It was a great birthday wish come true. I've been wanting to play some good volleyball again and so Lynnette organized it and made it happen for me. It was awesome, 3 hours of four on four action and fortunately in the end my team won...otherwise we'd have to keep playin. The only drawback is the 20 or so muscles in my legs that are now getting back at me for not using them in the past 6 months. Thanks to all the people who were able to make it!

After working up a healthy appetite, we headed over to Ramen-Ya in Pearl City. They give generous portions of food, and their fried rice is awesome.

Now I'm ready to go back to school! Super light, reads great in sunlight, almost a fifth the cost of an iPad!!! My class at Fuller starts Monday and I can have all my books in the palm of my hand with a few simple clicks!

Lynnette and I stopped by my brother's place the other day, it was great to see little Hannah...she was so cute with her little black crayon that she would not let go of. I imagine she'll become an artist one day, either that or one of those kids who likes to eats crayons.

I was blown away by the first "Arise" (HCWO's women's ministry) service. Why would I be at such a service? I was just a backstage volunteer, but I was there to also support Lynnette who, of all people, was in charge of the all tech ministries for this service. Even though she knows little about tech stuff, she knows a lot about recruiting volunteers who want to learn it.

Somehow Lynnette managed to organize one on one interviews with the top Governor candidates in the midst of this busy campaigning season, for her school wide "Kids Vote" project that she is responsible for. With her tiny point and shoot Canon Powershot Elph on "movie mode", she filmed all her hard hitting interviews led by a couple of her 4th grade budding political journalists. In addition to getting spots with Duke Aiona, Neil Abercrombie and Mufi Hannemann, she even managed to squeeze out a personalized video message to her school, from Governor Lingle.

I've been wanting to dabble in video again, so Lynnette gladly had me edit everything together. It is 6 minutes of "award winning" video editing that transforms unorthodox point & shoot camera footage into a journalistic masterpiece (I love iMovie templates). You'll laugh, you'll cry, it will become a part of you, unfortunately you will never see it...unless of course you roll with the "in" crowd at August Ahrens Elementary school (the "in" crowd of course being all the students and teachers in the school).

Our good friend, JoAnne, is back in Hawaii visiting family and friends. She and her husband have been traveling all over the world with a ministry that uses media arts to share the powerful story of God's transforming love. We have always been inspired by her faith filled pursuit of the calling that God has revealed to her. They are currently residing in Chiang Mai, Thailand. To find out more about their ministry visit, www.createinternational.com

Went downtown to try to check out some live jazz at Hank's Cafe and The Dragon Upstairs, but it didn't work out. So instead we walked around the block to eat some delicious Chinese food over at Little Village.