Many moons ago (a few over 200 to be more exact), I had a teacher who was big-time into HAM radio. I was pretty interested in it from the few times I saw him using one and started studying what it would take to become a HAM operator too. I even soldered together my own […]
Filed under: Geek, Church on September 18th, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Only by pride cometh contention. - Proverbs 13:10
Like most LDS, I spent the last weekend watching General Conference (or as I affectionately call it, "Church in your PJ's Weekend"). As usual, Elder Holland delivered a powerful speech, this one on the power of words. He bemoaned how easily we can and do use words to […]
Filed under: Politics, Church on April 3rd, 2007 | 6 Comments »
When Shauna first told me about a tour of Cyndi Lauper, Blondie and Erasure coming to USANA Amphitheater, I was pretty stoked to see it. We had seen Erasure in May of 2005 when we first moved to Utah but the venue was so terrible that we didn't really get to enjoy it all that […]
Filed under: Politics, Entertainment, Church, Utah on March 14th, 2007 | 14 Comments »
Have you ever read something so fantastic, so blatantly wrong and full of lies that you could only sit there with a bemused "I can't believe someone would say that" look on your face? I had such an experience tonight after reading a rant against Mitt Romney that turned into one of the more […]
Filed under: Politics, Rants, Church on January 24th, 2007 | 11 Comments »
For those of you not living in Utah, we have a ton of snow right now. It's been coming down for over 18 hours now and the place is covered. This morning was particularly bad. Just look at the aftermath.
Keep in mind that I was crazy enough to try digging my car out to go […]
Filed under: Church, Pictures, Utah, Chloe on December 17th, 2006 | 7 Comments »
Saturdays have become less of a relaxing day and more of a "work outside of the office" day. Between the demands of the recent campaign, maintenance on the house, and pitching in on service projects, it feels like it's been forever since there's been a Saturday of nothing but sitting around and doing absolutely nothing. […]
Filed under: Politics, Church, Life, Shauna on November 13th, 2006 | 4 Comments »
"Honey catches more flies than vinegar." It's an old English proverb and like most proverbs, there's something to it. In the art of persuasion, you are more likely to bring someone to your point of view with civility, rationality, and concessions when you are either wrong or don't know the answer. Politics, it seems, prefers […]
Filed under: Politics, Church, Utah on November 1st, 2006 | 4 Comments »
I'm sure all of you have at some point either done or seen a connect the dots puzzle. You go in numeric order drawing lines between the dots until you have a picture of something. Imagine the chaos that would ensue if you tried to connect the dots from two different pages to try and […]
Filed under: Politics, Church on October 22nd, 2006 | 2 Comments »
The best laid plans almost went awry today. Repeatedly. Today's plan was to make an 8:30AM session at the new Sacramento temple, meet Vanessa and The Other Shauna in Placerville for Z'pie, and then head over to the Swift's reception at 7PM.
Filed under: Church, Food, Travel, Chloe on October 8th, 2006 | 4 Comments »
A judge in New York ruled that charitable donations, including tithing, can be excluded from your bankruptcy settlement contrary to the 1998 Religous Liberty Act. He's claiming that the newly-passed bankruptcy laws allow him to do so. While he might be inside the law, that doesn't make him right.
That's a big deal to those […]
Filed under: Politics, Church on September 17th, 2006 | 1 Comment »
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