Burnout city here I come...

Have you ever known something was going to happen and you still let it happen? Or had an end goal in mind and did whatever you needed to do to get to the goal? Well seems like in the next month I have about a million things to do. I don't have enough time for it to be done, but I still try and try I do.

I have got to the point where I am going at 110 down the road, and don't have time to stop and see that my tires are running flat. So it is weird because I know that I will burn out soon, but it don't matter. I figure that in May I have a 8 hour flight to England, and 12 hour flight to South Africa and then a 5 hour ghetto flight to Malawi to sleep on so there is no worries.

I am really excited to see all the cool things that are gonna happen in the next month...

1) Get to organize my first Soaking School
2)Check out a Hillsong Conference and maybe use my pull to get back stage...
3) Freshwind!!!
4)Israel and new Breed concert
5) GO TO AFRICA!!!!

So my life is really exciting and really busy, but hey that is what my youth is for. Besides, my beard will help me through the whole thing.

Life Lessons

Life Lessons
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Isn't it true...

Good times had by me

So as FW approaches I am in need of an instrument that will make me sound amazing so I took a trip to the music store, and got this...

Martin 16 Series: DC 16 GTE Premium
MODEL DC-16GTE Premium
CONSTRUCTION: Mortise/Tenon Neck Joint
BODY SIZE: D-14 Fret CUTAWAY
TOP: Solid Sitka Spruce
ROSETTE: Bold Herringbone
TOP BRACING PATTERN: D1 Hybrid
TOP BRACES: 1 Style/Scalloped
BACK MATERIAL: Solid Genuine Mahogany
BACK PURFLING: none
SIDE MATERIAL: Solid Genuine Mahogany
ENDPIECE: Black Boltaron®
ENDPIECE INLAY: none
BINDING: Black Boltaron®
TOP INLAY STYLE: none
SIDE INLAY: none
BACK INLAY: none
NECK MATERIAL: Select Hardwood
NECK SHAPE: Modified Low Oval
NUT MATERIAL: White Corian®
HEADSTOCK: Solid/6 String No Diamond/Standard Taper
HEADPLATE: Solid East Indian Rosewood /Raised Gold Foil Logo
HEELCAP: Solid East Indian Rosewood
FINGERBOARD MATERIAL: Black Micarta®
SCALE LENGTH: 25.4"
# OF FRETS CLEAR: 14
# OF FRETS TOTAL: 20
FINGERBOARD WIDTH AT NUT: 1 11/16''
FINGERBOARD WIDTH AT 12TH FRET: 2 1/8''
FINGERBOARD POSITION INLAYS: Style 28
FINGERBOARD BINDING: none
FINISH BACK & SIDES: Satin, Light Mahogany Stain
FINISH TOP: Polished Gloss
FINISH NECK: Semi Gloss/ Light Red Mahogany Stain
BRIDGE MATERIAL: Black Micarta®
BRIDGE STYLE: 1 Style Belly
BRIDGE STRING SPACING: 2 1/8''
SADDLE: Compensated White Tusq
TUNING MACHINES: Chrome w/ Small Knobs
RECOMMENDED STRINGS: Martin MSP 4100 Light Phosphor Bronze
BRIDGE & END PINS: White w/ Black Dots
PICKGUARD: I-02 Tortoise Color
CASE: 345 Hard Shell
INTERIOR LABEL: Paper Label
ELECTRONICS: Fishman® Prefix Premium Stereo Onboard Blender
OTHER OPTIONS: Available left-handed at no additional charge

It is amazing!!! It sounds so good and the coolestpart is that it has a pickup and a mic in the sound hole so I can get a very warm sound that makes you want to melt.

I am very happy, but then I remember that I can't keep it, so I am starting the "Jon L needs cash to buy sweet action guitar" fund.

Peace out

It's all over...

So I am sitting here by the pool in Miami having just finished one of the longest weeks of my life. I know you are all going to say shut up about you cruise already, but this is my blog and I want to reflect on it.

Over all the whole week was amazing and full of great great fun, some excting memories and lots of hard work. I will start with the work side so the fun will come later. Kev and I are the bookstore and since we couldn't use credit card machines, we had to type the numbers into my computer manualy and such, so this means that every transaction that should normally take 1 min, took 2-3 and some times more. It was rough but still fun and I really love my job and some of the cool little perks that come along with it.

The fun times were every moment that I wasn't working. We did everything from snorkel in the reef's of Cozumel to swinging with stingrays, to feed 3000 Jamican's who were getting violent, to getting lost on one of the Bahamas Islands. It was great fun, and I hope that I can do it again next year. It was great!!!

A funny story on the trip was and is that each morning at like 6:00am, one of my roommates parents would call and wake there son up so they could have breakfast together. That is pretty cool if the kid would wake up with a phone call, or even a voice saying "Vince get up", This kid would not wake up... He would just sleep until either my brother and I got up and answered the phone. It sucked cause all he did each day was read and watch TV. I mean, the kid was on a cruise ship and didn't even do anything cool. Anyways, so after being awoken I would go down and set up for the service, and get ready to lead worship. I did some songs and such and it was just me and my guitar on a huge theatre type stage with like 1000 seats. The morning I lead it was packed out!!! I did "THere is no other friend" and "I could sing of your love forever". I did real good and it was awesome how everyone was worshiping along with me. It just felt so easy, and like I didn't have to dragg anyone through worship. They were all there and just wanting to praise God. Anyways, the cool part of the story is that after leading worship I had to get off the stage and walk by some big name speakers (notice I didn't name drop), and they told me that they really liked it and like my style. It was real encouraging as whenever I lead it is dragging the youth along for the ride with me and instead of us all working together and really going for it. All in all I loved it.

The cruise was fun, but I am glad to be off the boat and back to my normal 40 hour work week.

God is awesome!!!