Alaska, prepare yourself

It is official. I'm going to Alaska.



I booked my flight tonight for May 1st 2009. It is a long ways off, but at least now a few of us are committed. It'll be a weeklong trip of manliness. A few days on a beach and a few more up in a mountain somewhere. We will probably fight bears, eat fish, and live in the snow. It'll be awesome.

Happenings

This post is going to cover a lot of ground, I'll just tell you that up front.

First off, I was in Seattle this weekend to visit my brother and his family and also to go to the BYU vs. UW football game.


Eliot and Seth joined me on this trip. We all flew in Friday night and my brother picked us up in his new awesome mini-van. Saturday was the big game day, we were woken up around 8:30-9:00 by my niece and nephew who wanted to play and have some fun. I couldn't say no to that. For most the morning we just hung around slowly getting ready to head off to the game. My parents also drove up from Portland to visit, so I saw them briefly before we left for the game. What followed were 3 hours of joy mixed with bits of pain and fear. Could we actually lose to the Huskies? How did we fumble on the goal line? Did Jan Jorgensen seriously just bust that line and block that extra point?! As many of you probably know, BYU won the game, but just barely. We blocked an extra point with 2 seconds on the clock to win the game 28-27. Too close for comfort. Jake Locker ran all over us. Luckily between him and his receivers they didn't have much of a passing game. What matters is that in the end we game through and made on final play. Quinn Gooch, a former BYU defensive player, has lots of good commentary on the whole game and also about BYU football in general. Check it out @ http://deepshadesofblue.com/


Anyway, the rest of the weekend consisted of playing with the kids who have started calling me "The Park" because I essentially play the role of the park while I am there. We also roamed around Seattle checking out some of the sights and enjoying being in the city. I didn't take too many pictures while I was there, but I did get this one of my niece, she is probably the happiest baby I've ever seen. She can't help but always smile.


So I have a knack for finding great deals on guitars I want to get. Enter the Taylor GS-6. I have been thinking about this guitar for quite a few months. It is a little outside my price range so naturally I have waited. Last week I managed to find an amazing deal for this guitar from a guitar store out in Wisconsin. I couldn't resist.




Maybe I'll do some recordings in a bit and post them.

Caution: This will be nerdy

So I have a love for physics.  When other people were taking bowling classes at school for fun, I ended up taking classes like Modern Physics or Light and Optics.  No, I was not a physics major but I still really enjoyed these classes.  In the last physics class I took at BYU I learned a minor amount about particle physics.  It got pretty crazy.  Learning about all the particles smaller than an electron were very interesting and it lead to many discussions about particle accelerators and Super String theory.  I know, I'm a nerd.  Anyway, I was cruising around on the internets and I found this gem of a video on youtube.  Enjoy.