Since the tragedy at the Sandy Hook Elementary school, there has been a lot more attention placed on tougher gun control. President Obama stated in his last 2012 election debate that he wanted an assault weapons ban in his next term in office. It seems hypocritical that he is allowed to have people carrying assault weapons to …
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How we are paying for an overpayment mistake made by Intermountain HealthCare
This post is about our experience with Intermountain HealthCare and how we encountered the issue of them overpaying my wife.
2012 Election Political Cartoons
Some political cartoons I’ve collected off the Internet that I liked. Most of them are against Obama. If you are an Obama fanboy or you just don’t have a sense of humor, I really don’t want to hear about it. As a side note, I did not vote for either Obama or Romney. Enjoy! …
Creating a Raised Garden
Wendy has spent the last couple of summers planting a garden for vegetables for us to eat in our backyard. One of the things she has read about is the idea of using raised gardens. We had been planting a traditional garden at ground level that we tilled up each year and planted. Most of …
The Treehouse Part 1
With our first child on the way, I decided that I wanted to build a treehouse/playhouse for our kid(s). My dad built one when I was a kid that was a raised structure on 4 telephone poles raised above a boxed in sandbox. My brother and I spent lots of time out there playing. I …
Save money through credit cards
This post is for people who have good spending discipline and do not have credit card debt. The idea for this post came about after I got a letter in the mail from one of my credit cards informing me that they no longer issued credit cards to the state I live in (Utah), and …
My Parking Lot Rant
I’ve been saving up for this one for a while, and I’ve decided to let it be known. While I realize that me writing this won’t change the world (I’m not that important), its just a good way for me to air my grievances. My wife thinks its a healthy way for me to let out my frustrations. …
Merry Christmas 2011
Hey everybody. Hope this finds you all doing great. 2011 was another wonderful year for Wendy and I. We had a lot of fun and got to go see more new places. Its fun still being in the first years of marriage. Wendy is still enjoying her job doing urgent care for kids. She works …
Weminuche Wilderness backpacking adventure
Trip Photos A while back, sometime in the late 90’s, I read about a place in Southwestern Colorado called the Weminuche Wilderness. Also known as The Backpacker’s Nirvana, it is located in the San Juan National Forest. I made my first visit to there in 1998 with a Philmont friend, Bill Sassani, where we did …
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California Bound
Wendy had some time off over the 4th of July Weekend, so we decided to take a little vacation. We hadn’t really made any kind of plans on what we wanted to do, so we decided to make a road trip out of it. We had both heard that northern California is very pretty, so …