Day Two Too

I had an interesting thought last night. What if I documented every day of being 24? That could be really interesting... or tedious... whichever you prefer.

Either way, today was day two into my 24th year of adventuring. As per usual, it turned out rather swell.

Many of you know the Mumby Mobile. Our little red truck. It has seen it's share of adventures as I have piloted that thing across the vast majority of the western part of the North American Continent. I seriously think I have put at least 75,000 kilometers on it in the last two years alone. When you consider that there is only one speaker that works and most of my long distance drive time I can only pick up CBC radio, you will understand just how big a feat that is. Liberal, government funded talk radio anyone? I do find it rather entertaining most of the time to say the least, even when they are trying to be serious.

Anyway, the Mumby Mobile just got back home from the doctor yesterday. It had been running not so smooth for the last few months and we finally brought it into the shop as I have to drive to Medicine Hat next weekend again. Normally I had been renting cars, but this is a trip that I have to fund, so time to fix the truck.

Turns out our catalitic converter (whatever that is) was totally plugged and no exhaust was coming out the tail pipe. They fixed that and now our little truck is a brand new machine! I have never felt it have so much power before. The engine is a surprising V6, so there is a ton of power for the little thing and now it just zips all over the place. I actually enjoy driving it again, rather then being constantly afraid that I would be stranded somewhere in Edmonton. CBC 740 might not seem so bad anymore!

This evening I called Jon up and we hung out for a very long time. Starbucks, home, then O'Mallies. We used to hang out every single night and then we moved all over the place. Jon did a stint in Redding by himself, I spent a summer out at Eagle's Nest and then Jon moved to Calgary as I did a great deal of travelling over the province. Now he's back in Edmonton and we're starting to re-connect again, which makes me very much more then happy. He has been one of my best good friends.

We had a good chat tonight and I was left feeling very impressed with my friend. God has done much in his life and it was cool to see it. Plus it's nice just to have a friend back. Something that I always feel like I have lacked in Edmonton are friends my age who I can just be me with. I don't have to worry about being a "leader" or a "good influence", but I can just be honestly me. That doesn't sound right... that sounds like I have to be fake with other people, so I hope you know what I am getting at. It just isn't right to pour out the inner secrets of your heart to anyone and everyone. It's good to have peers. Jon has always been that for me. A friend. A friend who listens and I feel really understands me and speaks my language. Thems good people.

So we hung out all night tonight.

I decided I would play bass for church on Sunday as well. It has been about a year and a half since I played my bass, so this should be interesting. Ian is leading worship and he has been doing amazingly these past couple of times, so I thought it would be good to get back up there and back him up for a service. Should be fun... last sunday he and Bobbie hit it right out of the park.

I would also like to point out that I am not doing the best job at this fasting thing that much of the people involved with Watchmen are doing right now. I had a chocolate bar and a lot of potato chips today, which I don't think fall into the category of a "Daniel Fast". But oh well - I think I'm over using the excuse of it being my birthday. Mom the other day said it perfectly, "All I want is a big bucket of KFC!"

I don't think I'm there yet.

So that's how day two went. I'm going to go read more of the Chronicles of Narnia now. Everyone needs to read those. It's amazing. I always find such an intense desire and longing for Father God rise up in me when I read those books. It's a good thing.