Roofington: A retrospective

Sept 1, 2007. My last week in Maryland. Kevin needed a new roof. I was conveniently "not working."

It took us a few days to get the old roof off... Dean, Kevin and Matt helped but the Mazda b2300 was the real hero. Shingles are heavy, and we tossed them right down into the truck.

Man Work

Only a few sheets of plywood needed replacing. Lucky.

New Shingles ready to be laddered up. Again...heavy.

This county dump in Maryland is an ironically pretty place.

It provides a rare vantage.

Tweaked Backs: 2

Bottles of Gatoraid: 6.
Chipotle Burritos: 2

Flat Tires from roofing nails: 2

Im in ur yard...catchin' ur shingals.

Nearly done with the front.

Complete!

Kevin put on the finishing touches. Well done.

I've been promising this post (in all it's glory) for years. Mission accomplished.

It maybe time for the web log to retire. How could anything top this?

Farewell to PG Review and others...

I caved when the 16-year-old newspaper kid at my door admitted he would spend the money he earned on girls, and not on college textbooks as he initially told me. So I've been receiving the Sunday Daily Herald for the past year. I like it, and read it at work. I also get the Lehi Free Press in the mail once a week, having moved from Lehi last year.

I was a little bummed to read that the Herald will discontinue the Lehi Free Press, American Fork Citizen, Pleasant Grove Review, Lone Peak Press and Orem Times after the Feb. 19th issue. I have a lot of memories attached with the PG Review from when mom wrote several columns for that paper.

The Daily Herald has several more local papers like this that they don't mention. I have a few photos published in the South Utah County paper every year and I'm hoping they continue that one at least.

So, sad day...but what can you do. Some day we'll have to explain things like "newspaper" to our kids, much like I do with my son with "film." It can't ALL go away though... what would we clean our windows with?

That Makes People...

My comment made woots homepage today. Things are going to start happening to me now.

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Thanks to Emily for noticing.

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Finally, a good cell phone..

I've been with my cell phone provider for over 10 years. I don't know how many phones I've had in that time. Probably 10 or 12. And I've never had one that I actually liked until now.

A few months ago, my cell phone started breaking. I fixed it with my sisters broken phone, but it didn't last long. Got another one from my provider but I couldn't hear anyone. Got yet another one from my provider, but everyone complained about only hearing me breathe. Finally went in to the wireless store and upgraded to a non-free phone. With the contract extension it was about $50. Worth every cent.

This is the best phone I've used. Here are the features I like:

• I can hear clearly.
  
• People can hear me clearly.
• It's very slim, and tiny.
• I can get my email on this phone without paying extra for a data plan. Sending or Reading an email costs me 1 text message.
  
• The music player very usable, and the headphone jack is a standard 3.5mm stereo connection!
  
• It accepts a micro-SD card, and actually came with a 1gb card.
  
• The headset includes a mic that plugs into the the headphone jack, and regular headphones. That means you can use any headphones you want to talk on the phone, and that you can hear your conversation in both ears. Very cool.
• The FM Radio is also very user friendly, and reception is good.
• Bluetooth works great. Connects with my palm, laptop, and headphones no problem. I can run with this in my pocket, and my headphones on. No cords.
• It runs java programs easy peasy. I can copy game .jar files on the SD card and they play great.
  

I should add that it also takes pretty good photos, up to 1600x1200, and even movies with sound. But in 10 years, I think I've taken about 10 photos with my phone. I just don't use it.

Anyways... next time you're ready for an upgrade, check out the Nokia 5310 XpressMusic. It's wicked.

Don't buy stuff...

TFR

Took this in American Fork Canyon tonight. Jack and I took our tripod up there and played around with our cameras.

Published...kinda...

One of these days one of my photos will be in a book or magazine, and I'll be excited.  But for now, this is pretty exciting for me.

http://205.118.116.97/phpApps/articleViewer.php?artdid=456?pdid=1250

Just a website...Alpine School Districts.  I work for Jolesch photo, and sometimes book events locally that I can't handle myself.  They send me, I take the pics and sometimes collect order forms etc, and then we split the commissions.  Makes for some fun travelling sometimes. 

Anyway, the photo on that page is one of those.  Taken at Gardner hall at the UofU.  I'm standing on a step ladder. :)

Props to Trav for loaning me his wicked and wide lens for this.  

Traffic...

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Best Town Ever...

There are a number of things right or wrong with this sign... you decide which.


Blackwater, Missouri. Home of the Mid-Missouri Museum of Independent Telephone Pioneers

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I would totally visit this town again.

PIC: Jack and Friends...

I like to try and think what Jack was thinking here. The more I look at this pic, the more there is to it. April 2003.

PIC: Holy City

Taken on our trip to Jerusalem last Sunday.

PIC: JRel...

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PIC: Free beads and patches...

I know that the scouts get all the fancy glasses... fine clothes, free beads and patches. But my life is good...really good.

PIC: Huuunnnggggg...

PIC: War Memorial...

On a trip to DC. At the Viet Nam war memorial. 2007.

PIC: Magic Show...

The Magic Show.

PIC: Calico..

I'm still confused about the name of this cat.


Many of these are throwbacks from the screenshots that my wife made while we were copying dads tapes on to DVD. They were used to make the DVD covers.

PIC: Maximum Jefferson..

Cami had a long layover in Kansas City once, and I was able to see her and her fam. It had been too long since I saw any of them, so it was a welcome visit. However I think given the travel time, they would probably have voted to skip the layover.

This is my favorite pic from that night. 3 things we miss are pictured here. Jefferson. The Maxima. Kansas City.

PIC: Melody and Doll..

Melody at Logan. It was rare to see these girls without their Dolls at this age. I bet they still have them. Am I right?