Saturday, May 08, 2004
Jono the Missionary
My missionary brother has now got a blog site.
Check him out and feel free to email him if you want to be added to his weekly or monthly mailing list.
Friday, May 07, 2004
What can you do with a 2 year old?
I made popcorn for the kids and spent some time sitting with them today watching Chicken Run.
After we finished eating the popcorn, the 2 year old decided to sit on the plastic container which I thought was funny, until she peed in it! I told her that she should have gone to the toilet and that it was naughty to pee in a container. She then tipped it on the floor. I couldn't scold - she was trying to be good!
Thursday, May 06, 2004
Poetry
Prayer & Trust
Be Still my Heart
and Rest in Him
and Know the Joy
When Being in
a Cauldron of
Uncertainty
Turmoil and Anxiety,
That God above
is Watching me
and Loves to Help
when Things don't seem
to be the Way
they Ought to be
© Timothy Miller 1996
Soccer Ministry
It is awesome to see the soccer ministry in our church. I have recently started back playing for the church club again after an absence of 9 years during which I have played for other teams, played other sports and played indoor soccer.
We now field 3 full mens teams in 3 divisions, womens teams and countless junior teams. Shayne has done an awesome job putting this together.
Its another peripheral ministry that has great impact. Not only do we have a witness in the community as a church, we also provide a vehicle for people who may not otherwise get much out of church a chance to belong and feel worthwhile.
Wednesday, May 05, 2004
40 Days is almost here
I posted a short article on Brisvegas Bloggers inviting readers to the 40 days of Purpose program at our church starting on Mothers Day 9th May.
We are expecting an awesome result!
Monday, May 03, 2004
Honda CBR100XX Super Blackbird
I've had the bike for 6 months now so I thought it was high time I went for a serious fang.
After going to the horse riding comp with Miranda this morning I took the long way home via a local mountain ride. You know its a good ride when you come across lots of red signs with Motorbikes on them and the warning "Fatal Crashes next 4 Km" and "REDUCE SPEED NOW".
I decided to see if I could keep the bike in lower gear and a higher rev range and see how it went. Being a sports tourer with an awesome spread of power one tends to drive at the lower end of the scale. So I spent most of the next 30 odd kms of twisty mountain roads in 2nd and 3rd gears at around 7000-10000 RPM. AWESOME!. The smoothness of the power delivery is amazing. There is a slight power surge at around 8000 RPM but it is even and not jerky.
I have a lot of respect for this bike now. If you are a novice rider and don't go too hard, it is very forgiving and will corner with ease. IF you want to go harder it will respond effortlessly. By the time I was coming down the last 5-6 kms of switchbacks I was out of the saddle, with all my weight on the pegs shifting my body from side to side over the seat and swinging into the switchbacks at around 95km an hour. These were hairpins marked at 40 km. The handling was smooth, the power was kept on an even RPM around 7000-8000 with a burst between hairpins. 2nd gear sounded crisp and the odd small straight got treated to a burst of 3rd gear. Mind you 2nd gear at 10000 RPM is 140kmh! The brakes never faded off once, even under heavy load (although I never really taxed it with emergency braking) and the suspension took the corners really well. The front did chatter a bit on the rougher stuff but not enough to bother and could be softened a little if riding on that sport of stuff regularly.
Attention getting too. Every small gathering of picnickers or sightseers all had their heads twisted towards the road as I came past and swivelled as I went by. That's quite a funny thing to watch.
Finally I treated myself to about 6kms of gravel road on a shortcut back to my place that cuts of 10kms of boring stuff (boring = frequented by cars with lights on top). Here the bike also performed very well with the front end only squirming a little in the pea size gravel at 80-90 kms an hour. It is fun twisting the throttle hard to get a rooster of gravel out the back!
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