"You're a good for nothin', lazy, bum of a blogger!"
In my mind, that's what you've all been thinking. In reality, it's probably more something like this:
"Who? thekenlong? Did he even have a blog? Seriously...who/what are you talking about?"
Yeah...that's probably more like it. It's been over a month since I've taken a serious stab at taking a picture of the day. Or updated my blog. Or really even wanted to update my blog. Not entirely true, but it's an easy habit to get out of completely if you're not careful. And I haven't been careful at all.
The honest truth is that I have been
There has been A LOT of this:
For the un-initiated, those are callouses developing on the ends of my fingers from learning how to play the guitar. I've been taking professional lessons for a little over a month and am actually getting pretty decent from all the practice. Seriously...I haven't been this dedicated to learning something in a VERY long time. I'm sure my wife and kids will vouch for me on this one.
I spend about an hour (sometimes two) each day going over chord charts, practicing scales, picking patterns. It's insane, exhilarating and personally super-satisfying all at the same time.
Mixed in there have been mini road trips...
Oh, the irony (take a moment to see prohibited item #1 in the first picture compared to what was actually found INSIDE the park).
There have been really fun and super-awesome Long family Sunday outings...
We've helped some dear friends move, laughed a lot, loved even more, attended a worship conference and threw in the most epic road trip/concert experience of my life to this point.
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| This is a crap picture, but oh-so-necessary. |
I say all of that to simply say this...I'm almost back.
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