Lagging

Another early morning for me. I woke up at 4am today. Which is marginally better than the 2am wakeup yesterday. I’m wide awake now. But by 11am my face will be in a bowl of cereal. Because I will have fallen asleep while eating cereal. Try teaching the future [...]

Detroit: Part II

Cheesestrings notwithstanding, it’s maddening being so close to home but not… being home.  Our connecting flight to Toronto isn’t for another five hours.  I could take a bus and get there faster.
I can’t wait to wake up in my own bed.  I’m just tired and grumpy. 

Just When I Thought I Was Out

They pull me back in.
I’ve finished all my meetings and even handed in my preliminary report on the church plant yesterday (the reason I’m here). I was in a relaxed mindset, ready to enjoy one more day of summer in January. And then, I was woken by my father-in-law at five in the [...]

Cockadoodle

I was excited to spend the night in Lagaspi, away from my friend, the Infernal Rooster. Imagine my delight waking up to a chorus of roosters. We were next door to some sort of rooster/cockfighting farm. The Philippines national past-time.
Staying with us in the guest house here in Manila is a Mennonite [...]

Corregidor Pics

Here are some pictures I took of the island I visited on Tuesday.
This isn’t the boat I took, but it had a pretty rainbow beside it.
The northern harbour of Corregidor. Scared away by the Japanese, Gen. MacArthur said, “I shall return.” And he did.
A series of tunnels under the mountain [...]

Stayin’ Alive

While at dinner with my father-in-law and his colleagues last night, I inadvertently started singing. I get pretty tired after 7:30, and I guess I was kinda in my own head space. The Bee Gees were on the radio when we pulled into the restaurant, and near the end of the meal I [...]

Pictures and Post-Apocalypse

With the humidity and heat and ceiling fan on full blast, the air reminds me of summers a long time ago. The house I lived in as a teenager didn’t have air-conditioning, so if I close my eyes I could be fifteen again, lying on me bed, back propped against pillows, reading a book.
Each [...]

Rats With Wings

I think this is going to be a short post since I get so tired around this time of the day. Yesterday I forced myself to stay awake until 9:30 but I blacked out around 9. And the hour before that was not productive. It consisted of using all my faculties to [...]

Manila

I’m here. I’ve been awake for 1,203 hours.
After a long shower and a longer poop (about 127 inches), I’m feeling OK. We’re at the World Team guest house in Quezon City. Sounds futuristic. Isn’t.
I had terrible gas on the 13 hour flight to Japan. But since five other people were [...]

Detroit

We’re currently in some fancy elite flyers’ club lounge eating cheese strings and enjoying free wireless!  Exclamation point.
After four hours we’ve successfully completed 1/6 of our journey.  I’m exhausted.  From Pippin wailing through the night and then Lola yelling at him, I had a fantastic sleep.
But it’s nice to have a place to relax while [...]