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  • B’fast of champs… or something.

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    That is, champs at consuming calories. I was hungry on my way to work early this morning, so I stopped for some really unhealthy breakfast items at the gas station. The bottle of chocolate milk alone is 880 calories, the box of cookies a total of 800. Don’t worry– I won’t consume the whole mass…

  • The Mundane: Water tanks

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    Travis the other day shared a little work-rant about bathrooms. So on the note of the office-related, I thought I’d share this story. In the copy room there’s a water tank. The stuff from the drinking fountain here tastes questionable in my opinion, and pretty much everyone here drinks the bottled Mt. Olympus water. For…

  • Sidewalk Art

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    Downtown at the Gateway Saturday, after hitting Rio Grande for dinner (great chicken enchilada, yum) and before seeing Nacho Libre, we found there was a sidewalk chalk art exhibit and checked it out. Someone even had drawn a scene from Mary Poppins… So appropriate. I don’t care if some of these are just reproductions done…

  • Camp food

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    This image alone should explain my enthusasm for the camping trip we took this last weekend (the 16th). Samgyup sal (side of pork), beef, even prawns (Jesse’s doing– nice call), along with the usual sides. The kimchi was excellent (I’ve found the kimchi sides that L&L’s sells is pretty consistently delicious), and we even had…

  • Moss Man

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    Random story. The other day I went to the copy room a noticed a scent I haven’t smelled for a long time. I don’t know if it was cologne or what but when I walked by the finance department it smelled the same, and it totally took me back to being a little kid in…

  • It’s interesting showering naked.

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    Yes, I said that once by accident. What I had meant to say was that it was interesting showering in the dark, in commenting on a recent power outage… but of course Jeff and Steve never let me live that one down, hehe. I showered by candlelight this morning, good times showering in the dark.…

  • Rainbow

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    Shot of the sky yesterday as I drove home from work. Yes, just something to replace that big eye that’s been greeting you as you visit my blog =)

  • Not as long as I’m wearing these Jamaican colors, there’s no way you can harm me.

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    So yesterday Mar commented on how bloodshot my eyes were. So I told her the silly story of why they were so bloodshot, which didn’t involve drugs or alcohol, hehe. Tuesday night, Dan and I were having a mega conversation when Bobo came down to visit (he must miss Kate, cause unless there’s food being…

  • We’re a different breed…

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    Jesse: So, I’m at this professional photography studio helping create a new MBA pamphlet. Jesse: I think I can now officially call myself a hand model. Me: “Cause I’m a hand model, mama! A finger jockey. We don’t think the same way as the face and body boys do…” Life would be a lot less…

  • One day left

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    Why is fire so fascinating? Sitting around a campfire talking, telling stories, laughing, eating smores or conjuring up new ways to cook food with a camp fire– it’s got to be one of the oldest forms of recreation, and yet we still love to do it. We go up into the canyon and escape, even…

  • One for the quote board

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    I was flipping through digg.com (a sorta tech news blog) when I came upon a link to an article about how students at BYU had created a remote conctolled ornithopter. I’m usually curious to see what the reaction is when someone mentions a church school like that, so I read through some of the comments…

  • Home again

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    I had a realization while I was in Hawaii this past week. That was that my trips to Hawaii have been incredibly rejuvenating, relaxing, and therapeutic. Therapeutic for the soul, even. While there, I am in such a different environment than I am typically used to, and besides being different, the environment is soothing– the…

  • Moab II

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    Beginning the trail to Delicate Arch on Saturday The reward at the end of the trail (that’s actually Jeff under the arch) Thought I’d post a few pics from last weekend’s trip to Moab / Arches. Other logs of the trip: Crazy Pills & Heeble’s. First off, as an addendum to my last post where…

  • Uncle Ben’s

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    From the drive to work this morning: Does this qualify as being riced up? I know there’s no huge a spoiler on it but I was otherwise amused at how this Maxima had been modded– probably because I drive a Maxima too. I used to really be annoyed by people that would tailgate you, then…

  • I’m alright

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    I think it’s funny how I’ve just gotten into the habit of telling people I’m just “alright” when they ask how I am (you know, the typical “how are you” hello at the office). Sometimes the response I recieve will be “just alright?” (Like “what’s wrong?”) Heh. So it’s funny that I still say that…