29 Years

Today's my 29th Birthday! Did you know that McDonalds just celebrated the 30th year anniversary of its Happy Meal? That means there has never been a day of my life when I couldn't go to Mickey D's and get a Happy Meal...food for thought.

Fernley Nevada

Here's some info about Fernley our soon-to-be new home:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernley,_Nevada

And a fantastic picture of our house:

Sales Positions

This pretty much sums up every sales position I've ever heard of (click the pic to see it larger):


P.S. Trying out Google ads to see what happens

Jem of a House

Welcome to my new BLOG!

I got tired of the spam-attacks on my other blog so, reluctantly, decided to switch over to the popular "Blogger" service.

Circle convinced me it would be better by letting me contribute to the 40-year anniversary present she made for her parents:

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I have to admit that blogger has a lot of VERY nice features that will, hopefully, make it less of a chore to blog. All of my older posts were easy to transfer in and I've included the original dates in text at the top of each post. I've also gone through and fixed a lot of links that have been messed up over the years since I started blogging (4 years ago!). So now, you should see more pictures and interactive stuff that was missing before.

More good news! If you didn't notice, my profile on the right has a new "location" listed. That's right, this Saturday we're making the move to Fernley Nevada!

It's a long story, but we found a JEM of a house at a foreclosure auction and have finally signed all the closing papers!

I'll make a more detailed post about it later, but for now I've got to get PACKING!

Memorial Day Provo Tour

25 May 2009 07:11 pm

In memoriam of Provo, here's our tour on Memorial Day:



The Provo Tabernacle. See if you notice anybody special hidden in the parts of the panorama:


The guitar shop we visited on a date. The guy has a full shop where he manufactures his own guitars.


Center Street in Provo. Many a stroll and date were had along this strip.


Provo River trail. Runs from Utah Lake to Bridal Veil falls. Lots of exercise and walks had along the banks of the Provo River.



Utah Lake. Not really a swimming or boating destination for us, but often a destination at the end of exercise or walks.


The local hair school! Sure, haircuts may take up to 3 hours at the hands of the inexperienced students who aren't allowed to use clippers, but maybe they'll tell you you look like George Clooney or cut your ear with ultra-sharp scissors to make up for it!


Makeout...*ahem*...lookout point. Also the trailhead for the hike up to the "Y."


Us posing in front of the "Y" trailhead.


Circle has fond fond memories of her time managing Alpine Apartments in Provo (our second house as a married couple)


BYU campus, many hours were spent here by both of us...Circle earning her degree and me working towards becoming a college dropout.


This panorama is a little wonky, but I wanted to get the full effect of looking up at the Provo temple and then down over the temple grounds.


Here's our family picture in front of the Provo Temple.


Circle and I met in this building at the MTC as Italian teachers...what fond memories!


The Boston-style pizzeria with great pizza where Ethan, Circle's brother, took on the challenge of eating a large deep dish pizza in under an hour (see previous blog post for more details).


Stadium Terrace, the apartments where Circle and I lived before getting married. ST is located right next to the BYU stadium where Circle and I always went to watch 4th of July fireworks and broke into once to kiss on the 50 yard line.


The Riverwoods shopping center, location of TUCANOS the brazilian all-you-can-eat meat-fest. Mmmmmmm....


Bridal Veil falls, the place I proposed to Circle and that we have visited for all 6 of our anniversaries.










The hospital where Bella was born. Circle convinced Bella that she should get into her shirt to mimic her pregnant belly.


Savers thrift store, where, on one of our dates, Circle knew I was the right guy because I loved the idea of getting used clothes for cheap prices.


We drive by this sign all the time and have never had the guts to discover just exactly what "Alfajor" is.


Out first house as a married couple. A single room studio apartment, perfect for newlyweds!


A picture of the Malt Shoppe and University Avenue, more of our Provo stomping grounds with a nice sign pointing out the proximity of BYU campus.


You may be wondering what's up with all the Provo nostalgia. Hopefully we'll have a post soon explaining exactly what's going on. Stay tuned!

Brother of Jared Rap

14 May 2009 10:38 pm

Circle and I were just cleaning out our house for our upcoming move and I stumbled across some funny plans for a rap song about the Brother of Jared.

I think I wrote the lyrics with Matt, but I don't really remember.

Anyway, here's a transcription and a scan of the picture I drew to go along with it:

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Brother of Jared Rap

Verse 1:
Let's get this story started, let's open the flood gates
It's comin' straight atcha from the 24 gold plates
As you might know it from your sunday school teacher
It's the story of Jared from that funky book of Ether

Those ancients were wicked you know it's not a fable
Tryin' to reach heaven with that great big tow'r a' babel
Nobody quite knows just how adamic sounded
All we know for sure is that their language was confounded


Verse 2:
Jared and his crew, their language wasn't messed
but they were required to move into the wilderness
(Yo Jared, break me off some a dat Deseret...mmm that's suh-weet)

(Uh-uh yo, this is MC Jared on the mic...)
Yo, we been commanded to reach the promised land
With all this water in the way there's just no way we can
The waves are rollin' in and we're without a barge
And in the wilderness we just ain't been livin' large

Yo Jared, have some faith, we're better off than we were
We'll get across or my name ain't Mahonri Moriancumr!

I'll go up to the mountain and get some inspiration
So we can cross the ocean and start a brand new nation

[transition: angelic choir]

Verse 3:
I've been shown the proper way to build each and every ark
the only problem is we'll be goin' in the dark

We can't have windows...We can't have fire...
I'm tellin' ya bro, our ox is in the mire

I been tryin' homie, to think outside the box
the best idea I've had is to use these molten rocks

If I ask with faith, I'm sure you know
with the help of God these stones will glow

[transition: angelic choir]

Outtro:
Let's throw these rocks in our boats without oars
and then take off to the promised land's shores

(Dude, Mahonri, these ships are tiiiiight...like unto a DISH!)

(And the ever-famous chorus)
The dish was too tight
the dish was too tight
gotta cross the ocean
you know it's all right.

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It's a very silly song, but still, I'm surprised at the quality. Maybe I'll polish it off and make that cartoon some day. :)

WW Characters

06 May 2009 10:40 pm
I don't know why my comments are being spam-attacked, but here's a peek at some of the characters from WoogiWorld that I drew up in a 3 hour rush for a big conference. Click the pic to see it larger!