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.