I'm so fried right now. Super tired. I'm here in San Diego, blogging from my dad's computer. I've been here a little more that 48 hours at this point, and all but about 11 of those have been me on the go. I've been working in the SoCal heat at our house to get it ready to rent out. But I've also had a good bit of fun. My dad took me to see the Padres baseball game at Petco Park yesterday afternoon.

Then last night I got to go over to Jason and Brooke Evans' place for their regular community barbecue. Awesome time. I really miss Jason and Brooke - so much going on with them in life and ministry. Before I even got a chance to hang out, though, I ran into Ryan and Holly Sharp. Ryan and I have been having near miss moments in terms of meeting face to face for over a year now. So finally, I got to hang and talk with him - excellent. I truly hope to share air space with him again soon. Also in attendance was a guy Jason's been telling me about from the Mennonite stream, in Pasadena. He brought a couple with him who is on sabbatical in the U.S. from London. All three of them were super cool. In addition to all those fine people, there were the Hawthorn House locals, like Josh, and his wife Lisa, and the newest member of their community, Emily. I also got to hang out for quite a while with a new friend, David - good man, good story.

With all those people there, I didn't get to sit down and talk to Jason and Brooke until about 10:30 . . . and we talked until about 1:00am. Good times.

But I'm sleepy by now. I got up early and went back to work at the house this morning - my Northwest tan has been swallowed up by a slight SoCal sunburn. Hey, some color is better than no color, right? And right about now, I need to boogie, and run some errands before going to a wedding rehearsal - oh yeah, I did come to San Diego to officiate a wedding. I'm looking forward to that - more friends to catch up with. I'll make sure to get some sleep tonight, though, so I don't nod off while having the happy couple recite their vows tomorrow!

Peace, from the land of much sunshine.