Hoops

I hate losing basketball games, especially when you have little our no control over the outcome. We had one guy say how it doesn't really matter win or lose, true. But, having played for so long and played on competitive teams with lots of organization it's hard to just play for fun. Something I think is difficult to understand unless you have been there our experienced something like it before.
Sincerely,
Uncle Rico.

Temptations...

My latest temptations that I've been working hard to control. There was a day when my mom and I discussed my physcological issue with eating sugar, primarily confectionary. In the end it was an issue of being selfish, I thought each piece of cake and each cookie was the last on earth and I had to eat as much as I could before it disappeared.
The challenge, only eat 1 sweet a week of my choosing. Not for weight control, but for self control ... or in scriptural terms self mastery.
To top it off I decided I want to run a half marathon or two this year. So, I've begun training for a race in May. It's nice to have something that stretches me and gets me up off my lazy bum.

Ciao for now!

Bacon for Lunch?

So I was just peeking around our breakroom during lunch today and saw his big ol slab of bacon sitting in the fridge with someones name on it. 1. How in the world do the plan to cook it? 2. Who is having just bacon for lunch or breakfast :) That combined with the fact these are IT people who, for the most part, sit around all day.

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My Abstract Painting

So this is a crack at my first abstract painting. While Mandi is much more patient and attentive to details, I have to sit down and quickly go wild...a little ADD to say the least.
The painting contains a code inside that Mandi knows, but didn't see right off. Being one who isn't very creative I was quite happy with my quick effort on this guy. Hopefully I can get some of this to spill over into work. Until we meet again...

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Mandi and I had a nice vacation this summer to Bear Lake & Island Park. We were going to stay in Yellowstone, but it was supposed to rain so we made a last minute change and went up to Bear Lake (well worth the chocolate raspberries).

While up at Bear Lake we went on a few bike trails up there. The one in the picture was a short little jobbie that went around a glacier lake. But our favorite was this trail that went across the Utah - Idaho border. As we were going up the trail we heard these bear sounds just off the trail.

The picture on the right is a picture from our dock/cabin we stayed at in Island Park. My whole immediately family all got together and crashed in one place, first time in forever long. The cabin was very nice, but did have a few downfalls, first and foremost being the power outlets stopped working in the kitchen as I was trying to make some homemade waffles for everyone. It almost ruined my trip, stupid cabin. To remedy the situation I made some extra thick pancakes on the stove.

In Island Park Mandi and I went on a little ATV trip and saw a black bear. She told me to go fast at first, but then we turned around a few times to get a second, third and fourth glance.

Ciao for Now.

Kgotso

This is my new hobby this summer, and Mandi's too. In April I got a new/used mountain bike and have been going to some great trails. This one (on the left) is one of my favorites just up Yellow Fork Canyon by our place in Herriman. J - $ even came up one day from Provo to go biking on this nice lil trail, after we meet Mandi at In n Out for some dinner.

More pictures to come on other trails.

Who need's a vacation?

Let's just say I can't wait to take a break and go on a little camp trip down to Moab to kick of the summer. Currently on one of the two long stretches where we don't have a holiday @ work. Love work, but got to have some play time in between; especially when things get really busy.

Started last weekend to prepare for my 3 day ITIL training that starts tomorrow. It's going to be a tough test so I am studying a lot so I'm not the only one who doesn't pass.

Mandi is making for one last push to get ready for finals. Just sold the explorer too. Mandi will miss poor bessy and all her "issues."