Released from the Young Men's

Today I was released as the secretary from the Young Men's Presidency at church. I was then immediately put back in the Young Men's presidency as the 1st Counselor. I'm now over the Teachers Quorum (14-16 yr olds). There are only 4 boys in this group, however it's a good group and I'm glad to be working with them.

I'll get to know the Varsity Program (Boy Scouts), which is what the 14-16 yr olds do in the church for weeknight (Wed) activities.

Take 2, Take 3, Take 4

Today I stayed at home and watched the kids while Deni and Grandma Bowers went to a family baptism. Of course, I got called from work and had to juggle kids and getting the customer back up and working. (The customer was large national hardware store and their website was down.)

While I was watching the kids, Ryan did something to Sydney and they both came running to "tell on" each other. The funny thing was I asked Sydney to tell her side of the story. Then I asked her to tell it again, and again and again. Each time her story got shorter and a whole louder. It was funny. Then I had Ryan tell his side, then had Sydney tell hers and then Ryan, etc. The stories change a few times and by the end of it, both kids were laughing and had forgotten that they were coming to tell on each other.

My book arrived: "Adrift: 76 days at Sea"

Got my book from my "1 click Amazon purchase." See Beware: 1-Click buy on Amazon.com on Oct 27, 2006.

So far it looks like a really good book.

Work: Microsoft backs Novell's Linux platform

Never thought I would see this happen in my lifetime, however Microsoft announced that they back Novell's Linux platform.

Novell's stock jumped 20% today on this news. Good for me.

From Businessweek:

NOV. 2 8:32 P.M. ET Microsoft Corp. has embraced Novell Inc.'s open-source software platform, forming a technological truce between two longtime antagonists who want to make it easier for the still-dominant Windows operating system and the increasingly popular Linux system to work together.

Can you hear me know....

I was driving home tonight and Deni and I were discussing what was for dinner. She asked me to make a decision and I pretended that the cell phone was cutting out and that she would need to make the decision. I said a few time, "What, you are cutting out, can you stay that again." Repeating this a few times. I was just teasing her and I thought she could tell, however she was down in the basement, where cell coverage is sometimes spotty and she walked all the way upstairs to see if she could get better coverage.

Teasing or not, she made the decision. ha.

Daylight Savings

I hate Daylight Savings.

Spanish Fork Halloween

Spanish Fork City Main street held their Trick or Treating today. We got the kids dressed up and went to brave the long lines. It was a beautiful day, probably in upper 50's and perfect weather.

Deni got some great costumes for this year. Ryan is Stitch and Sydney is JoJo, from JoJo's Circus (Disney Cartoon). We didn't see anyone with these costumes all day. Lots of people commented, "There's Stitch" or "Look, it's JoJo" so it was fun.



Ryan loves this costume. He wanted to show me how Stitch jumps. Here are 2 pics of him being "stitch"






JoJO getting candy from a store on Main street



Finally after all the festivities we went to Roberts, a local craft store for the kids to make crafts and then have a parade around the store.



The Hat on Sydney's costume really made the difference. She was so cute with the hat on. All in all, the kids got lots of candy a few days BEFORE Halloween. They had a great time.

Beware: 1-Click buy on Amazon.com

A few days ago, I purchased a watch from Amazon.com. Today when I was unable to find a book I was looking for at the local library, I searched Amazon.com to see if they had it and how expensive it was. This was when I saw the 1-Click buy icon.


Being curious, I did what any normal curious person would do, I clicked on the 1-Click buy icon.

Immediately after clicking on the icon, a message appeared on the screen, thanking me for my order. WHAT??? My order??? I didn't order anything, did I?

So I started looking at Amazon.com help to see what 1-Click buy really was.

From Amazon.com help page:

1-Click ordering is turned on immediately after you place your first order, provided you've paid for that order with a credit card or directly from your bank account. You can place an order to any address you've shipped to before by clicking just one button. We will automatically reference your account for shipping and billing information."

Shortly thereafter, I received an email stating:

Dear Brett,

We're writing to confirm your purchase of the following Amazon Marketplace
item from xxxxxx@yahoo.com:

1 of Adrift: Seventy Six Days Lost at Sea by Callahan, Steven

Apparently I did place an order. I'm glad I clicked on the cheapest copy of the book. The shipping was reasonable, so it wasn't that big of a deal, however it could have been had I not really wanted to buy the item or I had selected some collectors edition that was worth a bundle. I guess you live and learn.

I have since turned off the 1-Click buy on Amazon.com. I'm afraid that I, or one of my children will accidently purchase something we don't want.

Update: He's alive

Last weekend I took a trip down to Goblin Valley State Park. This is my third time there. It was a quick trip (gone for about 28 hrs). I enjoy it each time. This is the first time I've been down there and seen so much water. I was unable to camp where I normally do (in a dry riverbottom) as it wasn't dry this time. I really need to take my family down there. The kids would love to run around the goblins and hike up Little Wild Horse Slot Canyon.

Here is a picture of me jumping from Goblin to Goblin.


I also took some scenic pictures of Little Wild Horse Canyon. I use this one as my backdrop on my computer now.


Work, church and family have been extremely busy the last little while, plus my hands have been hurting me again, so when I get home, I don't like looking or touching my computer.

On a personal note, I've been swimming one mile, 3 times a week, since Sept 18th. I leave from work during lunch. I have been able to consistenly swim a mile barely under 30 minutes now. When I say barely under, I mean seconds under. However under 30 minutes is under 30 minutes. Monday, Wed and Friday I come home smelling like Chlorine. I shower after I swim but still smell of chlorine when I get home.

Managmement changes

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