The Story of Us.
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...
Yes, it's technically Day 2, but I don't want to do the Day 2 post when it's not even over yet. True to form, we planned most of our day yesterday around food. Since we had all gotten up in...
To the casual observer, a conservationist and an environmentalist are probably the same thing. Both like to keep things relatively unspoiled, are big on high-efficiency everything, and do what they can to think global and act local. The big difference...
Yes, we're in Sacramento now. Thanks to Shauna getting off work early, we left a few hours earlier than originally planned and made it to Cameron Park before 2AM local time. That puts us at right around 10 hours, not...
Political guerrilla tactics have now met the Internet generation. In California, political rivals are sneaking in operatives from their campaigns to capture live blunders of their opponents on cell phone video cameras to later be uploaded to the Internet. Suddenly...
Salt Lake City Weekly interviewed me for an article, and it got published today. Go check it out. As a note, they do have a typo. The website I run is FreeUTOPIA.org, not FreeUTOPIA.net.
For many people, commuting to work every day from 20 or more miles away is simply a fact of life. Many do it to afford a home that would be otherwise unaffordable where they work. Some simply get a better...
When we travel out of town, one of the most exciting things for us is eating really good food from really good restaurants. Our last trip to Vegas was entirely centered around what restaurants we planned to eat at. Our...
This is a crosspost of an article I wrote on FreeUTOPIA.org, an advocacy cite for expanding and promoting municipal fiber projects like UTOPIA. USTAR, the Utah Science Technology and Research initiative passed in the 2006 Legislature, is a piece of...
Shauna has always threatened various reasons for which we’d have to grab the lawnmower’s gas and turn the house into a pile of ashes. Most of them were dealing with the disrepair of various parts of our house (roof, swamp...
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