do what you like.

this is a sticker that i saw and i think is a good philosophy for life. another philosophy to which i subscribe is that everything is great as long as it doesn't hurt somebody. for example, tornadoes. another example, boogers. i was driving my car and looked in the rearview to see the white lines disappearing behind me, a window to the past as i looked forward. the sun was coming down over the wasatch front, and i was moving sixty miles an hour forward. i do what i like, and it's great.

i love being outside, it's one of the greatest things that a human can do. i love john muir and everything he says about the rejuvenating effects of nature. the air, the trees, the open sky. high cirrus clouds and blue sky do more for the soul than any medication ever could. road trips are an extension of that, i think. you get to travel through nature, often radically different states thereof, from mountain to valley, desert to mountain, coast to plain, and appreciate the wondrous world. the change, like the change of the season, coupled with the anticipation of the trip, and the open state of the mind all combine for something good.

thanks.

caralho

i think that it is worrisome that people care so much about sports and so little about the world around them. not that it is terrible to care about sports, just that if you have to make a choice, i think that the world should win out. in other news i heard someone use the term zero-sum game in a completely inappropriate sense, and i wanted to correct them but i am trying to be less pretentious so i didn't.

not eating meat is a lot easier than being nice to everyone. you would think that self control would extend to all aspects of life, but it seems that some types are different than others. i think that strengths we build, like the muscles in our body, are all much more differentiated than we suspect. the emotional strength to be faithful in a marriage is different from the strength to be faithful in the church is different from the strength to avoid certain mistakes.

daring to hope

i had never been inspired by a politician until i read "the audacity of hope."
i really like this guy, not to be overly political three posts in a row, but it's something that I care about

looks like it will be 14-10

change is in the air

godspeed

dear internet,

i'm watching adaptation, after having made and eaten two gardenburgers, and a bowl of ice cream. all very tasty. i play fast and loose with capitalization, and i think that everyone should. it's not so bad. capital letters are neat, but not nearly as similar to my soft spoken style as these sweet lowercase ones.

i also went to a chiropractor today. i think that he is maybe a quack. he cracked my back. i think that the good part was the massage to "warm me up." my back knuckles are sprained, he said. he got worried when he felt that my thoracic vertebrae 3-5 were compression fractured. it was a surprise to him. it was old news to me.

i don't know what an "adjustment" is, but i had one and now i am supposed to keep coming back indefinitely. i don't think that i will. i have enough expensive problems as it is.

money for nothing
chicks for free

maybe i need to write a song

gone fishin'

one of my guilty pleasures is make yourself by incubus

I distinctly remember my brother telling me about this "cool new rap/rock band" called incubus. He bought Make yourself when I was a freshman in high school, and we listened to it almost constantly on our trips to school. It was a good album over all, obviously a bit lacking lyrically, but great for a fourteen year old.

It's official, I am addicted. I can't stop skiing. I meant to take a few day off before work, but instead I caught a ride up to PCMR and skied all afternoon, hiked Jupiter Peak, and just tore around in general. I may have sprained my thumb. I might cry when summer comes. but then again, there is so much to do in summer.

keep it real