Single Adults

OK, so I made a huge mistake tonight. I went to a 30's and over single adult fireside, and was about to shoot my brains out. I have discovered that being in those dastardly 30 something years you are a social outcast when it comes to "Single Adults". You have the fun 19-31 year olds, and then you have the over 40 group, some divorced, some never married. It's those of us in the middle that are the forgotten group. If we go to the younger group they feel freaked out because the old weird guys are there, and yet, I have no desire to go to a church party that is designed around making a 50 year old lady who never got married feel good about herself. This is why I have satellite TV, so I kill the time till I need the reassuring activities of the over 40 crowd. Point of the story? Don't go to a fireside for 30 year olds and over, and if you do, and are sitting in the foyer don't go in because you feel guilty that the speaker has taken his time to prepare something and there are only a few people in the room. There’s a reason there is only a few people.
At least I was smart enough to start the DVR on the X Files movie.

P.S. How many frequent flyer miles do you think the smoking man gets every year?
P.P.S Still no heat and its now 29 degrees outside!! I am getting pissed now.

Day 6 with no heat

Well I am now at 6 days with no furnace, I am glad this is happening now since its been so warm lately. I get a new furance, but not till Monday. I really hate my apartment. It is freezing tonight, last night was not so bad, but tonight it is raining and snowing. The landlord brought 2 heaters over, and then one more today. Like that really helps, now I am going to have a huge electric bill! Rat Bastages!
Does anyone have a room I can rent?

My complete indifference to life comes from watching to much Smurfs as a child

I am fairly indifferent to life. I call it easy going others call is apathetic . There just is not a lot I let affect me, (except ATT Wireless, Wells Rip off Fargo, and IHC). Life is just too short, and too good to worry about those little things. I think this attitude comes from watching the Smurfs, clear to the age of 14. Think about it, all the smurfs had to worry about was Gargamel and Azrael. Every week it was the same old same old, Gargamel would scheme up some crazy plan to catch himself some smurfs under the pretense that smurf soup was good. Of course back at the smurf village there would be some smurf who felt unloved and they would leave the fold, and Gargamel would catch them, then all the other smurfs would rally under the watchful eye and beard of papa smurf. Of course a daring rescue would ensue, and the wayward smurf would be saved, and then they would feel of the love that the others smurfs had for them, and they would want to be a smurf again. So week after week, I watched Smurfs run off, and the get rescued, (AND NONE EVER GOT DOWN WITH SMURFETTE). How can you have 20-30 Male Smurfs hanging out together and not trying to hook up with her? I think what was happening was when the cameras were not running, they were helping themselves to a little bit of the mushroom house. But back to my original thoughts. The Smurfs had to know that they could venture into the woods, get caught by Gargamel and still not get eaten. So that little lesson was burned on my mind. No matter what happens in life, I will all get rescued from Gargamel! Of course I am not worried about not making it out of the grasp of Gargamel because I always thought that one day he would grab himself a Smurf, hopefully brainy smurf and not handy smurf, who incidentally inspired me to go into construction management, and make himself some Smurf Stew and find out that smurf meat sucks. (Please do not tell my mom I used the suck word, for some reason it is the vilest word for her generation). So that’s why I am so indifferent to life. I was taught by the Smurfs everything always works out. And if it does not then someone is going to find out that smurf meat really sucks.
That’s why Method man says keep it real with me…..

So many blog ideas

So I have so many thoughts about what i should blog about today, I could blog about how my furnace is still not working and how its getting colder and colder, I could write about the beauties of pig as a meat, or I could write about my new crock pot adn the wonderful reciepe that I cooked up yesterday! But then I thought, I am freezing, I am going to bed, if there is anything to be written, it will be done tomorrow! When my furnace is hopefully working

Man I hate my apartment!!!!

So I am one of those nerdy guys who have multiple watches with altimeters, and thermometers, and compasses etc. on them. I have always wondered about the point of the thermometer. It sits on your wrist, under your coat and gives you a very accurate reading of how warm your wrist is. Not to helpful for the real purpose of knowing how warm or cold the air is. Well one of my watches it sitting on my desk and I am looking at the actual air temperature of 45 degrees. Funny cause weather.com shows the air temperature outside as 43 degrees. Let me tell you why my crappy apartment is so cold. I HAVE NO FURNANCE. I realized that the dunb thing has not been working for a couple of days. I stayed at my parents last night, so I did not notice it till today after church. Now I am freezing. Being a construction management graduate, I have always been the guy who gets called to come fix everything in the girls apartments, and by most of my friends, so when I actually went to the management and told them it was dead this afternoon, I meant it was dead. SO the manager comes over and lights my pilot this afternoon and it runs as I told them it would for about 2 minutes then died. Now I am sitting here in the cold freezing my arse off. This place really sucks! My car has been broken into, its had the a big “F*%K You scratched into the hood, my truck has been broken into, and it has had the gas stolen out of it. Most of my neighbors cars have been broken into, and they catch kids stealing stuff all the time! So I wonder if not having heat gives me the right to break the contract? Any lawyers out there have any advice, because I am cold. (For those who do not know me, I have worked at a ski resort about 15 years of my life, and have been around there most of my life. I am used to the cold, I am not just complaining, its really cold. Plus lets face it, I have let myself go to pot, so I have plenty of insulation.)

Well I am going to get into bed now and I hope my apartment does not get so cold that the pipes freeze!

PS I went to a Family History class today, and they were talking about keeping a journal for your descendents. Then some lady said that you could get online and keep a blog instead of a journal for your posterity, and all I could think of was if this is how my posterity comes to know me, they are screwed!

TO the USA TOday, and to all the people of the city of Salt Lake City, I apologize!

OK, so I really got busy yesterday with work, and I was unable to take the time to write my blog. SO about yesterday’s blog, I did something that as a blogger I am not proud of. I kind of well, sort of, you know, copied my blog from the USA Today. And after a little legal persuasion I decided all on my own to make sure that the legal rights to the author were protected by giving them credit.
To all my fellow bloggers, I apologize! I promise that in the future I will never stoop to that level again.

So I would like to share with you an original piece of art work to make up for my short evil deed of the other day.

I call it “The Day Before Today”

The Day Before Today, all my troubles seemed so far away,
Now it looks as though they're here to stay,
Oh I believe in The Day Before Today.
Suddenly, I'm not half the man I used to be,
There's a shadow hanging over me,
Oh The Day Before Today came suddenly...
Why she had to go I don't know. She wouldn't say.
I said something wrong, now I long for The Day Before Today,
The Day Before Today, love was such an easy game to play,
Now I need a place to hide away,
Oh, I believe in The Day Before Today...


Good night to all please do not be mad at me for my stunt yesterday.

Bargain bites

I love Blogging, sorry I have not been blogging lately, hope you enjoy this one.

Eating good food cheap is a rite of passage for every visitor to Las Vegas, which is home to hundreds of dining deals.

The best meal deal in town is the little Ellis Island Casino. This place isn't featured in the travel guides, but it serves a filet-cut sirloin with salad, potato, vegetable and rolls 24 hours a day for $4.95. Dine during off hours to beat the lines.

This special is just one of three good off-the-menu deals in the area. Terrible's offers a half-chicken dinner that'll easily feed two for $4.95 and a complete T-bone steak dinner and a beer for $7.95 (join the casino slot club and get $3 off), while the nearby Hard Rock Casino has a $7.77 steak-and-shrimp special. Both are available in the coffee shops 24 hours a day, but you have to ask for them.

Across the street, Key Largo serves the best burger deal in town — a half-pounder with the works and a plate full of fries for $1.99.

Las Vegas' famous buffets remain a good value, and $10 smorgasbords dot the landscape, but some pricier deals might attract your interest. About $25 can buy you an unlimited quantity of shellfish, sushi and prime rib. The top gourmet buffets are at the Bellagio, Paris, Aladdin and Mirage.

Each is spectacular, so rely on price to decide. The Mirage and Aladdin are currently priced $5 to $15 below the others, with dinner at $22.50 and $23.99, respectively. Check out the dim sum station, available during all meals (even breakfast) at the Mirage and the Aladdin's Middle Eastern station.

For an end-of-vacation splurge, try the Sunday champagne brunch in the Broiler at Boulder Station, with its seafood, salad, omelet and one-of-a-kind potato-pancake bar for $19.99.

For a big night out, head to one of Las Vegas' great bargain gourmet rooms. These venerable restaurants are known for their sunken booths, old-time maitre d's and super deals on steaks, prime rib and crab legs. Check out the Plaza's Center Stage (with its view of Fremont Street), Gold Coast's Cortez Room, Roberta's at El Cortez and the Yukon Grilles at Arizona Charlie's Decatur or Boulder. Order appetizers and drinks and still get out for less than $50 per couple.

For snacks, try Golden Gate's famous 99¢ shrimp cocktail, Gold Coast's 75¢ hot dogs that come with onions and sauerkraut, and just about anything from Wild Wild West's little-known coffee shop just off the Strip.

MASH

I was going to write about how sick I am of the elections this year. But I am so sick of it, that I don't even want to blog about it.

So instead I want to share my feelings about M*A*S*H. What a great show. If you can get by the really bad laugh track. It’s just a timeless classic. I record 3 episodes a day, and if I am home during the day, the Hallmark channel has two hours of it. What other show is so well syndicated? That’s because its classic. I end up seeing three or four episodes a week that are repeats from other channels and I still enjoy them. A couple of wacky Dr's no leadership, a cross dressing man, and a lush priest. Crazy. For some reason I always felt an emptiness when it would end while I was in high school. Not like the emptiness I felt when an episode of Different Strokes would end, that was more for Dana Plato. This was a real empty feeling like I could not wait till next week to see the next episode. Think of the theme song, "Cause suicide is painless, it brings on many changes, and you can take or leave it if you please"
When that song would start, it would just put me in a trance. Not that I want to kill myself, because even at its worst, life aint that bad. But I would hear that song though and just settle down in the chair and I was gone for the next 30 minutes. Don’t know why, don’t care. Its just one of my all time favorites.

A blog coming from somewhere other then the toilet

So driving to work today I saw a new IHC billboard. “Doctors, Hospitals and Health Plans working together for your well being”. Are they that dumb? Do they really think that there cute emotional advertising is going to make people think that they are really interested in their best interests? What a bunch of Jack Asses.

Maybe everyday I should add a slash against IHC, the whoremongers! Or I could just start a web page, http://www.ihateihc.com/ . Of course I am too lazy to make the effort, it would turn out like my other web page I was thinking about, http://www.nakedroommates.com/, which failed due to the fact that my roommates got a little too suspicious of me in the bathroom with a camera while they were showering. Oh well now I think about it, I doubt there are a lot of women out there, or even gay men, willing to pay to see a bunch of my roommates in the buff. Come on, you are talking about a bunch of RM’s whose only exercise other then those really long stair on the east side of BYU is playing intramural ultimate Frisbee. Plus Ted was not a roommate, so if he had been, maybe there would have been some interest. He was picked by the ladies of the ward as the guy they most wanted to kiss, right there with Ed and Ryan. (For those of you who do not know Ted, he has big pouty lips, the kind a gal would just love to get a hold of!)
Well enough with my failures, and hatred of IHC. I want everyone to know that I am at my desk, as far as you know. I was chastened through email by several people about blogging on the toilet, to which I say, STICK IT. Every one of you have talked on the phone on the pot!
While I was sitting on the toilet not blogging this morning, I had an interesting thought. I have been dating the same girl for four years. Which for Utah County/Utah in general is forever. My thought was when I run into LDS friends, I always get the same thing…
“SO what’s going on with you, you dating anyone? Really who? Oh, where did you guys meet? How long have you been dating? How long, oh man its time to Shizzz or get off the pot, maybe its time you move on, I have a the cutest girl in my ward, she’s an RM and 30 and teaches 1st grade, and blah blah blah!!!”
I contrast this to my non-lds friends, which usually goes something like this:
“So you dating anyone? Whats her name? How long have you been together? What does she do? I would love to meet her, we should go out to dinner sometime?”

But I still love all my friends anyway. And when their kids turn into smart arsed brats, who ran crazy, I will smile and say to them: “boy you have some good kids”. Cause that’s the kind of guy I am.

Gold Fever

You know why I love technology? Because blogging takes so much time and technology helps out. Take right now for example, here I am on the toilet at work, blogging.

I have 2 subject s that I could discuss today. One is the crazy gold digger guy on OLN Saturday mornings. The other is my tirade on ATT Wireless, and how BAD THEY SUCK! I guess since 90% of the people in this world now that ATT is a complete money grubbing joke, and if I start on that tirade, then there will be no stopping me and I will roll right into the new IHC Insurance commercials talking about how they are non-profit, and they ONLY care about the well being of their clients. And if I get going on how crappy IHC is and how they are ONLY interested in the well being of their on time paying healthy clients there will be no stopping this blog, and I will type for hours on the evils of large corporations. So maybe it would be better if I mocked the gold digger guy for a while.

I think the show is called Gold Fever USA or something like that. Its this rather large guy who spends most of his time wearing the red flannel underware as a shirt. He is from Alaska and does his show about how to find gold nuggets, and gold dust.

Hold on I have to finish this when I am back at my desk.

OK I am back.

This show is really funny, because it looks like something that a high school kid produces and directs. They use a camcorder to make the show, so you hear all the wind and the camera bounces around NON-STOP. The guy is as redneck as you can be! I rather enjoy watching it. And the title Gold Fever is a real thing. After the first time I watched it, I was looking up gold hunting on the Internet, and finding local places to find it. (I had just done a trip to Topaz Mt, and like everyone that goes there and found a bunch of topaz.) Luckily I was injured over the summer, or I probably would have been out panning for gold every weekend. I am like Becca, the moment someone gets new cell phone, I too have to have it, except I hate cell phones now because ATT Wireless soured me to the whole thing because they are complete …….. never mind. So I guess what I am saying is watch Gold Fever for entertainment only, don’t expect to get rich from gold dust.
I did forget to mention his Suburban. He has it jacked up so tall that his 13 year old daughter could almost walk under it.

Make yourself a great day!

Led Lartman

My friend Led, (Name changed to protect......) won't go to the gym with me because he is ashamed to be seem with me (I am a tad over weight and have man-boobs). I have told him time and time again, its a glandular thing, I can not help it. He thinks to go to the gym you need to be completely ripped and in shape. He does not understand that its the people like me that needs to be at the gym, so I go by myself. So last night while watching the Simpsons on tv while treadmilling, (on DVD because the crappy baseball games are on fox when the Simpsons should be on) I started talking to Led about how funny it was. (It was Santas little helper one, where Bart gets a tattoo). See Led used to go to the gym with me, and I recently started back up. So I am used to Led being there, adn I had asked him to go. Well I talked for a minute, in a somewhat raised voice, since i had headphones on, when I realized that there was a nice old lady next to me reading the Ensign. Luckily I had elevated my voice because of the headphones, so everyone heard me talking to some old lady about Bart Simpsons tattoo. I felt like a real piece of crap. I quickly got off and went right to the pool. Luckily there were only 10-11 people around to see me talking to someone who wasn't there.
Thanks Led, thanks a heap. You see your arogant attitude caused me a lot of embarassment, if you had been there where you should have been, instead of at home with your wife Lecca, and son Lam I would have been talkign to you about the Simpsons

The Nerve!!

So here I am trying to have an intimate conversation with Becca, and someone is spying on me. So while you are reading this Kacy, I have a question for you. Did your husband ever finish the tree house? If he did not, give me a call contact Becca for my number, and I will come down with some tools, and we will bang the thing out for the kids. Seriously.

So now Becca, maybe we should talk in code.
The Moon is blue over Logan, the hawk cried three times, wink wink, no man can be an apple. Kacy is over the river and through the woods.

Now, about my day yesterday. And as a note, I use the word Mexican only to denote the mans nationality. No racism intended.
So I have been assigned a project at work to bring a bunch of apartments in the Salt Lake Valley up to ADA code. Which requires new hadicap ramps at the sidewalks. We have a concrete crew that is doing all this work for me. They are pretty good, and we have had no complaints. Yesterday however, the manager at the complex where they were at called me and said a tenent was complaining that his car had been damaged by the crew. So I raced over there only to find out that it was an old mexican guy who complained about everything. He pointed out some chips on his car. It was so clear that they were chips from driving on the dirty Utah freeways. There was the manager, me and the head of the crew, all of us agreed it was not from the concrete crew, but from normal driving. The car had the chips all over it, even on the other side, and the back. It had chips running paralle to the car, any thing coming from the concrete crew would have come at a 45 degree angel. I told the guy that I was rather mad that I had been called out on such an obvious atempt to get money out of our company. So he started yelling in Spainish. The other guys all speak Spainish. So they started yelling back and forth. this went on for awhile, and was trying to get the guys attention so I finally grabbed him, and yelled in his face, "look, if you want anything done, you will speak in English and you will speak to me!" the guy got really scared and grabbed the manager and walked away. I finally went over and told the guy that I was going to bill him a $100 for my time, and I left.

It felt good to rage for a minute. I think I had been surpressing it, and it was bound to come out sooner or later. I really wanted to punch the guy in the face, since I have not punched anyone in the face since High School water polo. (You get a little edgey when wearing a speedo, and having another guy hang on your back with his package touching you).
So today I am back to mellow Cameron, so I want to send out a big sorry to all the Mexicans out there, ok mainly Brent.

With much blog to all,
Cameron

PS To all you nay sayers commenting on my working habits. I am a very able worker, I can beat up mexicans, do my job, and be an active blogger all at the same time. I am very good.

All the reasons Christmas Dinner with Becca will suck

So I have recently developed distaste for my dear friend and quasi sister Becca, here’s why...

Reason 1
"It is a task... Isn't it... I am considering giving the blog up...Commitment isn't my strong suit."

Nice, get my hooked on blogging and then pull the rug out from under me! Thanks Becca, thanks a heap.

Reason 2
"Cameron... Do they allow snow boarders at Sundance? Maybe I will bringmy snowboard home with me... Can you get me free passes?? A discount??"


SNOW BOARDING, please don't tell me that you are an ankle grabbing, knuckling dragging gibber?
We won't mention the free passes, which I think everyone knows is my ULTIMATE worst question.

Reason 3
"As far as Thanksgiving I am open to anything. Cameron, you are my ride.I am too cheap to rent a car. Will there be room for both Megan and mein your truck?"
Well let’s see what’s wrong with this email...
Becca I had to sale my pride and joy truck, I drive a Honda Civic now, and though it does get 40 MPG, it aint the most manly car.
Next, even if I still had my little red truck, I am sure you realize that there woudl be room for you two women.... In the back of the truck.

Reason 4
She's voting for John what’s his name.

But even after all this, I can still find it in my extra large heart, and I mean LARGE, to wipe the distaste from my mouth and say to myself,

"Cameron...you love blogging, don't let Becca get you down! And as for snow boarding, there are a lot of great Americans who ride, like.... well I am sure there are. And about the truck, cheer up, you now have a company truck, and though its no little red truck, its still manly, and come on if you got women in the cab, they can sit right next to you like the rednecks. Now that last comment Cameron was just plain rude, if she wants to throw her vote away, that’s what America is all about, because hey, lets face it, this year we are all throwing our vote away. "
Then I think how big my heart must be, and how nice I am, and then I love little Becca even more!

The Worth Of A Soul

So sitting at work today I got an email from my friend directing me to web page that let you fill out a form and then it tells you your value on the open human market. My worth was 2.5 Million, a little higher then even I thought it would be. I forwarded it to all the females in the office, and they all took it. They were all worth 1.6 Million. Now, could this be devine intervention that shows the worth of a female soul is only 1.6 million while the worth of a male soul in worth 2.5 million, or could it me a bad joke of a web page. Either way, I am basking in the joy of knowing that I am worth 2.5 Million. And to think I was trying to get $50,000 for my kidney on ebay.

??????????

So what in the H is blogging? I am supposed to share my feelings? I think that everyone knows that I only have feelings about one thing, the one thing I love to complain about......Del Taco. Why do they put lettuce in the breakfast burritos at Del Taco? I hate it, it ruins it. Why please tell me! I know I have complained about this before, and I will complain about it again, but who puts lettuce in a breakfast burrito.

PS I have to say that the new Loaded Breakfast Burrito at Carls Jr 's is pretty good. Much better then Del Taco. McDonalds of course has the old reliable breakfast burrito, which for the money aint to shabby!

With much Blog,
Cameron

Now What

OK Becca I am blogging now what?