Heather Armstrong has quite an entertaining blog. In fact her blog is so entertaining it has become popular enough that bother she and her husband quite their "regular" jobs and now make a living entirely off of their blogging. It's rather amusing to hear here try and explain to her neighbors what it is exactly that she does:
"Over the last few weeks several neighbors have stopped by to introduce themselves, and invariably they are older than we are, more established, and have careers in medicine or law. And when they ask what we do, both Jon and I sort of flinch and exchange a quick look that says IT’S YOUR TURN TO LIE. We’re web developers, we say, and that is never enough, they just can’t leave it alone, and one of us will try to explain that I have a website. This thing. That I do. And because we’re being all coy about it I just know, from the very worried expressions on their faces, that these neighbors think that we run a porn site. And a very wicked part of me wants to tell them not to worry, it’s very tasteful porn. No fake boobs or farm animals."
Heather lives here in Utah and writes some fabulous commentary about life around here, crazy things her husband does, and things with her dog, friends, and IKEA... because IKEA is the Second Coming.
Check it all out at dooce.com.
Thursday, May 31, 2007
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Gentleman with a Laptop (Revised)
A man walks into the room from the South West door. The room is approximately 45 feet wide and 65 feet long. The walls are made of large bricks that have been painted over to become white. The ceiling is concrete and has a coffered design to it. The two windows in the back of the room have been shaded, such that most of the ambient light is now artificial.
The top of the man’s head shines a bit under the lights as it is devoid of any hair. However, he still has some hair remaining on the sides of his head, all of which is a slate gray color. He also sports a full beard trimmed short to his skin, only a quarter of an inch long. The beard has a lighter gray color compared to the rest of his hair. His skin has relatively few wrinkles on it; it takes a closer look to see any of the ones that are there. He has a light tan to his skin and a small pair of glasses resting on his nose.
His body frame is quite lean. He is five and a half feet tall weighing close to a hundred and fifty pounds. His dress is comprised of a clean white polo shirt with fine textured ribbing on it; light tan, pleated, wool slacks, and a thin brown belt that only filled half the width of a belt loop. His soft loafers match his brown belt perfectly.
He sets up a laptop on top of a box that is above a small brown table. His eyes peer past his small circular glasses and become fixed onto the screen of the black laptop. He quickly moves his finger back and forth across the touch pad stopping only to click a button. After a minute of maintaining this focus, he lifts his right foot a few feet into the air and rests it on the table. Once in his new position, his focus continues along with the fevered usage of the touch pad.
Once he pauses and lets out a drawn out sigh, his pace with the touch pad finally slows. Two minutes later, he pulls his leg back from off the table, turns to his right and takes a sip of coffee from a bronze colored mug with a black lid and handle that had been resting on the table. He takes a few more sips, slides the lid close, and places the coffee mug in the exact location he moved it from.
He locates something on the computer that produces a smile that looks to be partially a smirk. As a few more people enter the room, he pulls himself away from the laptop to make just a few casual remarks to the new comers.
The top of the man’s head shines a bit under the lights as it is devoid of any hair. However, he still has some hair remaining on the sides of his head, all of which is a slate gray color. He also sports a full beard trimmed short to his skin, only a quarter of an inch long. The beard has a lighter gray color compared to the rest of his hair. His skin has relatively few wrinkles on it; it takes a closer look to see any of the ones that are there. He has a light tan to his skin and a small pair of glasses resting on his nose.
His body frame is quite lean. He is five and a half feet tall weighing close to a hundred and fifty pounds. His dress is comprised of a clean white polo shirt with fine textured ribbing on it; light tan, pleated, wool slacks, and a thin brown belt that only filled half the width of a belt loop. His soft loafers match his brown belt perfectly.
He sets up a laptop on top of a box that is above a small brown table. His eyes peer past his small circular glasses and become fixed onto the screen of the black laptop. He quickly moves his finger back and forth across the touch pad stopping only to click a button. After a minute of maintaining this focus, he lifts his right foot a few feet into the air and rests it on the table. Once in his new position, his focus continues along with the fevered usage of the touch pad.
Once he pauses and lets out a drawn out sigh, his pace with the touch pad finally slows. Two minutes later, he pulls his leg back from off the table, turns to his right and takes a sip of coffee from a bronze colored mug with a black lid and handle that had been resting on the table. He takes a few more sips, slides the lid close, and places the coffee mug in the exact location he moved it from.
He locates something on the computer that produces a smile that looks to be partially a smirk. As a few more people enter the room, he pulls himself away from the laptop to make just a few casual remarks to the new comers.
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Gentleman With Laptop
A glossy fairway of hairless skin atop his head is the man's defining feature. The hair still left on the sides of his head is a slate gray color. He also sports a full beard trimmed short to his skin. The beard has a lighter gray color compared to the rest of his hair.
His body frame is quite lean and appears to be athletic in nature, similar to the composure of someone that runs as a hobby. His dress is comprised of a clean white polo shirt with fine textured ribbing on it; light tan, pleated, wool slacks, and a thin brown belt that only filled half the width of a belt loop.
He sets up a laptop on top of a box that is above a small brown table. His eyes peer past his small circular glasses and become fixed onto the screen of the black laptop. He quickly moves his finger back and forth across the touch pad stopping only to click a button. After a minute of maintaining this focus, he lifts his right foot a few feet into the air and rests it on the table. Once in his new position, his focus continues along with the fevered usage of the touch pad.
His body frame is quite lean and appears to be athletic in nature, similar to the composure of someone that runs as a hobby. His dress is comprised of a clean white polo shirt with fine textured ribbing on it; light tan, pleated, wool slacks, and a thin brown belt that only filled half the width of a belt loop.
He sets up a laptop on top of a box that is above a small brown table. His eyes peer past his small circular glasses and become fixed onto the screen of the black laptop. He quickly moves his finger back and forth across the touch pad stopping only to click a button. After a minute of maintaining this focus, he lifts his right foot a few feet into the air and rests it on the table. Once in his new position, his focus continues along with the fevered usage of the touch pad.
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Cinco de Mayo (Revised)
My wife has always dreamed about having an excellent Cinco de Mayo party. Even more specifically, she has wanted to host such a grand party. She loves throwing parties, and what could get more festive and packed full of energy than a Cinco de Mayo one? Also, since her father is Mexican, she feels a little bit that this is in her blood, and the celebrations must commence! This year, 2007, everything seemed to work out perfect for the party.
For starters, we found a great place to host the party. Some of our closest friends had just remodeled their main level in their house, alowing for more room for all those friends we wanted to invite.
This also meant they aquired a brand new plasma screen for their main room. Why would this matter? I'll tell you later ;)
The third great thing about this years Cinco de Mayo was that it fell on a Saturday, which is perhaps the best day to host a party. This allowed more people to be available, and also, what better way to spend a Sunday than recovering from a monumentous party from the night before.
We started the day by making a trip all the way from Holladay up to Ogden at 9:00 am that morning. Why take such a long hike? Well, we got word from my Dad's fiance that there is a Mexican market where a little old lady makes homemade tamales. This was a pretty awesome market to go and visit. Quite authentic, and everything you could possibly want Mexican wise, you could get it. There was a meat and fish counter with raw cut poultry, pork shanks, pig's feet, whole fish of many varieties, and all sorts of other interesting things. They had rows of spicy sauces, tortillas, and of course, Our Lady of Guadalupe Candles. Our purchased included some pork bones, a tres leches cake, lard (for the refried beans), and thoese delicious tamales.
Once we were done shoping, my wife and I spent the afternoon cooking and getting excited for the party in the evening.
We planned to have the party start at around 6:30, since this was the time that the pre-fight events were getting started. Yup, that was the other factor that made this Cinco de Mayo so excellent, probably one of the biggest boxing events in the last five years. The fight of the evening was Oscar de la Hoya matched again Floyd Mayweather. This single spectacular would have made the night all by itself, it was simply an amazing battle.
We had the house set up with the living room off the entry as the "Tequila Shrine." Here we had about 7 ultra-premium sipping (shooting) tequilas. The main room and kitchen had all the food and plenty of places to mingle. There was also the plasma set up with the fight going. (In the "Tequila Shrine" we also had another TV for the Jazz playoff game.) Out on the patio we had a plethor off fine Mexican beers to choose from. There was no limit here. We also had a top-shelf margarita "keg" set up in the kitchen. Yummmm...
And to lubricate the party even further, my wife's Cinco de Mayo playlist of some 88 hand-picked Latin songs really brought the party to life. This was a labor of love on her part, as the playlist alone was the project of 3 months.
The fight was absolutely captivating. Everyone was crouded in the main room to watch the twelve rounds that had been hyped up for months and months since the annoucement. HBO actually had a series going on prior to the fight giving background on both boxers. In the end, Mayweather won by a very slim margin, although there are still debates raging that de al Hoya actual was the true victor.
Both before and after the fight there was a tremendous amount of mingling going on. Not everyone there knew all the guests, so people were having a great time getting to know people (especially at the tequila shrine). There were also a few cigars being passed around that people were enjoying inbetween the visits to the plethora of food, the margarita keg, the beer collection on the patio, or the shrine.
All I can say is this was a fabulous, practically perfect party... will we ever be able to out-do it?
Rick, Josh, and date
Jill, Noel and friend
Jill and Michael
Happy times on the couch
The infamous "Tequila Shrine"
Clifton and Brooke
For starters, we found a great place to host the party. Some of our closest friends had just remodeled their main level in their house, alowing for more room for all those friends we wanted to invite.
This also meant they aquired a brand new plasma screen for their main room. Why would this matter? I'll tell you later ;)
The third great thing about this years Cinco de Mayo was that it fell on a Saturday, which is perhaps the best day to host a party. This allowed more people to be available, and also, what better way to spend a Sunday than recovering from a monumentous party from the night before.
We started the day by making a trip all the way from Holladay up to Ogden at 9:00 am that morning. Why take such a long hike? Well, we got word from my Dad's fiance that there is a Mexican market where a little old lady makes homemade tamales. This was a pretty awesome market to go and visit. Quite authentic, and everything you could possibly want Mexican wise, you could get it. There was a meat and fish counter with raw cut poultry, pork shanks, pig's feet, whole fish of many varieties, and all sorts of other interesting things. They had rows of spicy sauces, tortillas, and of course, Our Lady of Guadalupe Candles. Our purchased included some pork bones, a tres leches cake, lard (for the refried beans), and thoese delicious tamales.
Once we were done shoping, my wife and I spent the afternoon cooking and getting excited for the party in the evening.
We planned to have the party start at around 6:30, since this was the time that the pre-fight events were getting started. Yup, that was the other factor that made this Cinco de Mayo so excellent, probably one of the biggest boxing events in the last five years. The fight of the evening was Oscar de la Hoya matched again Floyd Mayweather. This single spectacular would have made the night all by itself, it was simply an amazing battle.
We had the house set up with the living room off the entry as the "Tequila Shrine." Here we had about 7 ultra-premium sipping (shooting) tequilas. The main room and kitchen had all the food and plenty of places to mingle. There was also the plasma set up with the fight going. (In the "Tequila Shrine" we also had another TV for the Jazz playoff game.) Out on the patio we had a plethor off fine Mexican beers to choose from. There was no limit here. We also had a top-shelf margarita "keg" set up in the kitchen. Yummmm...
And to lubricate the party even further, my wife's Cinco de Mayo playlist of some 88 hand-picked Latin songs really brought the party to life. This was a labor of love on her part, as the playlist alone was the project of 3 months.
The fight was absolutely captivating. Everyone was crouded in the main room to watch the twelve rounds that had been hyped up for months and months since the annoucement. HBO actually had a series going on prior to the fight giving background on both boxers. In the end, Mayweather won by a very slim margin, although there are still debates raging that de al Hoya actual was the true victor.
Both before and after the fight there was a tremendous amount of mingling going on. Not everyone there knew all the guests, so people were having a great time getting to know people (especially at the tequila shrine). There were also a few cigars being passed around that people were enjoying inbetween the visits to the plethora of food, the margarita keg, the beer collection on the patio, or the shrine.
All I can say is this was a fabulous, practically perfect party... will we ever be able to out-do it?
Rick, Josh, and date
Jill, Noel and friend
Jill and Michael
Happy times on the couch
The infamous "Tequila Shrine"
Clifton and Brooke
Thursday, May 17, 2007
Cinco de Mayo
My wife has always dreamed about having an excellent Cinco de Mayo party. Even more specifically, she has wanted to host such a grand party. This year, 2007, everything seemed to work out perfect for the party.
For starters, we found a great place to host the party. Some of our closest friends had just remodeled their main level in their house, alowing for more room for all those friends we wanted to invite.
This also meant they aquired a brand new plasma screen for their main room. Why would this matter? I'll tell you later ;)
The third great thing about this years Cinco de Mayo was that it fell on a Saturday, which is perhaps the best day to host a party. This allowed more people to be available, and also, what better way to spend a Sunday than recovering from a monumentous party from the night before.
We started the day by making a trip all the way from Holladay up to Ogden at 9:00 am that morning. Why take such a long hike? Well, we got word from my Dad's fiance that there is a Mexican market where a little old lady makes homemade tamales. This was a pretty awesome market to go and visit. Quite authentic, and everything you could possibly want Mexican wise, you could get it. There was a meat and fish counter with raw cut poultry, pork shanks, pig's feet, whole fish of many varieties, and all sorts of other interesting things. They had rows of spicy sauces, tortillas, and of course, Our Lady of Guadalupe Candles. Our purchased included some pork bones, a tres leches cake, lard (for the refried beans), and thoese delicious tamales.
Once we were done shoping, my wife and I spent the afternoon cooking and getting excited for the party in the evening.
We planned to have the party start at around 6:30, since this was the time that the pre-fight events were getting started. Yup, that was the other factor that made this Cinco de Mayo so excellent, probably one of the biggest boxing events in the last five years. The fight of the evening was Oscar de la Hoya matched again Floyd Mayweather. This single spectacular would have made the night all by itself, it was simply an amazing battle.
We had the house set up with the living room off the entry as the "Tequila Shrine." Here we had about 7 ultra-premium sipping (shooting) tequilas. The main room and kitchen had all the food and plenty of places to mingle. There was also the plasma set up with the fight going. (In the "Tequila Shrine" we also had another TV for the Jazz playoff game.) Out on the patio we had a plethor off fine Mexican beers to choose from. There was no limit here. We also had a top-shelf margarita "keg" set up in the kitchen. Yummmm...
And to lubricate the party even further, my wife's Cinco de Mayo playlist of some 88 hand-picked Latin songs really brought the party to life. This was a labor of love on her part, as the playlist alone was the project of 3 months.
All I can say is this was a fabulous, practically perfect party... will we ever be able to out-do it?
Rick, Josh, and date
Jill, Noel and friend
Jill and Michael
Happy times on the couch
The infamous "Tequila Shrine"
Clifton and Brooke
For starters, we found a great place to host the party. Some of our closest friends had just remodeled their main level in their house, alowing for more room for all those friends we wanted to invite.
This also meant they aquired a brand new plasma screen for their main room. Why would this matter? I'll tell you later ;)
The third great thing about this years Cinco de Mayo was that it fell on a Saturday, which is perhaps the best day to host a party. This allowed more people to be available, and also, what better way to spend a Sunday than recovering from a monumentous party from the night before.
We started the day by making a trip all the way from Holladay up to Ogden at 9:00 am that morning. Why take such a long hike? Well, we got word from my Dad's fiance that there is a Mexican market where a little old lady makes homemade tamales. This was a pretty awesome market to go and visit. Quite authentic, and everything you could possibly want Mexican wise, you could get it. There was a meat and fish counter with raw cut poultry, pork shanks, pig's feet, whole fish of many varieties, and all sorts of other interesting things. They had rows of spicy sauces, tortillas, and of course, Our Lady of Guadalupe Candles. Our purchased included some pork bones, a tres leches cake, lard (for the refried beans), and thoese delicious tamales.
Once we were done shoping, my wife and I spent the afternoon cooking and getting excited for the party in the evening.
We planned to have the party start at around 6:30, since this was the time that the pre-fight events were getting started. Yup, that was the other factor that made this Cinco de Mayo so excellent, probably one of the biggest boxing events in the last five years. The fight of the evening was Oscar de la Hoya matched again Floyd Mayweather. This single spectacular would have made the night all by itself, it was simply an amazing battle.
We had the house set up with the living room off the entry as the "Tequila Shrine." Here we had about 7 ultra-premium sipping (shooting) tequilas. The main room and kitchen had all the food and plenty of places to mingle. There was also the plasma set up with the fight going. (In the "Tequila Shrine" we also had another TV for the Jazz playoff game.) Out on the patio we had a plethor off fine Mexican beers to choose from. There was no limit here. We also had a top-shelf margarita "keg" set up in the kitchen. Yummmm...
And to lubricate the party even further, my wife's Cinco de Mayo playlist of some 88 hand-picked Latin songs really brought the party to life. This was a labor of love on her part, as the playlist alone was the project of 3 months.
All I can say is this was a fabulous, practically perfect party... will we ever be able to out-do it?
Rick, Josh, and date
Jill, Noel and friend
Jill and Michael
Happy times on the couch
The infamous "Tequila Shrine"
Clifton and Brooke
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