Tuesday night means bowling night. My average tonight was up by about 20 pins per game. If I remember correctly, my scores (in ascending order) were 138, 147, 147, 153. Not terribly high, but pretty consistent. For now, consistency is all right as I’m basically just trying to figure out what works for me with this ball and on my approach. I Turkeyed at the end of our last game–I was in danger of not even breaking 100 and I break out with 3 strikes and a 9 to finish ‘er off. It was luck, but it saved my self-esteem for the week.
I’ve been trying to make some cash on Ebay lately, but so far I’ve had no luck. I don’t need much, just enough to get me through the semester–the story of my life. This summer’ll be good for bringin’ in the bucks. I’ll be back working at Raytheon Company again and I’m getting a raise (about a buck an hour, I think). The clincher will be whether I can pull two things off: First, I need to find a cheap place to live while I’m out there–I spent almost 1500 bucks on rent during the 3 months I was in Dallas last summer; Second, I need to find a subleaser for my place here in Gainesville while I’m gone–that’s never been a problem before, but it’s definitely not a gimme’. If I can manage those two things, I should be able to save up quite a bit of money by the end of the summer. That is, if my car doesn’t decide it needs a make-over again this summer–I dropped a grand on it last summer, just doing regular maintenance: alternator, battery, brakes, tires, fuel-injection service, etc.
Anyway, enough about money. My post a few days ago was pretty heavy. That was ’cause I was feeling pretty heavy. Since, I’ve spent some much-needed time with the Lord and I’ve tried to alter my focus from inward to outward. I realized that if I focused on myself, all I’d ever see was a disgusting being because that’s what my flesh is–disgusting. I decided instead to focus on God and His plan for me. That’s not disgusting, it’s relieving and ultimately beautiful, though it can be scary at times. Anyway, I’m trying to change my focus and so far–slowly but surely–it’s working.
I’ll soon be adding a link to a few of the songs that Chris (mostly) and I (kinda’) did a couple weeks ago at the Oxford Coffee House here in Gainesville. We’re hoping to record some things before Chris graduates at the end of the semester and I’m sure those recordings will be far superior to these. It was just too difficult to keep things tight (and accurate) without the benefit of monitors and with the hindrance of all the crowd noise. I think it was a blessing that the crowd was loud because they couldn’t here the little mess-ups (there were many on my part), but recordings don’t lie and so the recording sounds pretty bad at some parts (at least from my perspective–I focus mainly on my guitar playing). Anyway, the link should be up soon and any feedback is welcome (via e-mail or comment or whatever).
That’s all for tonight, sports fans. Except that I think I won the pool this year for the NCAA College Hoops tourney. One point separated me from second place. Whew. Now, I’m makin’ off with a cool twenty bucks. That’ll go toward the “driver improvement” course I’ll be taking to knock the points from “cutting corner to avoid intersection” off my license.
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