so yesterday we had another good bible study. the last couple of meetings actually have been thought provoking. i think i’m finally getting comfortable with my personality now. i realized the me of 7 years ago would think the present me was ‘living wrong’ and should repent or something. i’m starting to get a handle on the whole freedom in Christ thing. it’s not being afraid of what others think, or putting up a facade. it’s not about showing other people your good side all the time, and restricting yourself from doing certain things. i’ve kind of thought about that the past couple of years, but it started to crystallize about a week ago. next weekend will be a return to clemson, and i’ll see some of the people who knew the me from 7 years ago. i wonder if they’ll notice a change.

i’m sure my friend scott has been checking my blog lately wondering if i’m going to write about how i have to give a best man (i’m not technically called ‘best man’, but you get the idea) speech at his wedding. well, here it is. i wrote out something in a meeting a couple of weeks ago to stay awake. thoughts had been going through my head, but i figured i should write them down. then the other day i typed them out, but then yesterday at work, i did not copy them to my memory stick. so the typed up version of my speech is at work. oh, and the written form, also at work. so basically i’m going to have to write everything over, which really isn’t a big deal, because i remember what i was going to talk about. just the adventure seems to be interesting i guess. i am kind of freaking out over it, just a little though. so while he still has a chance to read this, i want to say how i am honored to be taking part, and how happy i am for him and his bride. i figure after next saturday he should not be anywhere around a computer for at least a week. :)

last night i got into my car and found that the light behind the radio had gone out, meaning, the entire center console in my car was dark. the radio still worked, it’s just that the display for it and the a/c was out. so i got home and looked up on google to find out if other people had this problem. i figured it was a fuse, and planned on checking it out today. i found a message board where people had the same problem i had, and i noticed it was a defect in the manufacturing of the radio, not a fuse. i remembered i had gotten some warranty information from honda the other day, but i never really pay attention to those. i had not thrown it away yet, so i found it and checked, and sure enough, the warranty info is for the radio, and it acknowledges the problem as relatively widespread. so i’m going to be able to get the display fixed for free. not bad at all.

now i need to get some sleep so i can wake up in order to make my 8 am flight to DC tomorrow. good times.