Miscelaneous Stuff...

It’s been a while since my last post, though I have not been very busy, a lot of little things are going on.

I took a trip up to Edinburgh to see Jon and Sarah one last time before they head back to the US. It’s sad to see them go. Even though they lived in a completely different part of the country, it was nice to know that someone else from “home” was on a similar adventure. Fortunately, good friends Paul and Amber are still adventuring in St. Andrews, Scotland, and they promised to come and see us in London soon.

I got the van all fixed up. We took it on the harrowing trip to the grocery store and back without problem. We also took it on a trip to one of my least favourite places…Ikea. People rave about all the great cheap stuff you can get at Ikea, but I absolutely loathe it. I can’t stand the swarms of people, the winding maze you have to follow through the place, the cheap furniture that looks okay in the showroom then looks like cheap furniture in your home, the unintelligible names that everything has (we bought two “ringum”); I could go on and on but you get the idea.

We had our ninth wedding anniversary this Tuesday. To celebrate, we went to see a play. We went to see “Mouse Trap” which is the world’s longest running play. It was very entertaining, but I was torn by the fact that the England football team was playing a warm up game for the world cup at the same time. Right next to the beautiful theatre was a pub where the game was showing. I could have slipped out at the intermission of the play to catch the second half of the game, but I thought better and stayed for the play since it was our anniversary.

I sold a big old pair of JBL studio monitors on Ebay. I sold them for about 10 times what I had bought them for (everything fetches a premium in England). The proceeds will go to buy a pair of the JBL LSR4328P studio monitors that I worked on, but left before I could get a hold of a pair. Some of the money will also go towards acoustic treatment of my studio (I have a working van now; I can go and pick the stuff up).

This Saturday night, I have signed up for an hour of prayer during the 48 hours of prayer that our church is doing. I selected the 4AM to 5AM slot. It is well known that God speaks more early in the morning, that’s why Jesus often stayed up all night praying, perhaps that is why I don’t “hear from God” more often as I’m such a horrible morning person that no one wants to speak to me until at least 10AM (that whole last sentence was a joke by the way). The real reasoning is that the 4AM slot was still available (surprisingly) and I thought I could get a few hours sleep before, and it would still be early enough when I finished that I could go back to bed.

(Sorry, I got a little carried away with the links...)