Just over 10 years ago, Heather and I went to the Humane Society in Salt Lake City on a quest to get a small dog as a friend and companion for Luna, our Husky-great Pyrenees mix.
We failed. Continue reading
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55 degrees for New Year’s
It’s a new year. But it doesn’t feel like it. This is probably the biggest difference about living on the coast. Even when I lived in Southern California, we had something of a winter.
Take last weekend for instance — Heather and I went to the beach. Sure, we wore some warm outerwear, but it sure wasn’t the snow-blown cold we experienced in Utah, or Washington, or New York. It was very pleasant.
The leaves on the trees are still green and it was about 55 degrees today. It just doesn’t seem like winter.
But we like it. And so do our dogs, apparently …
Happy Holiday
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Today is Boxing Day. But if you’re an American, today is probably just the day you don’t work because Christmas was on Sunday. So without further ado, go get hammered. Or if, like me you don’t believe in the Christian myth of the virgin birth, just keep doing whatever you did yesterday.
Either way, have a Happy Holiday.
Speak up – our voices must be heard
It’s no secret that secularism (atheism, agnosticism, humanism, etc.) is growing in the U.S. Our numbers are somewhere between 12 percent and 20 percent and we are among the fastest growing religious demographic. (Calling us a religion is comical and a misnomer, but I digress). Continue reading
Out come the legs for the — Jump! Jump! Up to the top of the — Stump! Stump!
I’ve been a fan of Barenaked Ladies for a long time. Theirs were among the first 10 CDs I bought back in the ’90s when I bought my first stereo. I was listening to them before they had a website and they are one of three bands I have seen twice live in concert (the other two being Third Eye Blind and U2). Continue reading
People, people everywhere
I’m a Western kid.
No, I don’t mean that I listen to country. I dislike rodeos and I don’t own a cowboy hat. But I grew up in the West and I’m out-of-place in this East Coast world.
There are many things about the East Coast that are foreign to me (another blog post for another day), but one of the most obvious is population density.
Just to demonstrate, I’ve lived in four counties in three states in the last decade. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, this is the most densely populated county of the four.
Population density of counties I've lived in (Source: U.S. Census, 2000)
Five years later
My most recent posts are more than five years old now. A lot has happened. After working at the Sun Advocate for three years and getting married, I took a job in Vernal, Utah, as editor of the Vernal Express. Continue reading
Late night Denny’s run
One aspect of living in a small town is that the businesses roll up their store fronts by midnight.
My girlfriend and I drove for over an hour last night just to get to the closest Denny’s. Then over an hour back.
Fun! I’m now a little tired.
Why I’m doing this
So I got this blog like 3 months ago.
I got into the whole blogging thing in an interesting way. I have an iPod, and one day, while I was staying at a hotel (with WiFi), I was surfing around (on my iBook) trying to find cool things to do with my iPod.
I came across podcasting. So now I’m subscribed to Adam Curry’s daily source code, the Dawn and Drew Show, Air America Morning Sedition and others.
In the process of learning about podcasting, of course I came across blogging. I just haven’t gotten into one. But here I am… I’ll see how it goes.