Life Is As You See It

Turning 30 tomorrow

2011-04-14T17:17:00.001-07:00

So yeah.. I know I havent updated this in ages. But, starting today I will start to repost again! YAY. Lets not bother me trying to make an excuse for note updating it. Instead lets just get into it.

So according to my wife I am "OLD!" While I fight this argument that I am not really that old I remind her that she will be the same in November. I dunno, I suppose I had more aspirations of where I would be in life at this point, but really this is just the middle of the 20's timeline for me. I only have 2 more years of college to go and I will have my bachelors. I wonder if I should go into teaching programming at high school. I think that would be kinda fun. And it would allow me to have 3 months off a year.. to work on other things like my game! Maybe then I could finally publish something!

Anyway, I hope to see you all on the other side of this hill tomorrow.

Bike

2008-08-08T09:24:00.003-07:00

Well, a couple days ago I miffed it on my bike. I was riding down PG Blvd and went over the rail road tracks like normal, but this time my tires decided that they should act like a train. That was a very unfortunate decision for me because I was still going straight. I got a physics lesson that I didnt want. An object in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted upon by another force said Newton. The earth tends to be one big force that likes to act upon us when we are being stupid and such. So I banged up my shoulder and scrapped up my knee a little. (sorry no pictures)

Well, back to other things. We finally got those new carpets in and they look great. They are not quite as soft as the old ones, but they are a tad bit on the cleaner side. Which I would prefer anyway, and they look WAY better. This weekend me a Rach are going to gut Mikaila's room and the Front room and rip the carpet out of them. The funny part of this is that after we passed the carpet out onto the lawn... well they are still there. They haven't moved in days. I find the entertaining for some reason, but am too lazy to move them to a location that wont kill the grass. So instead I go out and roll them over a turn or 2 so that they dont kill the grass. I guess I will have to buckle down and do that today. Well, that is all I have to say for now.

Oh yeah.. Odoyle.. GubiD is because of my MSN messenger name and the fact that Gubi had already been taken on many of the forums.. so GubiD which was actually Gubi:D .. which is code for smiley. Whatever though. Here is a screen shot of something that I programmed yesterday during the down time. Look if you must.
Image Link!

Long time no see, eh?

2008-08-06T15:04:00.002-07:00

Well, I decided that I would try to take another crack at blogging and see if I can keep it up. We will see, eh? Anyway, life this year has been very interesting. I have been sucked into the many things that development does here at work. Much of it actually isnt that bad. Regardless it is something that I dont mind doing. Not to mention, I am still hourly so if I work long hours I still get paid for it. Anywho, I try to spend most of the day working on my SHPR's and what not, but find myself delving into video game programming to fill the gaps. I am sure that I could probably do a little more to keep myself busy, but sometimes this can be a very stressful job. Mainly when its release time and I have over 50 shpr's and half of them are stupid questions from stupid people.. (i am not going to say names... cause they are special and might get offended) Life at home has been good, me and Rachel are in the process of replacing the carpets in the house and we will be doing the cabinets within the next month... I hope. So in otherwords, we are replacing about half of the house and it isnt going to cost a huge fortune... not huge, but a small one. I have also been quite active in game programming websites, most notibly CreationAsylum.net and RMXP.org. I am known as GubiD to all the gentle folk.. unless its GamingWorld, there I am GemeniX13. Anyway, working on some pretty shnazy new updates for my system, and have undertaken a project with someone else, because my art skills suck. I need some good realish/anime type characters and stuff done for mine, however I dont have the time to learn how to do all that now. I have given myself a goal for the year though... and that is to get better at doing graphics. I think my first step is to start drawing again. I used to draw all the time, but I was always more of an observation artist. I cannot really draw from my imagination as well as I would like to think. Usually I start it as one thing... then think, that looks more like a... and then start drawing that and realize that it does look like the first thing and then continue playing bad mitten like that until I get a finished product. Well, I suppose that is enough of my mindless talking and bad punctuation and run-on sentences.

Laters

~Gubi

Its finished!

2008-01-15T13:42:00.000-07:00

You guys all know that I have been working on my RPG Maker XP project for quite some time. About 2 months ago I released it officially to the world. I have since made 2 updates to it that allows for some sweet additions. Although it still isnt complete it is so close to being there that it isnt funny. I have started on a couple of the other systems, but I have enough to get moving with the game. I am still sticking to the storyline, although I want to mix it up a whole lot. Instead of just starting out by accidentally jumping to a different world, I am thinking that I will make it like some power mad king that unlocks the realm and because of you he succeeds. At which he didnt understand the power and now something greater is behind it and trying to destroy the world and using its power to destroy all things. Anyway, story happens to always be in flux, but I will pin it down eventually.

Here is a screen shot: (although this feature isnt available yet)

Here are the downloads:
Non Animated
Animated

Oh yeah.. to use it you must have RPG Maker XP installed. Here is a link to the demo. LINK

OK ok...

2007-10-18T07:42:00.000-07:00

alright, I know I am a slacker for not updating my blog regularly, but sometimes it is just a little hard to find the time to do so. Life has been busy, what with working at Hee Haw farms, Scouts, Family Events, and the standard work. I think I may have part of sunday to myself and that is about it. But hey.. what can we do? Not much but live with it. Other things that are going on.. I am getting a refi on my house.. a 30 yr fixed.. (which will be nice) having that out of the way will be a big relief. I am hoping that within a year... maybe 2 that I will be completely debt free, but that all depends on how I spend this following year. Well, enough of the ranting etc. TTYL

Makings some improvements!

2007-09-01T21:35:00.001-07:00

Check out some screenies of the battle system that I have been working on for RPGXP. You can now fully control the characters and what they do, although the enemies havent been setup to do anything but be there yet.. That is the next part of all this.

I got my wish

2007-08-20T07:10:00.000-07:00

So last week I commented about wanting to go on a hike, well on Friday I got my wish. Me and 6 scouts hiked to Silver Lake which is about 3 miles above Silver Lake Flat up Tibble Fork Canyon. It was fun and the view was just as cool as it was last time I hiked it. I am hoping to get out and hike timp sometime within the month. I know my feet probably wont be that happy with me, but it is something I enjoy doing. I am thinking that I will pack my tent and stuff in and camp up at the top. At least that sounds fun to me. As far as other things going on... well there isnt much. With Rachel working here at D3ntr1x with me we are saving a little money and have about 1/3 the available time to do about anything. Its alright though, because it keeps us busy and to me that is usually enough to keep me happy. The only time I really get annoyed and so on is when I have absolutely nothing to do, thus I work on the yard or find some other project. I have been programming a lot lately I have noticed and playing card games is going pretty high on that list as well. I have 3 games I would like to get that are card or board games that are quite fun, but require 3+ people to play. (Bang!, Citadels, Sabbitoirs* not sure how to spell that) Overall I would have to say that life is treating me pretty well(belaying memories. . ...**COMPETE**) Well, if you would like to drop me a line, please feel free to do so.

Hiking

2007-08-10T13:05:00.000-07:00

I need to get out and go hiking soon. I am feeling a little too cooped up lately. So you will never guess what has happened in the last week...

Give up? Rachel will be starting as the new D3ntr1x receptionist as of Monday this next week. Isn't that cool? At least I think it is. Mostly because of more money, and we can carpool and save more there. (Yes, even though I ride my bike in to work most 90% of the time.) This way Rachel, doesnt have to drive everywhere during the day like she used to. Of course we will still have plenty of errands to run and so on, but that is something we would have to do anyway.

I have also been playing around more with my RMXP project and have made some good progress and regress as well. Mainly because I found a new way of scripting scenes that was a little more effecient that the old method. So I am going back to re-designing those scenes. I am also still in need of storyline for it. I have about the first 2-3 chapters, but still need some help on ironing things out to make it good instead of just a mediocre storyline. Anyway, any help on that would be greatly appreciated.

Well, that about covers it.

"Quote of the day"
Want to get free flying lessons? I happen have my grenade launcher with me.

Just realized

2007-08-02T06:22:00.000-07:00

So I just realized how long it has been since I last updated my blog with a new entry. Today that changes due the thing you are currently reading. This last weekend I went to see the Simpson's Movie and give it a triple thumbs up for comical value. The overall movie and excellent and I enjoyed the whole thing. I would very highly recommend, if you like the series, you will love the movie. Also speaking of which, Rachel was browsing the internet the other day and happened upon a website to convert yourself into a Simpson. I have attached the one she did of me. They are quite accurate really.

I think I will set this as my image for many avatar about everywhere. Well, later all.

Lots of Stuff

2007-07-13T21:06:00.000-07:00

So yeah, it has been a long while since I posted anything. It wasnt exactly on purpose either, just life being super busy like normal. Then at work it has been pretty busy also so I havent really been watching the blog very well. Although, in my spare time I have been trying to balance our budget. I was looking through our budget and realized that we are loosing money, and so I have to take some pretty hard steps to get things back in order, and first on the list is to sell my SUV so I can pay off some credit card debt. So if you know anyone who would like a SUV for a pretty good price, then have them contact me. Then I have to find a second job. I have been looking kinda in the idle since, but as of earlier this week I have expanded my horizons and got I my Duff(Simpsons trade mark bear, not to be considered rump, or rumpus) and started looking for real. I have found a couple of leads and I think one is a pretty good opportunity, but its another tech support job that pays pretty good. But that is what you have to do to get out of debt sometimes though. Just have to bring in more money or cut expenditures. The rest of my free time that is not spent with family is programming that little video game that I have for ages, but now I am actually making some head way. I think its because I finally understand some of this stuff. Well, I hope that you enjoyed this update and that you will return to test play my game as soon as I get the battle system and menuing complete.

Eric is back!

2007-06-08T12:40:00.000-07:00

On the blog-o-sphere that is. I have updated the link "Pecks Blog" to link to his new blog page. I hope you will all give him a warm return welcome!

Its Not Dead Afterall

2007-05-30T21:05:00.001-07:00

So today I was playing around with the Laptop monitor again and when playing with the LCD converter, one of the chips fell off of it. After re-soldiering the chip back on and reconnecting everything, it works again! Hurray! This actually makes me quite happy. I am working with a monitor cable to Jeff gave me to figure out what is what for the input cables. I have yet to actually cut the wires, I guess I am a little afraid that I will render the whole thing completely useless. I like playing with computer innards in order to figure out what exactly is happening, but am too lazy to really figure it all out. So yeah, dont know what else to talk about so... See you tomorrow or later.

Camping

2007-05-28T19:00:00.000-07:00

This weekend Rachel the kids and I all went down to Levan canyon and quite enjoyed ourselves. We spent Saturday, Sunday and Monday there. Saturday night we basically setup and hung out with the friends and decided what we would do the following day. It was decided that me and my in-laws brother, Keith, would go on a crazy long hike and go 4-wheeling. So after eating breakfast and getting ready everyone, including Rachel and the kids, went on a Hike. It was about 1 mile in that my kids were whining so badly about having to walk for apparently no reason that Rachel turned back to camp. We continued to hike for several hours(4) and we finally reached the highest mountain in immediate sight and it only took 2 hours to get back. I don't have any idea what it was called, but it was up Chicken Creek Canyon and it was tall. I have a couple pictures here if you would like to see them.

This is Keith almost at the summit.

Check it out! You could even see clear down onto the other side of the mountains down to Manti!

This is Sean, Steven and I at the summit. Keith is taking the picture.

And now, Rachel on the 4-wheeler

Mikaila.. Did I mention that my kids are really not that squeamish

Well, hope you all had a great weekend. See you on Tuesday!

Ideas

2007-05-28T18:50:00.000-07:00

Well, since Rachel has been working at this pet grooming shop with her sister, she has identified the need for a computer and software to assist with the clean up of their current filing system. I was thinking to myself, I could just give them a copy of E@sy D3ntal to keep the place moving, but then I thought about it a little more. Perhaps this is my chance to provide a software solution of means. I will create them a software that will keep everything they do. Yes, there are softwares already available, but none of them look very clean, nor are they cheap. The cheapest of them all was 123p(e)t which was $299. Plus then you add the computer on top of that and it gets a little expensive for them. I actually have an old computer that could be used for them in the office, but its a little old and doesn't have a monitor, then this brought me to my old laptop.. this old laptop, boasting a 133Mhz processor and 256mb RAM, preloaded with Windows 95 was the cooling thing back in early '92 or something, either way it was old and couldnt cut it. So I decided to CUT it. Hehe, point is that I ripped the old laptop apart in the desire of using its monitor for this other computer that would cut the snuff. I think I have about got it, but I think I may have fried the backlight on it. I have played and played with it, but I think it is dead.... RIP lappymon. Its so sad.

Busy Busy

2007-05-17T20:42:00.000-07:00

Well, work has been quite busy lately and with all the Enterprise stuff going on it is even busier. I have actually had something to do for most every minute of each day. Of course I still slack off a little, but that is technically called a Break.

"Well, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late, ah, I use the side door - that way Lumbergh can't see me, heh heh - and, uh, after that I just sorta space out for about an hour."

"Yeah, I just stare at my desk; but it looks like I'm working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch, too. I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work. "

If you don't know where that quote came from then you probably don't deserve to be reading my blog... Well on a brighter note, that new job on the intranet is actually for the NIS side of basically my job. Someone to deal with NIS SHPR's and so on. In all actuality it would be a good position for most anyone. Well, I have no idea what I will be doing this weekend, but I will be sure to make sure it is fun. If I dont see you before monday, have a good weekend!

I got word

2007-04-30T20:55:00.000-07:00

I dont know how many of you are aware of this, but a certain J named person is no longer working for D3ntrix. He apparently had some conflicts with the Enterprise support guys and "Health Issues"... My personal opinion is that he quit because he was worried that the enterprise guys would find him in an ally with no manager around to protect him, but thats just me thinking. I dont mean to be a downer, but I just really disliked that guy. For example: A couple of weeks ago, he came to me because he was worried about his kids. That they might be being abused by their step-dad and that I should try and see what is going on about it. Then the following week I heard from a little bird on my shoulder that he called the step-dad and told him that I was spreading rumors about him abusing the kids. How screwed up is that? Well, I didnt actually say anything to anyone. I went to the mother and the step-dad and told them what I was told, and they laughed and said something along the lines of... "That is so him." Guess that is a testament to who you choose to listen to. Well, later.

Gracious Spin

2007-04-29T16:56:00.000-07:00

Well, I was looking through the blog-o-sphere and noticed this quiz on spin's site, I decided to check it out and post the results on my page. It is actualy quite accurate, but when you ask a 110 questions, how could you not be at least a little accurate?

Anyway, here you are..

Advanced Global Personality Test Results

Extraversion	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	66%
Stability	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	86%
Orderliness	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	56%
Accommodation	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	63%
Interdependence	\|\|\|\|\|\|	30%
Intellectual	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	83%
Mystical	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	36%
Artistic	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	50%
Religious	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	43%
Hedonism	\|\|\|\|	16%
Materialism	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	36%
Narcissism	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	63%
Adventurousness	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	70%
Work ethic	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	63%
Self absorbed	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	36%
Conflict seeking	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	36%
Need to dominate	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	36%

Romantic	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	70%
Avoidant	\|\|\|\|\|\|	30%
Anti-authority	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	43%
Wealth	\|\|\|\|\|\|	23%
Dependency	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	43%
Change averse	\|\|\|\|\|\|	30%
Cautiousness	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	36%
Individuality	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	50%
Sexuality	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	56%
Peter pan complex	\|\|\|\|\|\|	30%
Physical security	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	56%
Physical Fitness	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	90%
Histrionic	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	50%
Paranoia	\|\|\|\|\|\|	30%
Vanity	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	50%
Hypersensitivity	\|\|\|\|	16%
Female cliche	\|\|\|\|	16%

Take Free Advanced Global Personality Test
personality tests by similarminds.com

Stability results were very high which suggests you are extremely relaxed, calm, secure, and optimistic.

Orderliness results were moderately high which suggests you are, at times, overly organized, reliable, neat, and hard working at the expense of flexibility, efficiency, spontaneity, and fun.

Extraversion results were moderately high which suggests you are, at times, overly talkative, outgoing, sociable and interacting at the expense of developing your own individual interests and internally based identity.

A Picture for Eric

2007-04-29T15:35:00.001-07:00

To place this picture for Eric's viewing or not? Well I guess the inner voice told me the right thing to do. You will all get a kick out of this one.

I even thought that I would replace the head on this with another individual who has been called this name a time or two, but I try to avoid even looking at that kind of stuff. Well, Later.

Busy Busy

2007-04-24T20:28:00.000-07:00

To say the least, I have been really busy at work these last couple of weeks. There is a issue where G 2 will just not open for some clients, but only on specified computers. It appears that the problem is tied to performance counters setup by the operating system to increase the overall productivity of the machine. Its not a programming glitch as far as D3ntrix is concerned, but a Microsoft .Net problem. It has been reported by many many different applications and Microsoft's only solution? upgrade to .Net 2.0. Problem is in order to do that requires rewriting of the D3ntrix software and retesting the entire product, which would be a huge cost to the company to resolve a couple of customers having the problem. Well, to make a long story short, in the process of finding this out, I had created a backup of the customers HDD, but the backup I had created was for some reason faulty. (But the drive image software didn't mind telling me that until I was trying to restore it to the computer.) So I have been spending the last 3 days trying to find a way to get all the data back in the original condition, and thats a tough process. I think I have found a solution, but it will require yet another day of playing with it. Once it is working I will use a completely different HDD to do the testing so that there is no more chance of the customers computer getting something screwed up. Anyway, I had to sit on that over the weekend which made it a little less enjoyable that I could have hoped. I did have a good one though. The weekend was pretty busy also, first it was over to Rachel's parents for a "Sod Party." We did his entire back and side yard in about 4 hours. I then went home and mowed the lawn, then left on a date with Rachel. We went to see "Perfect Strangers," it was a pretty good movie. It had thrill, suspense, and a surprise at the end that changed your views of the entire movie. I guess that is what happens when you only tell part of the story in the beginning instead of just laying it all out on the table, but then again, that is the art of story telling. Anyway, I am sure that you are all bored of my endless rambling so I will go, but after a sort note. Doyle and his Hun(Rachel) came over for dinner on Sunday, we had a lot of fun talking about various things and had many many laughs over stupid things. Rachel(Doyle's Rachel) said that perhaps she could stay home with Doyle 2.0 if he were to take a 3rd job, but that didn't sit well with him. Something about, "Working is for the bee's" or something. Anyway, now I will leave you all alone.

Excellent Humor

2007-04-18T10:49:00.000-07:00

So as many of you know this last weekend was my birthday and Rachel threw me a party on Friday. My sister-in-law Debra has a great sense of humor and got me some "Dont Have Ugly Children" chewing gum. I decided to look up a little more about this company and they have a whole bunch of other products that are equally entertaining. You can follow this link to see their selection of other gum, but just click the link at the top called ' Just For Fun' and there are many other products that are funny as well.

Well, the only thing I really have to say now, is that the new D3ntrix S H P R process is working quite well, problem is, that it may be working a little too well. I am getting SHPR's from techs that dont know how to write SHPR's. I am trying to work with Sup Management to make those who approve the SHPR's are going to be held accountable for the SHPR's they send up without reading. But that is about it. Anyway, hope everyone is having a great week. Oh yeah! The week is already half over and that makes me very happy. Rachel wants to go camping this weekend, even with the rain and snow everywhere. She wants to go to Colob Canyon in Southern Utah. Its a nice place, but it is so far away to go camping. Although, it should be alot of fun so I am looking forward to it. Anyway, I guess that covers it. Later

Spring Cleaning

2007-04-09T07:29:00.000-07:00

So Rachel and I finally decided to do a little spring cleaning over the weekend. I went through my shed and moved out a bunch of stuff, and built a new shelf for storage. Last night between the hours of 7:30pm and 11:30pm was the cleaning session. The house is very much cleaner today, so much cleaner than I have seen it in a while. The kids had a pretty good weekend to, as many of you have already noticed, I brought in a boat load of candy this morning, which happened to be the spoils of a single party. To say the least, the kids have a lot of candy and I dont know how much of it I will allow them to eat. I am in fear of them going into a sugar induced coma... I dont recall me every slipping off into one, but I sure remember feeling sick, due to the amount of chocolate that I ate. I know, lets make a formula.

(Weight x (Lbs of Chocoloate/Time to consume all chocolate)) + 50 (for good measure) = Chocolate Index.

Mine would have to be something like...
(160 x (2 lbs/4 minutes) ) + 50 = 130 (If the chocolate index is greater than 100, you at too much candy.

So, what was your chocolate index over the weekend? And if it pleases you, please lie through your ears!

Oh, yeah... if there are revisions to the formula that you would like to see, please let me know.

Pass these through support plz

2007-04-02T08:33:00.000-07:00

Camping

2007-04-02T08:00:00.000-07:00

So the Scout campout was a pretty nice success and they found tons of geode's and it was quite alot of fun. I came back and the car was completely covered in white mud. It took spraying the car down with the garden house twice and a car wash to make it look better. It still isnt completely clean. I will have to finish getting it cleaned up this next weekend. Although I dont know exactly what we will be doing to know if it will be worth it. I am thinking that we will go camping this Friday and return early saturday, then go to my brother in-laws birthday party or wait until next weekend and go on the 13th and return on saturday in time for my sisters talent show for the miss Pleasant Grove Pagant. Eitherway, I think I will let Rachel decide, because if she doesnt want to go because it will be cold or whatever, I will not force her to do it. Anyway, I spent most of yesterday cleaning up the yard. I mowed the grass and raked the entire lawn. Then I had my brother and his girlfriend over for dinner. It was quite good. I love Rachels potato salad. After that I decided to play my computer (LOTR:Return of the King) game and got further than I have before. Maybe I am a little weird about computer games. I will always play them on the hardest level of difficulty, until I win them before I try an easier approach. Takes forever to beat some games. Anyway, that is pretty much what has been going on. I want to get out and hike to the top of Mt Baldy sometime this week or the next, but I need someone to go with me. I would just take the dog, but with her getting fixed, I dont think a 6 mile hike is the best thing I could do for her at the moment.

The coming weekend

2007-03-30T06:49:00.000-07:00

Well it has finally came to this time of the month. I will be going on a campout with the scouts this weekend at the dougway geode beds. It should be alot of fun. The weather is clearing up and tomorrows forcasted high out there is 63 so it should be an overall nice day. We will be searching for Geodes

which is actually quite fun. Just need a hammer and a shovel and that is about it. I am hoping that we find a bunch of them. Mainly because the scouts have been looking forward to this campout from about last year, when we had to cancel it because of weather. Anyway, today I came in a little early so that I could get out of here and finishing getting everything ready.

Yesterday I asked for some additional responsibilities because I was starting to get bored at work again. So I have been asked to take over all enterprise planning meetings. I will be considered the project planner on it. Again, mostly just tracking and making sure things get done that are said they will be. I hope that this will give me a little up when it comes around time for raises again. Oh yeah, we have finally sold all our extra puppies. We now only have 1 left in which we were planning on keeping. She is a good little dog. She is still learning her own name, but is learning quickly. We have been trying to house train her, but as everyone knows, that is a process. That is pretty much what is going on in my life right now.

Hilarious

2007-03-29T06:36:00.000-07:00

Check out this clip by SNL regarding MySpace.

MySpace Movie Link

You must watch this outside of work simply because it is hosted from myspace. I will try to find a copy of it so we can host it from the network, but its a little difficult to locate a download of this one.

Picking Up

2007-03-22T09:03:00.000-07:00

Well, to the anstonishment of all. My days are become more busy again. Yesterday and the day before I had to deal with Australia support and a problem we didnt realize was there, but would have expected them to find after 1 yr of beta, but hey, whatever... right? Long of the short is that the database detection program was being run from the local folder instead of the install folder. Copying the new one into the local folder resolves the concern. New installs were made and shipped to them yesterday. On the other hand, they finally got the G 3 install working, so I can finally resume QA testing of it as well. For a couple of days there, I was going quite literraly insane. The good news is I made it through it.

Today I will be going with Alex and Mikaila on their field trip to the Living Planet Aquarium in SLC. There is alot of pretty cool stuff there and I am interested in seeing what they have. Also, next weekend I will be going out to the Geode Beds of Dougway with the Scouts. It should be fun. Many of you guys have already seen some of the geodes that Matt and I recovered from there last week. Anyway, it is nice to have work busy again. If many of you know me, I go absolutely crazy if I dont have something to do, especially if I am getting paid to be there. I will go out of my way to find something effective to do. Although, Doyle on the otherhand likes the nice quietness of no job responsiblities. Well, later all.

Nothing to do

2007-03-19T13:46:00.000-07:00

So this is probably confirming some suspitions from support and my current job... but dont have any work to do today. I mean, there has been a couple of SHPR's floating around, but that is like 1hr of work for the entire day. I have been doing QA testing on G 3 but because they have been having problems with the build process, QA hasnt passed off any install for like 3 weeks. This means that anything currently being tested will simply have to be retested and so on. In basic terms a waste of effort as there is no guarantee what the program will be like when they get it fixed. Either way, the QA manager asked me to stop doing what I was because it may or may not be resolved in the new build of the software. So because of this, I have very little to do. I mean today I happened to be browsing the internet alot and remoting into my home computer to finish getting everything the way I like it. I even watched a movie and didnt have anything to do. I am trying to do everything I can to avoid playing games or whatever, but it is frickin' hard. I told myself when I got this position and I saw things were getting slow that I would help QA to keep me busy, but now that I cannot follow that avenue, what exactly am I supposed to do? .... Go ahead I am open for suggestions. I have a feeling this is what the entire week is going to be, so the sooner the better. If your suggestion happen to be game playing related, the answer will probably be no, and if I am to just sluff work, that would be great, but not logical. Anyway, I just wanted to complain because I am bored and need something to do. I have read all the blogs and tried to incite comments on most, but you know how that always pans out... Well, later all.

Crazy Stuff

2007-03-15T13:07:00.000-07:00

So this week has been kind of crazy. There were 2 really hot issues that needed fixes this week that litterally kept me busy most of the week. First was because of the new Daylight Savings Time thing. This caused a large number of dentist to call regarding their time clocks and them not punching correctly. So I spent most of the day trying to figure out exactly why it happened and what we needed to do to fix it. And found an old utility created in 2000 that would allow you to setup your own time zones and modify existing ones for all OS's. So using this tool we can correct the problem of translation between the server and client regarding time clock. As for the other thing. I already told Brandon about it, but its fun too. Install the CU1 for G 2 and it removes the appointment book. It was using the 4 = apptbook line in the d t x d a t a . i n f to determine if they user had the apptbook. Then if it didnt exist, would remove the file and reinsert the appt list instead. Very funny from my perpesctive, but support about had a heart attack. Only took about 5 minutes to determine what the problem was, but it was able to be solved quickly. We made them a new CU1 because of it. Anyway, other things are just sort of boring.
Life just seems to inevitibily kick you in the side each time you start to get up again. We were going to refi our house and get a lower payment, but cannot do so without forfiting all our tax money from this year as closing cost. Its that or use it for making payments and hope that some value comes into the home at the end of the year to help out then. Eitherway it will be a tough year as far as money is concerned. The only good news from this is that I will not be moving and thus dont have to deal with the whole moving ordeal, cause it kinda sucks.
OH yeah, for the likes of Eric and others that are amused by such things I will make another post when I can with some pretty funny pictures Rachel and I found while browsing the net. Well, later and enjoy the blogging blogosphere and its bloginess that it has. (dumb i know) well later!

Dogs

2007-03-12T13:23:00.000-07:00

So as many of you know we have a modest litter of 6 puppies that our dog Nila had in Janurary. We decided this weekend to start building a dog house in order to help with the overflow of canine sort. I spent from about 10:00am to 5:00pm building it, and it looks pretty good. Its gives a large amount of additional room and luxury vs the old dog house. The old dog house was 7 pieces of partical board with 2x2s to hold it together. To say the least there has been a big improvement. We decided to go out and have some Chili's that night which was good as always. When we were there our server totally has a lispe. It was kind of interesting because I have never met anyone who has no choice but to do it. Anyway, that is enough of the random and deranged. Oh yeah, my computer at home has been having some interesting problems and I pinpointed it last night. I contracted a virus about 1 week ago that was discovered 3 days ago and started being recognized. I guess I can say that I was on the leading edge of the virus world. I need to finish getting rid of it, because it causes your computer to just drag like no other and reload the windows explorer randomly which is very annoying, especially when you are trying to remove it. Anyway, later all.

Fun Weekend

2007-03-07T08:55:00.000-07:00

So last weekend turned out to be pretty good. I went sleding with my scouts at Tibble Fork, and it was quite fun. Later Saturday I went to the Pizza Factory and watched Reno 911 with Rachel. It was entertaining to say the least. Not really as quotable as I was thinking it would be. I mean you got to see some pretty funny stuff and on the other hand, some party were too graphic. Anyway, that was my weekend. How was yours?

Valentines

2007-02-13T14:14:00.000-07:00

For Valentines Day Rachel has lots of things planned. I still have a couple of things to pick up but then we will be ready. Rachel has already showed me a gift she got for me/us. It is a glass brick and on it is engraved, "Marty and Rachel forever" I believe. I would have to take another look at it, but you should catch the main drift of it. What is everyone else out there doing for Valentines day? I know alot of people are kind of putting it off until the weekend, but I think businesses will be plenty busy. What is the next major holiday? You can bet that whatever it is, the all the grocery and novalty type stores will be replacing their seasonal allies the day of valentines. Well, that is enough on business. Later

Check out this guys website... Got some pretty sweet pictures.. This one happens to be one of my favorites. I just wish I could take pictures this good.

At Timp from Cascade

This is probably one of my closest comparisons.. Timponookee

Long time

2007-02-13T13:16:00.000-07:00

So I guess I have been slacking quite badly by not making new blog post as often as Doyle would like, but to make ammends with a friend, I shall post.

Life has been kind of crazy this week. Work has been surprisingly busy the last couple of days or even weeks. There is some report that is going all the way to D McKinnely before we as Development have a chance to respond to it. Boy did it turn the heat up on SHPR tracking. Now I must track every current SHPR and its current status just so I can give daily reports on how many SHPR's have come through and so on. Kind of annoying when I think about it. This has been taking up most of my time during the day at work. Other than this, life has been ok. The puppies are started to get playful, which is pretty cool. They are all walking and some are even trying to run(Failing misserably at the moment) and yeah. I hope the weather keeps warm so that I can send the puppies outside to do their business and get them completely house trained. At least that would be a nice thing to have done before we sell them.

Other things going on are that I am not selling my house afterall. I will be remodeling it a bit though. I will be taking the master bedroom closet wall and turning it into to a master bath, then creating a new closet. I also have alot of basic cleanup work around that house that needs to be done. We are going to be trying to improve the yard a little also, but besides that, the big empty lots across the street finally have houses being built on them. They are trying to fit 10 houses in 1.1 acres. In my opinion, that is just too small. I need to have a yard. I am thinking in a couple of years or something, that I will destroy my current house and build a new one in its place. Then I can still be local and have a good size yard and a good neighboorhood.

Well, I am sure everyone is getting a little tired of my mindless knee-andering. Oh yeah, Eric... Update your blog!

Doyle is now related?

2007-01-29T10:53:00.000-07:00

So last night I went over to Brandon's house and had dinner with him and his wife Rachel. After talking for a little while we figured out that Rachel and I are 2nd cousins to each other. Her Grandma is my Grandpa's sister. Funny how being separated just a little causes huge gaps where we dont seem to know anyone outside of our little bubble. Anyway, so I guess that makes Brandon family. Its funny though, because my part of the family are like the black sheep of the Gubler clan and thus why no one really knew us that well. Anyway, long story short, I now have to help them move if they need help or whatever. ~Shudder~, guess it cannot be that bad...

Well, other things in life are going pretty good. We will be looking at a house in Eagle Mountain today that looks fairly promising and we have had a couple of bites on selling our current house. I hope everything goes smoothly. I couldnt bear to have big problems with the sale of ours. That would really suck, because it jepordizes the outcome of a new house. Eitherway, it should be a exciting week.

Anyway, hope you enjoyed. Later

Puppies!

2007-01-26T06:37:00.000-07:00

So yesterday morning my dog (Nila) finally had those puppies I have been telling you all about. Regretfully one of them died last night around midnight. She was so sick, that even if she did survive she was going to have a tough time throughout her life. There are 4 white/golden and 2 black remaining. But on a more upside note, there are still 6 healthy puppies that will need homes in the near future. (I will not have 7 dogs running around, especially in my house!) Anyway, if anyone would like to speak for one, please let me know now. The cost is minimal for my friends, but unknowns it will be $300. The puppies are believed to be full bred Labs, but the father of Nila herself we could never locate her owners to verify if she was full bred for not. So we are calling them 3/4. The below is the best picture I could find of them all.

Anyway, I will see you all at work. Later

The Long Overdue Update.exe

2007-01-23T08:14:00.000-07:00

Ok, so I havent been exactly desiring to write a post, but I figured I better keep it up. Last Monday, Rachel had her Gallbladder removed and have been recovering over the last week. It was a rough couple of days, but she has pulled through nicely. We are just hoping that in the very near future all her eating problems will go away. She seemed to get sick over almost any meal, wheather it was greasy or not, although it was worst when it was greasy though. We spend about 9 hours in the hospital that day waiting for her to wake up. Anyway, she is doing much better now and moving around. Oh yeah, did I mention we are going to be moving? We dont know exactly to where at this point, but we are putting our house up for sale today. That is of course, if we can get the real estate agent to answer her phone. Well, I think that about covers it. I could go more in depth and what not, but I lack the desire to do so now, so later.

Check this out!

2007-01-09T16:51:00.000-07:00

SO I was browsing around on the mention of the Commador 64 and recalled a game called Dungeon Master. It was the first of D&D style games that used real time battle techniques and so on. This game set the standard for games for about 5 years after it was made. There is someone out there that created a clone of it not to long ago. If you are interested in playing or reading any more about it, check it out at: http://ragingmole.com/RTC/

Oh yeah, RIP to Dentr!x Dx!mage that has been sold to Dex!s. Although, there may be light at the end of the tunnel. I heard from good authority that there will be a "Hardware" dept that will be coming on soon. Developement managers see most of High Tech support to be absorbed into this new dept. We still have 8 months to find out what will happen with all of this, but good luck to those that wish to stay. I have enjoyed working with you all and hope that we can stay in touch regardless what happens to the dept.

Just realized

2006-12-27T14:49:00.000-07:00

So I was browsing blogs and just realized that I havent had any new updates recently, so now I am going to do one. This christmas was a pretty good one. Unfortunately we spent most of the day at my mom's so we didnt get out to do a whole lot, but it was still fun. I played jenga with some drunk brothers/friends/in-laws, which was quite fun. Infact I am thinking I will go out and get jenga sometime in the very near future. On the other side of things, I got Rachel a very pretty ring, which happended to make her very happy. The kids got lots of toys and a couple things of cloths. Rachel got me a PS2, which I totally dig. I can finally play all my old games again. I have always enjoyed console gaming more than computers, although computers do have a lot of good games. Rachel mentioned something to me that I think is kinda funny and fits almost perfectly with that Wii vs PS3 commercial. Playstation doesnt have that many games that are "Ready to Play" such as "Mario Kart" or "Mario Party." I wish there were a couple more games like that for the PS, but there are always fighting ones. I just wish that PS has a greater selection of easy to learn/social games. Games that require more than internet connections and a desire to kill something in a vitual world. Anyway, hope everyone had an excellent Christmas this year and Happy New Years!

Happy Holiday that happens to fall on Dec 25th formly known as Christmas

2006-12-23T14:02:00.000-07:00

Just thought that would be a funny title since there are so many people that dont believe in christmas and so they are affended at seeing a fat man in a red suit. I would have to agree some of the time. But not christmas, maybe some sort of run that involves a fat man in a spandex suit... Ew! Mostly it is just very fat people trying to fit in small clothing. I think that we should pass something saying that we are offended by their obesity or something, maybe then they will all shut up about the holidays that we have celebrated for 1000's of years, and now have to call it "Winter Holiday" Anywho, merry christmas everyone, hope you all have a wonderful weekend.

Love the snow!

2006-12-16T22:31:00.000-07:00

I am so happy that all that snow has finally fallen. Rachel, the kids and I all went outside today and had a snowball fight, it was a blast! Anyway, just thought I would tell everyone how much I love the snow. Well, later.

Comments?

2006-12-10T22:00:00.000-07:00

So early this previous week I posted a storyline/script for the game I am developing, and asked for comments. Although, so far I have yet to see anyone comment or give any feedback on it. This is what causes blogging death according to a certain person I happen to know. No comments, means either no one is reading or they dont like it. Either way it doesnt reflect greatly on me. So COMMENT DANG IT! I want some feedback on the storyline. Sometime this next week I will devulge about 2-3 more chapters as soon as I finish them.

Hee Haws

2006-12-09T09:15:00.000-07:00

Well, it is that time of year again, not Haloween, but Christmas. Hee Haws is running their Christmas Hayride thing again this year. Rachel is singing at the manger scene with baby "Hay-sus" thought it would be funny to say it that way. Anyway, its pretty cool, and cold, so bundle up and come on down.

Holy Cow!

2006-12-07T15:37:00.000-07:00

Ok so today and yesterday was quite a mess. Yesterday we were informed that a customer felt that after reinstalling the software on their computer that it caused they data to get erased and installed a completely different version of the software instead. Odd thing is that this was the second customer to ask us about this situation. So after working with support for a couple of hours and doing some research on the issues, we decide to visit one of the problem offices, which happens to be in Bountiful. Myself and a core support tech went to the office and tried to locate any copies of the data and to get the stories straight as to what happened and we found that the software really did have a flaw that was causing problems to happen. This problem has been addressed and was caught before the remaster was sent out, so that is pretty much freakin' good luck on our part. All customers with the first release will have the updated one and this will resolve all concerns but this had me pulling out my hair for the last 2 days. Luckily it was a simple fix and is easy to implement since we were already working on remastering the cd's anyway for other problems. It kicked my butt for 2 days and holy cow! anyway, that is my rant for now.

On another note, please read my suggested storyline below and send me an email or something letting me know what you think of it. Later all.

Story Line - Ultria

2006-12-06T08:37:00.000-07:00

This is quite a read, but its worth it. This is the storyline as I have it right now. I havent gone any further than this yet, but for any of you on the network, you can access the doc in my VIC folder. As for the rest, I will post updates here every once and awhile. btw 5, what was you email address? Just send it to mine.

I would like to hear any feedback you have on this, and please dont just say "that was awesome" or "That was dumb, learn how to write" because I want constructive critisism on this so that I can better it. Thanks alot all.

Prologue
There I was sitting in my office when I received the call of my life. I was going to work for my best friend, Charles Domier, in Clements as a lead Archeologist. He happened to be one of the best Archeologist in the known world. This would be great for going further into my career, I thought.
It had been nearly 2 years working for him before I was allowed to go do on-site archeological digs. This was all that I had ever dreamed of. We recently went on a dig in the western region and found artifacts from an ancient civilization. I was told that I would be the lead in the lab work. It had finally happened. I was the lead on a very high profile investigation.

Chapter 1
(The Call)
It was a late day at the office when Sheila walked into my office. “Excuse me Alex, Charles is on the line 1 for you. He said it was urgent.” She said. I gave a simple thank you and picked up the phone. “This is Alex” I said. Charles responded having a gleeful sound in his voice, “You will never guess what I just found.” I had to stop and think for a minute and responded saying “What did you find a whole city or something?” “Nope” he said, “Even better than that.” “What could be better than that”, I thought to myself, “Ok, what is it?” “I am not really sure, but I bet it is better than 10 uncovered cities.” Charles responded. “Alex, I will be flying you down here in one week, so get your stuff ready and prepare to be amazed.” He said.

Chapter 2
(Traveling)
There I was standing in the Clements airport when the intercom said with a calm soothing voice, “Now boarding flight 412 to Veldios.” This was a very welcome phrase, as I had been waiting for nearly 2 hours at the gate. Apparently there was some bad weather to the south that was causing people problems. Longest cold streak then have ever had in that region. I handed them my ticket and climbed on the plane. It was a long flight to Veldios from Clement. Clement was considered the largest city in the western region and Veldios was far to the north. Since there was no way to get there on land unless you wanted to take your life in your own hands to try and cross the brown abyss. I had been studying the information that I was sent by Charles since I had left. The pictures of the object were amazing. It was a metal structure that not even our metal detectors would locate. The structure also had markings on the outside that I had never seen before. They resembled that of the ancient Tremornites that colonized the northern continent eons ago. There was something about this structure that would not leave me alone. I arrived in Veldios about 23 hours later and went straight to the structure which was about 1 days travel north to a small establishment called Quail Creek. Near the Quail river that separated the northern and southern regions.

Chapter 3
(Arrival)
I arrived in the small town and it was getting late. I could see the illumination of the dig lights over the hill just outside of the city. I was surprised when talking with the towns people that no one knew what was going on at the dig site. I decided to head straight over to see what Charles had told me about. When I arrived at the gates there was a lot of security personnel. I had to travel through 3 check stations before I could even talk with Charles. When I spoke with him he said, “This thing is so strange. There is absolutely no entrance that we can find. We even tried to use dynamite to breach it, but it just won’t budge.” “Not even dynamite?” I responded “That would make it stronger than any known metal.” “Right! So what do you think, better than 10 cities?” Charles said almost mockingly. “Well” I said, “where is this structure?” “Come on” he said, “Its right over here.” Charles lead me through a series of corridors and past several more security points before we finally came upon the structure. Charles took me to a small airplane on the east side of the structure and we proceeded to take off and fly over the dig site. It was massive, they had to purchase over 100 acres from the town in order to dig around the object it was so large. They still haven’t found where it ends. It looked like a very large marble, deep and complex, although simplistic in shape. It was black and had various engravings on it that looked foreign to even the ancient Tremornites that inhabited this area long ago. We returned to the landing strip and decided that there wasn’t anything else we were going to be able to do this late at night. Charles introduced me to Hugh the military security specialist, he was tall and had a very chiseled frame to him. He had a large foreboding jaw with a small amount of stubble on it. His eyes were narrow and a dark blue. They seemed gentle although mean at the same time. “So you are the infamous Alex?” he said laughing in my direction. “Charles has told me a lot about you.” He continued. “That is a loaded statement and you know it.” I said in return with sarcasm. Charles chuckled and said “Hugh, will you please escort Alex to his quarters?” with a smile on his face he said “I didn’t realize you needed me for an escort service.”, then pointed his arm and said “Right this way Alex.” He lead me to an old hotel that brimmed the dig site and without gesture he directed me to room on the second floor that overlooked the dig site on the northern side. It was a very plain room, it had a small desk in the corner with a bed that seemed to take up the remaining space. There was a small closet in which to put things. “We will see you in the morning” Hugh said as he was walking out the door. Due to the length of the day, I simply retired.

Chapter 4
(Dig)
It was morning and the sun was just starting to peek through the window. The soft orange rays of light lit up the little room and gave it that ‘home away from home feeling,’ even with everything I had sitting in a little bag in the closet. The previous day had left me to sleep restlessly. I got out of bed with great anticipation of what was going to happen during the day. I quickly dressed myself and ran to the lobby of the old hotel. At the bottom of the stairs awaited a slender looking woman wearing a light brown jeans and a blue t-shirt. She wore glasses that looked very much like they might be antiques. Her face was very round, which supported her small nose and a childish grin. “Alex I presume” she said. “My name is Julie, and I will be your assistant during your stay.” “Great, where do we begin?” I said with a happy attitude. “We should she Charles for some guidance. He should be at the directors station. Its on the first uncovered part of the structure.”
I arrived at the directors station only minutes later. Charles was fairly busy and only had a minute to talk. “I will need you to help with the excavating on the west side of the structure. They may send you on some errands but I want you to keep in mind what we are dealing with.” “You mean that we don’t know?” I said, “Yes” he said in reply reluctantly. He motioned me to get on with my job with a flick of his hand. I took the truck and left promptly.
Chapter 5
(Where?)
Nearly 2 weeks had passed, but still no entrance to the structure was found. We had excavated nearly 2.5 miles and yet still nothing that would resemble an entrance. It was just a large barely even rounding object. It was beginning to look as though an entrance was not going to be found. It was not late at night and I went to talk with Charles about what should be done. I knocked on the door numerous times, but no answer. “Charles are you there?” I said, but still no reply. I opened the door slowly and entered saying “Charles are you here?” Still the silence continued. The room was still dark, but with the moonlight shining through the window you could see no one is here. I promptly went to see if he was still at the directors station. Upon arriving Julie came out. “Hey Alex, have you seen Charles?” She said. “I am looking for him also” I explained. “I checked his quarters but no one was there.” I continued. “Maybe he is still at one of the dig sites?” she said. “We should ask Hugh if he has checked in” she said. “That sounds like a great idea” I agreed. We climbed into the truck I was driving and went to the security station where Hugh seemed always to be. We entered the security station. It was really more of a glorified shack with 2 rooms which they called offices. “Hugh” I said, “Have you seen Charles or has he checked in yet.” “I haven’t seen him and the last dig site just turned in their keys. He should be in his quarters.” He responded. “Well, he isn’t there” I said in response. “He may be down at the pub” Hugh offered. “You should give him a little time to get back to his quarters.” He continued. “Can you please have some of your guards keep an eye out for him.” I said. With this, Hugh nodded in agreement. “I will be in my quarters. If you find anything please let me know.” I said as I walked out the door.

Chapter 6
(Found)
With the strange disappearance of Charles being only a few days ago, they have appointed me to lead the dig until he is located. I awoke in my quarters 2 days later, still no sign of Charles had been found. I dressed and went down stairs in the normal fashion and met Julie at the bottom of the stairs. I walked out the door and drove the truck to western dig site. We decided that due to how large the structure was that we needed to focus on a particular section. The west side was moving into the hills bordering the town. We are under the assumption that we might be able to find a entrance under there. We arrived early in the morning. The sun was still coming over the horizon and the air was still cool, but was easily bearable with a light jacket. I had climbed down to the leading section of the dig where the designs on the structure were starting to change. Upon getting to the bottom of the dig site I noticed there was a small corridor that had not been uncovered the day before. I walked down the corridor until I reached its end. The designs on the structure were very different to what was seen at the original dig site. They looked more like murals that explained history or past events, far more like the Tremornites commonly found items. There was something odd about this site. The others all seemed to just continue on, but at this one the structure continued to change its designs. This particular design or mural was different than others we had uncovered. It symbolized a blue ball in the middle upon what looked like an alter with a shape standing behind it. “It’s kind of creepy looking, huh?” Julie said as she entered the room. “Yeah, but what do you think it means?” I said in reply. “I am not sure” she said as she walked over to a small table and set her bag of gadgets down. “I have been trying to find a link between this mural and ancient culture and all I can find is one word.” She paused then said softly “Ultria.” The word itself caused me to loose my train of thought and just exhale loudly. “You don’t think this thing might help us find Ultria do you?” “I am not sure” she said sitting down on the little stool in front of desk. “but if it does.” I stopped her short with my hand in the air “It is just a myth!” “For all we know it could really exist” she spouted quickly. “If this really is it, just imagine what it would be worth.” She continued. “I don’t know that we have the proof to say what it is at this time, or even what it means.” I said walking over to her. She stood up and said, “You are afraid of what it is aren’t you?” my response was slow “If it is Ultria, do you think it would happen again?” “Not if we can prevent those who could use it foolishly.” She said. Looking again back at the wall I noticed something different. The blue ball on the wall was glowing. “Do you see that?” I said while grabbing Julies shoulder and pointing at the mural. “What is it?” she said in disbelief. The light grew brighter and started to take a shape. The shape grew larger and took form before our eyes. “Charles” Julie said almost silently. The light stayed for a moment longer then disappeared as quickly as it appeared. Charles now laid on the floor in the fetal position, unconscious. Julie and I ran to aid him as quickly as we could come to our senses. She on the left and me on the right, we carried him out of the corridor to the truck. The other workers stood in amazement as we passed by them to the truck. We laid his limp body in the back seat of the truck and drove him to Hugh as fast as we could. “Call Hugh and let him know we’re on our way.” I said to Julie. She without thought used the Radio to call ahead to Hugh, “Hugh, we found Charles, he appeared out of no where. Get a doctor.” She said in a raspy, caught off guard voice. “You found him!” I heard back over the receiver. “Get him here ASAP” another voice said. “We are almost there” she shouted back.
The security station once quite now there was a large group gathering. “Charles has been found” one of them said. “Can you believe how?” another one said. The truck Julie and I were driving was coming closer, followed by a large dust trail. “Get out of the way!” I yelled. The group immediately parted to allow passage to the security station. The truck came to a halt quickly as I turned for fastest access to take Charles inside. Hugh stepped out of the security station with 4 men that looked like medics at his sides. They were all dressed in white jackets with red crosses on their backs. “He is in the back” Julie said to Hugh and the others. They quickly removed him from the back of the truck using a stretcher and placed him on the ground. “He has a good pulse” one of them shouted holding his had to Charles’ neck. Another one on his other side said “He looks alright” a moment later. “We think he may be in a coma” he continued standing up. “We need to transport him to the hospital for observation.” Another one of them said. “Keep good care of him” Hugh said, “Don’t let anyone see him until I get there.” He added. Hugh then turned around to Julie and I then said “Please come inside and tell me what happened.” The medics carried Charles to an ambulance that was near by and drove off.
We walked slowly into the security station with Hugh. The crowd outside tried to follow but was turned back by the remaining guards in the station. Hugh sat down at his desk, papers scattered everywhere and in no particular order of each other. The little light on his desk was the standard type with the bendable neck. Julie sat down first on the opposite side of the desk followed by me next to her in the still vacant seat to her left. “What happened? Where did you find him?” Hugh said to them. “Well, not really sure where he was, but...” I paused then tried to continue, “We were just about ready to begin work on the structure in the western corridor, when the wall started to glow, and then he just suddenly appeared.” The words were hard to say, but it was done. Julie shook her head in agreement with the statement. “Ok, so what do we do about this?” Hugh replied. “I am not really sure what to do at this point” Julie said. “Do you feel it safe to continue work here?” Hugh said looking at Alex. “We certainly don’t want to risk anyone else getting hurt or whatever it is that happened to Charles.” I said. “First thing in the morning we should go check on him” Julie said. “There will be no visitors” Hugh barked. Hugh sat forward and folded his arms on the desk. “I think it would be best that we cease any further digging until we can figure out what has happened here today.” “I suppose that is probably best, but I would like to continue studying what we have uncovered so far.” I said, “and me as well” Julie added. “Alright, but all other will be removed and sent home until further notice” Hugh said reluctantly. “Is there anything else you need us for?” I asked. “No, that will be all for today” Hugh said. I stood up and walked to the door. “May I see him tomorrow?” I asked finally. Hugh shrugged and said “I’m sorry.” I was so angry that I slammed the door and returned to my quarters.

Chapter 7
(The hospital)
Charles was airlifted to the hospital in Veldios. It was nearing dusk at the end of the next day at the hospital, the sunset was unusually red that evening. The rays of sun light shot through the window illuminating the room and its single chair by the bed that was holding Charles. A nurse entered the room and proceeded to check his pulse and reflexes. He was still completely none responsive. She pulled the papers that hung from the door to the room and recorded her initials, then walked down the hall way.
The sun had now set and yet another nurse went into the room. She walked carelessly to the bed and reached, not even looking at him, for his neck to check his pulse. “Oh my” she said as she touched his skin. She immediately turned to the door and said “Can I get some help in here?” Charles skin was tough as hide, it was nearly completely black in complexion and cold as ice. He still laid limp on the bed although altered heavily. The nurse that had entered before entered, and gasped. “What happened?” she asked. The other nurse responded, “I don’t know, but it doesn’t look good.” She paused for a moment starring at what used to be your average joe on the streets, now twisted and knarled into a hideous beast of black skin. The doctor that was on call walked into the room, and stopped almost instantly, “What happened to him?” the nurses asked. “This doesn’t make any sense.” He said, turning to the nurse that checked on him earlier, “I thought you said his condition had not changed.” “He was fine when I checked him” she said rhetorically.
Just as they were speaking his eyes sprang open, they were glowing a deep blue color. He sat up slowing uncovering his body. His chest was covered in dark scales. The nurses and the doctor rushed over to secure him to the bed, but it was too late. “What are you?” one of the nurses said to him while trying to force him back to the bed. “I am what I am” he said, the voice not his own, deep and terrifying. He arose from the bed effortlessly against the medical staff. He swung his left arm with superhuman strength, throwing the staff across the room. He stood up and walked to the door, not even touching the ground. One of the nurses got up off the floor severely dazed and stumbled to the phone on the wall. “Domier, He has turned into a monster” she said barely able to speak into the receiver.
He walked down the hallway still levitating above the ground. Security guards tried again and again to tackle him to the ground, but he tossed them off without effort. He was entering the main entrance area of the hospital where there we still a large number of patients, the security chief yelled “Everyone get down and out of the way!” The security chief removed his gun and fired at Charles. The bullets stuck him, but there was no sign of pain or discomfort when he was struck. The chief fired again and again, still he did not stop. His chest now covered in his own blood Charles raised his hand, a blue ball of light formed instantly in his palm then shot at the chief security guard that had shot him, and said “Move” in a deep and threatening voice. The blue light had caused the chief security guard and a couple of patients near him to be thrown through the air, clearing his way to the exit of the hospital. Before exiting the hospital he muttered “It must be done” to himself over and over as he walked through the door.

Chapter 8
(beyond)
Sinking, into a sea of sorts, but it wasn’t water. It was glowing a light blue and was a slave to its current. I fought to keep my head above the substance, but it was much like quicksand, the harder you fought, the faster you sink. A large wave swept me under. Although worried of death it seemed somehow tranquil within the substance. Arms still flailing I could not longer get out of the substance. It slowly filled my lungs, although there was no choke or gag reflex to the consumption of the blue substance. The feeling of the substance within me calmed me to stop fighting the current and sink with it. My eyes now content and void of existence slowly closed. Then from behind me a bright light shown. So bright that it hurt to stare, but unable to turn away, I floated closer and closer to its source. A figure was forming in the light. Small at first and growing, it appeared to be human. The figure became more and more clear as I floated, the face was long with a beautiful smile, the eyes a deep brown and intense with emotion, with a eerie blue glow. The face somehow seemed familiar, as if it had been seen everyday of my existence. It was a woman, but I knew not who it was. The hand of the woman reached out for me, I in turned reach to her. The light behind now dimmed to a small shimmer, providing only enough light to see the outline of objects. The blue glowing eyes of the woman grew brighter as if flames were emitting from them. She spoke to me saying… “You must stop him.” The feeling of tranquility left in an instant, and it felt as if I was being sent down a drain, although I could still breath. I was being pulled from her, but there was nothing visable pulling me away. I couldn’t hold on any longer.

Updated

2006-12-06T08:36:00.000-07:00

Guess what all, Rachel has decided to try the blogging thing again, mainly because some other friends have joined the whole blog-o-sphere, but eitherway she is back. Just thought I would let you all know.

Need a Storyline

2006-11-20T20:28:00.000-07:00

So, I have finished the peliminaries of the game as far as menuing and skill learning. I have setup a basic menu that allows you to check current spirit status's and skill learning rates, along with simply abilities, like trading with another players spirit or an unassigned spirit. I have setup the AP system required to learn skills via battles and am now ready to start a storyline and work from that. I am just not sure how to start it though. I am in need of ideas, anyone that would like to contribute, please reply or email me with any ideas that apply to this subject. Well, later all!

Scouts

2006-11-18T15:40:00.000-07:00

Well, we didnt end up going camping, but we still had a fun activity. Since the camping plans fell through, we decided to go to "The Quarry" in Provo, by University Mall. It was alot of fun, we arrived at about 5:30 and were there until about 8:00, at which time we went to Iceberg and got shakes for those that climbed to the top of the climbing corses. We had 2 boys that were affraid of hieghts and wouldnt go above about 15 feet when we first arrived, but at the end, they had all climbed to the top of the climbing corses(About 35-40 feet). I also ended up doing some climbing which was fun as well. Well, hope the rest of you are having good weekends. Will see you on Tuesday! Later.

GKAS and other happenings

2006-11-16T16:20:00.000-07:00

I just signed up to be the technical help & support for GKAS in Feb. I think this year we will make things a little easier, by simply not letting a certian 'N' named person head up everything. I will need some crew member to help me out with some of the stuff, so any body that would like to help just let me know. They should be holding meetings in mid Dec to decided what is happening and what devices we will be using while there for digital imaging.

I have now received the responsibility for dealing with all Internation SHPR's and database scheduling.. I now have to work the wonder from Canada named Brandon. From what I hear, he is a pretty "interesting" person to work with. Something about "Dumb as a board" to quote a person which I will not mention, that kinda scares me about this. If he is as bad as someone from Georgia, I think I might just kill myself. (As Doyle would do also)

I have finished playing all the scenario's they had for me in Strong Hold2. I am now looking at designing my own maps and playing it online. Problem is that I dont always have tons of time to devote to it with family life and other responsibilities. I have enjoyed having the new game and would like to tell Rachel a very hardy "Thank You" for getting it for me. I guess now that I have completed it, I will start working on my RPG project again. I guess I could provide some screen shots, but they are of menus and that is all I have really completed so far. I am still working on a storyline that I can use. If anyone can provide me with some ideas or routes to take with the storyline on this one I would greatly appreciate it. The story I want to use is pretty simple but it defies religion and a number of other things. What I want to say is that the earth was created by "Another Power" and that the earth itself is just a device floating in space. As someone figures this out, they activate the device and the earth is litterally ripped apart, although each part working independantly. Not exactly sure what to do with the story from there. Anyway, just thoughts. Well, later all.

Lately

2006-11-13T08:37:00.000-07:00

I guess lately I havent really felt that urge to write everything going on in my life. Mainly I guess because nothing really new has been going on. Although, last night my scouts had a "Court of Honor" and I presented the LIFE badge to one of my scouts and 1st class to another, along with a large number of badges to the rest. It was fun stuff, and this next week I get to present my first eagle! I think it is quite cool. Most of my scouts actually want to end up somewhere so that makes life a little easier. Although, I really need to find out where they all currently are so that I can help them a little better. My goal is to take all my scouts from 1st class to eagle during the time that I have them. I know that I probably wont do that with all of them, but I think I can churn a couple out of them. Otherwise, life has been life. Boring and so on. I have been playing Stronghold 2 on the computer and also programming RPGXP games as well. I am making some pretty good progress. I still have a couple of things to work out, but other than that, nothing really. Among other things, E@sy Dent@l will be shipping final this next week. Somewhat of a Thanksgiving present, which will in turn be a early Christmas gift. Anywho, later all.

Sorry

2006-11-03T08:32:00.000-07:00

SOrry that it has taken me so long to put another post up. Life has been so busy lately that it has been hard to find the time to do it. I usually post from home, but since there is no extra time there either, I am doing it here. G 2 was released early last week, and there is 1 outstanding crucial issue and that is a certain DR. This Dr has refused to do the troubleshooting required to resolve this problem, and as such his issue is the only one that stands open. So in light of this they also had me write a Technical Bulletin on the subject so that if other people run into this problem they have the troubleshooting steps required to resolve it right in front of them. Yesterday they had the G 2 release party which was alright. They gave me a pretty cool binder and a G 2 shirt. Its pretty cool. Sometime today or early next week we will be shipping out E@sy Dent@l and then doing final pretty quickly after that. Well, hope you all had an excellent Halloween this year and best wishes to you all. Later

32 oz Sprite translated in Del Taco means, Fries in a cup?

2006-10-26T13:25:00.000-07:00

SO check this out. Today I went to Del Taco and Ordered a #3 (2 Chicken Soft Taco's) and I asked for a 32 oz Sprite. I get to the Window and pay for the food and they hand me a 48oz sprite, and a second bag with a 32 oz drink cup with fries in it! I had to pull over and laugh for about 3 minutes before I could even drive a straight line. At which time I returned to work and promptly delivered the hilarious news to the illustrious High Tech dept, and if you would like to see proof of the situation, please see Jenna's blog at the following link: Jenna's Blog.

Fricken awesome. That is all I have to say.

Birthday

2006-10-23T07:59:00.000-07:00

So in about a week and a half it will be Rachels birthday, she will be 25. She is so stoked about it too. I think I have done a pretty good job about keeping her in the dark about it all. She keeps trying to get it out of me what I am going to get her or what we are going to do, but so far all attempts have failed. I figure if I can last another week I can start getting stuff together, but still try to be secretive about it. I am also quite sure that she will be reading this and that will help this as well. So with that I will bring things to a close. Well, later all.

Its right around the corner

2006-10-19T15:35:00.000-07:00

So today we were talking about what will be releasing and when. (at least of what we are working on currently.) I found out that Dentr!x will be shipping in 1 week from tomorrow, Easy Image the following Tuesday, and DxImage Im@geCamHD Update Nov 3. Then E@sy Dental will be going the week after that. So in other words, support will have their hands full with new installs of all the release softwares. On other news we will be getting Dentr!x perio in the end of november and start basic test, it will be going beta in January, and Voice 5.0 will be going in End of January or Early Feb. The schedule looks tight for the next long while. I dont know about you guys, but I cannot wait for the new voice program. Perhaps it will work much better, cause if it doesnt...

Stupid Speed Traps

2006-10-17T07:28:00.000-07:00

So this morning I was driving down state street at the usual speed (50) and notice that behind me there is a cop with his lights on. I pull over and he told me I was driving 55 in a 45 and started writting me a ticket. I dont really have much room to argue since I usually speed by at least that, and I probably did go that fast, but so does nearly every car on that road. So now I have to go down to the courts in the next couple of days and settle this ticket, or take some traffic school. I can see it now.. Hi, my name is Martin and I.... (Emotional outburst)Am a speeder! I think I want to do the traffic school cause then it doesnt go to the ins companies, but either way, that ticks me off. Sorry Doyle, that is why I didnt come down to talk when I got here. I was considerably late by the time I finally got here because of this little ordeal.

Wierd

2006-10-13T07:12:00.000-07:00

So first thing tomorrow morning the fam and I will be going to St George. We are going to go a visit my dad... You know I never really thought that I would end up saying that sentance. Pretty much all my life I have avoided my father because of things he has done to our family. I am trying to convince myself that 10 years in the slammer can make a changed man. I really hope so anyway. If any of you have grown up and didnt have a father in the house, it really makes for a strange childhood. Mostly because there is less order and things go chaotic more often. This is the way me and my bro and sis were brought up. I guess I turned out ok, but there are far more messed up people out there. So yeah, I started talking to my dad again about 2 months ago. So far he seems pretty nice and so on, but just like a new relationship, you want to start slow and work you way into it. I am trying to be very cautious about how much I/we put ourselfs out there for this relationship. I guess I just want a dad again. I was deprived of that growing up and I am sure it has caused me problems in my life I wouldnt have had if I did, but then again, I might have been in a whole other mess of things. I cant change what has passed so I have no choice to deal with the aftermath. I suppose in a couple of years that things might be a little better, but I dont see that happening for like 10-15 years down the line. Do you think I am just being too cautious? Am I being a wimp about this? I am not sure how to react to the situation as I havent had a father figure in like 15 years. I really want to get to know him, but at the same time I dont want to. I will say this though, he seems to be more intested in trying to get to know us and spend time with us than even my mom. She is really distant and doesnt really do much to let us know she still cares. I guess eitherway you look at it, I have a pretty screwed up family.

Back to the good news... I will be going to St George! I plan on going all over the place down there, but the problem is that I will have a couple of time constraints. Rachel will be singing at a performance down there on Sunday. It will be at the church at 82 N Dixie Drive at 6:00pm. Doyle, I know you will be down there. Stop by if you want. I will be driving back as soon as the performance is done. Then get ready for work and off to another week. Well, Later all.

Overview of Life

2006-10-10T10:56:00.000-07:00

Ok... 1 life story coming up.

I was born on April 15th in a small town/village called Apple Valley (Which recently got its own Grocery Store!) We lived in a literal hole in the ground. Unfortunately I dont have any pictures on hand but they will be provided at a later time. My first memory that I can think of was my 5th birthday party. I dont even remember much about it other than my mom had made some home made vanilla ice cream and there were alot of people there. Around the age of 7-8 I remember hearding cattle and other farm related duties. (Like milking the cow at 5:00am) At age 9 we moved out of the hole and into a Doublewide trailer(we were moving up in the world!) I think that year at Christmas we were poor enough that we didnt even get a tree, but I happened to own a small hatchet and had plenty of determination. I went out to Gooseberry (Another subdivsion of Apple Vally and chopped down a small tree and dragged it about 4 miles home. My parent were happy but mad at me at the same time. (Guess the land owner saw me and wasnt happy) So anyway, that spring we started building our new house, which the MariJ stuff started. That fall I finally attended my first year of school at Hurricane Elementry in the 4th Grade. I was old enough to be in 5th, but I didnt know multiplication so they left me there. The house was completed that Winter. Since my mom was about ready to pop with my little sister Carolyn, I remember that all the Christmas presents were in the more luxurious mobile home, and this is when we received our first SUPER NINTENTDO. I even have some home videos of us in the mobile home with my older brothers playing Super Mario, since that is what came with the device. It was about 1 or 2 months later that I noticed there was a room in the basement that we werent supposed to go into and it was constantly locked. (I realize now that it was the nursery for all the money making plants my dad had.) Later that spring, after school, we moved out to a little hole in the wall place called Paragoona. For more information on this section please see my old post... After the big run we had returned Apple Valley and were forced out of the home with nothing but the clothes on our backs and whatever money we had. My Grandma Gubler happened to have a house in Middleton, a subdivision of St George right next to hers, for rent. We moved in there and lived there for 2-3 years. I have a lot of stories about things we did there. Pranks and everything. Other than that I went to the 5th grade at the closest Elementry school, and attended the St George 6th grade center and 7th grade at middle school. In 6th grade I decided that I wanted to play an instrument and started playing the trombone. I was apparantly pretty good at it. During my 7th grade year, my mom was going to the local college and met a guy by the name of Vern. It was about 6 months of conflict with my older brother before he finally moved in with us, but he wanted to attend school at UVSC because they had some better classes or something, so we moved to Orem. This was about the time that We had our first computer. It was a shake up computer running Windows 95 that had some of the coolest games we had ever seen. At least to us they were. I went to 8th grade at Orem middle school and met this cool guy named Kristopher Harrison. Unfortunately I dont remember too much from that time except that I think he and I did a english project together about finding some gold or something in Provo Canyon. (wow was that vauge) Not to long after this we moved to highland, and I went to 9th grade at Mountian View middle for the first half of the year, this is when Vern started at this little company called Dentr!x. I remember that he always worked the 6:00am shift. Mainly because he wouldnt let us play games in the morning, so we would wait until he left, and then get on them until we had to leave for school. This is when me and my brothers took up other games like D&D and Magic. We were actually so into that type of game that we created our own. We happened to store this game in a red book, so it lovingly got called "The Red Book Game." We actually sat and played this game for ours on end for weeks until someone got big enough to kill everyone else. If you need a description of how the game played or the basics, let me know. So to move on, we moved to the northern part of PG (Manilla) and I finished the school year out at PG Middle. (I met Eric this year, but we werent really friends, but more of acquaintances.) I was way exited to go to high school, because I had friends from both Mountian View and PG that would be attending Lone Peak. I went to school there for my Sophmore and most of my Junior year, I was being forced to move once again. We moved to Lindon and Was on the high school border of PG and Timpanogos. At this time I wanted to goto Timpanogos because they had alot of the same classes and so on as I had at Lone Peak, but forces prevailed and I went to PG. (I had to drop 3 of my favorite classes and take up ones I didnt like as much.) I finished my Junior year out at PG and spent the summer working multiple jobs. I started to work at Carl's Jr and this indipendant business. The indipendant business was only for a few months and hours were from 8-2 and then I would head to Carls Jr, and work from 3-12. At least that was the scheduled shift at Carls Jr, but most often we didnt get out of there until 1-2, latest I remember was 3am. So school started up again and I was still working at Carls Jr Full time. I was taking the hardest classes they had to offer too. It wasnt long before I relized this wasnt the best combination, but being as I was, I droped some of the hard classes and kept working. I was talking AP Physics, AP Chemistry, AB Calculus, AP Spanish and AP English.. Once I dropped some of the classes I was only taking... AB Calculus and AP Spanish (Easy Class!). Literally betten Physics, Chemistry and Calculus there was no time left in the day. Each class said, "Its only 2 hrs of home work a day," well when I do the math that adds up to 6 hours a day just for those 3 classes. That doesnt leave much time for anything else, yet alone work. It was later that year that I met Rachel. We were introduced to each other by a mutual friend Sherry. At first I will have to say that Rachel seemed to me a little out there. As in that she was way energetic and busy with her own stuff. I was actually able to talk to her when she wasnt around Sherry and realized it was the power of influence being used on her. She was really quite mello and so on. I asked her to the Valentines dance, since that is what time of year it was. That was our first date. After that we went to a couple of other dances and social things. It was just after prom that I decided I wanted to marry her. We went steady for about 3 more months before we announced it. My mom was not very happy about it and even now she doesnt always seem to fully support us being together. I started to look for other jobs, because I didnt want to be working fast food for the rest of my life. I started working for my Moms boyfriend, Craig, doing manual labor for Boeing in SLC. We were married on Aug 5, 2000 in Lindon and we went on our Honeymoon in Park City. The annoying part of this was that I let my Manager know at Boeing know that I was getting married that next week, but he told me that I still had to be there. So for the first 2 days of our marriage/honeymoon I had to work (Sad huh?). I talked to my manager again and stressed that I would really like the time off becuase of the circumstances and so he reluctantly allowed me to have the rest of the week off. We had a lot of fun the remainder of that week and did lots of stuff in park city. There was this restaruant that we went to that was kinda pricy that served as "Spinich Fettucinne" that was disgusting. I think I ate about 6 bites and then I was done. Anyway, I realized as I was driving to work at 100mph one morning that I was kinda drowsy and having problems keeping awake. (You would too if you had to wake up at 3 just to goto work and return at 4-5pm) I decided it was time to find a more local job. About 2 weeks later I quit at Boeing and started working at Sento doing McAfee Antivirus support. I worked there for almost a year when Rachel had Alex. He was born on 10/4/01, it was later that week when I was "Let go" (You have all heard this story), but because they let me go the day I returned after Rachel had Alex, I decided to stay out of the working force for a little bit to stay home and help Rachel since we had a little bit of backing. We had decided to move out of our appt and in with Rachel's parents for awhile until we would "get our feet on the ground" again. I started working at Convergys doing Microsoft support for Windows 98 and ME. I had applied for Windows 2000, but didnt have quite enough experience for them to hire me. (If I had gotten that I would have been making $4 more an hour, which would have been nice.) With the pay and a couple of months later, we moved to AF in a small 2 bed appt. Either way, I worked on that project for about 4 months and then Microsoft had started to roll out this new product called "Windows XP" that they wanted to train me for. I agreed and trained for it for about 2 weeks via their training program. Rachel and I were sealed in the temple on our 1st anniversary, which made for a very happy year. I went on to become a Senior tech on the Windows XP team and then... India happened. They were starting to move all Windows support to India. I was starting to look for other jobs because I knew that I was on a sinking ship. I decided that I needed to keep the job until I new something else was secured and was looking like a long term solution. It was about this time when Mikaila was born. It was 6/17/03 that Mikaila was brought into our lifes. Ironic thing is that both Alex and Mikaila were born at exactly 8lbs and 20 inches. I kept looking for a new job as Convergys was getting worse fast. My first official day of work/training at Dentr!x was 7/27/03. I continued to work both jobs for about 1 month before I decided I liked Dentr!x. Problem was that pay at Dentr!x was lower than what I was getting at Convergys, so we had to gimp around for a little while. I was starting to raise through the ranks in Easy Dental. I have since worked in the Dentr!x support and HighTech support depts and moved a couple of times. I have been living in PG at my purchased home and I have moved to development at work. Alex is now 5 (as of 6 days ago) and Mikaila is now 3. I dont think that I would take anything back or change anything about my life, except for a little of my childhood. It was a crazy life, but here I am, all in one piece and as happy as can be. Thanks for reading.

Life Story

2006-10-09T15:18:00.000-07:00

So today I walked down to support to hassle Matt about returning the EzRay sensor that I loaned him for a couple of hours, only to find out that he had plugged it into the wrong computer and that is why he needed it for so long. Belay that comment and we move on to why this post is the way it is. After leaving Matt's desk I decided to pay my good ol buddy Doyle a visit, and he turns to me and says "Martin you need to make a new post." Im thinking to myself, 'Well, I posted on Friday. Apparantley at the end of the working day isnt good enough anymore, it has to be at the beginning." Doyle then proceeds to tell me that I dont just need a new post, but something that is long and takes more than about 2 minutes to read." My response was simple "Like a Life Story?", and his response "Yes, exactly." I didnt realize that a blog was meant to be the writing place for a persons auto biography. Perhaps I have writters block or whatever you want to call it, or I just dont want to write my life story up here in order to piss Doyle off. I am kinda leaning against the later of those choices. I dont really want to pour out my entire life for everyone to know, even though I have already told some of the stories. Maybe someday I will complete the book "Gubi, the auto-biography!" So instead I will choose to talk about other things.
I am looking forward to this next weekend because we will be going to St Greorge. We are planning on going to Zions National Park and a number of other places. This trip was planned mostly because Rachel has a performance down there on Sunday and we both want to get away from the normal for a day or two. Unfortunately this also puts dampers on the Friday the 13th jam that Jenna is having, mostly because of work. At Hee Haws they get quite busy around this time, and particularly that night, so they are making us work. Other than that, life is peachy.
So Doyle, I hope that you enjoyed this off topic seemingly random post.

Its Finally Official

2006-10-05T10:23:00.001-07:00

Well, we finally received word that Rachel was now on the W-Talent web site. You can see the pictures here if you want. You have to click on Models, Commercial Women, then find Rachel. (Some of the other images are probably not safe for work.) Otherwise it has been a crazy good ol time. I have been getting off work then driving home, to pick up Rachel, then off to work again at Hee Haws. It has been fun though. I enjoy working there and if they paid better and it latested all year, I would honestly drop Dentr!x, but since they dont, I wont. I have being trying to decide if I want to apply for the new Developement position. The Hi-Tech Product Analyst one that is. I was thinking to myself... "Maybe then we can tell the programmers exactly how we want them to do it, and they will!" At least that is what I would like anyway. I have asked a couple of people from support to go for it, but am unsure if I want to. And then raises the next question. If I get it, who takes my position? Either way I will still be happy. So yeah..

Last Night we took Alex to see Open Season instead of me going to Scouts. It was pretty good and the kids really liked it. If you are wondering if I just ditched the scouts... I didn't. I called up my backup gang and told them what I had planned. Couple of games like "Name Game-with bean bags" (Actually quite fun) and "Aerobic Tag" (Kinda like Smear the Quir, but not as rough). Got them all of the stuff they needed to perform the cerimonies and so on and that was that. It was on the way to the movies. (For me and the fam)

And in other news. E@sy Dental was supposed to go beta at latest yesterday, but it didnt, so there is a bit of a rush to get it out the door, then next week is supposed to be beta 3 for Dentr!x and on top of that, EZIm@ge4.5 and Im@ge 4.5 cuHD are supposed to release in 1 week from tomorrow. To say the least, development is in overtime and they are pushing to get everything done.

That is all I have for you now.

Apu
"Thank you, come again"

Defective by Design

2006-10-03T15:28:00.001-07:00

To quote a recent Digg.com article:

"The Defective by Design campaign aims to identify what it considers "defective" products, and target them for elimination to make all manufacturers wary about bringing their DRM-enabled products to market.

In June it(Defective By Design) coordinated action across eight US cities with supporters dressed in bright yellow Hazmat suits swarming Apple(Computer) Stores to warn shoppers and staff that Apple iTunes was infected with DRM."

In my opinion, if you buy a CD and that music will only play in a special player it is considered a monopoly and should not be allowed, but that is basically what it seems they are pushing for. I enjoy music enough to purchase it online, song by song, if needed to get the desired CD. The fact that I have to burn then re-rip the songs just so I can play them at another computer in the same house hold is crap. I really hope that the DRM Movement dies and that I will once again be able to purchase something and move it to my computer so that I dont have to waste money on other items just to listen to it at a different location.

Well, that is my rant for the day.

Quad Core CPU's

2006-10-02T09:06:00.001-07:00

"Will the standard new server be a quad core, 64-bit, 8GB RAM, platform next summer?
It could be. At the Intel Developers Forum recently, Intel was showing off quad core chips, basically two dual cores in the same package. It's a move to speed deployment and get the chips out the door ahead of AMD."

This looks awesome. I cannot wait until I can get one. Can you imagin how fast of a machine that would be? If it could process video graphics at that same pace, I think computers are again, on the move.

Do you want to FLY to work?

2006-09-27T14:31:00.000-07:00

I am sure we have all seen the cartoon show "The Jetsons" and the beauty of this is that it is going to be real life. It isnt that far away and we will have flying cars. I was browsing around today and happened to find this website. Within 2 years is the planned FAA approval of the item, and the navigation system used has already been implemented into some of the more pricy private aircraft. So in terms to make landing and flight "Childs play." The name of the program is "Highway in the sky" and there are tons a different sites that have plenty of information on it. So enough of the background, lets see some pictures and movies of the product in motion. www.moller.com/skycar

Update.exe

2006-09-26T15:38:00.001-07:00

Sorry about the wait, but I am back! It has been pretty busy up here lately and outside of work has been equally crazy.

Friday-Saturday:
To start things off, I took my scouts on a camp out this last weekend to mutual dell, luckily the weather cleared and it turned out to be a pretty good campout. They were able to work on their Astronomy, Housemanship and FirstAid merit badges. I have an incredibly funny movie that I will have to accompany this at a later time. We all played "Kick the Can" for about an hour, then we came home. I think I fell flat on the floor and was a little incoherant for the remainder of the day.

Sunday:
Sunday was the usual, church and meetings.

Monday:
Well it was pretty normal until right after work. I went home then came immediately back to start working at Hee Haw farms again. I cut down a ton of Corn Stalks and bundled them as well as disributed them around the "Corn Snake." Other than that, I dug holes for post and drove tracters. They ended up sending us all home early because of lack of business. Considering it takes a while to get things going, and the fact that the main road for business is still marked closed until Nov 1 is a little concerning. Apparantly the city told them that they werent going to close it until beginning of next year, but did it anyway. So as such, they may end up holding the city responsible for ruining their business.

Tuesday:
Today was kind of busy. First we started the day off with meetings for E@syDental, Dentr!x and Im@ge/EZIm@ge. After that I worked with Tina and some people from core regarding SHPR's and escalations, then off to the E@syDental code walkthrough. (In other words, what they added/removed) After that it was off to lunch.. Ended up taking a long lunch so that I could take Mikaila to dance lessons. I will have to add a picture of this, but she is quite cute in her little pink "balerina." After that I dealt with more SHPR's for Dentrix, so it made for a excellent day.

Well, that complets the running of Update.exe, hope you have enjoyed.

Gunch

2006-09-21T08:13:00.000-07:00

As many of you know, me, Spin and others have gathered in the lobby for a couple of months playing board games. I have to say that some of them are fricken cool. It has made me look into getting some. I am looking at 3 games right now... "Ticket to Ride", "Amun Ra", and "Blue Moon City." I dont know if I am looking wide enough. There is like 20 I would like to get, but dang them for being so dang expensive. I think even Rachel would enjoy paying some of them. Trouble is to get her to try them. She really likes "Phase 10" but ...."Only when she is winning." If not, boy o boy is that a fun situation. I have tried the computer approach at this.

Me: Is there a game you would like to play with me dear?
Rachel: I dont feel like it right now. Sides, you would kick my butt.
Me: But if you played it more you would get better, I would even go easy on you.

(Perhaps that was a bad move on my part to say that I would "Play nice" so that she would win, or at least have a chance)

I guess I will just have to borrow a couple of these games from those that have them, and try to coax Rachel into playing them with me.

Then again, Rachel's Aunt likes to play all sorts of different type games. Maybe I should organize a game night at my house.

Hee Haws

2006-09-20T15:48:00.001-07:00

Well, it is that time of year again. Halloween is right around the corner, so Corn Mazes and the Haunted Houses are starting to gear up. I will again be working at Hee Haw Farms during the later hours of the day to try and get a little extra money. Last year was alot of fun, and I will say that I was very familiar with that maze in the end. Once you have walked around in it for about 2 hrs without any sense of direction it starts to seem hopeless, but when you do that everyday for about a month, you actually know where you are in the maze. It makes for a fun time.

For example:
When working there last year, you would do all you can to freak people out in the mazes, by taking shortcuts to catch/see them at multiple intersections. I think the most times I ran into a single person in the mazes was like 15 or more. In which case they were getting kinda freaked out because I appeared to be everwhere in the maze at once.

Ricky Bobby

2006-09-18T14:58:00.000-07:00

2 first names for a very entertaining man that is very affraid of invisable fire in the new movie, Taledega Nights. I watched this show over the weekend and would have to give it a 9/10 on my scale for overall content, and a good 10/10 for comedy. They had awesome cracks throughout the entire movie that makes it hard not to laugh. Very quotable I might say. I will be trying to obtain a "Special" copy of the movie shortly so that everyone can enjoy. Although, I would very highly recommend going to see this one in the theaters if you havent already. Well, later.

Training / Games / Beta

2006-09-15T08:08:00.001-07:00

So Scouts have been interesting lately. I have learning all about how the scouts should be doing everything and that I as Scout master am really supposed to be their for encouragement/coaching/guidance, but that is about it. I will say that I have learned a number of things and I think it will help me to be a better Scout Master, as well as person. It kinds sucks to go to all of these meetings instead of staying home with the wife and kids though. I havent really had much of a chance to sit down with Alex or Mikaila for them to show me what they did in school that day. Good news is that the last meeting is this comming Wed, and I couldnt be more happy about it.
In other news, I sat on my computer and opened up an old game. Does anyone remember 'Sim Tower'? I think I played it for about 30 minutes and got bored for then. I cant play that one for hours on end like others. But on top of that I played 'Bahamut Lagoon'. Excellent game and battle system. It was released very late in the SNES period, I think about 1 year prior to n64 coming out. So the game itself didnt do that well, but for RPG fanatics like myself, it is a very enjoyable game. My favorite part about the game is the names... Princess YoYo... Seriousley, who comes up with these names?
In other news, we are going to be sending G 2 beta2 today. Many of the major/minor issues have been resolved. Speed has improved nearly double for Chart on initial and relaunch, and the new treatment planner is 10 times faster also. Almost instant changes. Hopefully with all the new improvements we will see alot more happy people and techs. I think as far as the support depts go, the biggest call will be training, at least that is my hope. Well, later all.

Appraisal

2006-09-13T07:32:00.000-07:00

So sometime later today there should be someone coming over to our house to give an appraisal on the property. This is for our refinance that we are doing later this month. I think I will probably be leaving work a little early today to go help get this cleaned up for this occasion. I hope that it all happens nicely. They told me last week, that it should be easy to appraise it for $165,000, which is awesome. I only bought it 2 years ago and for $117. I think that is a pretty good investment. I will be trying to roll all my debt into my house so I owns everything. Then I can sell in a couple of years and still get some more. Its sweet. Anyway, later.

Not what I was expecting

2006-09-11T06:18:00.000-07:00

So the hike was pretty fun, but could have been much better. 2 things I think I would have changed. Kept everyone together as a group throughout the whole hike, and 2 make the weather permit for a nice evening at the top of timp. When we got to the top it was hailing/snowing and the wind just wouldnt stop. Then the clouds were so thick you couldnt even see 5 feet off the peak. The hike although did a number on me. My feet are ok, but my knee's and hip are not to fond of me right now to say the least. I will definitally make some changes to the way things work next time. First, wait for a time in which they say there is no chance of weather problems, and earlier in the year. That way maybe it can be a little more enjoyable. Alright, I guess that is enough talk.

Time for the pictures

Say BaAaAaaAaaa

Ice Cavern Inside

Ice Cavern Outside

Scenery

Clouds Decending on the upper valley

Oh, almost forgot, view from the top. (This is in the saddle, looking at the path we have to use to get down.)

And last but not least, the movie of the clouds pushing through the saddle..,

First Day

2006-09-08T14:44:00.000-07:00

Well, today was my daughters very first day of school. She has been sad when she couldnt say when we dropped Alex off. This morning she got all dressed up and ready to go hours before it was time. I think it is kinda funny to think that myself along with most of us all had the same feelings about going to school, but as we grow up it becomes more and more of a annoyance. Although considering that I havent gone to college yet, I really need to get myself into gear. Problem is, that work and home life has me tied to a rack that happens to be tearing me apart for time. I suppose that life would be alot different if I didnt have kids, but I dont think I would have it any other way. I love my little "rebelions in a bag." There is nothing I would give in this world not to have them, or Rachel for that matter. Well, its time to get back to work... Later.

The Verdict Is In

2006-09-06T21:03:00.000-07:00

Well, after much discussion we have yet again decided that the sunset hike will be better according to most peoples schedules and so on, or at least you voted for it. We will return to the original plans as they were sent with the meeting time of 1:00 at discovery park in PG. If there is any reason that you cannot make it or whatever, then please let me know. Otherwise, we will see you there. I cannot wait!

A change in plans

2006-09-05T13:41:00.000-07:00

So we have changed a couple things about the Hike. The main difference is the time we will be meeting at discovery park. We will now be meeting at 1:00 and leaving no later than 1:30. This is mainly in part to the fact that sunset is at 7:46 instead of my anticipated 8:30 - plus to also give a little extra time for straglers and what not. If you have any questions or anything, please let me know.

Thanks

(And no, I cannot tell you the true meaning of life. Other than I think it is to climb large mountainous objects in a Hiking fashion.)

Funny Signs

2006-09-05T09:08:00.000-07:00

So I was browsing earlier today and found a very entertaining image. Isnt it ironic that a student would be chasing a beer bottle? Perhaps this is more true from location to location, but I found it to be quite entertaining to me.

Interesting Quiz, that isnt really a quiz

2006-09-01T14:41:00.000-07:00

What does your birth month tell about you

I was thinking to myself, throw a bunch of words to together and it will describe you. (Because they chose a million words to describe that month). I was wrong. It was ~kinda true. I also did Rachels and one of my brothers, and for the most part it pretty well describes them. Thought you would all like to have a chance to look at it.

Funny Quote

2006-09-01T12:21:00.000-07:00

For a little background on this. As I am the scout leader for our ward I am helping my scouts with merit badges. One of which is Communications. One of the requirements for this badge is that you must interview someone to find out more about them, their accomplishments and so on. I happened to interview one of my scouts during this process due to an odd number of them showing up. It went similar to this:

Me- Show what is your favorite subject in School?
Him- None really
Me- Do you have a job?
Him- Yes
Me- Where?
Him- Sonic Burgers
Me- How often do you work?
Him- Pretty much everyday
Me- Do you work full time for them then?
Him- Yes
Me- Do you know if they offer you any Benifits?
Him- Yes, I can get a free drink when ever I want it.

I thought this particular response was funny because it shows greatly the generational gap between me(25) and him(16). I only wish that my only thought on benifits would be what free stuff they gave me or not having to think of how you will spend your paycheck months in advance so that you can afford what you want. I just thought it was funny. Hope you enjoyed this random approach to conversation.

Not this Saturday But Next

2006-08-28T12:21:00.000-07:00

Everyone,
Here is a quick update on the hike to timp. We will all be meeting at Discovery Park in PG (100E ~1450N) at 3:00pm on Saturday Sept 9th. We will then carpool from there to the trail head for timp. We have 7 people going as of today (including myself). I was thinking that once we are all done we could go hang out at iHope for a very late dinner or just head home. So yeah, any and all are welcome to come. I will only have room for 4, so we should find another person to help carpool everyone to the trail head. Well, later all.

Weekend

2006-08-28T09:28:00.000-07:00

Well, I will tell you that I did a whole lot of nothing this weekend. Its kinda like that never ending routine. Mow the lawn, make some lunch, watch a movie with the kids, put them down for naps, browse the internet amlesly for about 2 hours, spend 30 minutes trying to wake the kids up so that they will still sleep at night, Let the kids run a play outside, Make some dinner, Watch a movie with everyone, prepare kids for bed, go to bed. There are plenty other things that we do but this seems to be the default model of a saturday.
This is pretty much how it was, but I played some nintendo with Alex for a couple of hours. He really enjoys it when I play with him, but what I usually find happening, is that he wants me to play his part as well. I will tell you though that Alex is getting pretty darn good at it. Rachel was playing Alex in Super Mario Brothers (Super Nintendo Release) and got her butt kids by the 4 year old. I thought it was kinda funny, but then again, she doesnt play them at all.
I saw that they are training another group of new hires upstairs. They have 13 new people. Hopefully with all the new hires, high tech can suck a few off into the nexus for a slightly easier life (Note I said slightly).
Anyway, hope you all had great weekends and will have a good work week. And Jesse, how is the new job?

Tutorials

2006-08-24T13:27:00.000-07:00

So I have been given the task to create all tutorials for the G2 project that customers will be using. I have enlisted Rachel to help me by doing the voice overs while I do all the animations and what not to make it much better than the first tutorials that we gave to everyone. I have recreated 1 of 6 tutorials and the bosses like it so far. Problem is that it takes a while to get everything sorted out to have it work correctly. Eitherway, I hope to have it all done this weekend so that I dont have to worry about it anymore. Anyway, Later.

High Tech Hike to Timp

2006-08-21T20:43:00.000-07:00

This is in part to Jenna to comming up with an excellent idea, that everyone should get together to do a hike to timp. Personally I have 3 weekends within the next month that I can do it: Aug 25, Sept 8, or Sept 29. I would like to ask everyone what day they would like to do it, so that we can get the most attendance as possible. The next question is, what time would you like to do the hike. My personall favorite is to hike up in the middle of the night to catch the sunrise off the top of the mountian.

Here are some pictures from my last years hike to timp.

What a wash!

2006-08-20T13:31:00.000-07:00

So I was ready to head out last night to go hike timp with my brothers, but as the flakes they are they never showed up at my house to do it. So I kinda prepared and everything for nothing. I promised Rachel that I wouldnt do the hike alone. So becuase my brothers are flakes and so on I couldnt go. It quite pisses me off. I have been thinking about hiking it now for about the last 3-4 weeks. I was way excited. Oh well I guess. I guess I will just have to wait and do it with the scouts as an activity. I am guessing that we will just hike it in the middle of the day instead of at night so that we can just say we did it instead of getting there for the sunrise or sunset. Anyway, hope you all had great weekends. See you all tomorrow.

Talk about random

2006-08-19T21:42:00.000-07:00

Check out these rednecks...

Check out these gun instructors!

Horse Shoes anyone?

Your right, maybe swimming would be best.

The big climb

2006-08-19T21:22:00.000-07:00

Well, on a change of plans I have decided to climb timp later tonight so that I can catch the sunrise for tomorrow off the top of the mountian. I cannot wait to get started. I have a couple of my brothers coming over to climb it with me. I think it should be alot of fun. I am trying to decide if I should go to sleep for 2 hours and get ready or just stay up and watch a movie until everyone shows up? Oh yeah, and yesterday I finally took that leap and talked to my dad. I will tell you that it has been about 13-14 years since I last spoke with him. It was kinda cool, but also akward. Thats alright, I was able to do it and kinda enjoyed it. Try to imagin not seeing one of your parents for 14 years and tell me how it would feel to see them again. I dunno why but I kinda want to get to know him again. I know it will never be just right or anything, but its my dad. I am supposed to be able to forgive anyone for what they have done right? Of course it warrants some caution, but I think things will be alright. Anyway, guess I better stop talking so that you can all get to bed or whatever it is that you are doing right now.... no really, right now!

Beta Issues

2006-08-17T10:38:00.000-07:00

Well, so far the beta seems to be doing pretty good. We havent fried any computers, although some of them wont work the new chart. Mostly because they just have slow machines. Either way, it is going pretty good. It looks like we wont be doing our next beta for a couple of weeks. At which time we hope to have most, if not all the treatment planner issues resolved. That is what most people are complaining about. Other than speed of opening the modules. Hopefully everything will go well, otherwise I will be a very busy person. Anyway, hope everyone has a great week end. Especially Roberto as he is in California... doing something. Well later.

Name that movie!

2006-08-14T21:07:00.000-07:00

1. "I ate some fiberglass and it didnt taste like cotten candy, now my tummy itches."

2. "McFly!"

3. "What? I don't smoke weed."

4. "I feel like an idiot. But I am an idiot, so it kinda works out."

5. "Oh, well, it's just like talking, except longer and louder, and you move your voice up and down. "

Old Movies

2006-08-14T13:09:00.000-07:00

So check it out, yesterday I pulled out a classic movie that I am sure most have seen. It was "Star Trek: The Motion Picture." The first full length movie for Star Trek. I was amazed to see that the graphics weren't as bad as I thought they were going to be. Although they have since greatly improved with more current products from the star trek kind. Anyway, just thought I would say that I enjoyed the journey to the past. I also happended to watch "Short Circuit." I allowed the memories of watching these shows re-enter my current life. It was a welcome change. See ya later.

The New Addiction

2006-08-09T15:30:00.000-07:00

So as some of you know I have taken up some of my recent time in programming for the randomness of programming. In particular I am programming games, little annoying snes style looking games. I will have to say that I am having a hard time adjusting to the new code, but I am making my way through it.

My current project is to re-create a menu system, and battle system of that in Legend of Ultria. This task is proving more and more difficult. I think I will have to change things around a bit. The other part of this is that I want to setup a TBS instead of just the standard side view like in many FF style games. I want it to be like FFTactics or Vidal Hearts.

If I can do this and release this to a small public then I think there are some great things that could come out of it. Anyway, hope that you enjoyed my little side track of thought.

PS - Brandon, if you are also looking for resources, the best site is www.dubealex.com/asylum

Par-te!

2006-08-05T10:01:00.000-07:00

So last night was a blast, but of course there were a couple of annoyances. For example. We called to Olive Garden on 2nd south and asked what the wait time was, they said 40 minutes. So like 5 minutes later when we arrived there and asked again, they said 1 1/2 hours, we were like no way. So then we started making our way to the olive garden in suger house, only took 30 minutes to get there (That is a very long time for 15 blocks!) Once we got there they seated us and so on very quickly. Actually it was of the best times I have had at Olive Garden. The server was very quick and the food was there before we were finished with the appetizers. After this we left to the concert. Parking was a bit of the nightmare, unless you wanted to fork out 10 bucks or something, which we did. The concert was pretty cool, we took alot of pictures and so on, but some of them were very blurry. Why you ask? That is because we were on like the top row of the entire delta center, but for pictures we figured something out. We rented a pair of benoculars and used the camera through them, hence why they are not focused perfectly. But here are some of the pics. Rachel and I had a great time. Anyway, later all.

Busy Busy

2006-08-03T07:15:00.000-07:00

Ok, so I think I have successfuly gotten myself out of going camping, but I may still have to drive some scouts up then come back. For getting out of camping, I think that is a small price to pay. So here is the plan. In about 45 minutes from now (9:00), Rachel's parents are going to pickup Mikaila and take her camping until saturday. Then Alex will be babysat by my sister-in-law on friday night so that we can go out. We will see him at the soccer game on saturday morning, then Mikaila in the later afternoon. I dont know how Rachel is going to last without her babies though. They havent really spent any time apart like this before, but I keep telling her that everything will be ok, and that it is only 2 days. It could be alot worse. Anywho, thanks for listening.

Strike that

2006-08-02T07:18:00.000-07:00

I have decided to instead of distribute CD's to share the information from my computer. If any of you know my share name, go for it. Those that dont know it, find out from someone that does, or email me. It will be in the PROJECT folder.

Major Slacker Am I

2006-08-02T06:48:00.000-07:00

So, I am sure that a large number of you have visited my site to find that there hasnt been anything new for awhile. I am swooping in and take care of this problem. This weekend is going to be very fun. Aug 5th is my Anniversary and annoying part of this is that I have to go with the scouts on a camp out thursday night, and come back on Friday, so that I can do everything that was planned with Rachel. I would really like to go do the camping on my own with the family instead of the scouts, but since that is not the most romantic thing (Especially with the kids), I will be taking her out to dinner, to a concert, then back home. We were looking at staying at anniversary inn, but we decided we didnt want to blow $200 on a single night, unless that was in entertainment. So yeah, good news about the campout though, I am not the only leader, which means I can leave as soon as I am ready.

In other news, I have been working on a long forgotten project called Ultria, I have since updated the program some and will show you a copy if you would like. I will create a self extracting full game kit for it, to let you play til you hit the road block. I have the file burned to a CD, so if you would like it, please let me know. It is about 23 mb so I couldnt have angelfire host it for free. Sorry

Hope you all enjoy.
I would like to hear any feedback that you have to offer on either subject within this tangel of a post.

So Brandon says...

2006-07-26T12:43:00.000-07:00

So earlier today Jesse had commented on how everyone was a butt pirate of some sort. I happened to search the internet for such a phase to find a contest to mess up the name of Pirates of the Caribian: Dead Mans Cheast, As much as possible, while keeping close to the name. I found a couple but there was a comment under one that stood out to me. I sent this quick little phrase to everyone in reply, and Brandon is amazed by its content and promptly asked how I had so much time on my hands to think of something like that. I told him that between meetings and all the SHPR's that they submit it makes for a busy day, hence why I ended up searching for the item. Anyway, it has been a lot busier up here since we shipped beta. I have to keep a spread sheet of every reported issue, that is quite a lot if any of you know beta. Anyway, guess I better get back to work.

Busy Beta

2006-07-25T15:47:00.000-07:00

Well, with the release of beta on g 2 it has been extremely busy and at the same time I have been creating slide shows and handouts for the T3(Train The Trainer) summit comming up next week. I hope that the training and everything goes well. I will bring down a CD with everything on it so that you can tell me what you think, if you are interested of course. Anyway, go to go home. Later

The Internet

2006-07-25T06:44:00.000-07:00

Might I recommend that everyone visit Matt's blog. He has a very funny clip that I think everyone would enjoy. It has to do with Tubes and poker?

Click here for Matt's Blog

This is a pretty funny impression

2006-07-19T15:46:00.000-07:00

Due to the fact that I dont want it to start playing immediately when you open the page, you can click on ...
THIS LINK

Even Better Commercial

2006-07-19T07:33:00.000-07:00

This is a very entertaining clip. Would recommend everyone see it.

Cool Commercial

2006-07-17T09:03:00.000-07:00

I like how the old style mouse buttons are the strips on the shoe. Check it out.

Didnt Ship

2006-07-17T08:44:00.000-07:00

Well, G 2 Didnt ship on Friday as planned. In fact we are still trying to burn all the CD's for the shipment. Maybe we need to get management to get some decent burners in house so that we dont miss shipments due to burning speeds. We have a nice duplicator, but if we had another it would truely help. Anyway, I have just been working on SHPR's all morning. Nothing really exciting. I have a couple of issues that came up, but I think that is by design. I am not sure, so I have to read the product structure notes to find out or not. Kinda sucks. Hope the rest of you had good weekends. Later

Weekend

2006-07-16T17:52:00.000-07:00

Well, the weekend was pretty fun. First I left work a little early (Even though they would have allowed me to work way late) to go to Rachel's Singer's Workshop thing in Salt Lake. I will tell you that I really learned alot about the music business. Plus, because not many of the people ate the treats, I ended up with nearly all of them. (I will be sure to share when I come in on Monday) So on to saturday. I probably got out of bed at like 9:00 or 9:30, then ate breakfast and mowed the lawn before it got to late. Then went camping, this was a very quick decision, at Silver Lake. I was finally able to take out that Raft I bought and use it on the lake. It was quite relaxing. Fishing sucked though, didnt catch a thing, but the relaxation was good. I wandered home at about 3:00 and watched "The Replacements." Very good movie if you ask me. Its funny and inspirational. Anyway, I will see you all later.

PS - Here is a picture that we took while up there.

Putting Together Beta Packages Sucks

2006-07-14T13:55:00.000-07:00

So just before lunch I started a print job for some beta offices. (Mainly because the printer is like a snail) So when I get back, I have this pile of documents that needs to be mailed to all the beta offices. (162) I prepare myself for all of this by clearing my desk so I could place all the random papers on it. I have spent nearly the last 3 hours putting these documents into the shipping packages. Best part is, they havent started burning CD's to ship yet. I am sitting here doing nothing right now just waiting for the CD's to get burned so I can put them in the shipping packages also. The really fun part of that is that I have to leave by at latest 4:10, so I can go to SLC with Rachel for a Work Shop thingy in preparation for a recording session that will be next week. I hope that Rachel does good on that. So yeah, life is good...busy... and boring.

Pointless question-answering gambit:

2006-07-13T09:51:00.000-07:00

Q: If you were a porn star, what name would you put on?
A: According to the correct calculation on MSNBC its first pet + street name growing up.

Q: What is your most valued possession?
A: DELETE button on the computer (Gets rid of all the junk)

Q: On the eve of that Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, what do you consider the ultimate in fanboy-ism?
A: 400 lb woman in an Amidala Outfit (I was trying to find a picture of this, but its hard to do that from work)

Want more? I will try my best.
I do take suggestions!

Slow Day

2006-07-12T22:01:00.000-07:00

So I was working up stairs and found that in the morning things were still a little slow. So I decided to browse some blogs, and what do I find... Absolutely nothing. There really hasnt been any funny comments or anything, at least not until I read Kr5is' blog about the "Time O' Month Red' Crayon. I am trying to find something to post about everyday. Its kinda hard to think of something funny or interesting for everyone to read. I guess on the other side of things I could tell everyone about what is going on in my home life. The truth of it is, its all been kinda routine stuff. Goto scouts on Wed, Work on the Yard, Thur or Friday or sometimes mondays. Watch a couple of movies and keep an eye on the kids while they butch up the place. I dont know. Seems pretty tidious to me. I guess I am just stuck in that little rutt called life.
Good news though from the work side. The latest release for Dent!x is being released. We might be shipping all the beta offices this week. Currently there are only 2, but we have made some changes and will be shipping to 160 of them. Hopefully we should be able to get all the issues noted and updated ASAP so that it can be officially released, and they can start working on other things.. Like !mage. So yeah, I hope you have enjoyed my neandering.

What donut are you?

2006-07-12T10:09:00.000-07:00

I was the following:

You Are a Caramel Crunch Donut

You're a complex creature, and you're guilty of complicating things for fun.
You've been known to sit around pondering the meaning of life...
Or at times, pondering the meaning of your doughnut.
To frost or not to frost? To fill or not to fill? These are your eternal questions.

What Donut Are You?