New years eve madness

White elephant madness

Came with a liscence plate... Left with a Barbie.. Its the most wonderful time of the year!

Have a smile...

Watch until the end...

Perfection

Q: What is the greatest number of all?

A: The number obtainedby adding all numbers together :)

Instant perfection?

Want to paint a perfect painting? Make yourself perfect then paint naturally.

Import Sport

Jennica introduced me to rugby as we watched Utah defeat Texas 10 to 9,, (how they got to that score ill never know!) being a fan of most sport I enjoyed watching a 'new' sport that looked like a cross between football and soccer. I'm sure if there is another game in town I will probably go!

This is how energy is dispersed

My clock

I just wanted to take a moment to recognize the great achievments of my clock.

Purchashed January of 2004, it has run consistently for nearly 4 years without fail on the same cheap 20 cent battery, while at the same time updating itself constantly with the correct time based off of the atomic clock in Colorado.

Clock, much respect....

Narrows - ZNP

See pictures from the trip to the narrows at Zions...

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A little fame in the family

I called my father to wish him a happy birthday today, he was happy to tell me about the trumpet we all chipped in to buy. I didn't really know what kind of trumpet he was getting, but it turns out it was a rare 'Benge' trumpet, hand made, and played by a family friend, Charlier Turner, who was the first chair trumpet for Frank Sinatra. His trumpet is listed here:


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Who will be Sultan of Salt Lake?

Interesting results have come in tonight for the Salt Lake mayoral primaries.

• The two biggest spenders, Wilson and Christensen are out

Not sad to see this, Christensen dropped his R in front of his name to an I simply to pander to the Salt Lake democrats (a republican has not been elected Salt Lake mayor in 40 years), Like Buhler, I was disappointed to see Christensen put conservative values in the back seat in order to pander to the Demo's. He also repeatedly used an old rhetorical trick called 'disinterest' explaining how he was convinced to run for mayor through the urging of Mr. Rocky Anderson. (not his idea of course.. I'm sure Rocky also had to talk him into spending over $600,000 on his campaign)

• Becker and Buhler are in:

I predicted neither of these candidates passing through the primaries. Becker always seemed unassuming and along with Buhler, they did not express much opinion.

Buhler ran his campaign accenting the fact that he really had no principles, and was so easy going he could work with anybody. Let's hope if elected he's not as much of a pushover as he likes to sound.

I'm also weary of how much Becker has staked his campaign on environmental issues. Although important, the city needs fiscal and financial health as well. He wants to spend our money on more and more trax lines to reduce commuter traffic, where if the demand for such lines were to be high enough, would be able to pay for itself. I'm also baffled again by his opposition to the skybridge which would allow more convenient access through downtown businesses and shopping attractions. Instead he claims disallowing the skybridge (which 70% of Utahns support) would 'open up' downtown. When this 'opening up' is actually just forcing shoppers to scurry about the streets trying to get to their next location because it would somehow be more pleasing for him. Besides these facts, it creeps me out how closely he resembles the devil on his campaign site: (http://www.ralphbecker.com/)

The more gangsta I become

The longer my hair grows the lower my seat goes...

Duty Calls

After years of anticipation, months of praying and waiting, it has finally happened, I've been called up for jury duty.. If I'm called to be on a jury I will. Be lavished with a reward of $18 first day and $49 each day after...

I'm crossing my fingers

Zions National Park

First hike through the narrows this weekend, wish is luck.

Sunshine never hurt so good

Thanks for all the welcome backs friends :) It's great to be back home, but Florida will always be missed. Thanks to our wonderful technology, I don't have to part with my beloved memories, as I can post the highlights on a blog!

Just kidding, to avoid congestion, I've uploaded all pictures to Flickr!

Go there now...

Progress..

Not much to do when technology takes your job.

Lunch

How pretty....

So everything else on the menu would be?

Salt Lake Bees Polinate Tacoma

My very first bees game made possible by my friend Mandy. The Bees fell perilously behind in the 5th inning but thanks to some solid hitting and a 3 run HOUR in the 8th the Bees pulled off the win.

Ralph Lauren

Those that know me know that I am very much a polo shirt and jeans guy.. I was just considering the name of my patron designer is 'Ralph' as in Ralph Lauren has a first name you would stereotypicaly find on a blue collared shirt or overhear in a bowling alley, with a last name you might find on the wall of patrons at a distinguished university.

Would this compound work as a designer name in other combinations? Would we brag about our new shoes designed by Gus Wittington? Would sport a pair of jeans designed by Al Buckingham?

Operation... A success!

DIY: Replace Your Radiator

Replacing your own radiator will not only save you about $250, but gives you some good one-on-one time with your vehicle!

1) Buy a radiator.. You can get them from your dealer or local auto part store, I bought one online for about $175 including shipping.

2) Unbolt everything holding your radiator in. Out loose bolts in a container, and be careful not to drop any into your engine, thhis causes crying and cursing..

3) You will probably have to unbolt your fan from the belt assembly and remove your battery.

4) Remove all hoses attached to the radiator.. Be careful ESPECIALLY if you know there is still fluid in the radiator as it will EXPLODE out of the radiator as you remove the main hoses.

5) Get a good grip and rip everything out.

6) Simply insert your new radiator with the openings aligned with your disattached hoses.

7) Attach lower hoses.. You may need after market clamps as your new radiator may have larger or smalller hose ports

8) Bolt the radiator down and move in the fan assembly and plastic guard, reattaching the fan to the pulley asembly.

9) Reattach upper hoses making sure they are clamped tight.. Buy after market clamps if you have to!

10) Bolt radiator to the fan assembly, making sure the fan spins unobstructed.

11) Fill with fluid and you are done!

* This project took about 2 hours including a trip to the auto parts store for some extra hose and clamps. The new unit was not identical to the original so I had to cut some hose and replace short hose with longer.. I had to do some other small items of rigging but completed the job in a reasonable time with everyday tools.. And the best part is, so can you!

"You must make a habit of thinking in terms of a defined objective."

"You must make a habit of thinking in terms of a defined objective."

-John Henry Patterson

Customer Service

Crown burger is in at least the top three for customer service.. Less any incidents of fire or tax evasion this place will be around for a very long time

How big is your smile?

Ask for something.... Anything, and if your smile is big enough and your confidence high enough... You probablly will get it.

All you need is love?

Forget guns, the new crime deterrent is.. wine and hugs

Read the story: http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2007Jul13/0,4670,ODDRobberGroupHug,00.html

WASHINGTON — Police on Capitol Hill are baffled by an attempted robbery that began with a handgun put to the head of a 14-year-old girl and ended in a group hug.

It started around midnight on June 16 when a group of friends was finishing dinner on the patio of a District of Columbia home, authorities and witnesses said. That's when a hooded man slid through an open gate and pointed a handgun at the girl's head.

Give me your money, or I'll start shooting," he said, the witnesses told The Washington Post.

Everyone froze, they said, but then one guest spoke up.

"We were just finishing dinner," Cristina Rowan, 43, told the man. "Why don't you have a glass of wine with us?"

The intruder had a sip of their Chateau Malescot St-Exupery and said, "Damn, that's good wine."

The girl's father, Michael Rabdau, 51, told him to take the whole glass, and Rowan offered him the bottle. The would-be robber, with his hood down, took another sip and a bite of Camembert cheese and put the gun in his sweatpants.

Then the story got even more bizarre.

The man with the gun apologized, the witnesses told the Post.

"I think I may have come to the wrong house" he said. "Can I get a hug?"

Rowan stood up and wrapped her arms around the man and the four other guests followed.

The man walked away a few moments later with the crystal wine glass in hand. No one was hurt, but once he was gone, the group went inside, locked the door and called 911.

Very Strange Apparition

Note: I'm not entirely lucid, but..

lI had a dream or maybe nightmare where or music teacher was in charge of picking who got to go first in line for a ride at the top of an 8 story building, then we were all outside on a bench where I was trying to tune my guitar but mine was the only one that wouldn't tune.. For some reason. I had the wrong strings, my music teacher decided to put us against each other by having a no rules street fight, so while the fight was beginning I was at the corner trying to buy as many weapons as possible for my team, it was taking to long so I was crawling to the top floor when along the way I battlled it out with a guy holding one of my friends hostage. After that I went to the top floor where the guy said I had to pay some $10,000 to buy the weapons... The end?

Park Soccer

How much more fun can you have on a Thursday night?

Winner: Nature

She is standing on her own now

Daydreams become reality for this man...

"Helium Balloons Carry Man in Lawnchair 193 Miles"

This is the kind of achievement that makes my heart soar...

Destination: Idaho.

With instruments to measure his altitude and speed, a global positioning system device in his pocket, and about four plastic bags holding five gallons of water each to act as ballast — he could turn a spigot, release water and rise — Couch headed into the Oregon sky.

Nearly nine hours later, the 47-year-old gas station owner came back to earth in a farmer's field near Union, short of Idaho but about 193 miles from home.

He took off at 6:06 a.m. Saturday after kissing his wife, Susan, goodbye and petting his Chihuahua, Isabella. As he made about 25 miles an hour, a three-car caravan filled with friends, family and the dog followed him from below.

Couch said he could hear cattle and children and even passed through clouds.

"It was beautiful — beautiful," he told KTVZ-TV. He described the flight as mostly peaceful and serene, with occasional turbulence, like a hot-air balloon ride sitting down.
This is funny as well:

Couch is the latest American to emulate Larry Walters — who in 1982 rose three miles above Los Angeles in a lawn chair lifted by balloons. Walters had surprised an airline pilot, who radioed the control tower that he had just passed a guy in a lawn chair. Walters paid a $1,500 penalty for violating air traffic rules.

Congratulations on doing something tremendous and amazing, now please pay this fine :)

FULL STORY: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,288809,00.html

Can you figure it out?

Beardsley Road

Hate / Love

I hate and I love
Who can tell me why?
-Catullus

Idea Bank

This is a conglomeration of ideas and thoughts that I've collected. Although they aren't individually noted, all thoughts are those of either myself or Ayn Rand. If you agree/disagree or offended by any of these please comment! If they spur any ideas of your own then PLEASE comment

1. The government has a monopoly on use of physical force.
2. Freedom is the absence of coercion.
3. The more rational a society, the less it can be ruled by brute force.
4. Rights must be given up voluntarily, not by force. Superior knowledge does not give the right to reduce freedoms
5. Rome flourished as a republic and fell as an empire. The empire created large government and a welfare state. Barbarians were able to come in and topple the government.
6. If you disagree with a private citizen he can only refuse to do business. If you disagree with the government they can imprison you.
7. Ignorance typically yells louder than truth speaks.
8. Pragmatists are prone to irrational compromise. The would reason, “If somebody wants to bash your skull, ask them to break a leg.”
9. People are afraid to
10. • Make decisions for themselves
11. • Be responsible for their lives/futures.
12. Problem with public radio/tv – they are being funded by taxpayers but get less than 10% of viewer ship. It is only watched by their cliques and is not actually in the public interest.
13. Altruism – Placing the interest of others above your own.. existing for the sake of others.
14. Do not be concerned with giving away or hording things but with a mans right to live and produce.
15. A wealthy man will not stagnate. His self-interest does not lie in consumption but in production in the creative expansion of his mind.
16. The creative happiness of achieving greater and greater control over reality.
17. Independent men won’t produce under tyranny.
18. All knowledge is interconnected – universal freedom must exist for innovation and technology to flourish.
19. You cannot restrict technology you can only destroy it.
20. Advances in medicine came from space exploration.
21. A self made savage is worse than a natural innocent one.
22. Technology is applied science.
23. Freedom is the only “public interest”
24. A mans ideas and actions are not determined by his economic status as a Marxist would claim.
25. Philosophical crimes of the mind crimes cause the crimes death with by the police.
26. Today every part of the population is dependant on government controls.
27. Liberals see men as inherently weak and need to be helped.
28. You can not achieve anything good through evil means.
29. Want anarchy? See: middle ages
30. Capitalists seek to grant power to the individual, libs seek to pull individual rights into a collective.
31. Aristotle: either/or
32. One reason is better than 100 insults
33. If you want to stop the country altogether then abolish profits then we can sink to the level of the rest of the world.
34. When a country does not recognize the rights of its own citizens how can it expect the international community to respect its rights?
35. Passivity and apathy are always on the side of the oppressor.
36. You can’t claim one should respect the rights of Indians when they had no conception of rights or respect for rights.
37. If woman want to be equal and of course they can be, they should achieve it an their own and not as a vicious parasitical pressure group.
38. Once you can compromise and continue that policy it will be increasingly more difficult to recapture your values.
39. When a man lives his own life properly that is the only contribution to mankind he can make.
40. You can not and do not have unchosen obligations; you’re responsible for your own actions.
41. It is not good to help someone who is suffering as a result of his own evil. If you help him, you are sanctioning his immorality, which is evil.
42. You have control only over your own life.
43. Rational decisions benefit mankind although that is not their purpose.
44. If a man can not rise out of poverty in the United States he could not survive in the rest of the world.
45. Individuals must have the courage to form themselves as individuals.
46. “Live Up” to standards do not “live down” to standards.
47. Do not accept your enemy’s ideas and do not compromise
48. Anybody who was ever great, had standards they lived by.
49. Adopting others philosophical ideas are like adopting new laws through scientific research.
50. The more you allow yourself properly to question your premises the firmer they will become.

Can anyone explain this?

July 4th hike - Cecert Lake

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Weather

Life if like the weather a series of independent unrelaleted unstable systems interacting with each other
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