The Math
Just did the math on what EXACTLY is standing between me and a shiny new dual sport between now and April 21st (the anticipated date that o u r biker gang will officially start). The money is coming from the music… and the music is the link between God and people… which is an entirely different blog.
Anyway, after selling the ped, if Tri AVERAGES 3.75 gigs a month at $400 per show… that’s just enough to pay cash for an ’09 Kawasaki KLX 250s.
I think I’m ready to teach a session for the upcoming Ramsy seminar. Either that or flunk it?
My LA Ink Segment
Ok ok… I didn’t actually GET a tattoo from LA ink. But here’s a few pics of Tif and I giving Kat’s crew a visit on our recent trip to Cali.
Boycott
I decided to try and follow suit as Los showed his olympic enthusiasm by tuning in on his television AND live streaming from the internet. I logged on to nbc.com to begin the live streaming madness, and nearly cussed when this message popped up:
I am officially boycotting NBC.
Back…
Tif and I are BACK from SO-CAL. We had a great time. We wore ourselves out… but at the same time I’m completely refreshed and ready to get back into the swing of things! I miss all of our friends. I miss my scooter. I miss our church. I love the Quad Cities and that God has called us here to do work!
Being on vacation and attending another church for a Sunday has really opened my eyes to what is going on in our nation and the whole “one church/prayer” thing. We are indeed one church and I really think we need to recognize that more often and stop competing with denominations and how other people do things. Not that The Rock in particularly does that. But sometimes as the body of Christ I feel like we get distracted from the big picture.
So-Cal was awesome. We stayed with Adam and Michelle Soliz. Adam is Stu’s (one of the drummers at The Rock) oldest son. He leads worship at the aforementioned church and let me play guitar on Sunday. It was fun. They live about 30 minutes from Los’s old church in Riverside, CA and about an hour from LA (which you will get more pics of later).
Anyway, now Tif and I are laying around our recovering air-conditioned house trying to re-adjust to midwest time. Cali is two hours behind us (it’s 2:16am here, which means it’s 12:16 am there). I think I’m starting to get tired. So I’ll see ya’ll tomorrow!
PS – Amanda, Josiah, Kyle, Luke, Kris, Jace, John, Sherita, singers, JMann and production team and anyone else I’m forgetting who helped make the music portion of worship go so well this past week, I just want to say thank you for reminding me how awesome you all are. I’ve heard nothing but good about Sunday and both Wednesdays. You guys rock! Let’s keep worshiping with everything we have!
G’Night!
Vacay!
Not to copy any of my colleague’s blog post ideas… but tomorrow, my wife and I will be leaving to go spend some time here…
Do a little bit of this…
Stay with these fine people (Adam & Michelle Soliz)…
And get the opportunity to worship with these people
California, here we come! It’s gonna be a great time. And I will officially be twitter and blog silent for the next week. I’m going to miss the team and
church but I will come back refreshed and ready to rock!
See you on the flip…
-Aus
Holy Day Inn
So we have officially arrived in Springfield for Kev’s wedding. And after a few rounds of hotel shopping, we have decided to go with the Holiday Inn Express. You just can’t beat it… figuratively speaking.
Brandon and Josiah have already had a wrestling (tickling) match on the king size bed. Tonight should be fun while I sleep between them.
Tif and I are BACK from SO-CAL. We had a great time. We wore ourselves out… but at the same time I’m completely refreshed and ready to get back into the swing of things! I miss all of our friends. I miss my scooter. I miss our church. I love the Quad Cities and that God has called us here to do work!
So we have officially arrived in Springfield for Kev’s wedding. And after a few rounds of hotel shopping, we have decided to go with the Holiday Inn Express. You just can’t beat it… figuratively speaking.
