random thoughts from sir paul’s ‘up and coming’ tour stop in slc….

it was hot, we paid $20 for parking in rio tinto stadium’s tiny parking lot [big mistake, more on that later], got out of the truck and paul mccartney was doing his sound check [right then]  ~bonus! stood in the hot sun and listened…. it was hot, but that was cool. walked to nearby jordon commons to have [...]

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groovin’ on a sunday afternoon….

do you ever receive a christmas / birthday present and put it away and never think you are going to use is so you just kind of forget about it /them? i do do that and did do that with three things in particular, an “as seen on tv” chopper, a smoothie maker and some steak knives.  [...]

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dove milk chocolate ~

trust me…. all the philosophy you could ever want or need is written on the inside of the wrapper on a dove milk chocolate… ! do you think if momorn men were allowed to write their own obituaries they would say they enjoyed [some mormon activity] or that they enjoyed drinking coffee with their buds at the local cafe [...]

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… condemned …

last summer there was a tragedy in which three people lost their lives when a mud slide crushed their house.   a couple of weeks ago i was reading in the paper where that property and the ones surrounding it were being sought after by the city.  the paper stated that a small apartment building just to [...]

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more random shit from my brain….

why is it that your hair always looks the best (1) right before you go to bed or (2) the day you are going to get it cut? yesterday i was driving home and stopped at a stop light behind a white mini van (aka big mormon wagon), the van contained a dad and several [...]

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….out of facebook hell and back to real life!…

i just stopped by and read a post by the king of new york hacks… haven’t been there in a  while, been taking the easy way out and hanging on facebook.  facebook is fine if you want a quick update of a bunch of shit that you don’t really care about and really good if [...]

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random thoughts [this is rreally how my mind workks...]

i’m leaving the typos in the title, i like them! who decided that red wine goes in a fat glass and white wine goes in a tall glass? do you wash meat off before you cook it?  i do, just in case they dropped it on the floor before they wrapped it…. i liked it when [...]

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unseasonably warm weather…

yesterday morning it was around 60* here at 6:30 in the morning ~ this is very unusual for this place, so in honor of the warm weather i took an emergency half day vacation…  i just didn’t want to be at work and miss a nice friday afternoon [my brain shuts down around noon on [...]

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shit! i’m officially old!

i haven’t been here for quite a while (i’ve been on facebook a lot and i’m having a love/hate relationship with that) and i’ve had a birthday since then…. had a 40 year high school reunion, went on a couple of nice vacations, ushered in the new football season, watched the summer change to fall [...]

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july 22, 1914

today is my mother’s birthday.  she was a cancer, my birthday is two weeks from today, i am a leo.  she would have been 95 years old today.  she wasn’t just my mom, she was my best friend. she called my every saturday at 11:30 in the morning from the time i went to college [...]

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