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So, Britain and I went down to my parents house for General Conference.

Here is Jameson getting back from a Water Polo Game on Friday night. Water Polo is the best! He has some pretty cool looking warm-ups and a neat bag.

Here is my baby sister and her boyfriend. Too bad I’m not around enough to harass him more. He seems like a good enough guy. (except when he is in a coffin…)

Before the Priesthood Session of Conference, the boys, Dad, Jameson, and I, went out bowling.

Here is Dad bowling. I now know where I got my bowling habits from. Both he and I do very well and then randomly to really bad.

 

Here’s me. I don’t think this was the greatest shot to take…I think I got like one pin…yuck.

Jameson uses the spin method to bowl. Its pretty cool!

 

Yeah, he’s cool:

 

Here was the scoreboard for the final of three games. It’s the only one I remembered to take a picture of. Lucky for me, its the one game I won! Don’t worry, we all won one and we all took last once. We decided it would be nice to rotate through. The order from top to bottom is Dad, Me, and then Jameson.

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I competed at the PBL State competition this weekend. It was a good time. I was only there Friday. Here are some pictures from the opening session.

Below is a picture of the whole group from USU, minus me of course. I’m taking the picture!

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Today was the big service project I’ve been planning in my Management Class. We had a big service company called Globus drive up from Salt Lake with bags of unfolded hospital gowns, scrubs, and similar linens ready for us to fold, organize, and count. These are being sent to Iraq. We also had 17 fleece blankets to be tied and sent to an orphanage in Romania.

Here is a pile of folded gowns.

Fleece blankets in the making.

 

Below is my beautiful wife helping out. She was great during the whole project. She even helped take charge and package and count the materials near the end.

We ended up with five full pallets in the end. We really did an extraordinary job.

Doing service projects is a great feeling. Organizing and executing feels that much better still.

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This is kind of ironic. Not something you get to see everywhere…unless you’re in Utah:

These are flowers, yes, poor snowed on flowers on Utah State University campus.

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Here is a small guessing game for Sunday. What is this?

 

Is this a new pet?

No, this is Britain’s lovely fake fur coat. It is really warm and I think she looks way cute in it. I took this picture while at church. It was cold today inside because of the snow. Yeah, it snowed bad again. Welcome to Utah and her never ending winter.

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Today I met for the weekly Public Relations and Marketing Committee Meeting for E-Week. It’s put on by the E-Club. E standing for Entrepreneurship. I’m part of this to get a credit for my major. Its been a good experience. I’ve learned a lot and had a good time so far. We just got the fliers and posters printed. They look great. I designed them myself.

 

These are the quarter sheet fliers…

…and these are the full sheet posters. We originally planned to have large tabloid sized posters (roughly 16 x 11) but quick decisions cut those out for now. We may print another batch of ads and probably would get the large size then. We also have a T-shirt that my Messaging Team created. A full sized banner is in the works after working out some problems.

This is what I like. Actually doing something. This is what makes school bearable. Something that applies. Classes do little or nothing for me but this is the real deal. This project also shows me that I really, really, should’ve gone into graphic design! I love it!

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I really like my computer. For those of you who don’t already know, it’s tiny. I got it for super cheap from Sam’s Club on Black Friday. I’ve made a few modifications to it. I upgraded the RAM from 1 GB to 1.5 GB (the most it can handle). I upgraded from Windows XP to Windows Vista. I also use a high speed SD memory card dedicated to ReadyBoost to help keep it speedy. The hard drive is 160 GB. It’s not super fast but it is super portable, as you can see:

To help judge the size, here is my hand on it and a 20 oz bottle next to it. You can also see the USB cable on the left. This computer is way small and great to carry to classes and such. The best part of all, it is cheap. I paid $350 and the same exact model is now only $299. There is even another model that only has an 8 GB Solid State Hard Drive (SSD, a drive that works like a memory card, low energy and high speed) instead. I definitely have been pleased.

I use it for a few basic reasons:

Microsoft Outlook. I use this to organize my calendar, tasks, contacts, and etc., and I sync them with my cell phone (a Black Jack 2 with Windows Mobile 6.1).

Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc. I know that Outlook is included in this but I also use Word for notes and typing papers and whatnot. It runs all these fine.

And of course, I use this notebook, termed a Netbook by the computer industry, for surfing the net. (Hence the net part of Netbook.) What you see is Google Chrome, a new internet browser like Internet Explorer or Firefox. I like Chrome the very best. It is fastest and has the basics I need. It is the most reliable too. Only occasionally do I need to use another browser for compatibility; e.g. I used Firefox to do my taxes because I had to.

I really have enjoyed having a computer like this. I’ve avoided getting the smaller computers because they’ve typically lacked power. Those are generally 12 in screens. This 8.9 in screen gets the job done. I can do pretty much whatever I feel like doing.