The Lamp

I was doing my homework, last night, in the living room at the kitchen table. I had pulled a lamp over from the wall so that I could see what I was doing. The lamp was a chest high floor lamp that has a long skinny neck that runs from the ground to the light. I was sitting there doing my homework and Carter was crawling around on the ground. All of the sudden, I hear this *tap* *tap* *tap* sound on the lamp. And Carter is laying at the base of the lamp, and he starts hitting it. I didn’t really pay much attention to it, I just looked at it and then at him and saw that he was safe and that was it, but he kept tapping on it with his hand, so I looked at him again and watched him for a second. He began tapping again for a second, just about three quick taps, and then he’d stop and look up. Then he did it again, hitting it about 3 times, and then he’d stop and look up again. I sat there and kind of stared at him, and what he was doing, and I knew he was doing something, but I couldn’t figure it out. Then it hit me….he has this little touch lamp in his room by his changing table, and all you have to do is tap the metal of the lamp and it turns on. Cindy lets him play with the lamp sometimes and he sits there and pounds on it and watches it turn on and off. He was trying to do the same exact thing with the floor lamp in the front room! It was sooooo cute! He is such a smart boy! I was so happy that it brought me to tears! He is so cute! And is such a quick learner! I will remember that story for the rest of my life.

Work...

Its Monday, and I've got a lot of work ahead of me. Tonight I've got to complete an english paper as well as a math assignment, and on top of that I need to do a meteorology assignment. Class in meteorology was easy. The teacher is kind of a goofy dude. He just goes through his pre prepaired powerpoints and then ends class without giving us any assignment. I think that class is going to be a joke. I've really got to get better at typing these daily journal entries. With all of the work that I've had to do I really haven't had time to do these entries. It is more difficult for me to do the entries even though I know that I want to get the entries done because they are important. I spent a majority of tonight trying to research my english paper which I was at the time having the hardest time finding info on. I was at work until 5, and pulled my first 8 hour day of the week. Dave didn't show up to work. I asked Charles about him and he said that Dave wasn't here. He didn't seem to want to give any insight as to why dave wasn't there, but he wasn't and I didn't push the issue any further. Brittanya asked me if I feel that she contributes to the flash team because she has so many questions about how to do stuff. I told her that she does a great job and offers a unique point of view as well as an educated point of view. I told her that she was a definite valuable member of the flash team that I appreciated her hard work. I complimented her on something else she was working on, and, not purposefully told her that it looked really neat and that I liked the way she did that one thing, and that I wouldn't have been able to come up with something like that the way she did. She said that she really appreciated the compliment and that it was good to hear something like that and that it made her feel good. I have to get finished up with Michael Porters stuff, but school stuff has honestly come first. I know that Michael really wants me to be finished also and that he's excited to have things up and running. I'm having a hard time with google indexing his site. At least they haven't done it yet. I'll have to look into submitting his site info to the directory so that it will be indexed quicker. He's excited to put in a search and have his site be ranked fairly high on the list if not at the top. I told him that would be difficult to do, but that I would try and to my best with that. 5 year aniversary of the World Trade Center Attack. I feel that day was a day loaded with conspiracy, its sad and very unfortunate that many people were killed that day. I remember that I walked into a lab classroom at Salt Lake Community College and they had the News on a TV in that lab and it had video showing the World Trade Center with a big plume of smoke coming out of the side of the building. I was afraid for the people that were there, but my mind snapped me into a prepared state where speculation was completely overpowered by instinct, at that moment I was ready for anything.

General Conference, and burning the house down...

Its Sunday, and we had our regional conference at the Marriot Center in provo. There were many good talks given. President Monson spoke. Cindy really enjoys listening to his talks. I do also. He had many encouraging words to give and much inspiration to share. He spoke about how important children are, and mothers as well. He also spoke of many different experiences that he has had as an apostle of The Lord. I really enjoy listening to the experiences that he uses to inspire us with. We went with David and Francesca Hertsch to the conference. They are really fun to hang out with. I enjoy their company. They are good friends. We spent time with them on Saturday as well. We had a barbecue at our house and I demonstrated how to almost burn the house down. The coals for the stove were not going well enough so I added a little too much gas to the stove. I knew that the transition between gassing the stove and lighting it had to be quick because the fumes spread so quickly when it comes to using gasoline ( and this I know from past experience ). So as I lit the stove it burst in flames and almost lit the house on fire as it was sitting too close to the house in the first place. The fire calmed after a few seconds as did my adrenaline. I was very nervous for a few seconds after that silly stunt and grateful that I didn't burn the house down. Next time, less gas. We had fun playing a few games and watching The Simpsons with David and Francesca. I'm at my parents house doing this entry. I have wireless access through their network. Its awesome. I hope I can get Michael Porter's changes done soon. I know that he would like to have a pretty quick turn around, but I'm having a hard time seeing when I'm going to make those changes. I'll make time somewhere to get everything done. I may have a better chance now that I have a better resource. My senior projects class is going to be an interesting one. We're going to do a new DVD for the Aviation department. The would like to use it to broadcast in the student center on their tv's and also on DVD for presentation at their different flight shows that they attend to recruit prospective pilots and students. I think that it will be a fairly large project. I just hope that we haven't bit off more than we can chew. Filming for the project will have to begin pretty soon here. I have a lot of work to do. I'm very busy with every one of my classes. I feel bad that I have to work so hard and leave Cindy and Carter to work for themselves. I find much satisfaction in being a helpful husband, but I sometimes feel that I'm not helping as much as I should be when I have assignments to work on and school projects to complete. It makes is somewhat difficult, but I know that I have to keep trucking on the school work because it is one of the most important things that I can be doing right now right next to being a father. When I complete my schooling I will search for a better job that will allow me to more thoroughly provide for the family.

Payson Lakes...

Its Saturday, and we had just returned from our camping trip up by Payson lakes campground which is close to Maple Dell boyscout camp that I attended a few times as a scout with my dad. While we had passed it, I had seen the sign for maple dale, but it didn't really register in my head that we had actually passed it and that I had been there before. The campout went well. I had a good time spending time with Cindy and Carter. I really enjoy being with them. After we had returned from the campout we had laid all of the dirty gear in the backyard of our appartment to dry and then it started raining, but when it began to rain, I failed to remember that there was stuff in the backyard, consequently, it all ended up soaked. And now its spending some time hanging in our living room. I was hoping to have it cleaned up and returned to dad in a jiffy, but now its going to take a litte longer to get it back to dad. I took a statistics test today. I feel that I did pretty well on it. The girl that was working at the testing center said that she had already taken the test and that it wasn't really a big deal. She must have studied quite a bit. I studied also, but there were a few things on there that had me somewhat stumped, but I was able to figure most of them out, and am confident that I did well. One of my coworkers / team lead (Charles Jackson) went out on a date this weekend. He said that he's used to rejection, and can't figure out why this amazingly attractive girl would want to hang out with him. I told him to just be himself and to not try to impress her too much. If she digs you for who you are then your affection is genuine and long lasting. Whereas if you pose to be something that you are not, the love is short-lived, and typically affection turns quickly to dislike or hate.

Opening Post

In the beginning...

I suppose that I'm doing this just to do something crazy. I can't even imagine who would read this or if I'm going to receive any type of feedback, but I thought that I would just write, and see what comes out of my head. I've noticed that if I just let my fingers go I can come up with things that my fingers know that I've never known about myself.

Please feel free to provide me with feedback, or simply, your thoughts on what I've written about.