It's Electrifying!

I can't wait for the Jazz game. We have to win both of these home games and at least the next one needs to be a blowout so that we stand a chance going back to San Antonio. And now that I'm posting about the Jazz, just watch them crumble tonight.

On a happier note, I finished a book. This is quite an accomplishment. Why? Because it was leisure reading. I don't think I've read anything for fun since the Boxcar Children series. The book was called "The Millionaire Mind". Basically it confirmed to me that I have a millionaire mindset. It doesn't guarantee that I'll be one, but it mean I've got a good shot at it. So, that's how I'm formulating my future. What book should I read next?

I Got an Internship!!!!!!

This post goes out to Sister Taylor who is by far one of the coolest people in the world. She asked about my internship and I GOT ONE! In fact, I got two offers. And I had a really hard time turning one down since they didn't ask for an intern. I simply sent an email to Traco Packaging in Orem asking them for a position if they had one. They created one just for me after interviewing me and they never had an intern before. Unfortunately, I had already accepted one with Pacific States Cast Iron Pipe Company with whom I'm already doing my capstone project. I'll be working at PSCIPCO all summer. So I sent Traco an email asking if I could do one with them as well, but wait until the Fall Semester. We'll see what they have to say. I figure that will boost my resume even a little more if I have two internships. So I'll let you know how that goes once I get a response. I hope they don't respond saying, "We hate you and have sent hitmen out to teach you a lesson you'll never forget."

Also, Sister Taylor asked how my love life is doing. This is something I should post occasionally. I went on a blind date yesterday. I took her to the Thanksgiving Point Gardens since I'd never been and wanted to go. They are quite amazing. I'm sure they're even more amazing at other times of the year. Right now they are between blooms, but it was still GORGEOUS. I'd like to rent Segways the next time. They look like fun. The memorable part was at the end when my date broke a tester bottle of perfume. Holy Cow. The sound was loud enough to wake the dead and it's now the best smelling gift shop in the world. I guess you could say my dating life is picking up. I had been in a drought for a couple of months, but now I'm back to quite a list of girls I'm working on dating. I even got asked out by a girl in the ward. We're seeing Pirates Saturday morning. I hope it's better than the second one.

The Jazz lost today. I don't watch basketball on Sundays and when they lose I'm especially grateful I don't watch. I might not even cry myself to sleep tonight over it.

Pacific States Cast Iron Pipe Company

My fellow 10 BYU capstoners and I are not professional pipe makers--in fact, we have never made a pipe in our lives--but we plan on working with PSCIPCO who has been making for over 40 years, to teach them how they can make pipe better. A daunting task? Oh my yes. On the first day we went on a plant tour and I came away laughing at they idea that we could help them at all. But after two more days of observation, I'm beginning to believe I can. The more I just sit and stare, the more I realize that...well, maybe I can't say what I want to because it could be proprietary in nature. Oh well, just rest assured that I believe we can reach our goal of saving them $500,000 in the next two months, and perhaps $2 million every year from here on out. How would THAT look on my resumé?

I wish I could take you all on a tour of the plant. It's a magical land--a land of enchantment if you will. It reminds me of the scenes where the Orks(sp?) in Lord of the Rings are down there in deep dark crevices of the earth making who knows what. There are lights in the plant, but really the only noticeable light is the orange glow of the molten iron, a few light rays penetrating the roof, and super bright flashes of blinding white light coming from when they add magnesium to the molten iron. All of the workers (myself included) look as scary as Orks and probably
smell worse when we come out of there. If any of you have questions on how to cast YOUR pipes better, give me a call. I'm cheap. I work for pizza.

Liar Liar Pants On Fire

What is a lie? The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines a lie as "an untrue statement made with the intent to decieve." So, Rocky Anderson keeps saying that Bush has lied to the American people. If he did, then so did a lot of other politicians at the time, and they should all be impeached (or perhaps just drug out into the street and shot). But we can't prove Bush's intent. How do you do that?!?! You would have to assume that if "X" number of people advised him about a certain action, and he went against that advice, that he was lying. And that's a huge assumption.

Rocky Anderson (I shudder every time I use those words) also keeps saying that Bush misrepresented the American people. Now, that's fine. There is a BIG different between misrepresenting the American people and lying even though he seems to use them synonymously. But is misrepresenting the American people even a bad thing? It certainly isn't impeachable. A quick parable.

I look at it this way. A democratic family takes a safari. The kids want to go roll around in the mud with the crocodiles. The parents say "No." The kids get mad and yell at them for misrepresenting them. The parents don't give in. Is this a good thing?

Bush has more access to more information than any of us could dream of, and more than that, certainly to his dismay much of it contradicts itself. The sources of information have biases of their own. His is a job for which I have respect. Sometimes I think the American people are, in general, a bunch of whiny, cowardly, and uninformed bawl-babies. So, do I really care if Bush misrepresents the majority of the American people? Certainly not if it's truly what he thinks is right and he seems to be a good person. If we could prove that he was far from the Spirit through sexual immorality or other acts, then I would say perhaps misrepresention is questionable.