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Wednesday, 02 March 2005 8:59 PM MST
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If this post's title rings a bell, then you've revealed that you're as hooked on LOST as I am, and as my parents, sisters, and brother are. This evening I visited my parents house in Hurricane. There we gathered together around the television, and watched the most recent episode of LOST that the TiVo had recorded.
I must say, having a TiVo to record programs for later watching is sweet. We skipped past the commercials and watched a one-hour episode in forty-something minutes, and were able to rewind in a few key spots when someone missed something, or pause when we wanted to talk a bit or just laugh ourselves silly. I had a blast. I haven't enjoyed family television watching like this for a long time. The last TV series all of my family (at least those of us in southwestern Utah) all enjoyed this much and gathered together regularly to watch was Now and Again, about five years or so ago. This episode of Lost, titled Numbers was one of our favorite. We laughed and laughed and laughed again and again throughout. On Top of Washington Dome
Saturday, 26 February 2005 8:16 PM MST
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You don't know how grateful I was for the telephone call from my little brother was this afternoon. The afternoon was waring on and I had not been outside once, and it was a beautiful day. I was dying for an excuse to go for a short hike, to get outdoors, to...
Read the rest of this article... Flood!
Wednesday, 12 January 2005 9:14 PM MST
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.jpg) Sun River Golf Course SubmergedI've always had something of a morbid fascination with natural disasters, something of a lingering desire to see a tornado up close (but not too close). The power of nature's fury has a raw sort of beauty that leaves me in awe.
Juxtaposed against that beauty is compassion for those who lose property, or far, far worse, friends or family to the destruction. In this flood, one person has lost his life, and it looks like many others have or will lose their homes and many of their possessions. Such loss is terrible, and painful. The suffering overshadows and overwhelms any beauty natures fury might possess. Read the rest of this article... Wish Lists
Friday, 17 December 2004 1:08 PM MST
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In my family, each year at Christmas, we each have a name of someone else in the family that we focus our gift-giving attention to. Since there are nine of us, seven children, some married with their own families, and my parents, it would be insane to...
Read the rest of this article... I Finally Saw
Saturday, 11 December 2004 7:40 PM MST
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Well I did it. This afternoon, with my sister and parents, I went to see the movie, "The Work and the Glory" in Hurricane at the new and impressive Coral Cliffs Cinema 8 theaters.
But first, I must digr... Read the rest of this article... I'm Archiving My Profile
Thursday, 25 November 2004 9:05 AM MST
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For the heck of it, I'm copying verbatim (mostly -- with just a few HTML tweaks to make it look okay, and any other edits, some flagged with italic notes) my profile from the LDS Mingle web site for single LDS folks like myself. You know, one of those LDS web sites for desperate singles? (That's a joke for the humor impaired—while some site members may be desperate, I think they're the exception, not the rule.) I enjoyed putting this profile together, so why not share it here? Besides, this lets me archive it for future reference...
Here it is: Read the rest of this article... Sugar-Free Lemon Pie
Thursday, 25 November 2004 6:38 AM MST
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The plan last night was to bake four of the pie crusts I bought (I'm to lazy to make my own crusts like I've done in years past), mix up some pumpkin pie filling (using the Libby's recipe, cutting the sugar a tad, and adding a bit more spice) and bake ...
Read the rest of this article... Gratitude is Great, and So Are The Incredibles and Cafe Rio Tacos!
Wednesday, 24 November 2004 9:20 PM MST
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What a pleasant surprise to visit Orson Scott Card's web site this week and discover four new articles to read, two of which are truly excellent and relevant to Thanksgiving and gratitude, "A Thank-You Letter in This Time of War" and "How I'll Celebrate Thanksgiving".
Thank you, Horsey. I appreciate your... Read the rest of this article... Welcome, Scott!
Monday, 22 November 2004 9:57 AM MST
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Welcome, Scott, back to St. George!
Around 8:30 AM or so, my friend and former roommate who since had moved to Joplin, Missouri, called from the Greyhound bus stop here in St. George. He had arrived at last! It was good to see him again. As we drove back to my house he talked about... Read the rest of this article... Oops! No Time to Clean and a Christmas Music Postscript
Saturday, 20 November 2004 7:16 PM MST
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Last night, after staying up far later than I should (I think I fell asleep around 1:00 AM), shortly before 3:00 AM my cell phone pager woke me. A server at work had rebooted for some reason, and our monitoring system paged me. The machine came back up and seemed okay. I figured diagnosis could wait until another time.
But I didn't get back to sleep. I'd forgotten to read my daily chapter from The Book of Mormon (I was supposed to read chapter 16 of Alma, an exciting one where the wicked folks of Ammonihah are destroyed). But I was too distracted, and instead turned to browsing 'blog entries I came across of other members of the LDS faith. Wow! I didn't realize there were so many LDS bloggers around! By the time I was feeling tired again, I looked up from my computer and... Read the rest of this article...
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