Post #4

Not sure what to put here now, just want to update my blog a bit. I'm not sure if anyone reads (or has read) anything i've put up here, but it lets me write a bit. My week of life as a newly-single man ends tomorrow when my wife returns from Florida (mickey mouse and all that fun stuff) - which i'm rather happy about actually. Single life is not all it's cracked up to be. I'll admit that i miss my wife considerably, but i should seeing as she's now 50% of me (not literally but you get the idea).

I just updated my Facebook account with some new pictures and stuff. It's pretty cool running into old friends. I used to live in ontario and i've found my first girlfriend (grades 1 and 2 - long term, it was serious) and my best friend from Borden... pretty bizarre, but cool.

Had church today. Went really well. We had a 15min jam session where everyone was just flowing together, very cool. I really love my church (Victory Christian Centre - no website, but FYI). Also, tonight we had our small groups with the teen guys. Went pretty well i think, talked about some relevent (i think) issues and got some feedback and interaction. Then we played ping pong, PS2 and nintendo 64 (it's a bunch of geeky guys, what can you do). It's tough to try and be real with a bunch of 16 -18 year old church-ee type guys and try to teach them about life and God and stuff. Hopefully it's getting through, i'd loved to have had something like this when i was their age.

Other than that there's not much else to say. Time for Sam to hit the sack, enjoy the last night of full bed sleep and get up tomorrow to start the week!

Peace out

Thoughts of summer

So i started to get into mountain biking last summer and i'm really jonesing for the 3 months of good newfoundland weather. I went cheap on my first bike (it's a bit small for me as well) so i'm
hoping to pick up something a little nicer this time. But of course i have to choose between so many brands and styles (full-suspension or hardtail). Of course, the bikes that i really like are way out of my price range. I'll show a few of my favorites below. This is a picture from the cove website - and i really like it. Black with maxxis tires looks super good. Of course cove bikes are not the cheapest on the block, so this might have to remain on the 'wish list' for a while. The same is true of the next bike - the santa cruz chameleon - it's light. I held the frame at Canary Cycles (one of the local bike shops in
town) and it's ridiculous. Again this bike is really expensive so i can't really make it happen (yet!). Realistically i'll probably be getting a kona or cannondale, unless mike hasn't sold his Gary Fisher GED by then (fingers crossed).

One good thing about my house is that it's in Paradise (yes that's the name of the town - check it out) and there are tons of trails, and there are actually trails like 100 feet from my backyard and dirt jumps and everything (got a full face helmet now so my wife doesn't have to worry so much). So here i am on a sunny winters afternoon typing about mountain bikes... not the most deep or philisophical topic but i can work my way up to that. I have been reading some creation magazine articles today so i'm all amped up for small groups tonight - always fun times when creation and evolution butt heads. I'm off for now.

Explorations of Corel Painter

I'm just going to post some of my digital art that i did with my Graphire pad, which a good friend gave me as a house warming gift...

This one on the left is the second one i did and i think it came out pretty good. I love colourful skies so that's what i did. I'm not sure how to do a lot of things with Painter IX but i think for what i know i did pretty fine.






This one is a mountain obvously, not overly detailed (did it in under an hour) but it's pretty bright and vibrant, just like me!








My most recent work (it's been a while). I wish i had done a higher resolution version but i made it small to begin with. Oh well...

First post, so exciting

This is my first post ever. Yep it's a big day. The internet be warned, Sam Russell is on the prowl (meow). What's next, will your mom and dad show up here posting pictures of their latest trip to the dominican telling everyone how amazing it is and being all techy? Maybe that's more common these days, i dunno. Anyways, this will be short, gotta add a link from my website to my new blog so other peeps can keep tuned to my frequency.