Sunday
…picking up from last night.

Saturday marked my third trip to The Bookshelf in three weeks. That’s a new record. had heard me talking about the store and wanted to see it for herself. She liked it. While we were in Ogden, I wanted to head into Ogden Canyon to see the damage from the recent rain/rock slide. There wasn’t much to see.

Then it was back to SLC to pick up and head to dinner. Outback. 12-ounce Prime Rib, well done. With mushrooms. And 25.4 ounces of Foster’s, “Australian for ‘beer.'” After dinner, the three of us headed to visit (and Chris), for her birthday. Let me add that makes a mean Pirate’s Tea.

Breakfast was good. Small group, but a crowded restaurant. We don’t know what groups were there, but there were a lot of people. The Machete Guy even put in an appearance.

This morning, I went to the LDS Conference Center to watch a taping of Music and the Spoken Word, featuring the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square; Land and Catherine went with me. I was invited by one of my co-workers to go last week, but could not rouse myself in time to make it downtown. It was a brief program, only thirty minutes, but it was very good. They performed six songs and an organ solo:

  • For the Beauty of the Earth
  • Prayer (from Hansel and Gretel)
  • Simple Gifts (a Shaker song)
  • All Through the Night (Welsh folk song)
  • Organ Solo: Prelude to Teach Me to Walk in the Light
  • Homeward Bound
  • Home Is a Special Kind of Feeling

We stayed after the taping to listen to the choir and orchestra practice a new piece of music.

We left there, picked up and headed to breakfast. IHoP. My father used to take me to IHoP, from time to time, when I was a kid; my favorite thing to order was their chocolate chip pancakes. A short while later, the four of us were on the way to Davis County to pick up a wood chipper. We brought it back here and started to eliminate some… debris… that has been around for far too long. (Yep. Think Fargo. But without the blood. This time.) After that: Pizza and chocolate milk! I haven’t had chocolate milk in a long time. It was good.

The rest of the night has been quiet and relatively uneventful.

Stray Toasters

  • I’m having a craving for either caramel popcorn or bacon and cheese popcorn. But not both at the same time.
  • To Infinity and Beyond – The Washington Post looks at the future of NASA
  • The trailer for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
  • I’ve mentioned, on more than one occasion, that one of my favorite episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is “Trials and Tribble-ations,” wherein the DS9 crew goes back in time to meet the ST:TOS crew. With that in mind, I want these. One nit-pick, though: Dax didn’t wear black hose/tights in that episode. But, I still want the figures.
  • Do you like videogames?
    What about Shakespeare?
    From the “You Got Your Chocolate in My Peanut Butter” file: Capcom vs. SNK Theater Presents: Romeo and Juliet

  • I should probably figure out what I intend to wear to work tomorrow…
  • A boy and his tiger: The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
  • “Everything is annoying before I’ve had my coffee.

  • Not-so-random Wikipedia page: Columbia, Maryland

Quote of the Day
Today’s gem comes by way of :

“He’s that crayon that you never like to use ’cause it’s a weird, ugly color, but it comes in the box so sometimes you have to deal with it… if only to move it out of the way of the other, more fun colors”

Namaste.