This weekend I was feeling really bummed about the astronomically high gas prices (almost 4.00 a gallon in SC, and at some gas stations it is at least that much) and a thought went through my head - "why don't they make cars that run on water or something?" so I looked it up. Here is just one video about one guy who is onto using water as an energy source.

also, here is the link to the website on how to convert your car so that is runs partially on water, and also has a few other videos on using water as an energy source to charge cell phones, iPods, even laptops.
I find this incredible. I stopped buying gas from companies that purchase oil from Middle Eastern countries a few months ago, and started only buying from domestic oil companies, but this seems like the best alternative. Not only would it make driving cheaper, but according to the website your car has cleaner emissions as well.
Of course oil companies are going to fight it with all they've got saying it won't work, and will never amount to anything, but isn't that what western union said about the telephone, and wasn't that also the response to automobiles in the first place?
I'm just saying, I think they're on to something.

I am 17, going on 18...

In these last fleeting moments before I am officially 18...I am slightly terrified.
The last year has quite possibly been the best year of my life.
I gave up a lot and I gained a lot, too.
I wonder what this next year has in store for my life.
I'm excited and so scared all at once.
Tonight is a paradox.
Tomorrow it will be over.
There is no escaping it.
No escaping time.
I just...I love being 17.
I hope that 18 is just as good as 17.
...Actually, I hope it is BETTER.



I got a
baby's brain and an old man's heart
Took eighteen years to get this far
Don't always know what I'm talkin' about
Feels like I'm livin in the middle of doubt
Cause I'm
eighteen
and I don't know what I want
Eighteen
I just don't know what I want...

Superman wears Jack Bauer pajamas.

I've been thinking lately that maybe I should be more consistent in my blogging.
It's hard for me to understand why anyone why anyone would be interested in what is going on with my life, or in what I think, but...Here goes nothing.
I make no promises on how consistent I will be, but I will try to post at least once a week.

Lately I have become seriously addicted to the TV show "24" with Keifer Sutherland. It's a show about a federal agent named Jack Bauer who works for CTU (Counter Terrorist Unit) in L.A., and each season represents one day in his life, 24 hours, in real time, where he has to save the world, basically. A lot of my friends have been watching it for quite some time (I think it's in the 8th season right now) so last year, i decided to see what all the fuss was about. I rented the entire 1st season disc by disc from the video store up the street (I don't have cable, and even if I did, what are the chances of catching it all on re-runs?) and now I see why everyone is obsessed. It is SO intense, and it totally drags you in, so if you watch one episode, you need to watch the rest of the season, or at least the next episode, in hopes that it won't leave you on the edge of your seat. While watching the first season, my mom came into my room on about the 10th episode, and got completely dragged in. Well, since there are 24 episodes per season, and 4 episodes per disc, meaning 6 discs per season and $4 per disc up the street, meaning $24 to watch a season (coincidence...maybe), I have been hesitant to rent the next season (also it is pretty dang time consuming), so I was STOKED to find the entire second season at the library!! For free!! Of course, my mom and I watched it in about a week, and I have already put the third season on hold from the Library.
Well, the whole point of this blog was for me to rave about the Library, but I guess I ended up raving about 24 more. Anyway, as it turns out the Library is awesome.
They have all kinds of other shows, and every season of 24 so far.


...Not to mention some awesome books.