24/7

Hello blog reading friends! Firstly thanks to those who do read — I’m told that more people read than I thought did, so that’s good! If you read though please post a comment! That way I will know you have read my ramblings and will sleep easier at night.

So it’s been a few weeks since I wrote here. I’ve been enjoying a lazy reading week in which I have done little or rather no reading. Which has been fantastic. Yes I’ve played a lot of World of Warcraft, but not too much. Though just looking at xfire (which records the time I’ve spent playing games each week) I’ve played 40 hours of WoW this week. Which is like a full time job! If only I was getting paid! What’s even more disturbing is that I’ve spent the past year playing WoW and according to xfire I’ve played it for a total of 765 hours! Which if my calculations are correct is 31ish days! So I spent a whole month playing WoW in a year! Amazing really, and I’m sure very very sad!

Anyway, moving on from my geekiness to more healthy areas of my seemingly uncultured life. This week is 24/7 prayer — allow me to explain. Every year the CU (Christian Union) borrows a room from St Aiden’s community church and spends an entire week in there praying! The idea is that there is always someone there, even at stupid-o’clock in the morning. I’ve done a few shifts in there and it’s been really good. We’ve got our Alpha course starting soon so mostly we have been praying for that, but also other things like the local churches, Middlesbrough, the Uni and stuff.

Yesterday night I ended up at The Empire which is probably the best club in Middlesbrough — it was the first time I’d been and it was completely unexpected. We saw three bands, the last being the best by far — called The Infadels. They had one song that I had heard of but they really did rock! The Empire is a lot like Shepherds Bush Empire in London — it’s an old theatre with 3 floors, standing down on the ground floor and seating on floors 1 and 2, all with a view of the stage.