As much as I try to deny it I am a true geek in all the senses of the word, and I have tried to keep technical (IT) blog posts of this blog andkept it all on a secret blog out there but alas, time to cave in and show my true colors so I…

Less than a month to my birthday and people are asking what I would like to get, and I am always ata loss to answer well here is the comprehensive list. And yes this is my dream list, it’s the one time a year I get to dream shamelessly about gadgets and gizmos….. You have…

Arriving in Texas Brian let me know that he wanted to do a compagno test with me before I left the states. Naturally I was thrilled at the opportunity, but also a bit apprehensive, would I know enough to pass the test? As the days rolled by I was more and more sure that I…

I got up at four in the morning to catch a flight to Amsterdam from Riga. Having a serious case of jitters before my trip I couldn’t sleep before after midnight. At Amsterdam I had just had time to buy a sandwich and get on my flight for Detroit. The flight to Detroit will be…

So this is my rub it in your face post. I am now (or very very soon) on my way to Texas to attend WMAV 2006, THE western martial arts event of the year, sporting the best swordfighters the western world has to offer. Checked the weather forecast to, it’s going to be like a…

It was soooo hard to get up today and pray, it was like the world was swimming in a thick mist. When the alarm went off at six o’clock it just wasn’t right, the darkness clung tightly to all the windows and there was a chill in the air. Prayers was awkward and I rambled…

I have just had it with the Devils schemes on my life and on people close to me. So this morning I officially declared war on the devil in my [[Oikos]] (the network around me, my family and closest friends). So I hereby vow, for every family that is shattered in my vicinity we will…

It is time for Harvest in Latvia NOW! God told me this morning to stop being silly and just go out on the field and harvest, the time is now, the place is Latvia, are you ready?

I just got a phonecall I have been waiting for, for some time now. The official response from the Salvation Army Officers school assesment conference. We have been accepted for Officers training and will if all goes well start our training in the fall 2007 in London Where we would be trained for two years…

The past days I have been working hard to get my prayer life in order, getting up at 06:00 every morning to get an hour of prayer in before the family wakes up and the workday starts. It has been great, apart from the fact that everything possible has happened to make sure I wouldn’t…

Hanna has been throwing up all night and she is not keeping any liquids, please pray for her as this is double hard for her, breastfeeding Anja at the same time. The silver lining is that I get to spend some quality time with Angelina today even tho she is being impossible, sensing that something…

As I was driving to Bauska today for a longsword workshop I was passed by a Lexus doing at least double my speed. On the license plate was the tantalizing message “NOT4YOU” Isn’t it just a typical sign of todays society, the here but not any further mentality. It’s the I am better than you…

It is a wondrous thing, having people pray for you…. last thursday when we where having our interviews for officership we had many people praying for us. People in Riga where praying and people in Sweden both from our corps and Nationally and that day everything went fantastic. Even better than fantastic, Angelina was behaving…

Before me and Hanna went to sweden to visit the officers school we where full of prejudice, we thought the school would be dry and boring, the treaching dull and the teachers likewise. But we where wrong, the teaching we recieved at OS was excellent and the teachers where lively and engaging. We where challenged…

Just home now from an exciting week in Sweden. Hanna, the girls and I have spent one week at the Swedish Officers school in Ågesta to, among other things, be interviewed for possible officership. It was a fantastic week in Sweden with sunshine everyday and the beautiful views of the Stockholm archipelago where the OS…

So last night we finally got going with the longsword training. It has been long coming and I have waited long for it to start. We where seven people and I do not think we could be many more in the hall unless we learn how to be more efficiant with space. We did some…