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I set up Google Analytics on my blog to track how many people actually look at this. It's been interesting to see where people access my blog from. (Indonesia, India, and Russia? Really?) Anyway since I set up the analytics site and it is telling me that since then there have been 123 people look at my blog. That's what prompted this post.

I can hardly believe how fast the past 2 1/2 years have gone! I've lived in the same apartment and ward for that long (since I moved back to Provo from Cedar City, which is where my family lived after my mission). It is going to be a hard transition for me to move to a new place, even if I will be living with some great people.

I've never dealt very well with change. I'm not sure when it started, but the first time I remember is when I moved to St. George from the dorms my freshman year. (I had just made so many friends, and I was leaving it all to go to St. George where I knew no one since we had moved there from Wisconsin while I was in school.) Since then, every move has been a difficult one. It was no different on my mission.

Anyway, I didn't really know what to talk about so I said the first thing that came to mind.

I'm going to miss this place.

Priorities

I had an interesting conversation with my mom a few weeks ago that has stuck with me. She was talking about how people often worry more and spend more time looking for their first job out of college than looking for a spouse.

How do you feel about that? It seems backwards as far as priorities goes, but I can't blame anyone for it being that way since finding a job fills a more immediate need. I just think something isn't right when we stress out more about finding a job that will last for a few years (heck, let's even say it lasts until you retire) and less about finding someone to spend eternity with.

I'm not saying I'm exempt from it either. Cause I'm not stressed about finding a wife. (In case that's what you were thinking.) But I have no idea what I want to do when I'm done with school.

My childhood in videos

Having just talked to my dad for Father's Day, spending time reminiscing about me when I was young, we got to talking about the movies/videos that I always watched when I was just a young'un. I remembered a lot of it, but some of it my dad reminded me of, and I just had to share it with someone.

So, thanks to the miracle that is YouTube, here is a summary of a number of my childhood memories. Oh the memories :-)

George Harrison - I Got my Mind Set on You



MC Hammer - U Can't Touch This

I guess embedding of MC Hammer's "U Can't Touch This" is disabled, so here's the link if you want an awesome blast from the past:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otCpCn0l4Wo

Star Wars - Jabba the Hutt
 
Sorry about the subtitles in this one.





An American Tail - Never Say Never



Babar



Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II - The Arcade Game for Nintendo

Obviously you don't need to watch all of this. Plus the guy playing has no idea what he's doing, I could play circles around him in this game :-) (Boy, if that doesn't make me cool, I don't know what does!)



Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers

Another one with disabled embedding. You won't be disappointed by watching this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0YkXmebAGM


Wow. I had a great childhood! :-)

I guess this weekend wasn't for resting

Friday:

Internship meeting from 12-1 as usual. Then I met with my mom in Murray to look at our auto insurance policy. Apparently my credit rating and driving record are so good that by switching our plan to put it under my name reduced our policy's premium from over $1500 every 6 months to $601 every 6 months! Ka-Ching (says my mom)!

I get home just in time to leave for the Hot Springs in Spanish Fork Canyon. What a place! It was super secluded (about a 45 minute hike from the trail head, which was about a 10-15 minute drive from the highway) and extremely scenic! (To see pictures, click here).

Then we went to In-N-Out. The guy who joined our group at the hot springs (who was originally there by himself... yeah...) must have overheard that we were going to In-N-Out and I guess he followed us there. A little bit creepy...

Then of course hot tubbing and swimming, since we apparently didn't get enough of the water.

Saturday:

10am Ultimate game. We weren't at full strength, were missing one of our best players, and had a player with an ankle injury (way to walk back and forth between end zones, Nat! Sorry we couldn't get it to you better...), and we lost. I think losing 6-12 isn't so bad when you are so outnumbered.

Then went to watch the Soccer game. We also lost that. I guess we couldn't expect much being one man down, and when the other team has a bunch of Hispanic players and an African player. (Complimentary racism?)

Ward activity at Rock Canyon park with a water balloon civil war. I wish I had pictures of that. Oh well.

Volleyball at the Riv at night. Fun times.

A couple of episodes of 24. It's sickening that we have only 1 more episode left in season 1 when we started like 10 days ago. It's also awesome.

Well time for bed. I'm still awake because I took a 2-hour nap today, but maybe I can manage a little sleep before tomorrow.

Those who read all the way to the end: leave a comment on what you're thinking about right now.

Efficiency Expert

After some research last week and some more today, I found ways to save my mom about $500/month just in our insurance and phone plans. Booya! Maybe I should charge a small fee to people to help them save money or time doing things more efficiently. I'm pretty sure I've heard of people actually doing that. Anyone interested in my efficiency services? :-)

It's looking like I'm going to be spending a majority of my time on my computer this summer.

• Learning SEO with Leadgenix
• Learning Adobe programs with BYU's OIT Training AND with the free Comms Department Lynda.com training membership
• Starting a website or two just to see if I can (and maybe start up a business or NPO?)
• Studying for the GMAT

All not including the time I spend on my computer already. What a nerd.

Driving adventures

Between Monday, July 26 and Monday, August 3 I drove:

Provo to Cedar City: 206 miles
Las Vegas to Provo: 385 miles
Provo to Enoch: 206 miles
Enoch to Zion National Park and back: 131 miles
Enoch to Cedar Breaks and back: 65 miles
Cedar City to Las Vegas: 187 miles
Cedar City to Provo: 206 miles
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Subtotal: 1,386 miles

From Monday July 26 to Monday August 3 I was a passenger for:

Cedar City to Las Vegas: 187 miles
Las Vegas to Cedar City: 187 miles
Cedar City to St. George and back: 122 miles
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Subtotal: 496 miles
+ 1,386 miles
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Total mileage in the car: 1,882 miles

Also about 1,882 miles from Provo: Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Pittsburgh, PA, and Fort Knox, KY (with about 200 miles to spare for getaway driving time after knocking off the bullion depository.)

Google maps won't let me drive to Mexico. Probably because of the Swine Flu and the water.