Holiday

In the last 2 weeks of August, I will be going on a holiday.
Originally it was the 2nd and 3rd weeks but our church conference is on the 13th and I would be away for it. Since I havent booked anything or things like that, I thought I would just move it so I can attend.
The plan is, to drive down the coast, stopping and taking pictures to my hearts content. I will go through Victoria and enjoy what is left of the 12 apostles on the great ocean road. I will spend the first night at my nan's house in Ulladulla and then I will either sleep in the back of the car (I have a newish Falcon Station wagon so there is plenty of room) on an air mattress or, If I plan to stay somewhere for more than a day, I can put up my tent at some kind of local caravan park and sleep there.
After coasting through Victoria (get the pun! Hahaha I'm so funny! Perhaps not..)I will check out Adelaide and head home through the Adelaide Hills and Barossa Valley (mmm, tasty wine!). My mum suggested that I check out Broken Hill on the way back. So, should be cool. I also have friends in Wagga that I would like to see on the way back. I have got 2 weeks off work, so that should be enough time to look at a fair bit of stuff.
Hopefully the car will behave itself. It's pretty new but I havent had a good track record with regards to car reliability. So, will have to pray for that.

YO WHAT UP G!!!!

Man, work is pretty full on. Since 2.5 weeks ago it has been flat out and doesn't really look like letting up much. I thought I would just take a sec or two to write this quick post before going back to work. The boss is away on holidays until early next week and so I have had lots to do.
The last 2 days I have been able to drive to Menangle and Otford for site inspections. That was quite fun. Also, I have been able to go on a whole pile of other site inspections as well which have been good. I have probably averaged about 3 a day which is quite high. One advantage of that is that since the boss is away I have to use my own car. This is good because work reimburses my km's at about 60c/km. So, in the last few weeks I have done 350km for work so I will have extra money in the account on Thursday arvo which is always good. Funnily enough, I will proably spend the money getting the car serviced but since I had to do that anyway, it's better if work essentially paid for it.
MYC was awesome. Not that I was able to be there the whole time, but the time I was there was great. I drove up on Sunday morning for pre-MYC with Steve Bell and Saru. the trip up was good with music by J and Saru (we listened to the CD they made for the bob eviction party). This year MYC was on the topic of ministry. The talk I did hear, and the seminars I did were quite helpful. Also, it was cool to seek to look after people as well. I felt that since I was only there for a small amount of time, I would try my best to look after people. I think approaching MYC that way was really helpful. I guess there could be some kind of sermon illustration in regards to the time being short and needing to focus on proclaiming God's word.
I have been keen to get into woodwork since the start of the year when I bought a book on it. Thanks to the dudes and dad I have a quite good set of tools now. So, on Monday night I made a workbench. Yaay. Now I dont have to saw things sitting on the ground. Now I can get to making the TV stand (I have an old TV as my TV stand atm) and speaker stand/dvd storage things. The benefit of making things is that I can make sure I have enough space to fit things. I can also add some special modifications if I want.
More thanks to God for blessing me heaps with all sorts of blessings.

Yaaay Birthday!

It was my birthday on Sunday, and overall I have quie enjoyed it.
Saturday night Kester, Cath, Susan, Sally, Bry and I went to see 'The Bar at Buena Vista' at the Wollongong Entertainment Centre. It was fantastic. The grandfathers of Cuban music were really good. They had the old ones (70-87 years) and the new generation as well. On top of that there were 2 dancing couples on stage who did an awesome job of dancing to the faster songs. Very entertaining.
Before the show, we went out for dinner at the Vietnamese noodle place on Keira St. It was really nice. I had rice paper rolls for entree` which are a favourite. Kester and Cath gave me this cool necklace made of Jade and bone. Really cool. Once I crimp it to the right size I will wear it. They were also kind enough to subsidise my ticket for the show.
On Sunday I went to my mum and step-father's house in Sydney for a combined birthday lunch with my step-sister. It was lots of fun with much of my step-sister's/step-father's family there. My step-father's brother and their family gave me a 8 pack of miscellaneous beers from around the world. I enjoyed the 'Bin Tang' one which had the note on the bottle 'Best served with Friends'. It appealed to my sense of humour.
The food was really good with an entree` of little squares of bread, with mayo on it, then a shelled prawn and a little pepper on top. Mmmmm. I might have to make them next time I have people over for dinner.
Went home after that but was pretty tired for church. It was a good sermon by Sandy about the bible's idea of worship. He also talked about reasons people do/dont come to church which I think was challenging especially since I almost didnt go coz I was really tired. Many people wished me a happy birthday afterwards though and it was quite nice. Certainly glad I went.
Yesterday was awesome as well. Simon had rung me and organised to have lunch at 12:30. When I walked out of work, we walked up to the white seats and a bunch of the dudes were all waiting there. Suprise! It was sooo cool. They had a cake (ultra blue icing), cards and a couple of cool presents. They gave me an engraver and an electric screwdriver. Oh, and the most bizzare/cool one of them all: a bright orange skull topped container of sour chuppa chups! I didnt think he belonged at work on my desk so I took him home and put him in the kitchen.
Cool birthday. Quite enjoyable really. Thanks to God for cool brothers and sisters in Christ.