American Idols

Jensen graduated from Murray High School on Friday. Her GPA for this term was 3.7 probably her lowest in High School. Her overall High School GPA was higher I think.

This picture is with her good friend Diana Madrian, Sterling scholar in Art from Murray.


She has 4 more classes to take at SLCC to graduate at the end of the summer. Only 49 other students at Murray were completing this.

In the fall she is planning on one big lollapalooza, no classes. May go to England.

The graduation ceremony wasn't too grueling. It seemed like they were reading the names rather slow. But, still it took only about an hour. I've been to worse.

The funniest thing in the world happened to Jensen as she was approaching the podium to receive her diploma. A stranger woman in the audience leaned out and reached toward her with her arm and asked her where she got her shoes!

Poor David Archuleta was in the audience and people wouldn't leave him alone.

Afterward we went to eat at TGIFriday's and we kinda decided that they have better hamburgers than Red Robin. Their brownie fudge sundae dessert thingy was really good too.

In UnremarkableMemoriam

Memorial Day was somewhat unremarkable. It was very rainy almost all of the day. We managed to finish our yard cleanup project involving a huge green waste trailer from Murray City. We did this yard work during the one major break in the rain. For a short while I thought I might go for a bike ride. But, within a half hour it was pouring again. I'm glad my lazy self prevented me from getting caught in a downpour. Laney and I found that on the Science Channel they were running back to back episodes of “How it's Made.” This kept us entertained for a couple of hours while I chewed on sunflower seeds.

We went to Leslie's for dinner and spent a good amount of time in the hot tub. Here you can see the girls showing how “hot” they are. If you look closely there is steam billowing from them.


After dinner literally about 10 of us ended up in Leslie's room on her bed watching the first disc of Arrested Development. It's a good thing I work full time. I seem to be unable to stop eating when I am at home. At work I can control how much food I have access to.

My talk on Sunday went pretty well I think. Lenore and I also sang with Brenda Christensen. Boyd Jensen says that Beverly is not doing well. He had a number of grandchildren there visiting. Ruth Palmer has cancer and is not planning on treating it. I probably will be doing both their funerals soon.

There Can Only Be One

We had a great time the other night when we realized that one of the baddest characters in cinematic history, "the Kurgan":



is none other than:



Eugene H. Krabs

Day 18358

The Cycle Salt Lake City Century ride was last Saturday. I have been kinda planning on doing the ride for some time. When it came right down to it, I didn't have anyone really to ride it with me. But, Cliff Lillywhite had registered and then his son was getting married that day. So, he offered me his registration.
A goal I've had for some time is doing 100 miles in under 5 hours. So I decided to try. This might have been easier if I had a fast group of friends to do it with. Anyway, probably within the first 5 miles or so I managed to get in with a fairly big group for the next 30 miles. The leader was a husband and wife on a co-motion tandem. I spent most of the time right on their tail and there were many riders behind us. I took a couple of turns pulling for them. But, they did most of the work and seemed happy to do it.
After the first feed station, I got a flat right away. So, I lost the small group I was with. It didn't take too long to fix it and luckily I had no more problems. It took another little while to hook up with some other people. One of the guys was on a Titanium Torelli. I passed him and then he passed me and I stayed on his tail.
Usually, the Antelope Island Causeway is just horrible. Headwinds both ways. But, you couldn't have asked for better weather for this ride. If there was any wind it was only a whiff. At the 50 mile point just before the causeway, my average speed was 21.7. By the time I had gone the next 20 miles it dropped to 21.4. I stayed with groups across the causeway and then we broke up going around the island because of the climbing. Then coming down the last hill leaving the island I hooked up with 2 other guys and soon a fourth joined us crossing back to the mainland.
I saw Jeff Barton and Teal Buchi at the Syracuse feed station at the 70 mile point. I left that point pretty much on my own and started to suffer. After a while, I noticed a guy on my tail for about 5 miles. He eventually pulled forward and we started taking turns pulling. It was just us two for the last leg. We began chatting a little. He was also 50 years old and was trying to make the same goal of better than 20 mph average. His name was Dave from Kaysville and he was on a Litespeed Tuscany. I'm glad I hooked up with this guy because on my own for the last leg, I'm not sure I would have made it. For the last 25 miles I just wanted to get off the bike. I finished 106 miles in 5:11 at an average speed of 20.45.

It's Dog Eat Dog in the Concrete Jungle....

...and I'm tiring of the taste of dog.

Dancing Fool