This weekend has been awesome! Had Marie-Claire round since Friday evening and we had so much fun. Friday night we went out to play pool with everyone from CU and that was great — somehow made it to the semi-finals of the tournament. Then Saturday spent the day in town and both of us bought new shoes. Saturday evening went to see Wallace and Gromit — Curse of the Were-Rabbit which I definitely recommend. After that we went to see a gig at the union — we saw The Columbos who are a band we have to design a website for as one of my projects this year. They were pretty good I thought, surfer type music was pretty cool. Then today we went to church and then out for lunch with everyone in the CU. It’s been so nice having company all the time because I realise now that I spend a lot of my time on my own — kinda a bit lonely now.

Also took a bit of a big step today and quit World of Warcraft (or am in the process of quitting) so I won’t be playing it at all anymore. Sounds silly but it will be hard for me — I’ve been playing since last January now and have a lot of friends that play so I’ll miss spending time with them but it’s something I know I have to do. God has been calling me to give it up for a long time and I just haven’t had the guts to do it but last night that kind of changed — I couldn’t sleep for hours. The reason for that is because I’m reading Wild at Heart again. It just stirs something in my heart when I read about it and I know the things it’s talking about. The main principle of the book is that men need 3 things and if they don’t have them then something inside of them dies: An Adventure to live. A Battle to fight. A Beauty to rescue. So I’m trying to get rid of some of the distraction in my life to make room for that stuff.

Another big bit of news is that I’m stepping down as co-leader of FM (our gaming clan). I wasn’t really doing much in it anymore — Watchout has been running it all pretty much. So to let someone else have a chance (someone that actually wants to be more involved) I’m just going to step down to being a member. This will hopefully give me even more free time to do the things that I want to do because playing computer games all day everyday is fun but I need to let go of that stuff and make room for God!

I just want to say big thanks to all the guys that I’ve played with this past year — it’s been great getting to know you and I had a lot of fun. I’m not going anywhere, I’ll still be around on IRC, TS and on the forums but you won’t see me so much in game. No disrespect to any of you either, gaming is great but I need to spend more time IRL.

Me and MC