Welcome Angel to the club!

Despite being a lifelong Utahan Angel drank her first caffeine free dr. pepper today (although she did make me pour it in a glass so it wasn't in a gold can). In celebration of this momentous occasion I have decided to change this from my blog into our blog. One of the reasons you haven't seen many personal pictures on this blog has been that our camera broke a little while ago. So, after a really long time I finally bought one. It came last Friday I think. Why then don't you see any pictures here? It doesn't turn on. That is a less than desirable trait in a digital camera. Since we spent the week moving and doing tons of other stuff I haven't had time to get it figured out yet. Moral of the story, we now have two broken digital cameras. When I get a working one I'll try to post some pictures of our new temporary home in BYU family student housing. Anyone who knows us knows we're extra super excited about it. I'll go ahead and throw in a classic picture of us for you. If you don't recognize this one then we're sorry for not sending you a Christmas card. We would have if they were free.

Sharks are cool

It is common knowledge that Angel is already the best teacher this side of the equator (and the other side too). But, just to prove the point more in case there was any doubt I submit this for your consideration:

Angel will be teaching at Saratoga Springs. Their mascot is a shark. So, Angel drew up a cool little shark mascot guy. We're still working on a name for him. We don't know if they already have a mascot with a name or not. If they do we're quite certain he isn't as cool as this shark. Anyway, she's been making up a bunch of these pictures to illustrate different prefixes. Ya, basically she's awesome. I almost wish I could go through 4th grade again just to have her as a teacher. I think I could do pretty well this time too. OK, really I would fail because I had a crush on the teacher and I couldn't stop staring at her. I'm convinced that will be the only reason any of her boys won't do well. It could be a serious problem.

summer fun

This is a little update for all of you out there who have been dieing to know how I'll be spending my summer months (I realize people have been losing sleep over it and checking this blog many times a day looking for an update. I'm sorry about that.). Actually, one of the reasons I'm writing this post is to practice one of my summer goals. As many of you are aware, I'm a computer science major. As such, I'm a bit of a nerd. Not nearly as much as most cs majors but that's not saying much. Anyway, I've decided to learn the Dvorak keyboard layout this summer. As far as I know it's pretty much the nerdiest thing you can do. Here's a picture of the layout.



It's supposed to be more efficient and easier on your fingers than the traditional Qwerty layout designed to slow down the typist and avoid hitting letters together on the typewriter. Basically, I'm learning to type all over again and I need practice. Anyway, all of the above post was written quite a while ago. I was at work and then needed to actually do some work. so now, I'm sitting in the car on my way to Disneyland. I just set up Dvorak on the lappy so I can continue the goal. This is a little more challenging since the letters are traditional on the keyboard on this one. Anyway again, back to the update. This summer I will continue my work at my current job of almost two years. That's working for the office of information technology at BYU over the computer rental program, electronic surplus, and the computer kiosks, and billed printing on campus. That's about 28 hours a week so I'm supplementing that that with a second job working for a company that buys a lot of our surplus stuff and sells it, among other things. I'm helping them do general warehousing and I'll also be helping them in an almost consultant type role. I'll help them make their process more efficient and write some programs to track their inventory and some other things. I'm also working on making a website for my buddy Joe Harding's side business of selling ties. That should be fun.

So I guess I should stay fairly busy this summer. Angel is taking her final classes this summer at UVSC/UVU/UVHS. Next year Angel will start her career as the best elementary teacher ever. She'll be teaching 4th grade in Saratoga Springs as an intern. I'm not kidding, she really will be pretty much the best teacher that ever was. She has been doing a permanent sub job at an elementary school by our house working with autistic kids and has loved it. She’s amazing.
This Post is actually lots of posts all in one. We’ve now made it through a couple of wonderful days at Disneyland and one day at the beach. We’re sitting on a plane and being glad we decided to fly back instead of driving. That was a good decision. I would report on the trip but I don’t really feel like it right now. So maybe instead I’ll just end this painfully long post. The end.

Kelsey is my hero!

Kelsey's new blog has inpired me to put off my homework (creating a web application to manage printer supply orders across campus) and add a post to my much neglected blog. If you'll notice, I have also added a link to her blog off to the left of your screen. Feel free to nagivate there before reading the rest of this if you want to. I'll understand. She's a lot more interesting than I am. I think she also puts stuff on her blog. I don't do that much. Her pictures are actually from things in her life too. Mine tend to be random stuff I pull off the internet after searching for all of 30 seconds. Hold on, let me go find one.
Alright, there you go. I didn't even get that one off the byu home page like all the other ones, I googled it. Those are the efforts I'm willing to go to for this blog, pretty much none.
Anyway, Kelsey is my hero. She does things and gets through things that are pretty impressive. I don't always envy her position but I do think she is one of the strongest most able, competent, smart, creative, and all around wonderful people I've ever known. I do envy a lot of the traits and qualities she displays. The only other person that come to mind we most of these same traits is our mother (my other hero). Kelsey doesn't always do things the easy way but she does try to pursue what she wants. I think she's doing just fine and I love her.

Long time no see!! (chinese proverb)

Lot's of our cool little phrases come from chinese. That's just the only one I can ever think of. Anyway, it turns out, if you don't log into you blog for over a year you forget your username and password. Just so you know.
So, a lot of stuff happened to me in the last year. For those of you who only know me through this blog (I'm not stupid enough to actually think there is anyone looking at this who doesn't know me, but...) contrary to popular belief, I am not actually dead. In the last year there was a winter, and then a spring came. Eventually that got taken over by a summer, the fall wandered in and then magically winter came back. Rather than give you a detailed log of the year maybe we'll just leave it at that and then throw in a couple important events.
I got married. That was a big one. My wife is amazing. You're all jealous and you don't even know it. It would become pretty apparent to you though if you met her. She's going to be the best elementary school teacher ever after she finishes navigating all the hoops called college. She's smart, and beautiful, and funny, and fun to be with, and would get mad at me for using all the ands, and makes me happier than she can even imagine. I'm going to keep her forever.
I'm sure there was other stuff but nothing important. Maybe I'll start writing more on this in the future but I doubt it. So, check back soon for another installment of ....this...blog.......thing.

I guess this image is appropriate.

Well, thanksgiving is almost upon us again. This is one of the silliest holidays there is. It's actually only cool if you really like eating turkey and watching football. Turkey is ok. I'm not much of a foosball fan. But, it does get me out of three days of school. As I write this I get less and less motivated by the fact that no one cares or will read this. But at least.....ok I can't think of anything.

Lawn update

Just so you know, I still haven't actually heard anyone ridiculed for walking on the grass. However, what they have done is put up big plastic chain gates up on all the places where it's convenient to walk. That's just unsightly and inconvenient for the local pedestrians. I'm sure there will be an uprising in the near future.

I'm not sure what they're looking at but man, that's a cool mustachio.

So, just so everyone knows, I spend pretty much all of my time doing homework. I'm not really sure what the deal is. If you have ever hated me for not ever having to do homework, study, or take notes or anything like that and still getting good grades you're somewhat justified. It would seem as though it's catching up to me. However, it actually only seems that way. In reality I still don't study or take notes. I just seem to have a bunch of classes that require a lot of homework. So, I guess you can just go on hating me. It doesn't really affect me one way or the other anyway. Right now I should actually be preparing for an oral presentation for my mandarin class tomorrow. That's not really that much fun though. I don't seem to get enough time to waste writing stuff on here. And if you've read though all that you get to hear about the most exciting thing to happen this week. Yesterday I called up the SLC temple and reserved a sealing room for the 10th of March at 9:00am. So, even though I haven't actually asked anyone to marry me hypothetically if I did then we would get married on the 10th of March at 9:00am in the Salt Lake City temple. So, we'll see if anyone's dad will allow them to marry me.

You wish I had a point.

So, pretty much if there are any comments on this blog from anyone is isn't immediate family or close friend I already know they're trying to get me to do something. Then if it says "I like your blog." that's a total give away. No you don't. There's nothing cool on this thing. The only possible thing you could like about it is that it gives you somewhere to put a link to your crappy whatever. YOU DON'T KNOW ME! I've been meaning to yell that at people more often. Because, you know...they don't.

p.s. I've decided to always include a random picture from the byu website.

This is a lot cooler than linear algebra.

Yes, the school year is upon us. No, no one has yelled at me for walking on the grass yet. I have seen about 20 people or so from my mission around campus. Unfortunately, most of them have been people I didn't really serve with or didn't really care to catch up with. So, I just tend to pretend not to notice them and wander past. It's worked pretty well for me thus far. I did go to the temple last night with three others from my mission. Other than waiting in the chapel for about an hour before the session started, it was pretty good. It's hard to get irritated in the temple but I was getting pretty close. Yeah so, this picture is just because I wanted to put a picture in this entry and it was readily available on the BYU home page. Apparently he's the new humanities dean, slightly pixelated.

I never wanted to go to BYU..... I still don't.

So, Today I went and purchased a couple of excesively expensive books from the BYU bookstore and then wandered the campus locating my classrooms. I'm trying to have an optimistic attitude toward the whole BYU thing. I must say though, classes haven't even started yet and I'm already getting tired of being around all these mormons. It kind of makes me want to drive around campus blarring system of a down from my stereo. Luckily, I already have a girlfriend. If everything works out there I won't even have to try to meet anyone during my three year stay. I can just wander the campus listening to my headphones and just being generally anti-social. That way I won't have to listen to people giving me crap for walking on the grass either. Screw you for judgin' me!

The man behind the myth

I'm not really sure if there really is a myth or not. If there is then I'm just as likely to be behind it than anyone else, right?