When our house was built in 1954 as part of a development, Sunset City was obligated to provide the main line to the sewer system. This was quite the expense for a small city, so they went cut-rate with it: instead of a metal sewer pipe, each main line to the city’s sewer was made [...]
Qwest finally fixed the problem that was denying service to me and several other households in the neighborhood. After four days, I now have my landline phone and DSL again. They are also crediting us for the four days without service. Counseling for pain and suffering is not included. I suppose that opens me up [...]
August 29, 2010 is a momentous anniversary. It’s twenty years since I entered the Missionary Training Center as an LDS missionary. It’s become a bit of a cliché for returned missionaries to say that their mission was the “best two years” of their lives. Possibly they mean it was the best discrete two year period [...]
The desktop computer is still out; I gave Jim the hard drive Tuesday night to transfer the contents of the failed drive to [goes back, examines syntax of sentence up to this point, gives up], and if I’m lucky I’ll get the whole computer back today. What makes it worse is that my laptop has [...]
Ever notice how everything seems to break down at the same time? Tuesday night, the transmission went funny on our car. We had it towed to our mechanic’s shop right before I went off to help with girls camp up up in the mountains, far enough out that none of us out there could get [...]
I meant to leave a note here Wednesday morning to the effect that I would be away helping with the church’s girls camp until today, but time got away from me. In case you missed it, a pre-posted review went live at Cold Fusion last night: The Excalibur Kid (1998). I thought this was the [...]
Those of you who are local may have seen this on the news last night or read about it in this morning’s paper: FrontRunner train collides with car, killing 1 A 52-year-old man was killed Monday evening when his truck was hit by a FrontRunner train. It happened near 500 West and 1800 North in [...]
I got a call from Jason just before noon, in tears. He had tried to take our cockatiel Baby out of her cage, but forgot to shut the front door. Baby doesn’t particularly like him to take her out (somehow she only likes me), so she flapped away from him, out the front door, across [...]
We went camping up in the mountains Friday night with just the two girls; Alex stayed down for an all-day movie marathon with his friends starting early Saturday morning, and Jason was away at scout camp. Sariah was gobsmacked by the number of stars you can see away from the lights of civilization, and I [...]
