June 9th (Day 26)

Today's verse is Psalm 56:4, "In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I will not be afraid. What can mortal man do to me?" Today was tech. my "day off" but I'm more tired now than I was when I started. I woke up and then went for a 2 mile jog, came back and got cleaned up, and then hopped on the computer for a little bit. At 11:20ish, I drove over to get some lunch and meet some of the interns and Josh at the office so we could carpool and go to the zoo. We ended up spending about 3 hours walking around, looking at animals and taking in the sites. It wasn't too bad, but I have to admit there are some zoos that I think are better. I ended up getting back home around 4:45pm and from then until 7:45pm, I worked on electric guitar stuff. Supposedly I am supposed to be playing lead guitar this Sunday and as I mentioned earlier, the pre-service song is 'Sweet Home Alabama'. For just starting it today, I'm pretty proud of myself (not in a bad, conceited way) because I've pretty much got the 1st solo and random licks through the choruses down. I've never been confident about being able to play complicated and/or fast guitar riffs or solos, but I'm slowly getting there. Tomorrow is going to be a very LONG day, but at least a lot of work will get done. I guess that's about all I can fill you in on today. Till tomorrow!

Pat