Saving Thanksgiving

So Thanksgiving huh. What a great time to be able to eat and be with friends and family. I went and played in the turkey bowl this year. It was big time. We had recruits from Boston, Winnamuka, Colorado and more. The ground was frozen solid so it was like playing on concrete but we didn’t have any traction. I was an intense brawl and we fought hard. I caught a few touchdown passes and accidentally took out some player, but in the end we lost. But it was good times. We were in charge of making mashed potatoes two pies, yams, and stuffing. So the potatoes, pies and yams all were made without any incident. But after the stuffing had been in the oven for about thirty minutes to started looking like a firework was going off in side the oven! Unfortunately it wasn’t a firework it was the bake element. So here we were stuck with a half cooked stuffing and sparking element. What could we do? Give up on the stuffing?
Could Thanksgiving survive without stuffing? Well I came to the conclusion that as long as nothing caught on fire then I could keep the cooking going. It worked and nine out of ten prefer my stuffing over Stovetop.

-lants

INnOUT?

So In N Out wasn't quite so easy as that. Friday Night me and some buddies were board and so we went to In N Out and had to wait in a line that went outside and around the building to get the infamous In N Out food. The lines were nuts and everyone always claims how In N Out is so great. The truth is it really isn't. It's a fast food place and is pretty much the same as all of them. We were listening to talk radio on the way there and we were trying to call in because one of guys I was with, his Dad was on. And they were talking about In N Out. He was saying how one of his sons was so great because he waited in line for two hours and bought him a double double. So the son I was with was going to call in and say he wasn't going to get him a burger because he was playing favorites with his sons. Anyway some of the people that called in said how everyone in Utah is trying to be like California by having this incredible chain, and that we all wish we were californian because they are so cool. I doubt that I like to visit CA but I don't want to live there. Another caller said it well, that all of the Californians are moving here because our economy isn't 85 billion in the whole and they are trying to bring their californian things here but we could care less. Bottom line if you want good fries and burger fast, go to Five Guys. It's way better and there are lines a million miles long.

lants.

The New Moon

So my wife got tickets to a VIP premier of the new twilight movie "New Moon" we had official lanyards and everything. So being the good guy that I am I went with her. I was fully expecting to be one of five guys there, but I was wrong. Surprisingly about 25% to 33% of those in attendance were male. So we had to wait in line for a couple of hours in the cold so I told my wife to wait in the car. I was surprised that this movie would draw this big of a crowd. There were tons of people and all of the theaters were both being used and sold out. I don’t know what it is but girls go crazy over “Jacob.” There is a scene where he takes off his shirt to wipe away some blood from Belle, and all of the females went nuts and screamed! They all have secret crushes on him, well maybe not so secret some even exclaimed “I love you Jacob!” Anyway it was all an interesting ordeal being there I have never been in the middle of female hysteria over a movie, but the movie wasn’t half bad because the werewolves were awesome they are way cooler than vampires so Belle should pick Jacob.

lants.

Bow down to Google the Great God of the Internet

So me and my friend we having a conversation how Google has become so wide spread that is it is taking over the Internet. Just to prove the point. Look at your google dashboard. You can access blogs, youtube videos, email, weather, document readers, translators, news, you can use it as a drop box, a history, a friend linking site. You can look up on google just how much information that they have on you. Your address, nationality, search trends, when you access the internet most, what time of day, what day of the week what month. Your top ten web sites, top ten searches. It has your blog, the blogs you are following. Who you have talked to using the internet, who you have chatted with. Google makes 12 cents each search that you make using their search engine. Ironicly I have given 56 cents while writing this blogs. I know that doesn’t sound like much but multiply that by 400 million searches a day. That is 4.8 billion dollars in one day. I don't even need to calculate that out over a year to know it will be monstrous. And just to prove the point the Google is taking over the internet. I used translationparty.com, which is powered by Google to translate a phrase into Japanese and back into English and see what it becomes:

Google is taking over my life.
=>into Japanese
Googleの私の人生を引き継いでいる。
=>back into English
Google has taking over my life.
=>back into Japanese
Googleの私の人生を引き継ぎました。
=>back into English
Google has taken over my life.

As you can see Google has already taken over the internet and your life too. But isn’t it great? You can do everything with it. (I didn’t mean that sarcastically, it IS great)

lants.

23

Well it was my birthday last week. I am now 23. That is kind of weird to me. It reminds me of the lyrics of a song from one of my all time favorite bands Jimmy Eat World. The song is entitled “23”

Amazing still it seems
I'll be 23
I won't always love what I'll never have
I won't always live in my regrets
You'll sit alone forever
If you wait for the right time
What are you hoping for?
I'm here I'm now I'm ready
Holding on tight
Don't give away the end
The one thing that stays mine

I guess this will be my theme for the next year of my life. To me the song seems like it is a turning point in his life and he doesn’t know if he’s ready to move on. So it seems that in the 23 year will be a nebulous state of existence for me. I am adjusting to married life. It is strange to make the adjustment from single life to married life, and I’m not saying I don’t like married life, because I love it! But it is an interesting transition to let go of things I once aspired to do. But I’ll be 23.

lants.