Joe
Walking onto the stage arms spread wide, cane held a loft in his left hand, he eyed the crowd seeking to catch every eye. A tall man of average build, his mop of fiery red hair was only upstaged by his burning goat-t and brows.. The black button up shirt, trousers, and mirror shined shoes only worked to make his hair seem to dance like flame. His cane tapered towards one end with gold end caps and adorned with a swirling red orb on the top. After a moment, when the crowd quieted, he threw his cane high into the air. Spinning himself around, he caught the cane in his right hand and brought the point down hard against the stage with a resounding “crack!”
“Ladies and Sirs!” he shouted, “Sirs and Ladies!” Quieting only marginally he continued, “Tonight you will see daring feats of courage and exotic dances that will tear at your soul. You will hear a song to boil your blood, and finally, a tail of such astounding danger and mystery that you will not sleep peacefully for the rest of your lives.”
He bowed deeply, one leg stretched behind him. His cane held outstretched and his left arm folded behind his back. He held this bow, his face not a foot from the stage floor, for what seemed like forever before he stood back up and strode off the way he’d entered the roar of the crowd pulling at him to return to the stage.
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Character Without A Story
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Five Movies That Describe Me

Stranger Than Fiction
It reveals my semi-compulsive tendency and also my tendency to not only treat my life like a novel but also to view my life as a novel. I have some weird structures to the way I do things: like jelly beens, which I eat in twos; or skittles, I eat one of each color until I can't then I eat them in order of the color with the most left, I also do that with M&M's. I also do the whole step counting thing, sometimes with out knowing it.
Dan in Real Life
It is just really kinda scary how similar it is to our family. Watch it and you'll see.
Tron
Enough said.
Stargate
There are three movies and a ten season TV series all of which are just what they are. Think Daniel Jackson.
Martian Child
A quirky author whose only fit is a child with an extremely overactive imagination. I'm not sure how else to explain it.
December 16, 2008
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Lego Creations
Friday, October 24, 2008
New Blog
Jess thought that if she made a joint blog for us that things might actually get blogged about. So she did with the encouragement of Jason who was in Utah doing research and spent some time visiting with us. Visit it and enjoy. She has already posted five times today. Post title is the link.
October 24, 2008
Monday, October 20, 2008
Caption Cal

The Standard Examiner in Ogden does a weekly caption contest. The image appears in the paper and, after a week, the winner of the contest's caption is used with the image in the next week's paper. Jess's biological father and his wife enter quite often and so they asked us about a caption for this image and we proceeded to submit it. We won so we got a t-shirt and a copy of the comic.
October 20, 2008
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Rubik's Cube

So, ever sense I first learned to do the cube I have been trying to easily move from fully solved to having crosses on each side. I have been able to quickly and easily make Xs on each side but could never make crosses. I had heard time and time again that it was possible and just could not figure it out. I have been able to make the cube look that way only when I solved it from scratch to look that way. So the other day I was just messing around with the cube when suddenly I had done it. It made my day.
Yes I am a horrible geek.
Sept. 3, 2008