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.
Day 2 Revision 2
I feel good again because of perfect girl I know who has that effect on me. Today we went job hunting(also a souce of frustration and ..joy), I did get a job at the Happy Hampton Arcade however Andrea and myself couldn’t find a job together which we really wanted to do. I guess God is saying no to that and not letting it work that way. I’ll just trust him on it for now since its not like I have too many options. We are going to post pictures from each day or as often as we can so we can have a wicked huge archive by the end of the summer(like my use of wicked?). Andrea is going to look for a job tomorrow since the guy at the arcade kinda ruined her chances there. I know she will find a job and it will be fine but it would be nice if it happened now, or soon.
Its kinda hot in this room and I’m going to shut up soon but I wanted to post the results of my Values Self test.
Always Value: Structure and Direction, Peace, Loyalty, Freedom
Seldom Value: Vulnerable Communication, Influencing Others, Healthy Working Relationships, Shared Goals
There are other values in between but I figured I’d save typing and just give the top and bottom of my list.
Time to upload the pictures now.
Frustration is mounting and the breaking point is starting to show stretch marks. Its day two but my mind and body is not handling this particularly well. Its making me more anti-social than usual which leads to me not being involved as much as I probably should be. I don’t feel like sleeping, I want to ride a bike for like 10 miles and burn off all my frustrations for the past two days.
Hampton Beach Day 1
Well. At the crack of dawn today(4:30AM) I was up getting ready to leave at 5:30. I picked up andrea at around 5:15 but we didn’t get moving till about 5:40 which is ok. On the way here we took lots of pictures and they are now posted for your pleasure. Sadly we did get a little lost on the way here in New York. We were supposed to get on 87 and then get on 287 however when the directions were written down the 2 was left off so we stayed on 87 which took us all the way in to the Bronx which is about when we went “oh crap!”. So luckly we figured it out when we were close to I95 and so we hopped on there and backtracked and got ourself back on the way. I guess the worst part of that whole ordeal was the time we were going in the wrong way was all in heavy traffic so it was extra slow getting lost. Once we got on our way everything else went perfect. Its pretty cool here both just preference and temperature. I’ll be taking lots of pictures so check my pictures site out alot.
A side note is that I have high speed internet here so I am very happy about that. Now i can get all the important work at home done without problems. whoo. Also my silly server is not online yet and I want it now. I need it just like i need high speed internet access to keep me breathing. Ok that is all for now.
Yawn, I slept till 1:45PM but I guess that is in order. Did I mention I love my headphones? Sound quality is owned by these things. Ya know what I like about Nine Inch Nails? I think a lot of the sequnced drum tracks were done on my type of electronic drums. Its cool to see what *could* be done with some tweaking. I need to really start working, why must my days always be a long series of distrations.
