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I know that some look at Facebook as taking up to much of our time.  To many people post senseless stuff about themselves or memes that have no point to your life.  And lets not get into the political stuff.  People have lost friendships because of Facebook.  But then you have to really ask, if they were true friends, than they would not unfriend you for difference of opinion. But I am thankful for Facebook.  It has reconnected me with family and friends.  I always tried to get my mom on Facebook, but she did not want her stuff out there on the Internet.  She saw it as a waste of time.  When she died, I wish she would have had a page.  It might have been a way to reconnect with friends in Boise.  And maybe some of those friend would have known when she died.  I know she had a lot of goof friends still there and I do not know if they know she died.  But then she did not want to reconnect with some people and that is what she was afraid of.  But I do not think she knew that you could

The Tie of the Day: Disney Characters

I'm fine.  Just two words.  But for me, these two words are what I hide behind.  I feel at times when someone ask you how you are doing, they really do not want to know, so I give the fake answer.  I feel funny in even writing this down because I am opening myself up just a little. I few weeks ago, a Facebook friend wrote a post, that basically stated that they hated see post from others who are always just not happy with life.  That they just dwell to much on the negative stuff in there lives.  For me, I questioned everything I posting of things going on in my life.  Am I one of these people seeking out attentions from negativity? I do have problems, but most people really can not help.  I don't want people feeling sorry for me. I I think right now, there are really two or three people that really know what I am going through and dealing with.  So for now I will hide behind those two words.  I'm fine. 

If you just read the last post, I had talked about my Pioneer Heritage and why Mormon's see the 24th of July as an important day for us.  But for me it has a special meaning to me.  If my mom was here she would remind me what today was.  Today in 1978, we arrived in the Valley of the Sun.  From this day forward this place has always been home.  We moved into the house next to my grandmother's apartments.  

This July 24th, mark the 167th anniversary of the Mormon's entering into the Great Salt Lake Valley.  This was there escape from religious prosecution.  This was also know from this time as the great gathering of Zion.  Mormon's from the Eastern States, from the British Isles, and Scandinavia, came Utah to be with like minded people.  This was not an easy trip and many lost there lives on the sea and on the plains.  For me I had several that made the trip.  Here are a few stories. On June 15, 1850 the David Evans Company left Kanesville, Iowa (present day Council Bluffs), with 54 wagons.  There were 109 men, women and children is this company.  In this company was, Lorenzo Hill Hatch, my 2nd great grandfather.  He writes about his experience: We worked with Brother List three months, after which I bought him out and sent for Jeremiah. He came.  We worked through the fall and winter of 1849-50.  All that we mad was divided between the three of us.  We made some fifty wa

I guess that I am some what a religious person, but that being said, I am also Mormon which most people know.  I guess I do not hide it very well.  But today I have to announce that I finished reading the Book of Mormon.  You are saying big deal, right.  Well, it is for me, because I have not read it in almost 24 years. This major piece of my churches cannon, I have not read it in such a long time. The reason is pretty simple, laziness.  I did not see any reason for it.  I am not a reader as it is anyway.  But for me, it was like, why read something that I have been reading since seminary and my mission.  I was not taken a break from it, but just did not see the point.  I knew what it said, I believe it, and I knew I would be called in at church to read selected verses from it from time to time, and that is all I needed. It is amazing that as I read, how the things I was reading, applied to what I was learning in Sunday school class.  I know that sounds funny, but that was what w

The Tie of the Day The T-Rex Tie This tie I guess is tied to the movie Jurassic Park.  But all in all a pretty cool tie.

I wonder at times if I am the only one that has weird dreams.  I wish my dreams were normal, or maybe they are, but it seems like they are just plan weird.  The one last night, I can not really talk about but it involved my ex wife and my grandmother's apartment.  That is all I am going to say. I also wonder if we dream, why does it involve the melding of past and present.  Last night seemed like that, but most of the ones in which this happens, involves work.  I worked for the same plumbing company for almost 17 years.  About mid way working there, we moved shops.  But when I dream about my formal company, it is always dealing with current times, but 9 times out of 10 it is at the old shop. And sometimes my dreams are of something in the future.  This happened to me back in February, when I was in Washington, D.C.  I had an experience that at the moment it happened, I said to myself that this experience has happened to me before, even though it was the first time I had been t

I was checking out what was on some of my flash drives, when I saw this listing in the index that said, "Close Military Service".  Since moving out of the house, I wondered were in storage is this picture, and had forgotten that I had scanned it.  I do not know the year that this was in the Chattanooga Newspapers.  And I did not know that all of my grandfather's brothers served as well.  It really was not talked about.  I did know that my grandfather did serve and he did tell me some things when I asked.  He is the one, bottom middle if you had not guessed.

About a year ago, I wrote a blog titled, "The Fear of Rejection" .  In that, I talked about the fears I had in getting back into a relationship again, and my life growing up.  But I do not think that it is mostly a fear of rejection that I fear the most, but being hurt again. I think that most of the time when people think of couples divorcing, that it is the women who gets hurt the most from the break up, but what about the guy.  I think at times, we are seen as some sexually crazed beast, who could not control himself enough, that is not the cause of the end of all relationship.  I would say that is about right in most cases, but what about the guy were the girl leaves him high and dry. I am not happy to be divorced and back in the deep in of the pool again.  But I was not happy with the marriage either, but I was willing to stay and try to make it work.  I don't know if I can do that again.  

I have had this as something that I wanted to write about for a while now.  When I read this Chapter in the Alma, he made understand the difference between Pride and Righteous Pride.  I thought this was how every, or how I hope, every missionary coming home from there mission felt.  For me it has taken awhile to realize the great work that I did in Ireland. In Alma 26, Ammon and his brothers are coming home from there mission. And it starts off in verse one: 1  And now, these are the words of Ammon to his brethren, which say thus: My brothers and my brethren, behold I say unto you, how great reason have we to rejoice; for could we have supposed when we  started  from the land of Zarahemla that God would have granted unto us such great blessings? Ammon goes on and starts listing off what they were able to do.  The mission was to the Lamanites.  Now the Lamanites had did not believe the same way as Ammon as his Brothers.  Plus they did not look like the Lamanites, so they really s

The Tie of the Day  July 13 The London Tube Map I got this tie in Heathrow Airport on our way back from our Ireland trip in 2000.  I had bought two ties there.  When I got back to where we were sitting, my dad said that he thought Dave Riddle would like the Union Jack Tie that I had bought as well.  I was a little torn, I really had wanted a Union Jack Tie.  So I gave up the tie for Dave.  I have not been to London for a visit, just been through the airports there.  But I do want to go.  And I would like to ride the tube.

The Tie of the Day The U.S.A Flag Tie In honor of The Forth of July I wear this.  I only wear this tie around this time of year.

Please go back and look at the last blog.  And also give me opinion on this one.

Of all the accidents that I have had, they do not count as failures in anyway.  The go-carting accident was a lack of experience in conditions that were very poor at the time.  But none of them can compare to what happened to me at a race at Firebird East. I had been racing the Porsche 944, and me and car were not working as one.  I don't know what it was.  By this time I was an experienced racer who had come off of racing two different cars and both those cars where totally different from the other.  But for some reason things were not coming together as quickly, and this did not have my dad happy either.  My dad built this car in about a month with the help of two kids from the neighborhood.  I did not do hard any work on it at all.  For my dad, I think this was to prove to all of the people out there that he really did know Porsche's.  Most of the cars that were out there were basically built by one person, so were a little differently built than most of the others out

As I as surfing Facebook, I came across a post from a friend, who's daughter is in Seattle for a few days. She showed a picture of her food order from a place called Dick's.  I got to eat at Dick's last year, when I went on vacation with Del Mar and his family.  Dick's was good, and I do have to admit, that if I lived there I would eat there a lot.  But this got me thinking of Places that I eat at, that are not the big national chains, and when I travel this aresome of the best places to eat at.  These are not fancy places most of the time either, but the places were the locals eat at every day.  I will start with some places that are local. Here in Mesa and the valley of the sun, we have a few, but these are some what my favorite. I have to start this list out with Ned's Krazy Sub.  I have been eating at Ned's since they were located across the street from Reed Park.  Ned's does not do anything different than most, but I guess it is the freshness