Appendix

Just wanted to add an appendix to the post a few weeks ago about text book pet peeves. Appendices in text books, what's the point? If it's important enough to put it in the book just put it in the corresponding chapter. Not too hard.

PSOL, see Please See Other Line

So I just got done taking an open book test. Which I'm grateful that it was open book, but it made me realize another thing that doesn't make sense to me. Why is it that when I look up something like UAT in the index that it can't just simply give me the page number right there? Why is it that it has to waste my time, not to mention the ink, to print "UAT, see User acceptance testing" and refer me somewhere else? Sometimes it's on the line above or below the acronym that I was looking up. When the test is 60 mins. long and there's 50 questions I don't have time to look in two places for the page number.

If You're Happy and You Know It...

There's a song that I don't understand, "If You're Happy and You Know It". "If you're happy and you know it clap your hands. If you're happy and you know it then your face will surely show it. If you're happy and you know it clap your hands". Okay, why is that it tells you to clap your hands if your happy but then it goes on to say that "your face will surely show it"? If my face is already showing it, then why do I need to clap my hands. I DON'T HAVE TO!!! I rest my case.

Random Thought

Random thought I just had: Why do we always say, "get your shoes and socks on"? Shouldn't it be said in the order that we put them on? Shouldn't it be get your socks and shoes on. You can't very well put your shoes and then your socks on. Then again, I may be the only one that has been told and tells his kids to, "get your shoes and socks on".

Good Old Days

Remember the good old days when ketchup was ketchup? Now days you have light ketchup, ketchup with calcium, ketchup with beta 12, ketchup with extra tomatoes, ketchup with ketchup added, etc. There's stuff added to stuff that should just be left alone. Or things that are made light that shouldn't be light. Like bacon, bacon should not be light.
The other funny thing that I saw today was a license plate cover that said, and I quote, "51% Angel 49% B**ch - Do You Want To Try Your Luck?" That wasn't the funny part. The funny part was that there was a 70 year old man driving the car. Note to self, never get a gender specific bumper sticker, license plate cover or license plate.

Tour of Utah

Well I guess they're going to give it another shot next year. The Tour of Utah is back. Even better they are coming to O Town! Not just passing through either, ending here on day two. Check it out!

What A Weekend!

What a weekend! I'm pooped. Friday afternoon Mr. Stayathomedad (AKA Me) took the kids to the Dinosaur Park. My sister and her kids, Lacey and her kids, and Annie and her kid came as well. Me and the ladies, it's a little weird, but it sure does help with school (not hanging out with the ladies, but not working).

This is caveman Lincoln, he was smiling bigger right before I took the picture too late.

This is monkey man Lincoln. He's either going to be a gymnast or a daredevil.
I don't know where Lincoln learned to push someone in a swing, but thanks to my gigantic telephoto lens I was able to get him pushing his cousin Grace in the swing. He's a good kid when he wants to be.
We tried to get Alivia to lie down for a little nap, but obviously with all the exciting noise around she couldn't sleep. She started peeking out to see what was going on.

Today (Saturday) took the kids to the Black Island Farms today. Good times. It was a little cold this morning, but the bad part was the dew. The slides were soaking wet. It was funny because Lincoln would start down the slide expecting to go fast, then he'd stop half way down.

This is him being himself and smiling for the camera.

This is Alivia being herself and smiling.

We did the little corn maze. We tired to freak the kids out by saying that we were lost, but they just wanted to pick the corn, which wasn't the point of the maize.We took the hay ride and they take you out to pumpkin patch where you pick out your very own pumpkin. There are thousands of pumpkins to pick from and even this late in the season all the pumpkins were great. It was a lot of fun.

The kids had quite the weekend, Dino Park Friday, Farm on Saturday. I need a break now.

Crime fighting to the MAX!

I just wanted to share a little crime fighting story from last night...well actually this morning, but that's not important to the story. Anyway, I was up late doing some homework and didn't get to bed until about 12 AM. After I had settled in and was trying to sleep heard some men talking outside. So as snoopy as I am, I had to look to see who it was and what they were doing. When I couldn't see anything out front I laid back down. Stacy got up and looked out the other window and there were three guys smoking "something" (pretty sure it was the funky weed) outside the window below us. Stacy called the police and they got there in about three minutes (which was a surprise to us both). The three guys saw the officer and tried to hide behind the wall then they took off running. To make a long story short the police only caught one of them, but after talking to neighbors it sounds like it was one of the guys in the apartment building. Either way we felt pretty good about what we'd done when we finally got to sleep at about 2 AM. The cops were hoping that it was some vandals that have been breaking into cars around here. They said that there has been a break in about every night for the past two weeks.

I'm pretty sure we're nominated for the citizens of the month now.

PINK FLOYD!!!

I forgot to tell everyone about the killer Aussie Pink Floyd show that I went to on Friday. They have come every year for the past four years and this was my second time seeing them. They are a Pink Floyd tribute band that is actually endorsed by Pink Floyd. This is their website: http://www.aussiefloyd.com/, highly recommended if you like Pink Floyd. Here are a few pictures that my father-in-law took with his camera phone.

We had good seats, which isn't hard to do at the E Center. They call it the Ford Theater (which my father-in-law decided wasn't the best name for a theater and that we'd never bring Lincoln there and sit on the balcony...little obscure history reference. If you don't get it do a Google search for Lincoln and Ford Theater). Essentially the Ford Theater is the E Center split in half, which makes it a great place for a concert.

They came out and play the entire album Dark Side of the Moon, took a 15 minute break then came back and played some of Pink Floyd's greatest hits. Like "Run Like Hell", "Another Brick in the Wall, Part II", "Wish You Were Here", etc. Great show and like I said before highly recommended. They have come September/Octoberish the past few years. So if you want to go next year just check out the website around July/Augustish to get the date.

School

Just got out of class, my favorite class of all. All I have to do is sit there and listen to a speaker for an hour and I pass the class. I wish all of my classes were that easy and interesting. The speakers are CEOs, managers, accountants, etc. from local businesses. Tonight we had a good speaker. He made a great point about how people discount the things they are good at. For example people that are really good at art, but don't think they can do anything with that talent to make money, but there's marketing, graphics design, etc. This is what he suggested to find out what you're good at and how you can apply it to some career where you can make money. He said find somewhere to be completely alone, which is the hard part if you're anything like me, then you fold a piece of paper in half. On one column you label it "Activities". These are the activities that you enjoyed doing when you were younger, things that came naturally to you, and don't let yourself say, "Oh, that was nothing, I'll never be able to do that for a living". Next you label the next column principles, meaning the principles behind those activities. For example, if someone is good at and enjoys playing Monopoly, the principles behind Monopoly are strategy, negotiation, finance, etc. Therefore someone like that would be good at management. It's a business class so he geared his examples toward business majors, but I really think that it would apply to just about anything. Anyway, there's my two cents for the moment.