking up the wrong tree, let me know before I pull another all-nighter. If you think it's great, let me know that too.

Also, this is not meant to be a one man show or just and in house solution. If you would like to see my work or offer to help, let me know. If I'm on the right track, here are some things I could use some help with:

• Field validation to require a one field only if another field is set
• Getting the imagefield crop widget to work right
• Getting automatic nodetitles to generate titles from the name field
• Calculating age from a date field (It's simple to modify the example code, but I don't know enough PHP to do it.)

Do you ever feel like people overstate your abilities as a geek? How does it make you feel and what do you do when it happens?

Being the lone technology guy at a small church is sure to draw some attention and compliments, but there's so much these people don't see. They don't see me using the default Drupal theme because cross-browser compatibility makes me uneasy and I don't know any PHP. They don't see me helplessly dependent on EQ and reverb presets as crutches. They don't see how much time I spend Googling for code examples because I barely know how to write shell scripts. They didn't see how many hours I spent trying to set up that Samba server, only to fall horribly short of the simple goal I had. They don't know how much I didn't do or couldn't do or how much better it could or should have been.

Sometimes I feel like I'm being complimented for more than I've actually done and it makes me feel uncomfortable. I'm not sure how to take it when they talk about me like I've moved mountains. I love the drums, but I lack the rhythm. That doesn't make Rob a genius just for being able to play. (Sorry Rob, I'm sure there are other things that do make you a genius.)

I hope I've explained myself clearly and I'd welcome any thoughts or advice a fellow geek might have. Thanks.