Newsroom pilot
Just watched the pilot episode of The Newsroom (which is available on youtube.com, but don't get too attached unless you have HBO). I watched it after reading various critiques of the episode scattered...
View ArticleOh hey, it's been a while
And woah the blogger post interface changed. What's up with this posting format. You can't see it, obviously, but trust me. It's way different. It's like I'm just typing to myself in a google doc,...
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Five months exactly
Hi blog. I haven't forgotten about you, I promise. I'm just super boring. I bought a new car, which isn't that boring, I guess. Though the car itself is pretty close to the definition of boring: gray,...
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See I can follow through
A short silly post! As promised, no more five month hiatuses followed by a depressing "update" post that illustrates the current lameness of my life.Check out these hilarious (and disgusting) Weight...
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Like a vacuum
I really suck at goals. Well, at follow-through in general. But one of my favorite things is making goals. And then organizing them. Dividing them into sub-goals and grouping them into super-goals....
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Just a peon's thought
I re-watched Anne of the Thousand Days last weekend. Watched it the first time in history class so that means it might as well be a documentary. (By that criteria, also documentaries: Dead Poet's...
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The Empty Box I ate all of my chocolates butI didn't throw away the box. So,I thought I still had some.I planned on eating one today.I opened the box and they were gone and I was like: oh yeah.
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Emotional Maths
I dreamt last night about operating a movie theater in New Orleans that was constantly infested with insects, lizards, and rodents.+1 anxietyI woke up late and had to email work to tell them I'd be...
View Articlefrom August 2, 2003
There was a storm today. It only lasted three minutes or so, but still. There hasn't been a storm in Utah for a while. I came outside at about 9:30 at night and the storm has already moved away but...
View Articlefrom June 5, 1993
If anyone actually reads this blog, you'll have noticed I deleted a few posts. I'm working on reorganizing. I want to start using this blog as a place to take some of my journal entries and (hopefully)...
View ArticleWhy I Don't Like Water Slides
When I was 12, the youth in my ward went on a "super activity" to Seven Peaks Waterpark. My friend talked me into going on what, as a neurotic 12-year-old, looked like a scary water slide. You sat in a...
View ArticleDecember 6
cut-out paper snowflakes on the window where wewatch the winter storm(I saw a tv show where a woman wrote a haiku everyday to her daughter. It was cute, and I thought I could write a haiku once a day....
View ArticleEaster Sunday
For me, Easter morning had only one motivation: do NOT be the last one to find your Easter basket. My parents didn't do the more traditional Easter Egg Hunt with candy and plastic eggs scattered...
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I thought this was blog worthy
I get mixed up by bear and bare. Mormons use the term often in the context of "bear/bare your testimony." People around my neck of the woods also like to talk about the right to "bear/bare arms." Which...
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Best. Story. Ever.
Admin note: Sorry, I don't know why this got reposted. It didn't happen again. It really wouldn't be funny a second time.My sister decorated her room this weekend, and hung a Harry Potter "Platform 9...
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Getting Older, or Get Off My Boat!
I went on a cruise a couple of weeks ago. Headed out from New Orleans, five nights on the boat, a stop in Progresso and a stop in Cozumel. Jill turned 30 at the end of last month. We went to Disney...
View ArticleNo spider eating required
Survivor starts February 16. If you want to play along with Jill and me, here are the rules:1. Pick yourself. (Kelly Taylor style!) Check out all of the contestants in the first episode. Choose who is...
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Belated
The post, that is. Not the gifts. My best birthday presents, birthday #29:From Jill to me:Cute cereal bowls, a variety of fancy fruit-infused olive oils, three spiffy salad dressing shakers, and a...
View ArticleI went to Disneyland
And Jill took pictures. And wrote blog posts. You should go read them.Japanese Garden: When Koi Fish Attack!Aquarium of the Pacific: Invasion of the Field Trippers!Disneyland: Rides, Raves, and...
View ArticleDays like this
Highlights from today's evening walk:Little purple violets that pop up all along the park strip through last year's dead leaves and trampled grassWatching two kids across the street running back and...
View ArticleTwo important questions
Conversation yesterday:Jill: Aw man, I left my pumpkin juice at work.Me [disgusted]: Why the hell do you have pumpkin juice?Jill: It's from the Wizarding World of Harry Potter.Me: Why the hell don't I...
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Still doesn't bother me as much as trayshur and mayshur
Read this outloud:I know it's been awhile since I've written. In the last letter I told you about the kitten I found.... He was in pretty bad shape and it looks like he's been beaten.Instead of...
View ArticleAlas
People don't use the word "alas" often enough. I see the obnoxious *sigh* everywhere. (At least online. No one, that I know of, says "asterisk sigh asterisk" and if I did know of such a person I would...
View ArticleOverheard on Public Transportation
As I am now without a car, I think this has the potential to become a regular series.I Really Hope They Are Talking About Picking a Band NameShe-Hooligan: We're going to be firetruck...
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Tone
Pantone's colors of the year for 2021 are Illuminating and Ultimate Gray. I love yellow and gray together; they remind me of a pencil or a classic yellow and chrome bicycle. I spent some time browsing...
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