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Sunday, June 30, 2013
Saturday, June 15, 2013
Jack
I don't really want this blog to just become a place where I put pictures of my baby.... but he is the cutest, so it's kind of hard not to.
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| The Man Himself |
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| He's so cute I can't even hold the camera straight... |
Ok, but really, he's cute. For those of you still with me here's a general update on my life. Stephanie and I have been spending our Saturday's attempting to remodel our house. With a lot of help we got the laminate floors done and we're working on baseboards. We usually end up spending more time taking care of our baby more than we do working so it's a very long process.
I've been thinking about getting my phone set up to publish to my blog, then I will update this much more often. I'm sure you all will highly enjoy that.
Speaking of phones, I never really thought I'd be the kind of person to put a picture of my wife or kids as my phone/computer wallpaper. It's not that I was against it, I just never really thought I would care so much that I would go through the proces to change it... My cell phone now has a picture of Jack, and our new iPad that we just bought (as an anniversary gift to ourselves) has pictures of Jack as the lock and home screens. My computer however does still maintain it's StarCraft themed background.
That's all for now.
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
mobile update
While I sit at work all day long, Stephanie like to send me pictures of Jack. They're pretty cute, so I thought I'd share them with you...
Saturday, February 23, 2013
miracle chip
Over the weekend following Christmas 2012 a small miracle occurred. It took me these past two months to finally get around to taking this picture so I could post about it properly.
After a good day of skiing at Snow Basin, I sat with Maddeline at the bottom of the hill waiting for some of our other siblings to finish their last run. We found some chairs and we sat down and relaxed a bit, loosened our boots, took of our gloves. ....
Thirty minutes later we were in the car driving home when I realized that my wedding ring wasn't on my finger!! Freaking out I soon realized that it must have come off when I took my gloves off there at the base. There was zero chance of just looking around and finding it since I had taken my gloves on and off several times at the end of the day. I resigned my self to just crying over it and telling myself that we'd check the lost and found the next day.
Well the next day we didn't actually go to Snow Basin, but to Powder Mountain, which was a really awesome ski day. So the following day we were back at Snow Basin and as the day ended I went over the the lost and found and asked if they had my ring. The conversation went something like this;
"Was there a men's wedding ring turned in here a couple days ago?"
"A silver one?"
"Well it's actually cobalt, but it looks like silver."
"When did you loose it"
"uh... 2 days ago"
"Yeah, I saw it here earlier today"
at this point I got really excited, but then he spent like 4 minutes rummaging through boxes and lost items saying, "I thought I saw it here...."
Finally they found the piece of paper they had taped it to, told me that someone found it on the ground near the base lodge. The base there at Snow Basin is not just snow like many other resorts, but paved with bricks, so my ring picked up a souvenir of being kicked around on bricks, and I call that souvenir my miracle chip. You can see it on the rim at about the 8 o'clock position in this picture.
On a slightly related note, my ring is made out of Cobalt, not as ridiculously hard as tungsten or as strong as titanium, but still hard and very strong, and it has a more silvery color that matches white gold well. On the inside is lightly etched 'Cobalt 24" which you can partially see here:
I love my ring.
After a good day of skiing at Snow Basin, I sat with Maddeline at the bottom of the hill waiting for some of our other siblings to finish their last run. We found some chairs and we sat down and relaxed a bit, loosened our boots, took of our gloves. ....
Thirty minutes later we were in the car driving home when I realized that my wedding ring wasn't on my finger!! Freaking out I soon realized that it must have come off when I took my gloves off there at the base. There was zero chance of just looking around and finding it since I had taken my gloves on and off several times at the end of the day. I resigned my self to just crying over it and telling myself that we'd check the lost and found the next day.
Well the next day we didn't actually go to Snow Basin, but to Powder Mountain, which was a really awesome ski day. So the following day we were back at Snow Basin and as the day ended I went over the the lost and found and asked if they had my ring. The conversation went something like this;
"Was there a men's wedding ring turned in here a couple days ago?"
"A silver one?"
"Well it's actually cobalt, but it looks like silver."
"When did you loose it"
"uh... 2 days ago"
"Yeah, I saw it here earlier today"
at this point I got really excited, but then he spent like 4 minutes rummaging through boxes and lost items saying, "I thought I saw it here...."
Finally they found the piece of paper they had taped it to, told me that someone found it on the ground near the base lodge. The base there at Snow Basin is not just snow like many other resorts, but paved with bricks, so my ring picked up a souvenir of being kicked around on bricks, and I call that souvenir my miracle chip. You can see it on the rim at about the 8 o'clock position in this picture.
On a slightly related note, my ring is made out of Cobalt, not as ridiculously hard as tungsten or as strong as titanium, but still hard and very strong, and it has a more silvery color that matches white gold well. On the inside is lightly etched 'Cobalt 24" which you can partially see here:
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
work
It has been quite some time since I blogged. I have found more useful things to fill my time, mostly I got a job and they pay me to sit at a computer, so I don't do as much here at home.
I work at Anderson Engineering, it is a civil engineering firm that specializes in environmental remediation, but also does all general civil/survey stuff. By 'general civil/survey' I mean road design, site layout and design, parcel surveys, and so on and so forth. I however do not really work with anything general civil-ly or survy-ey, I am part of the Kennecott team and I just do environmental analysis, remediation, sampling, and reporting. I really love my job. I get to learn all kinds of things about Kennecott and their copper mining operation here in Salt Lake Valley. I also do a lot of computer work, database management, map making/editing, and again, report writing.
Out side of working everyday I play StarCraft, I watch TV shows (Bones, Eureka, Doctor Who) with Stephanie. We obviously expecting a baby in a month, which is a big deal. Perhaps when he is born I'll actually update this blog from time to time with stuff about being a dad... but perhaps I won't.
That's not all my life, but that's all for now.
I work at Anderson Engineering, it is a civil engineering firm that specializes in environmental remediation, but also does all general civil/survey stuff. By 'general civil/survey' I mean road design, site layout and design, parcel surveys, and so on and so forth. I however do not really work with anything general civil-ly or survy-ey, I am part of the Kennecott team and I just do environmental analysis, remediation, sampling, and reporting. I really love my job. I get to learn all kinds of things about Kennecott and their copper mining operation here in Salt Lake Valley. I also do a lot of computer work, database management, map making/editing, and again, report writing.
Out side of working everyday I play StarCraft, I watch TV shows (Bones, Eureka, Doctor Who) with Stephanie. We obviously expecting a baby in a month, which is a big deal. Perhaps when he is born I'll actually update this blog from time to time with stuff about being a dad... but perhaps I won't.
That's not all my life, but that's all for now.
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Gray
So in titling this post I had to pause and decide if I should use 'grey' or 'gray'. For some reason I'm much more partial to 'grey' but the "traditional american spelling" is 'gray' so we'll stick with that.
So in (approximately) 10 days and 22 hrs BYU will host (presumably) nationally ranked Oregon State in BYU's annual homecoming game. This is a special game because BYU head coach Bronco Mendenhall is a graduate and former assistant coach of Oregon St. Also it will be the cougars first real test since barely loosing to Boise St. and the first of three huge and difficult games that make up the meat of BYU's schedule this year.
Finally, it is also the first time that BYU will not wear white, or blue as their primary color. I'd like to say that BYU has been a uni-staple, but between 1999 and 2004 they went a little crazy with uniform ideas, but in 2005 settled back down into the tradition. This month all that tradition gets a little tweaking with a (jumping on the bandwagon) black out.
In the uni-watching world we call this BFBS, and black for black's sake is generally frowned upon, as is grey for grey's sake, or pretty much using any color that isn't one of your team's official colors. But I don't care, these uniforms are gonna rock. Why? because I said so. While this comes as a surprise, it's not quite as jaw-dropping since the idea was leaked back in April.
All this thought of BYU uniforms makes me want to compile an awesome database of their uniforms... but for now I'll leave you with the beautiful pictures of BFBS.
So in (approximately) 10 days and 22 hrs BYU will host (presumably) nationally ranked Oregon State in BYU's annual homecoming game. This is a special game because BYU head coach Bronco Mendenhall is a graduate and former assistant coach of Oregon St. Also it will be the cougars first real test since barely loosing to Boise St. and the first of three huge and difficult games that make up the meat of BYU's schedule this year.
Finally, it is also the first time that BYU will not wear white, or blue as their primary color. I'd like to say that BYU has been a uni-staple, but between 1999 and 2004 they went a little crazy with uniform ideas, but in 2005 settled back down into the tradition. This month all that tradition gets a little tweaking with a (jumping on the bandwagon) black out.
In the uni-watching world we call this BFBS, and black for black's sake is generally frowned upon, as is grey for grey's sake, or pretty much using any color that isn't one of your team's official colors. But I don't care, these uniforms are gonna rock. Why? because I said so. While this comes as a surprise, it's not quite as jaw-dropping since the idea was leaked back in April.
All this thought of BYU uniforms makes me want to compile an awesome database of their uniforms... but for now I'll leave you with the beautiful pictures of BFBS.
You're probably wondering why I called this post Gray, well it's because of this beauty. That grey with the blue! ohh it is soooo good!!! I LOVE IT! if they did one thing right here, it's the use of grey. boom.
Friday, September 28, 2012
Oil
For some reason I love this logo, like a lot.
For those of you who don't know about former NFL teams, this is the logo of the (since moved to Tennessee,) Houston Oilers (and being in Tennessee where there's no oil, the became the Titans... go figure).
The logo is just simple, nicely colored, and it says a lot about Houston, Texas, the oil industry, and the history of all those. It's just cool, and you never see it around anymore because the new Houston football team chose worse colors and an ugly logo. So I decided to memorial-ize the Houston oil derrick as a 3D sketch, 'cause I do that.
I know, it's pretty cool, right? I worked pretty hard on that... ok, like 3 hours maybe. It's actually a REALLY complicated structure to model without proper structural design software (I use a free google product).
On a completely unrelated note: I was at wal*mart a couple weeks ago when I saw huge boxes of cereal on sale (huge as in almost 2 lbs). I bought some not knowing that my wife wouldn't eat Reece's Puffs, and I didn't really think I'd get sick of them.... but 2 lbs of cereal last like a month!
For those of you who don't know about former NFL teams, this is the logo of the (since moved to Tennessee,) Houston Oilers (and being in Tennessee where there's no oil, the became the Titans... go figure).
The logo is just simple, nicely colored, and it says a lot about Houston, Texas, the oil industry, and the history of all those. It's just cool, and you never see it around anymore because the new Houston football team chose worse colors and an ugly logo. So I decided to memorial-ize the Houston oil derrick as a 3D sketch, 'cause I do that.
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| BOOM |
On a completely unrelated note: I was at wal*mart a couple weeks ago when I saw huge boxes of cereal on sale (huge as in almost 2 lbs). I bought some not knowing that my wife wouldn't eat Reece's Puffs, and I didn't really think I'd get sick of them.... but 2 lbs of cereal last like a month!
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