So we are on holiday in Auckland. It's good. Auckland is about what you'd expect (except for the Zoo, but more on that anon), but seeing friend and hanging out is teh r0xx0r.

So we went to the zoo yesterday. It was really very good. I have this hangup about zoos from when I was a teenager and went to Wellington zoo and was depressed by the miserable enclosures and general pokiness of it all. Actually Wellington Zoo has improved alot too. There is an album of photos on my facebook page if you want to look. The tiger is immensely cool and awesome and, well, tigery. If ever I needed proof of God that tigers eyes gave it to me. So incredible.

Lots of other picks of animals too. The Zebra Finches were another favourite of mine.

Generally life is okay, but mega, stupidly busy. Work is especially out of control at the moment. Well not right now as I am on holiday, but generally. I am loving the job, I find I really like being a team manager, but I really struggle not to have it totally take over my life.

I am speaking on Church on grace in a couple of weeks. Two weeks on it. Not enough time really, I could spend all my life musing on it and still not come to the end. It really is so huge that it can't be fully grasped, and the more I dig into it, the more offensive to conventional social morality and to pious christian religiosity it is. It's great stuff. Jesus was a true revolutionary, he turned the world on it's head and we've been trying to put it back ever since, but it won't really go back. It's no surprise that grace gets caricatured into a box so that we can pretend to understand it.

On youtube there is a sequence of videos that are a last interview with serial killer Ted Bundy. Here is the first Fatal Attraction. It's ironic that he talks about being saved and outside there are Christians with placards saying he will burn in hell. Like I said, grace is offensive...it probably offends you. It does me, and that's a good thing.

Anyway, between work, church, ultimate and what little roleplaying I do I seem to have very little time for anything else at the moment. It's mostly work, it takes most of my energy and leaves me with little left for anything else. I am hoping my plans to mitigate this will come to fruition soon...

This will probably be the post for the third quarter the way my life is going ^_^

I am looking forward too:

1. The Aoteroa Vineyard churches national conference this weekend. Should be a good time.
2. Coming home next friday, I'll be well sick of Orcland by then.
3. Speaking in church on the 19th and 26th
4. Hopefully going to see Marcdog on Labour day.
5. Giving him, Anne and thier kids the present I have for them (a laptop).
6. Daggers Pirate party (Zeke is also going to have a pirate party, but that's not until next feb).
7. Ultimate starting on the 26th!