David's Journal

Tonight I am excited because tomorrow if all my nefarious plans come to fruition I will be in possession of a djembe and a Presonus Firepod. Since I also recently aquired a bass I should be able to construct some rather smooth sounds. So thats what I've been doing lately, aquiring musical equipment - a process I hope I wont get addicted to. It could be VERY easy to do...

I've also been working a whole lot, but things seem to be going well so its quite satisfying. To blow off steam after working so hard one week we headed down to rotorua for some adventure tourism and ended up doing the swoop and the freefall simulator down near the agrodome. Lots of fun, I'd recommend either of them, heres a pic of me in action on the freefall.

I look quite stable in the photo but that must have been taken in the split second before I tumbled out of the airstream and fell to the side. It's hard to maintain your balance as the slightest movement can send you spinning off. The massive airflow also does hilarious things to a persons face, we got some good photos. To finish off we went for a soak in the Polynesian Spa which was great as always.

Reading:

Enchantment, Orson Scott Card
Enders Shadow, Orson Scott Card
Most of The Chronicles of Narnia, CS Lewis
Hocus Pocus, Kurt Vonnegut

Movies:

Superman Returns, Bryan Singer
Land Of The Dead, George A. Romero
Man On Fire, Tony Scott
Starship Troopers 2, Not Paul Verhoeven
Mirrormask, Dave McKean (& Neil Gaiman)