Here's the video of our rafting trip yesterday!

Well, I guess there isn't much to post. Last night I was afraid a full post would be too long and it was too late to write. But I have a video of the rafting trip coming soon. It was a great time.

The sadness happened on the way home when my car decided to stop working. I will be taking it into the dealership tomorrow for them to tell me what is wrong. 

Wish me luck.

Whitewater Rafting was AMAZING.

What wasn't amazing was the MASSIVE amounts of car trouble we had on the way back home. 

But I'll write more about that tomorrow - because right now it's 1:15am - and it took us nearly five hours to go 75 miles. I am beat. 

I cut this from the main whitewater rafting video. But I think it's a great moment and really represents a pattern in our friendship. 

Thank you, Jane - for keeping me as respectable as possible. 

I'm so nervous. Tomorrow I am going whitewater rafting for the first time ever - and I'm FREAKING OUT! 

I'm a decent swimmer... in a pool... without a current... or rapids... 

So this should be fun. 

For some reason I’ve been thinking a lot about names lately. There are certain names that I think are just so cool – and the people that have those names are even cooler because their names are so cool. There are times when I think about the “what ifs” of my life if my name was cooler. And then I realize that I’m an adult – and if I really wanted to, I could legally change my name. And then the daydreaming becomes too real – and I lose interest.

It's ok that I hit "snooze" for an hour, right? I mean, it doesn't mean that I have a problem or issues or anything... it just means I'm sleepy... and it's Friday... so it's allowed... right?

God, I'm pathetic.

We went wine tasting last weekend in Ojai, CA. and the waiter caught me staring at him. 

I'm sorry - I'm a starer!

(starer? learer? oggler? Oggler makes me sound like a member of a strange race in a Harry Potter novel...  

Dear Potential 122-er,

I’m sorry. I lied. I’m a horrible liar – but I did it. I put in the “About Steve” page that I was “a bit of a sci-fi nerd.” And that’s just not true. I’m actually “(quite) a bit of a sci-fi nerd.”

Does this mean that I go to Comic-Con’s and only have conversations about Transwarp Drives?

No.

I’ve only walked past a Comic-Con (because I didn’t have tickets – here’s the pic.)

And I only have brief conversations about Transwarp Drives because, well, let’s be honest, it’s an unreliable system in Federation starships.

Anyway – I’m getting away from the main point of this post. I’m a sci-fi nerd. There it is. I said it. 

I woke up with a Katy Perry song stuck in my head - but the interesting fact I learned yesterday is that Katy Perry started her music career as a Christian Artist. 

Thanks Pandora!