Silverwoods

3 days

2008-12-15T23:09:00.003-07:00

If I can finish my last paper by thursday, then I can consider my undergraduate career complete on Thursday. That is such a relief. I can't wait to be able to come straight home after work and not have to worry about the reading or paper that I should be writing.

Over the last 2 and a half weeks I have spent a majority of my time writing the two most difficult papers I have ever had to write, One was difficult because it was a format that I was not used to. The other, was mainly because I disliked the teacher, and through thta dislike, the class. Most of all, they were probably difficult because of my strong case of senioritis.

Now I see the light at the end of the tunnel and I can only pray that the paper I finished this evening will be good enough to ensure a C or better. If not, then I will be saying bood-bye to freedom for 1 more semester and I don't think I could take one more.

photos

2008-12-15T23:06:00.001-07:00

because mom asked...

Charlotte

2008-12-13T22:46:00.002-07:00

Nona has been thinking about getting a pet for Gideon and trying to convince me. We finially decided to go to PetsMart today and look at the adoptable animals. I should have known that I couldn't come out of there without a pet of some kind... So we now are a family of five with Charlotte, a 4 year old Norwegian Elkhound mix. She is very friendly and loves Gid. They love to give each other kisses.

Office

2008-11-25T15:27:00.002-07:00

So after a bunch of stress, craziness and crap at work, I am in an office. Not sure what else to say about it. I wonder how long it will be before I am moved again.

There I go being optimistic... :)

Anyway, I am trying to get used to how quiet it is. I also have neighbors trying to get used to my email chime. I guess it is to annoying for them, so my phone is currently set to vibrate. I will have to make a setting to vibrate on emails and ring for the phone, otherwise I will miss all my calls.

and again, my blogging ski8lls suck, because I probably will forget about this soon enough and stop posting for another 5 or 6 months.

car issues

2008-11-25T11:37:00.001-07:00

So I found out on Saturday, that my car has an alarm, but I don't know if I have a remote to turn it off. It has decided to start going off 2 times now, each around the same location on I-15, around Layton. So I ended up driving into work with the alarm going, because I had no way to turn it off. To top it off, I have to take it into some place like soundwarehouse and pay them 30 to 40 bucks to snip some wires and pull the thing out. Ugh! I guess that will be my lunch in a few min...

meh

2008-11-25T10:56:00.002-07:00

My blog sucks.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2008-07-16T10:11:00.002-06:00

sorry about that. I just needed someplace to scream and I can't do it here at work.

DCFC

2008-05-28T19:14:00.002-06:00

My wife bought tickets to the Death Cab for Cutie concert at Thanksgiving Point on Memorial Day. We went prepared for rain and cold. It sprinkled on us a bit while we were in line waiting to get in, but ended up not raining during the concert. The gates opened almost 2 hours late because the rain made it so they couldn't setup the stage in time. Because of that, one of the bands was canceled. I guess the park is not in a zone where they can have concerts go after 10 PM.

The concert was awesome! We had purchased their new album off iTunes on Saturday and I am really enjoying it. Their sound is very fresh and recognizable. I also appreciated the way the band plays on stage. They weren't always facing the croud. It was like they were playing at home in their garage. Obviously this didn't happen when there was singing, but when it was just instumental. It made it so that each member of the band was important to watch and not just the singer.

The opening band was Tegan and Sara, a sister duo band that was interesting. During most of their performance I couldn't really understand what they were saying as we were on the ground and really only hearing the bass. We stood up for the last few songs and they were ok.

so

2008-05-13T21:55:00.002-06:00

So summer classes started today. I have no idea what my aerobics class is like because the teacher was in the hospital. Though I noticed today that it says Hoopin 2 Health in the notes section. I think i may be switching to something else, maybe Jogging, but that could be rough on my feet. I don't know. I think I will have to think things over and see what happens.

My photography class seems like it will be fun. We will be using macs and photoshop, though I am not sure if it is CS2 or CS3, either way, I should be able to learn how to use my copy of CS2 at home, at least basics. I am pretty excited about this class, it will be good to use my creativity again. I have been feeling a need to be creative recently, but really didn't know what outlet to use. I had fun taking some pictures up emigration canyon the other day with my wife and some other photographers from around SLC. Hopefully this class will ge tthe juices going and I can keep it up.

Wii

2008-04-07T22:04:00.002-06:00

So I forked out a lot of money to Walmart and Nintendo on Friday to get a Wii and several games. This will be the first time that I have bought a console first hand, and only my third ever(PS2 and gameboy advance). I have been wanting to get one for a while now, but didn't really have the money for it. Sy has a PS2 game that he really likes and I think that Nintendo is more kid friendly and makes better games that all of us can enjoy. At least that is what I think, we will see if that is true. Anyway, we got several multiplayer games so it should be pretty fun to sit down with Sy and play.

So the last thing I said was that I was going to go to Video Games Live. I did. It was pretty fun. I really wish that I could have listened to the thoughts of the season ticket holders in the audience. The ones that were close to me applauded and even gave a standing ovation to Martin Leung when he played a Final fantasy 7 medley. I came away with a new CD and a shirt. My dad and I had a fun night together, which we haven't been able to do in a long time. Maybe we can spend some free time together playing on the new Wii.

Anyway, we should be getting all of our stuff between Friday and next Tuesday. Hopefully sooner than later. :0)

Video Games Live

2008-03-29T06:07:00.002-06:00

I am going to see Video Games Live tonight with the Utah Symphony. I invited my dad to go. I am really excited and hope there are no stupid people there. Anyway, I'll have something to write about after tonight...

Concert

2008-03-07T00:28:00.006-07:00

So tonight I took the night off from work to go with my wife down to Provo. We asked someone in our ward to watch Silas and Gid. Almost a year ago, Nona did a trade with a local musician. She wanted to be able to use his music on her site, in exchange she would give him a free portrait session. Well, he ended up using those pictures for his latest album. Tonight was the CD release party, and he gave us free tickets and a free copy of the CD. The musician is Benton Paul. If you haven't heard of him, I would suggest you look him up. He is on myspace, facebook, and has his own site as well.

I had a lot of fun. The music was really great. Yesterday, Benton's manager asked Nona if she would take some photos of the concert. She was a bit apprehensive at first, but had a good time with it in the end. Also, looking at the images so far, I think she did a really good job.

The opening act was John Allred. I was impressed and ended up buying his CD after the show.

So now I have even more good music to listen to. The past week has been really good for my ears.

:0)

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2008-03-04T22:36:00.004-07:00

I think I have a lot of pent up creativity inside, because my mind is going crazy thinking of things to write about. It really feels good to try to put my thoughts down and organize them in some manner.

Maybe it will help with some of my other frustrations, particularly not saying what I mean to say...

The image is of Stansbury Island on the Salt Lake.

Foundation

2008-03-04T18:58:00.005-07:00

As anyone that knows me can tell you, I love to read. I have boxes of books that I currently don't have a place for, but can't bare to get rid of them.

Growing up in my parents house was like living in a library. My dad even has a journal specifically for checking books and movies out so he knows where things are at all times. He seems to always have something lent out to some person or another. When I was little, my mom owned a book store. I am pretty sure that is how they were able to gain such a good supply of books, but they already had the desire to read and their library continues to grow without them owning a bookstore.

So I grew up enjoying books. I ended up reading a lot of science fiction and fantasy as that is what my dad had around that wasn't non fiction or LDS related. Most of it I wasn't able to read until I was older. The funner, less investing storylines were mostly what I read as a teen, though not always.

Shortly after I came home from my mission I began reading as much as I could. I think I read around 25 books during my first 2 or 3 months home. During that time I finally decided to read all the books in Isaac Asimov's Robots and Foundation series. I truely enjoyed the whole story line.

Several weeks ago I was sitting in my Statistics class thinking about how most of the stuff that is taught in classes like that, are things thta were discovered and solved centries earlier. It seems like there isn't much of that going on today. If there is, the common person doesn't know about it. We are oblivious. This led me to think about what happens when things are just being taught and nothing is is being solved, new issues being ignored.

After a minute of thinking on this, I realized that my thought came from my reading of the Foundation books. This is a cause for all that happens in these books. This got me wanting to read again.

So i am now reading one of the Foundation books. foundation's Fear was not written by Isaac Asimov. After he passed away, his estate let three prominant science fiction authors try to finish the story that Asimoc had created. They did a great job, but I am not sure how true they were to Asimov. I enjoy reading the story, but will have to wait on any judgment. I may never because I enjoy the overall story so much.

Once

2008-03-04T01:55:00.002-07:00

Nona and I watched Once on Friday. I really enjoyed the movie. It has an R rating, which it deserves, but it is only for the extreme use of language. So if you can handle hearing a lot of swearing and want to watch an amazing movie with a great story and beautiful, moving music, than you should watch this film. If you would like a preview of the music in the film then you can go to this site. You can get a free download of the Oscar winning song as well.

again???

2008-03-03T23:14:00.000-07:00

So I had a blog about 2 years ago. I don't realy remember why I stopped. Most likely it was after the birth of Gideon. There were a lot of appointments and things that we had to do, so the extra, unimportant things in our life just seemed to fade away. Now our lives have normalized and i feel like starting up a blog again.

I liked having a blog before because I was able to write about things on my mind and not really care who read it. my family could look at it if they pleased and see what i was thinking about and so could others, but it was most helpful to me. I am not a big journal keeper, but I see the benefits of keeping one. It's just hard to find time to do so, whereas with blogging I can usually find some time when i am at a compter most of the day.

Right now I think I will mostly discuss entertainment. That is mostly what interests me at the moment, and I don't have time for other things besides school, work, andfamily. So you may get a smattering of those as well.