Sweetness. So I lost finacial aid from the honors college because I suck at school but this year I am poor enough that the state is giving me some money finally. God provides yet again. It seems that I am getting a little more from the state than the honors college ever gave me.

Whee! After a mere day of my perl script hammering away at the gmail machine I finally got the magic 1337 number. I did about 70000+ page loads to accomplish it but I am going to go for it again now to see if I can score a second invite for a certian special girl I know . In other news I was sent home early today after only 2 hours because it was so light at work today.

Well, lets see. Today…
I went to church this morning. I went to the service and heard a pretty good message from Ezekiel 18 and then during second service I camped out in the Senior High room to see where I can get involved and serve. The senior high was pretty scarce, the man running it said it was a light week because of the time changes. Either way it was ok, it reminded me of PAC back in the old building when we had the couch room(I do miss those days). I need to call the youth pastor this week and connect with him to see what I can do. I don’t know how I feel about my involvement yet it really did not feel like there was room/a desire for me to be involved in the Jr./Sr. programs there. Oy vey I just remember I have a phone conference tomorrow morning at 7AM for some consulting work. Yuck I hate early mornings.
This past afternoon Andrea and myself went on a little adventure to go check out this big rock we have seen driving on Rt. 286. I decided I wanted to get on top of it and take some pictures. The problem was there were lots of little 5-10ft streams in between the road and the rock. I’m sure I looked pretty silly from the road but I jumped my way over to the rock and got on top. Unfortunately my shoes were the casualty of the day, I stepping in this big mud hole and it totally absorbed my left shoe and removed it from my foot. I had to really look carefully to find it when I realized what just happened. I posted some good pictures from the trip including a shot of my muddy leg.
On to yesterday.
We did outreach in the afternoon. The plan for the day was to do surveys with random people to start spiritual conversations. I didn’t do to well, I stuck out with this one kid who didnt really wanna talk to me. Then Heather and myself went and talked to this guy who was going to Moody to become an evangelist but he got burned out because he couldn’t come to grips with some really basic stuff. I feel like he was living too much by his strength and not enough by faith(but of course that is the hard part). He was pretty discouraging because I had to tell him “i don’t know” he just asked complicating things I couldn’t sort out on the spot without doing research. Im glad that happened though because it reminded me I need to keep the skeptics perception to be better at helping myself in those situations. In the evening the community element(my element) had a worship on the beach event which went really well. I enjoyed playing the djembe for it.
Before Satursday is Friday.
Andrea prayed for a day off work so we could go and God answered because she was sent home from work before I even woke up at around 9:30. Either way we went shopping in the morning for food. Then at around 3PM we went for a drive in to Maine to try and find the lighthouse I visited and posted pictures of previous. Of course we had no idea where we were going but that was ok because we stopped like every 15 minutes to take pictures because this area is so scenic and has tons of good photos around. Then after a long day of driving adventures we stopped for dinner at Warrens Lobster *something*(I don’t remember). Either way it was really good/expensive we spent 100$ between the two of our meals and drinks. I had 2 lobster claws and a tail,bowl of mussels, cup of clam chowder, and the best salad bar ever. Andrea had lobster alfredo it was good supposedly.
I guess thats it for now.

Cool day.
I went to church this morning which was… ok. I still can’t get my mind around worship just yet, its just way way way too old school traditional for my tastes. On the other hand the teaching of the services is much better than im use to. I always leave with new knowledge although I don’t always feel so refreshed as I do after a good worship service.
Following church I was dragged around shopping with people but that was ok. I ended up buying the old school Zelda for my GBA so far its equally frustrating as it always has.
Once I got back home here I played it for a while and beat the first dungeon… following that I started to do some of my laundry with Andrea so we could go to the beach. We were on the beach for about 2 hours, I finally got some sun on my legs and upper arms.
Just a few minutes ago Andrea and I went out to play a few games at the arcade. We managed to find a broken machine that we letting us win everytime which was sweet cuz we scored 400pts out of it when it was broke.. until it ran out of tickets. After the arcade we went and walked across the street to check out the sand sculpture contest. As I was taking a few pictures this man next to us start asking us about the sculptures(they have a lord of the rings theme). After a minute of taking pictures he asked me if I was in to this sculpture stuff and I didn’t respond to excited but he proceded to ask me if I wanted to go down on the beach and get a closer look. Of course I took him up on the offer and took a crap load of pictures. It was cool and sweet since I got to do something not many people were allowed to do. I had no idea the guy was there to guard the sand if I knew I might of been a little more excited when he asked me about it.
Oh and I hurt myself again today trying to get over the guard rail across the road. I almost did a face plant in to the cement and I almost destroyed my camera but instead i caught myself on the back of my hand mostly my knucles. Yeah that hurt alot and still does. Oh well.
I have work tomorrow at 10AM. adios world.

Today was saturday. I had work this morning from 9-1. I spent the day parking cars in the Happy Hampton lot and totally rocked at it which was nice. The only downside was that it was a slow day and we never even made it past 7 dollars to park. Oh well at least I didnt have to be there all day. After work we did an outreach event. It was not so direct though we handed out 8 bottles of gatorade per person on the beach just to initiate conversation and just love on people. It worked pretty good but man it was hard to give away all 8 bottles. You’d think we were offering them crack or something bad for them. I didn’t get it but then again I don’t get these New Englanders really. After that we did a random person prayer walk which was pretty cool even if I did just wanna sit down.
The highlight of my day was the community group event that I led which went super stinking awesome. We played skits in a bag with bible stories. Skits in a bag is where each group gets a bag of props and a vague idea of the story they must tell. Then all groups get a few minutes to plan and the finally they perform. For an added twist tonight we act acting themes like western, or no control over the volume of your voice. It was uber stinking funny I was dying the whole time. Then at the end we had a completely improv homestarrunner re-enactment of david and goliath.
Finally just a few short minutes ago I was playing red rover on the beach and had massive fun until Steve and I collided. We smashed in to each others knees which resulted in us both lying on the sand in pain. The good news is that we were both ok and kept moving, I decided to relax and come back to the gull and chill for the evening.
Hrm, I just keep going. Yesterday I went out shopping with some guys and we stopped at a comic store and then the fireworks store so I could bring some good stuff back to my brother. I bought a graphic novel(its some spiderman deal but its the first 7 comics). That alone was good except that I really enjoyed the first seven and now I want to go back and buy the next set of 7 comics in book form.
I guess thats all i can remember now

Today was work 9-4. I spent the morning parking cars with andrea In the simco parking lot. That was pretty cool until I went on break and came back then they kept moving me around. I kinda like doing one thing all day. I guess its ok because today was a slow day so not much was going on. They actually closed the parking lots at 4 when we left. Towards the end of the day they moved me inside where I was bored working at the redemption counter. I did end up helping the arcade machine tech fix the daytona USA games of course he was kinda patronizing to me. I guess its not unexpected concidering he knows nothing of my background. Either way I now know how to network daytona USA video games for head to head play. The repair guy then went off to go fix DDR but that was on the lower level so I couldn’t get away with following him to get a look inside more video games. Oh well. I want to build an aracade machine for myself now because they are super cool. I need to sleep..

Today I spent the day inside the arcade. Its not nearly as exciting as standing outside. It was pretty ok, except that I got “punished” for talking to a coworker while nothing was going on. I was made to clean all the countertops because I was talking. Well, oh well, I can handle that. Either way I am feeling pretty good and I can see how God is working out all of my issues out of me which is cool. Well, I need to do laundry, have a happy day

today was my first day of work at the Happy Hampton arcade. It was ok. I spent the day doing inventory of prizes and sweeping the parking lot. The place is a tight ship they don’t let anything get away for free and make sure that nothing does. Everything is inventoried a bazillion times a year. Now I gotta get to programming. Well, work was cool and i got a few hours in so its all good. Now on to work.
Oh yeah. My website is moving over to the new server right now so its down.
Finally the honors college gave me the boot cuz I suck so I need to do well next semester.

Ok so today was basically devoted to dumping our guts out to our disciple groups. I spilled my guts and told a nice detailed life story for the guys. We went out and about to make the spilling more fun. We drove up in to Maine to see some light house. It was really pretty so I took a truck load of photos along the way. SO yeah checkout my photos gallery sometime to see all the photos. No promises on all of it because its raw. We ate at this place called The Friendly Toast(or something like that) it was ok but the decor was a little wierd inside, you can check it out(a little blurry) in my photos. We also visited a war memorial to talk.
Oh a good thing, I had a warm shower so I was happy about that(andrea just reminded me about that).
Over all thought I did get some pretty decent sunburn so I look like a lobster. I guess that is all. It was good to dump out all the junk from my life to a few people and let someone else deal with my life for a little of it.
I missed andrea most of the day, I really didn’t get to sit down and talk to her till just now. So I shut up now and talk to her cuz I like her more than you. hah

Much Better. Period. Today was fun. I went to the beach for a while and played a few games at the arcade I am working at. I am posting more pictures to my site as I post. Sadly the upstream bandwidth here is not that amazing but it still is better than using dialup to upload 60 megs of photos per day. Aside from fun stuff today it was very real today as far as getting to the truth of why we are here and what we should be thinking about as we serve in the community here. I like that. Its also really cool because I really see changes(not little ones but huge ones) in the lives of people around me. Furthermore I am starting to really understand what I am going to need to do to change my life to really do a good job while I am here and then when I go home as well.