Date tonight!

I'm going on a date tonight with Minna. WITHOUT KIDS! We'er probably going to go to Jackson Diner again since last time we went with the kids.

Minna's cake

I made Minna a cake for her birthday. Recipe here.


I had a little extra left over so I made a really small cake using two ramekins. Then frosted in on an upside down ramekin.

My Siblings

The two who started it all...

My 4th trip to Utah within two months

Included working... But also this:


I was also able to meet up with some friends for a sort of Ricks College reunion for some excellent reminiscing. Rick, Jon, Barf, Tony. It had been too long.

Last night's flight

Last night was crazy. I flew from JFK to SLC, but the headwinds were so strong the plane needed a fuel stop in Denver. We landed in Denver, taxied, fueled and the pilot announces there is a fault that occured during taxi, now they are working on that. We're not even at a gate, just a fueling station I guess. It's like a long road trip in a car and stopping for gas everyone gets up, stretches. I'm close to the front and I can see the captain on his cell phone and he keeps flipping switches. They power down the aircraft, to reset the system so no lights are on. But people's faces glow from cell phone screens. People are talking to each other more.

Personally this makes my trip here nearly moot, I'll probably miss most of the video taping I'm supposed to do. But, I'm not really bothered. I'm just tired and bored. A girl behind me who talks in a really loud voice normally continues to talk on the phone about all this. I can hear her above everyone else. And everyone else is doing the same thing.

Lights start turning off and on. There are chimes every 20 seconds or so. Finally, the Captain says that they are unable to fix the fault so we'll taxi to the gate and they'll be putting us up in a hotel for the night and we'll be off to SLC in the morning. Everyone groans.

We taxi to the gate and someone from Denver gets on and tells us how we'll get shuttled to the hotel. Then the pilot gets on and says that while taxiing the fault indicator turned off. They perform some system test and he says we're flying to SLC tonight. Nice. And off we went. We probably spent 2 hours in Denver.

I ended up getting to my hotel at about 4:30am. I'm tired.

In Utah this week

I was in Salt Lake City, Utah for a day this week. Normally they give me a regular car but this time they gave me a Mustang convertible. So for lunch I took it for a drive up the canyon.

Target Practice

I went with to scout camp for one night last week. They had a leadership shooting competition.


me shooting a .22 rifle

The rules for this competition were to shoot at the point of the V without actually touching any of the v. If your bullet touches the V that bullet is disqualified.

3 bullets were perfect around the point of the v. One was on the v and one was way out.

Not bad. As we all handed our targets into the judges I could see that I had really good chances of winning. Alas, I did not win. But since blogs are narcissistic I thought I'd show how well I think I did.