Do You Swing?

Right or Wrong: You are never to old to enjoy swinging?

Travel Rewind: New York

Welcome to my very first Travel Rewind post. Periodically I will post a few pictures and thoughts from my travels. Up first New York circa 2004. This was my first, and so far only, trip to the Big Apple. Like most of my trips it turned into a walking trip with a few Subway rides thrown in for good measure. (This was a necessity as were were staying with family in Brooklyn) I am always amazed by what you see when you get out of the car, bus, train, whatever. It seems like when you are at street level you really get a feel for what a city is all about and New York is one of the ultimate cites for walking. There is so much to see but really I was just in awe of the canyons of Skyscrapers. I will defiantly go back to New York to take in more of what the city as to offer.

Oldie But A Goodie

Here are a few quotes that make me laugh.
Adventure is just bad planning. -Roland Amundsen
Cheer up! The worst is yet to come! -Philander Chase Johnson
Love thy neighbour, but don't take down the fence. -Benjamin Franklin
Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. -Susan Ertz
Hell is an all-male black tie dinner of chartered accountants which goes on for eternity. -John Mortimer
I loathe people who keep dogs. They're cowards who have not got the guts to bite people themselves. -August Strindberg
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. -Mark Twain
Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend. -John Singer Sargent
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book. -Cicero
Vegetarians have wicked, shifty eyes, and laugh in a cold calculating manner. They pinch little children, steal stamps, drink water, favor beards. -J.B. Morton
No one ever really minds seeing a friend fall from a high roof. -Confucius
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face-forever. -George Orwell
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. -Mark Twain
Eat right, exercise regularly, die anyway. -Author unknown
If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on the headstone might well be It seemed a good idea at the time. -Rebecca West
Time is a great teacher, they say. Unfortunately, it kills all its pupils. -Hector Berlioz
When a man opens the car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife. -Prince Philip
You can't take something off the Internet-it's like taking piss out of a swimming pool. -Author unknown
Nature is usually wrong. -James McNeill Whistler
Man and nature have such different views about the good of the world. -George Gissing
Washington, DC: Too small to be a state but too large to be an asylum for the mentally deranged. -Anne Burford
Facts are stupid things. -Ronald Reagan
I never give them hell. I just tell them the truth and they think it is hell. -Harry S. Truman
Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it. -Coco Chanel
I hope you enjoyed a brief bit of the The Pessimist's Handbook.

Text Date

A few weeks back I was at the dentist and the hygienist told me about this girl that lived in her neighborhood who I would apparently be perfect for. Now I don't know about you but I don't really know my hygienist all that well and doubt that she knows me all that well. I mean how much can you learn about someone with their hand in your mouth? Regardless I said I didn't mind her giving this girl my number. Honestly I didn't ever think I would hear from this person and this seemed like a good way to be polite about the whole situation, especially since this women has easy access to my teeth. At this point I should mention that I have gone on lot of first dates and they never really seem to go that well. The next day I get a text message asking if I had recently gone to the dentist. If I hadn't given out my number freely I might have been a little scared by this text. I reply back and ask for her name as I hadn't been given this information by the hygienist. She replies back and we exchange quite a few text messages over the course of the next hour of so. It is now getting late on a weeknight and I have to work the next morning so I decide to put an end to the texting by asking if she is on Facebook. She replies that she is and I tell her to look me up and if she likes what she sees maybe we can meet sometime. Needless to say she wasn't impressed by or didn't even bother looking me up as I have not heard anything back. I can now add a text message date to the list of those that haven't gone well. Isn't technology great?

My Backyard

I can't imagine my backyard without the Wasatch Mountains.