Friday in Westport, WA

Friday was cold and cloudy in Olympia and cold and sunny on the coast.

New Songs

I posted two new songs on myspace (www.myspace.com/tomdykstra)

I'm fairly satisfied with how All Over the World turned out.

I rushed Because of the Cross a little bit, so I'll probably re-mix it and get a better version up there soon.

Both songs are revisited tracks that I'd recorded 7 or 8 months ago. Since I'm still not able to play guitar, I used all the original guitar tracks & some of the drum tracks, redid most of the vocals, and added a few other layers.

Home for Christmas...

I caught a flight at midnight on Christmas Eve (after our service) to head home to Florida for Christmas and New Years. It was great to be back home and warm for a few days.

After spending three days in Lake Worth at home with the fam, we took off for the gulf-side of Florida to spend some time with our grandparents, uncle Jerry, and Aunt Marsha. We stayed a nice little 4th-floor condo on the beach with a nice beach/gulf view:

One of our afternoons there I went mopeding with my sister Andrea. Ann had to wear a ridiculously large helmet:But so did I... and mine was ridiculously larger:Gramps and Grandma:Beautiful sunsets every night:I didn't do any swimming, but we did rent a couple of wave-runners on New Years Eve... Perhaps I'll throw a few of those pics up here when I get them.