You Wish You Were As Cool As This Guy

Revisiting More Signigicant Matters

A few days ago I mentioned a rather significant life event but managed to push that post off the top way too fast. So I just thought I'd shout into the nothing that is the blogsphere (or is that twitter?) again that I'm getting married!!!

Yes, This IS Where I'm Moving To

A Quick Update

So thanks to Will and Debbie at Utah Wedding Photography for letting me know that they have additional Conrad Ranch photos up! If you didn't check out the links in this and in the last post, you really are missing seeing an amazing place and an amazing job of seeing it captured on film.

Why I Have Been A Delinquent Blogger

So I hope the word travels faster than my ability to talk to everyone because I'm hoping that the news that I'm getting married isn't new. Major apologies to those who haven't heard it yet, but my attention to anything other than my bride-to-be has generally gotten a low priority. Picture me with a grin on my face and an expression that doesn't seem to know what reality is and that's about me for the last several weeks.

What reality I am in touch with is that the date is July 17th, the location is Conrad Ranch up Provo Canyon (I couldn't find any pictures anywhere except on this photographer's blog and figured they would appreciate me sending you to them rather than posting their pictures on my own), and the lady is the most amazing person in the world!

In that spirit, it is time to retire, "Since I don't even share my apartment with a goldfish, I have to tell somebody about the random crap that comes into my head. You're it." The random crap is still going to be shared, but soon, so is the apartment, and let's face it, by signing up with me my finance is sentencing herself to hear more random crap than ever gets up here. Anyway, the point is: I'm going to change the 'About Me' section and I'd like anyone who reads my blog to give me a one or two sentence descriptor that they like, so comment away!

A Good Laugh

I heard about this Josh Faure-Brac cartoon from my buddy Mikal Belicove and just had to pass along the laugh.

New Shoes

Not everyone is a fan of new shoes they way my buddy Jake is (dude owns a book on the subject!). Anyway, I really like my new shoes, so here's a picture:

Random Stuff Wins

So I like the two analytics services (Google Analytics and StatCounter) I use on my blog, and occasionally I get a really good kick out of what they tell me. This weeks fun came from the keywords that y'all have been finding me with.

There's mundane stuff like 'overflowed brain' where I come in as the top hit. Someone really must have spent a long time on lmu dcom interview'lmu dcom interview' cause I don't show up until the seventh page of results (at the time of this post). I'm a big OOTS fan, so I although I no longer show up when searching "it only shows reality programming," I assume other fans have seen my blog. Some people go for the very literal with 'greg blog utah goldfish' turning me up as the fifth result. The winner of the day however, is 'kathy dideum' where I'm on the ninth page. (It took me a while to figure that one out, but thanks to Bo Diddly's mention of his last name under Identity Crisis and my aunt Kathy's blog, my site becomes a winner!)

I Bet Your Job Isn't This Cool

Since we had so much snow today:

Doba's owner decided we needed to have a snowball fight at work, which he announced by coming into the building with an armload of snowballs and throwing them in the cubicles, through office doors, and on the pool table. You so wish you had my job.

and Taxes

So I got a letter from the IRS yesterday.

That 'Oh, no!' gut reaction you just had was the same one I had when I saw the letter. I filed my taxes a couple weeks ago, and thanks to the retardation of the US tax code I didn't get a refund for the first time in my life. With that in mind I was figuring that the best possible outcome for the letter was that they were going to tell me that my payment had failed or was for the wrong amount or something along those lines. I opened the letter and the first thing I read was that they found an error on my taxes, and I just about had a heart attack.

Well, I should be more optimistic, because they went on to explain that I failed to give myself one of the credits I didn't know existed. Since my taxes were already paid, they sent me a check for the credit amount, which was in a letter at the bottom of my mail stack.

Thank you IRS... in gratitude for helping me out, I promise to not hate you for the next... 30 seconds or so.