Breaking in the New Year (and my ribs)

Ow.
That, in a word, is how I describe the start to this new year. I stepped outside last night to show Courtney a new exterior light I had installed for our flag, and I promptly slipped on some ice on the porch stairs. Fortunately, there was a railing there and, fortunately, it had a good [...]

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Christmas Wrapping

I don’t know so much that it’s a guy thing, but it is definitely a Dave thing. I hate wrapping presents. It takes forever, my back aches from being bent over, and I’m just plain unskilled. Courtney’s presents, of course, look like angels descended from on high, gracefully layering lace and love across each individual [...]

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Ten Years

I’M OLD!!!
Okay, not really. I was teasing a coworker the other day. We were talking about a recent Elders Quorum activity in my ward, and he reminisced that he had never really spent a lot of time in the EQ because he was ordained as a high priest fairly quickly after his mission. That’s when [...]

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Adoring the Muppets

I think that’s about the right way to say it, too. I adore the Muppets. Aside from a disastrous Muppets in Space and an even worse Muppets’ Wizard of Oz, the Muppets can really do no wrong.
There’s just something about them that makes me smile.
My dream is that someday the Muppets will do Phantom of [...]

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The Holy War 2009: BYU vs. U of U

Let’s just start off by saying I bleed blue and I was very happy with the results of this past Saturday’s game. A win is always nice, but it’s especially nice when it comes against a rival.
But I was disappointed in the comments of the BYU quarterback, Max Hall, who after the game blasted the [...]

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Here Comes 12 Trillion

Here it comes….
I’m not sure if it’ll have the impact I hope it does, but the United States is expected to cross the $12,000,000,000,000 (that would be 12 Trillion if you’re counting zeroes) mark in our national debt sometime in the coming 24 hours or so. See for yourself.
And I get the feeling that most [...]

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Election Day 2009

It seems like we were just here not that long ago….
Local elections only for me with a new mayor and two council positions open. I’m fairly confident my selection for mayor will win and quite possibly both council positions as well. I suppose that’s a good thing, but I readily admit I’m kind of not [...]

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Really? The Peace Prize?

I’m sure I’m going to catch some flak from some, but I almost felt ill this morning when I found out that President Obama had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. I just have to ask the question: Why? What has he done to deserve the Peace Prize? Are we really so enamored with the [...]

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Wii-mbeldon and the Chuck Norris Trophy

My ward has two elders quorums, and about 18 months ago, I proposed that we start monthly sports rivalries to promote across-the-quorums unity. The first event was a volleyball match, and one of the activity chairs offered a color-printed picture of Chuck Norris as the trophy that would pass back and forth between the quorums.
The [...]

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