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Well, I’ve been pretty quiet on here the last little while.

I’ve been busy!

For the last little while I’ve been working on a new website for YWAM Reef To Outback (YWAM Townsville), which, hopefully, should be unveiled by the end of next week. It’s quite nice, although it certainly still needs a bit of work! I’ve been working on it pretty steady over the last three weeks; before that the plans designs were too volatile for me to do much work without having to redo it all in the end, anyhow.

It’s been pretty frustrating the last few weeks working on the site, so I am pleased the project is nearing it’s main end (although web sites need constant input, hopefully that won’t all be me). Since I have multiple responsibilities beyond the web stuff, I have to juggle a few different projects at at time, it feels like. I am still the go-to guy for technical problems on base, although Nick is shouldering a lot more of that load, which has been very helpful. Unfortunately, I have been the most fixed I.T. guy over the last couple of years, so I seem to be the default person to go to.

On another note, though, I have joined up with a local band here in Townsville, which as been quite nice, meeting together with them and doing a bit of jamming, learning their songs, and such things. I am certainly blessed to hang out with them, and I’m hoping we can have a lot of fun in the next few months.

As always, we will see where God takes me in the next couple of months.

Well, I’m sitting here with a cup of tea, considering what I have done today. Mostly, I have been reading a lot lately, which is great. I have gone through a few books in the last month, which has been nice.

After some thinking one night, I have decided to attempt to write an album. Of music. I have planned out most of the songs and their content, and have begun preparing rough tracks that will guide the recordings. Even if I never finish the album, the project has been good for me, already. Normally I write somewhat aimlessly, if a song comes to me, then that’s great. Trying to put an album together as a whole, though, having pre-planned the songs,… it guides the content and feel of each songs.\, and yet I feel it guides and hones the creative process, a swell.

It will be quite some time, I think, before I get to the recording stage (if I do). At this point I am planning to do at least the electric guitar parts myself. There are a couple of people I will try to include in practice and recording for vocals, bass, acoustic guitar; and another friend is willing to do drums. So far, no piano/keys have come into the songs.

I think that’s it for now. As I develop more of the album, I might post a bit more about it’s feel and content, which I am also quite excited about. I would actually appreciate your prayers, too… pray that I can stick at it despite working full-time somewhere else, pray that  the album as a whole comes together as I am hoping it should, and that the band would be able to work together well in creating, practicing and recording.