Still just bleeping on ...
Sorry folks. I’ve been somewhat diverted of late. The rest of last week was not quite so eventful as it’s beginning. The Community College called and left me a message last Wednesday asking me if I was “involved in last night’s shooting incident” and to see how I was going as a result. In discussion with the college my guitar teacher had told them I walked out into the middle of it (and he has to fill in reports etc). So that was nice of them. But I am fine. While I wanted to get out of the way of whatever was going on I didn’t feel so personally threatened, and the fact that I ascertained that police had arrived was reassuring (if I had walked out a couple of minutes earlier and come upon a man with two rifles and no police on the scene it might have been a different story).
It’s back to class tonight. This course is proving fairly challenging for me, but I suppose it’s good to be stretched and not just plod on playing four-chord songs for the rest of my life. We didn’t actually get a new song last week, but some finger-plucking exercises. One of them has this chord called Amaj7#11 in it that goes over four frets. Yikes.
On Saturday we had our markets and blanket appeal at church, which took most of the day (and I had to be there at 8:15 am with all my stuff!). But we collected a truly enormous pile of blankets for Anglicare, and despite all the scaffolding around church we had people come by our markets and I even sold some things, so it was a good day. Saturday night I went to hear a friend from my Connect Group play at a gig. He’s quite exceptional on the guitar and banjo (and managed to play guitar and tambourine at the same time) and I enjoyed that. It was in the strangest little venue in Marrickville though. Very “Inner West”.
I am also leading bible study again this week on Joshua 2, so have been working on that. It’s the story of Rahab, so it’s a good one. Then I have been drowning in extra things to do at work so have mostly been cutting lunch-breaks short.
But, hopefully I am going to have more time for reading more books for the next while, now that I am done with crocheting like there was no tomorrow, for a time.