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Little puglies

Couple of video from the Coldplay concert

King of men . . .

Some guys just have everything going for them.

Bluegrass Evening

Wednesday night at the Rocky Mountain Pizza Company on Wasatch Blvd. the local bluegrass musicians get together and jam. I used to go with buddies when I was still single. I really enjoyed the music and the atmosphere. So, Traci and I have gone a couple of times since returning home to Utah. The problem is that in the last few years either my tastes have gotten better or the pizza there has gotten worse, because the food is not good. However, the bluegrass hasn't changed and that's what I really go for anyway.

I took a little video with my phone, my cousin Jen went with us this week and you can see her long, flowing hair in the shot.



There were about 30 musicians there this week. You can hear them playing pretty well in the video, but it sound much better live. There just folks, and you can tell they love playing. It's one of those things.

New Feature - Qik Feed

I finally broke down and jailbroke my phone (pun, pun, PUN, pun). Jailbreaking the iphone allows you to add functionality that apple hasn't approved. One such function is Qik. Qik is live streaming from my phone. So I can take videos from the phone and while I am doing so, if you are watching my blog, you'll be seeing what I see. There's a 2 or 3 second delay, but it's pretty close to live. So, enjoy it.

Also, if nothing is being recorded live, you can watch the latest video by clicking on the Qik button on the video, it will bring up thumbnails of the last few videos I have shot.

Granted the quality is low, but I think . . . this is mindblowingly cool. I'm a geek like that.

There's a video from this morning of the spider that we set up in our office, instead of working. Beautiful.

Up in the Night

I have been remiss in my blogging duties of late, so I guess this blog post will tell you why.

I got a new job a couple of weeks ago, nothing profound, it's a $12 an hour temp job at the Univeristy of Utah. I do billing for the hospital, which means that I call the insurance company and say, "I want my two dollars!" Or $200,000, as the case may be.

Anyway, it pays the student loans until I can get more gainful employment.

I have also been working for Famous Fashions Found. They are an online fashion retailer. We are in the process of moving the site to a new host will all kinds of new capabilities, like affiliate marketing, promotions, and stuff.

This is what a day looks like for me:

Traci wakes up early, like 6:00 to get ready for her work, she's on the 4 10s with the state so she needs to be into work by 7:30 so she can go home at 6:00. Long days, but it means that she has 3-day weekends. Usually I try to sleep for another 30 minutes or so because then I will be ready about the same time and we go into work together. We are living in Sandy for a few months and we both work downtown so we drive together.

So, I start work around 8:00, and I am off around 4:30. Then I go over to the library to wait for Traci and work on Famous Fashions. We drive home together at 6:30, get something to eat for dinner, and maybe relax for a few minutes, that makes it about 8:00. I will then try to put in a few more hours of work before going to bed.

I do this every day but Friday, when I can leave early because I don't have to wait for Traci. Saturday this week involved winterizing the rental house, looking for a washer and dryer, and then another days worth of work on Famous Fashions.

Now some of you might be medical residents or something like that, and you are probably thinking, "Wow, sounds like a pretty light week."

The temp job at the U is low stress, the hospitals and the insurance companies have computer systems that talk to each other, so I am not so much collecting on bad debt as I am correcting information in the computer system so the bills go through correctly and get paid. 80% of the time after the hospital staff has input the information into the computer system, the billing goes out, the insurance receives it, and pays the bills without being without and human intervention.

Going from being not busy at all, to very busy, has messed with my routine. I haven't been to the gym (although I hurt my back 3 weeks ago, so I wouldn't have been for 2 weeks anyway), I haven't been posting fascinating blog entries, and worst of all, I haven't been able to watch nearly as much TV. That's not right.

So, the other weird thing is that I am having trouble sleeping, so it's about 5:00AM right now, I have been up since 3:00, can't sleep. I guess I am off to the gym, I was up to running 3 miles, before the injury, I'd like to get back to it soon.

Thumbs up . . . , or down???

I found this new video called "WSYK." I can't decide if I like it or not, what do you think??


What Should You Know: Understanding the Financial Crisis from openSermo on Vimeo.


What Should You Know: The Bailout from openSermo on Vimeo.

Interesting or annoying?