January's done

well, almost. It has been quite a fun week. Some highlights -

- Our basketball team beat San Jose on Thursday and then owned Hawaii on Saturday to get to 19-1 on the season, #1 in the WAC and ranked #27 in the nation. When I say 'owned,' I mean it. They only scored 19 points in the first half to our 36. We play Nevada this Thursday and it's going to be crazy. Aparantly the games only get better as the team gets higher in the rankings because the increased exposure equals more people at the game. We'll see.

- I rocked my sociology test. That felt pretty good.

- I took some pretty sweet pictures on Friday. Friday was the weirdest foggy day in the history of the world. You really couldn't see the other cars if it wasnt for the headlights, and you could only see the stoplights when you got within 10 feet of them. On the way back from Quantum of Solace, Janet saw a shopping cart in a little creek behind Wal Mart that was lit up pretty well by a street light. We went home to grab my camera, but got caught up in a movie instead. So, Jake, Brian and I went a little later. Here are the results.

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I took millions of pictures, but only like 15 turned out well. I do love the new camera, and I love that in all of the computer labs we have all the image editing software I could ever want. I'm still trying to learn about how to use it, but just knowing it's there is comforting.

17-1

Holy cow. So it turns out basketball games are the best things to ever happen to college. Let me explain the situation.

When we got there an hour early, there were already tons of students in line to get into the game. As soon as they opened the doors, it was a mad dash for seats. We got pretty close to the court, but it was amazing how quickly it filled up.

As soon as BSU hit the floor to start practicing, we started booing. There was one specific player, Anthony Thomas, who dropped the F-bomb repeatedly on the student section after their victory in the WAC tourny last year, so every time (seriously, every time) he touched the ball in the game - every one of the 10,000 people in attendance booed instantly. We owned him.

When we sat down, there was a BSU fan behind us wearing his orange shirt. As soon as he was spotted, everyone pointed at him and chanted "kick him out!" It was hilarious. He finally put on a blue shirt.

We owned BSU. It was amazing. I think the night was capped by this. We were ahead by seven when this happened, so we went into the half with a 10 point lead. The spectrum went crazy.

Thomas only made two shots all night.

The lead kind of fluctuated for a while, then with about a minute left, everyone in the spectrum pulled out their keys and started jangling them.

Amazing.

Here are a few pictures.

From 1-17-09

Just the guys warming up.

From 1-17-09

Super zoom. Notice the BSU shirt holding the cup of aggie icecream.

From 1-17-09

This is where it happens.

From 1-17-09

Stew preaching his gospel.



Other necessary links.

A sweet write up of the spectrum. Read it.

A sweet basketball movie guaranteed to make you want to visit the spectrum. (the one on the 7th of Feb's going to be sweet. Come one come all.)

Back to normal

After the first week of class - it's good to be able to say that everything is back to normal. Here's a little run down of what's going on.

-As far as classes go - Monday Wednesday Friday I start at 8:30 and get out at 12:20, Tuesdays I have a 7:30 recitation for Cheimstry and Thursday my earliest class is billiards at 9:30.

-Work is amazing this semester. I'm the supplies manager in the lab, which means a few things. First, I only have three scheduled shifts in the labs (which coincide pretty well with my schedule). That's way nice. That also means that I get to use the other half of my hours as I need in order to get everything else done. It's very nice and is quite conducive to more free time.

-My roommates rock. It's pretty much a party everytime we're all home together.

-My camera rocks. I went out on Saturday and took some pictures just playing around. Here are some of them.

From 1-10-09

Here is the front of Grandma and Grandpa Stone's headstone. Pretty sweet, I thought.

From 1-10-09

Here's the back.

From 1-10-09

I liked this one, too.

From 1-10-09

Here is some snow on the road where I stopped to take some pictures of the valley. I thought it was pretty sweet.

From 1-10-09

I liked this one lots. It's really not that clear, but it's not supposed to be.

From 1-10-09

Reason enough for anyone to live in Logan.

From 1-10-09

These horses were pretty excited to run up to the side of the road. He was easily the best looking.



More later, don't even worry.

It has been a while...

So, I just read my last post and realized that I said I was going to post when I was at home over break. Well, I didn't. It was a crazy couple weeks, here are the highlights -

- I worked at toys r us over the break. It rocked. I love those people and I love the fact that they love me enough to let me come and work for a few weeks. They run a tight ship and it was a good time to be able to save Christmas daily.

- My family rocks. I think that the three weeks I spent at home with them just kicking it rocked. Mom doesn't think twice about just doing everything possible to make sure everyone has the best time possible, and she does a bang up job.

- I got to see Janet 3 times. She came and surprised me the first week of break and then we traded visits the rest of the break. She rocks.

- My new camera - most of my Christmas was a contribution to my camera fund and I've had some fun taking some pictures. Here are a couple. It rocks.

From 122708

This is me saving Christmas by holding up the tree while it was getting fixed.

From 122708

One of my first pictures, I liked it lots.

From 1-6-09

Monday night's game against U of I. Notice the far basket and the people standing underneath.

From 1-6-09

Here are those people standing under the far basket, using the 20x zoom. It rocks.

Those are the only pictures I have so far from that camera, but here are a few other gems I found on my computer.

From 12-13-08

This is Jake all wrapped up for his big birthday dance for our neighbor Erica. It rocked.

From 12-13-08

Cousin Maragaret did us a huge solid and got us tickets to the Christmas concert in the conference center.



I no longer have a 2 am shift in the computer lab, so I probably won't be able to post quite as regularly. But, I'll do my best.