Today I killed my pea plant. We've been together for about a month and a half. Filled with many ups and downs the time was right to finally put it down. In retrospect I'm sure there were some things I could have down better. Give it more light, better water and most of all more tender loving care. If I only would have known that the pod would become so heavy it would bend the plant in half. Alas my plant is dead and I am left alone to tell the sad tale of Project Pea Plant. I hope I get an A. 

Video from Zion Nat'l Park

Zion Video.

Ken is still a little stunned by the elegant views provided by the world reknowned National Park we like to call Zion. We have gathered as commanded in the scriptures. Will you be numbered among the righteous? 

After traversing the trail called Weeping Rock and ascending more than 2000 feet I couldn't help but stop and take this breathtaking photo. 

So this is all who went. Real attractive group. I'm the guy that looks like the tourist on the left.

Thats the bellagio fountains in the background. I didn't gamble, but I did bring back some chips. 

Budd

Buddhism that is. I'm converted. I don't know if this requires baptism or what but I'm a self proclaimed Buddhist-Mormon. Kinda like how Marvin Goldstein is a Jewish-Mormon. I see no contradiction and I think it's a perfect fit, and it also comes at a great time in my life. I'm making big life decisions right now and I think this will help me focus my thoughts and energy towards something more positive. If I know anything at all it is that I'm at where I'm at and I deserve to be where I am, at least that's what Buddhism tells me. I wonder where I'll end up in the next life or what I'll end up being. Maybe a bird or maybe I'll just be a rock, keen to observe all around me and tell little jokes to the peebles chillin' nearby. Anyway it's all about karma. My conversion story? I read the 4 noble truths, which are: 1 - Life is suffering 2 - Suffering arises from desire 3 - The solution to suffering lies in curbing desire 4 - Desire can be curbed if a person follows the eight fold path. My conversion was both logical and spiritual. The eight fold path is where Buddhism gets a little too much too soon. Join me and we can be little Buddhist friends. Plus we could probably take over the world. Who's in?

I don't know if you can see or if you would ever notice, but I'm wearing my tsunami survivor beads, as a constant reminder of the fragility of life 

It's my B

Drifting upon the clouds of life I like to call laziness, another year has passed. With each passing year I find myself getting wiser and wiser, and by no effort of my own. I have always thought that my phsyical prime was about 14 or 15. And so this last year I have found that my body is really weak. Also as a college student I don't have the greatest diet. Maybe this is the cause of people blindly throwing themselves into foolish relationships that lead to even more foolish eternal commitments. What I'm getting at is that people get married because their wife makes them dinner. But alas, I, lacking a wife, also find myself lacking a balanced diet. And so my body is slowing getting weaker, barely clinging to what some call life. But in the past year I have recognized this physical weakness, and so I have begun to supplement my breakfast's each day with calcium. I also take vitamins A, C, and E, and I get some D with the calcium too. This last summer I started getting shin splints. I go home for Christmas, run two days in a row and bam, injured for a month. I guess I was more forced to supplement my meals than anything else. Life is not a game, but if it was I'd be a superstar. Don't be offended, just smile and go on with life. I really am humble, really I am. "I've been afraid of changing cause I've built my life around you. .... Even children get older....I'm getting older too....." Ah the bliss of randomismz.

Is it?

Got half of what I was owed by my boss. Quit. Went home. Got hired for different job. 7 hours less a week 100 dollars more a month or more. Plans have been laid for the take over of all cleaning of Nu Skin buildings. Broken shins no more. Ah the bliss of mortality. At least you think I'm mortal. I'm always the last one laughing. Always.

I was also told recently that I should be a photographer. I think you can see why. I am always amazed at the times when fate seems to poke out its ugly little head. I think this was one of those times. Light and dark. Two worlds collide in the image I call without hesitation, "dulce." Translation...this image captures the sweetness which fate inevitably captures. Don't thank me thank the serendipitous events which arise around and about us without so much as a warning. I'd almost like to say it's rude....but I won't. Later friends.

aghh the pain

I have shin splints. it hurts. i need someone to come and massage my shins or something. any volunteers? unfortunately thats all i have to say right now, in terms of complaining at least.

Ive move into my new place, and it is amazing. I don't like school anymore, at least right now, I don't want to go to school. These are my feelings.

I really enjoy sharing my feelings. Oh how I wish I could shout my feelings from the tops of the mountains for all to hear, this is a really good outlet for me.

Whatever.

poetry?

I was just recently encouraged into the field of poetry....and I slowly drifted away into deep thought.....

dreaming upon the gusts of wind
i was swept away by the storms which have already past
icicles form and drip upon my eyelids
freezing my memory which thinks
of you

and to think I was once asked if I was a romantic

Coffee - creating addicts since the 19th century.....instead of watching hours of mind numbing television, people lacking ambition for life drank cup after cup, much like the people of today 

Ahh, the world reknowned Seattle underground 

alarming news

I was just watching some tv during my vacation and I saw some interesting news scroll at the bottom of the screen, "an 8.1 magnitude earthquake hit in between australia and antartica. There were no reports of injury or damage." Its a good thing they let everyone know, we never would have known. I don't know about you, but I thought it felt more like a 6.

thats me having a good time at my brother tods in idaho this last summer 

hmmm

so now my biggest dilemma is how i want to address my target market and really who my target market should be. who is my target market? this is a complicated decision i must make. and really thats what life is really all about, life decisions, and i think ive really made some important ones today, for example writting this post on this stupid blogger. well i better stop writting before i write some more expletives

all these pictures are kind of old, but anyway thats me and cosmo, yea thats right 

no that is not a joint