Prius isn't all that great

If you have five minutes this is worth watching. I don't understand why high mpg diesel cars don't catch on in the US.

Who Are You Voting For????

I swear if I get one more pollster calling me today I'm going to scream. I already feel guilty enough that I'm still registered to vote in Logan. I don't need 5 phone calls a day asking me who I'm going to vote for. Anyways nothing real interesting today, I just had another automated Vote For Me call and got agitated. Has anyone else been getting poll calls on their cell phone 2-5 times a day this week?

Catching Up

Well I've been a little busy with my favorite part of college, group projects. I still have a couple of more this semester but eh, what can you do? So there were a lot of things I wanted to write about so I'll try and do a little catch-up. I've been taking random pictures with my cell phone so hopefully some of them will be interesting.



??? So I don't know if any of you remember the incident with Nair for Men and my nipples but I saw this aptly named product while searching though my local pharmacy for some wax strips. No, I don't want to explain. I was laughing in the middle of the isle when I saw this though. Julie thought I was weird.




Congratulations Your Premium Just Went Up!


I was shopping at Best Buy on 45th and State and couldn't help but notice the biggest bow I have ever seen in my life. Must have been some grand opening party. I can understand the desire to celebrate and let everyone know that the new hospital is opening but isn't this a little much. How many people had to okay this monstrosity and the cost of putting it up? Trying to find affordable health care for the self employed I wish they would have just given me a discount or something instead of throwing a big party for themselves. Thank you IHC.





I'm noticing lately that I like new music less and less. Every time I turn on the radio I usually switch to a station that is playing songs I listened to in high school. Is this a common occurrence? I'm actually listening to a little Primus at work right know and wishing that I was sailing the seas of cheese with Tommy the cat. I should be studying for my chemistry test on Monday... So I guess I'd better get going.

Apple: One PC: Zero

I'm still a mac... I just wanted to say how much more I like using my macbook than my ridiculously fast pc. I just like everything about my mac more. I really like the keyboard, the software is much easier to install and remove (once you figure out how simple it really is). What else? Software is just easier to use all around. I don't really play that many games so not having a whole lot of those isn't a bad thing. I just get addicted to games anyway. I might have spent way too much time last week playing Heroes of Might and Magic V. I was reminded why I shouldn't play games, especially in the middle of the semester.

Anyways... back to the mac. I was a little disillusioned the other week when I went in to the Apple store to try and get the power cord replaced for my macbook. The cord was coming out of the power adapter and it's still under warranty so I figured I could run in during the afternoon on my only day off and grab one. Bad idea. The store was crazy crowded and no one would help me. After sitting at the help bar for about 10 minutes getting frustrated, I asked the guy next to me if it always took this long. I was informed that if you don't have an appointment you are pretty much screwed. Yeah. So I gave up and left wasting about 2 hours of my day and accomplishing nothing besides getting aggravated. So I made an appointment the next week and my service was astounding. I was let into the store before it opened and handed a new power cord without even giving my name. The whole experience left me a little bewildered. I'm just not used to getting to totally different levels of service in such a short amount of time. But in the end I still haven't used my pc in quite a while. So I guess the moral of my rambling is: Make an appointment for Apple help unless you are buying something new and you will have a lot less stress.

I Love Construction

Thank you everyone who came to the little B-Day dinner. It was a lot of fun and I agree with Eric we should get together more often.

Anyways... I really wanted to just take a second to do my favorite thing on a blog; complain about something that bothers me. Road construction in South Jordan is ridiculous. There are at least four projects under way within 2 miles of my house. Every time I remember that there is construction and I need to go a different way I find myself blocked by yet more construction. Who in the hell is coordinating these projects? I understand that the redwood road construction is most likely run by someone different from the actual South Jordan road projects but really, would be to hard for someone to check and say If we are going to close the left turn lane at 11400 South we probably shouldn't make people go clear to 10600 south to turn around. I'm predicting that redwood road should be up to about 20 lanes in 10 years. Honestly, they have been repaving redwood road over and over and over since I moved to South Jordan 14 years ago. Couldn't they have just opted for a four or six lane road a couple of tries ago?

Happy driving.

I feel safe.

I feel much better about the security of the city I live in than I did yesterday. Why? Because today I saw that we have our own "Homeland Security" patrol car on the job. Sweet. I don't really know what type of terrorist activities could possibly happen where I live but hey I'm sure there was a government grant involved so why not get another patrol car. At least someone is there just in case of a looming threat to our great rural homeland.

Thursday Night in The Hizzouse

This is what hapens when your wife is in beauty school. The funny thing is I don't really mind. I spent Thursday night studying for a test while getting my toenails painted. Julie wanted to practice with her new paintbrush and my big toe provides a nice canvas.

I'm Back. I think...

So a lot of things have happened since my last post. I always have things I want to write about but find it hard to actually type stuff up. Anyways I guess I'll give a brief recap.

The more I think about it the only people who will read this know for the most part what I've been up to so maybe just a brief recap.

Quit my job. Feb "07
Got real estate license. Mar
Started a corporation, pretty much for tax purposes only. Mar
Sub prime mortgage freaked everyone out. No money coming my way.
Got Engaged.
Got married 7/27/07 in LA. Sweet.
Went on Honeymoon to Puerto Vallarta. Didn't want to come back.
Still doing real estate and hoping things turn around quickly.

Done and Done.

So I will hopefully share some experiences and pictures from these events but we'll see. I more enjoy writing about funny things as they happen.

I also wanted to thank everyone for all the support they have given me while I was a boob waiting for Julie to get back. And thanks for all the wedding gifts too. I would also like to thank Ryan for being my best man at the Wedding and enduring a road trip with my family to California and back.

Call Me Pres

So I started a corporation today. Pretty crazy stuff. Actually the official start date will be on record as 3/11/07. I thought it would be a lot harder to get everything set up than it was. Contrary to popular belief if you can understand legal documents and IRS publications you don't even need a lawyer or an accountant to start your own company. It probably wouldn't be a bad idea to use one but hey, I'm cheap. I definitely think a CPA will be doing my taxes next year though. I hope everyone had a happy 3/11 day. I really wanted to put up a good post but I just wasn't feeling it.

I got the first "your stats suck" talk at work on Friday. That's always tons of fun. So I guess if I want to succeed in the rat race I've got to give up on really helping people and make sure I kind of help as many people as I can. Oh, and make sure that I always know the answer and never give incorrect information. It's really not that bad I just think that call centers are interesting. My new position is much better than the one I had before by a long shot though. Not too keen on my new schedule but I'll survive. I really like working early and getting off in the afternoon. Now I work from late morning to around 7 PM or so. With Julie staying in Orem it makes it a little harder to spend as much time as we want to together.

Well anyways... I was going to think of something witty to talk about but I'm pretty exhausted so I think I'm just going to go to bed.

Keep on keepin on.

I'm a Mac...

So I finally took the plunge. This is my first post from my new Mac. I was going to go completely legal on my pc, you know buying windows and all the programs I use and such but when I added it all up it was going to cost me about as much as getting a Mac that does everything I want already. So far I have to say it's pretty nice.

This last two weeks has been awesome. I got to reunite with the love of my life and get reacquainted again. Although that didn't really take too long. We still love each other for all the same reasons we did before, now we just get to hold each other again. It's great. Julie had to go back home for a couple of weeks though to take care of business in California but she will be back in Utah around March 22nd or 23rd I think. I'm really excited to see her again even though she just barely left.

I finished real estate school finally and took the state exam yesterday; luckily I passed. It's hard to say whether it was hard or not because I compare everything to the Series 7 exam now. Well not just the Series 7 exam, the Series 7 exam in four weeks without having a business or accounting degree.

Hopefully I'll have a little bit of a break from super intensive studying for a little while so that I can get back to posting random things on here. I just barely found out the Jon and Rob have started blogs in my absence. I'm really excited about getting caught up on everything.

There is something I wanted to share

Andy Mckee, his album is available on ITunes.

I Really Suck At This

Wow. It's been a really long time since I posted anything. I wanted to say I'm sorry but that would probably be a lie. I enjoy writing things on here but I'm not creative enough to write very often. Maybe it could be a resolution that I won't keep. We'll see.

Anyways.. The trade off has ended and the results are in; I lost miserably but I did have a good comeback near the end.

Game : indecision101

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Nate killed us all with his Arizona Land Income Corp. I've been participating in another game with people at work and I have redeemed myself a little.

If anyone is interested in participating in another game let me know.

I do have a lot of things that I've been kicking around to write about but at this point I'm debating giving the blog the boot. My brain is pretty fried by the end of every work day so far.