Planes, trains, and automobiles

I just hopped on the A to go back home after a great weekend celebrating my friends Dru and Heather getting married in SC.



A 2 hour drive from Sumter to Charlotte, a 2 hour flight from CLT to JFK (and jet blue is amazing), and a 2 hour train ride from the butt end of Brooklyn to our home in Inwood, Manhattan. I like the air here better, less humidity and bugs. I also love the diversity of tourists, these hippies across from me, the Indian lady beside me and the Latino kids across the way. I've missed it. But that BEng did it was a tremendous celebration of life and joy and love in many ways.

It was great to see my friends from college, share a mess of laughs, video game blood, hillarious and risqué photos that are sure to damage the future careers of the doctors, PhD computer gurus, worship leaders, and others. :) some wonderful peeps I was reunited with were these guys.


And our wedding party was like this:




I cleaned up pretty good and shocked some people who hadn't seen me outside of a tux when I changed at the reception. But I looked good:



I had IHOP for breakfast 2xs. I recommend the stuffed French toast.




And that's about it. The next level starts Saturday. Our first intern arrives tomorrow. And I have a meeting with the dermetologist. So I will likely be absent for a while from this blog. But know that I love you all, especially when I get text messages from friends on the toilet. Now that's love.

Road weary hugs,
Jonathan

Currently listening to these guys:


-- Post From A Ninja On The Move

Post fight Wednesday

Yay! I have finally accomplihed my first competition and it was a blast. Unfortunately most of my friends that came to watch made it after I was already finished. The NYC Shootout went very quickly. I'll post videos when I'm home onthe compy, but I went 1 and 1. Great experience. And even better I get to eat again. Mmmm. Oatmeal, fruit, cheese, crackers, protein shake, coffee, and 2 bottles of H2O and it's only 11 o'clock.

So I'm already looking at another competition around the corner and looking forward to it. :)

In other news. Tammy starts back to school in the summer. I contacted a couple of seminaries but doubt I'll be starting this fall. I won't be participating on Redeemers Church Plant programs after further conversation with Mark Reynolds this past Friday.

Walter and I have been discussing the HoC program plans in light if that. Tammy and I have been looking at my schedule to see how my schedule will work out for fall. I'll still be working with the church plant however now I am dependent on the HoC for pay. I'm working to capitalize on time and class schedules along with my training. We'll see how it goes. At least the suns out today. :)

Keep it groovie.
Jonathan



-- Post From A Ninja On The Move

Jibba Jab

When you plant a plant you don't force it to grow and beat it up. You care for the land and the soil.

- Walter

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Overnight adventure

So I'm upstate with Eric bc he's doing a physical test for a court officer job and it's past Albany. We found the town this thing is at and spent an hour trying to find a hotel. One was a super sketchy B&B straight from Misery or a Hitchcock film placed in the slums. Weird. The next one GPS took us to wasn't finished being built. So finally we ditched the stinkhole town and went one town over and found a real hotel and civilization. Which was refreshing. Street lights. Go figure.

So tomorrow is my fight and I'm pretty stoked. I'm sitting in a small partially closed down mall in Latham waiting to get a cut and shave for tomorrow. I usually do it myself but don't know how late I'll be getting back. Soo...I figure I'll treat myself to my first haircut in 3 or 4 years.

As for weight, I'm doing well. Haven't weighed today but was 1.7 lbs off yesterday. So I am currently living off protein bars and no water all day today.


-- Post From A Ninja On The Move