Outsourcing The Family
Not that long ago, I read an inspiring article written by Steve Olsen and posted over at The Utah Amicus. While I think he failed to support his thesis statement, the piece itself was a wake-up call to families to...
Category: Church
We'll miss you, President Hinckley
Shauna and I were playing board games with some friends when the news of President Hinckley's passing arrived through the grapevine. Having been baptized when I was 19, he's the only prophet that I've ever known. It makes this particular...
A Sign From the Lord About Your Future (Or: Some really good crazy)
Tonight we received a super fun chain letter from some serious crazy-heads. Behold:
What We've Been Up To (or, Why We're Social Hermits These Days)
We’ve been terrible at socializing over the last couple of months. We missed parties, we don’t call or e-mail and we even skipped our normal New Year’s Eve gala this year. You can probably guess some of the more obvious...
HAMing It Up, Redux
You're looking at one of Utah's newest HAM operators. Tonight I took the Technician test and passed without a problem. In a couple of days, I get listed on the FCC database with a shiny new call sign and I...
Some Post-Conference Thoughts
There's no particular theme other than these thoughts all relate to the October 2007 General Conference.
HAMing It Up
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...
Civility in Public Discourse
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...
A Concert I Won't Be Going To
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...
Just what *do* you say to a crazy person?
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...
Jesse
Shauna