The Graphic Guide to Why I'm Happily Facebook-Free

In case anyone ever needed a few reasons to ween yourself from certain social networking sites... click the pic to enjoy your 'a-ha' moment of the day.

Enjoy.

Why can't our Safe Driving Ads be this honest?

Looks like Australia has got a new approach to tapping into the teen mind: vulgar language in commercials & a bit of humor.

What's Pink & White & Sings all over?

Happy Palm Sunday. 

I celebrated by going to see Legally Blonde the musical with Brian and Jason (after making a winner, winner chicken dinner). I had little in the department of expectations and was surprised to find myself laughing so much. How could I not, they sang about whores and J. Crew Kung-Fu. Great casting, great performances (even with botching up the lines a few times). A great way to end the weekend - laughing and walking home with ice-cream shakes from Carl's Jr.

Whirlwind Weekend

So my lazy Saturday turned into a day filled with work, travel, colored chalk, more traveling, last minute changes & hotel bookings from the Grand America in SLC to a Casino (I hesitate to say "Resort") in Wendover, NV, some more traveling, buffets & gambling 'til midnight, more traveling, and breakfast with my brain on drugs. If it doesn't make any sense these pictures may (or may not) help unravel the mystery that was the last 24 hours of my life:

Before : After

In case you were wondering, this is what that little palm tree should look like.


Lesson learned: Just because a plant comes from IKEA doesn't mean that it isn't real (& require more than a hex wrench to put it together).

PROOF: I have a deadly green thumb

If I buy it, will it make the drive back to Utah?

Oh who the hell cares. The stories that would come from the road trip in this thing across the country would be worth it (time to enroll in AAA).

It makes me want to put my Honda up for sale just to make the video classified. Too bad I promised myself no big purchases until the end of summer (that includes a house or new car, vacations excluded).

?Donde estan mis zapatos?

The pair of shoes (that DWB still has not guessed) are on their way. I guess he has until early next week to figure out what is heading my way from the north east. I have no idea why these are coming from that far away. They must have been sold out in the rest of the civilized continental 48 states. In any case, I hope they get here soon and I hope they fit because I don't want to have to send them back Vermont. Then again, that's what I deserve for being cheap (since when were $100 shoes considered cheap?).

Facebook is now stalking me (as a 'less-active' member)

It seems that when you don't log into Facebook after a while they start to worry about you. If you go a few weeks they start emailing you on a consistent basis (polite email above). I've heard from many RLF (Real Life Friends) that Facebook has encouraged them to re-connect with me. I just laugh and encourage them to re-connect with me in real life. For all of those FOF (Friends on Facebook) that have no idea how to get in touch with me, well, that's on purpose.

For anyone else out there planning to quit the Big Brother of Social Networking sites be warned, like a Kool-Aid drinking cult and those that are waiting for the flying saucer to take them away with the Hale Bopp (Bob) comet...they are watching (and ready to send automated emails to reactivate you into the fold).

*PS: Who on earth is tagging me in so many pictures?!

(Reformed) Shoe Whore

I just got rid of three pairs of shoes and need to replace them. I only have so much closet space in my little apartment so in order to justify new ones - the old, worn out ones have to go live on a farm out in the country where they can live out their remaining years like Old Yeller did.

I've already ordered one of these pairs and deciding on the others - at this point if they have my size and I can find them on sale I might as well buy them.

(Take a guess at which ones I already bought)

Dog Days of Spring, sunnier times at Tanner Park

Breakfast Yin: Multi-Grain Cheerios, Breakfast Yang: (below)

Time-lapse of construction on the LSC Sky Bridge

For something that can be found all over other cities it's nice that after a year and a half of debates, the new superstructure of the City Creek Sky bridge is finally going up. Vehicle traffic has been closed on Main St and will open back up by Saturday. Check out the video below of the frame installation spanning the street and light rail lines. Now if only I still had the video I took on my phone when they imploded these two blocks...

Translation: 100% Compostable = the Loudest Bag E-V-E-R

"Your iTunes Music Library is Corrupt – attempting to rebuild"

This is the warning message that sent me to the verge of panic last week. It wasn’t the fact I was potentially losing all of my music (of course it is all legal and backed up on discs sitting at the ready) but that sobering fact that iTunes links my phone, contacts, apps, movies, etc. If this all just went to hell in a hand basket (of viral code) how was I going to fix everything?

To top it off, my iMac decided to permanently cycle through Indexing my files so I couldn’t search for any files (kind of a big problem for me).

Three days of work and 3 libraries rebuilt and eventually all 3 corrupted themselves. The joys of turning to message boards and not always finding the best solution forced me to just figure it out. I managed to copy, delete, and reinstall files eventually getting things back to functioning order (a public nod to my inner geek).

In the end it all worked out, I’m more savvy with fixing my Mac (felt like I was back on a PC for a while). An unexpected surprise would be that my genius playlists changed (see pic above) but that came at the cost of losing all of my other playlists, song counts, AND ratings. Honestly, how am I expected to rebuild lists that have taken years to compile?

The glass is half full: Now I get to start from scratch and rediscover my music collection. It’s fun to flip through album art that I never paid attention to before. My iTunes fix also cured my infinite indexing problem.

Halle-freakin-lujah. The end.

What tastes like Shamrocks & Sugar? (My breakfast)

It's Census Time (Where's my No. 2 pencil?!)

Dinner is served (w Grape Soda)

Ford makes hybrids too (SNL Prius Spoof)

You knew that this one was coming. Now if they could just get Tina Fey in the driver's seat with her Maverik pantsuit and Alaska accent...

911: Please state the nature of your emergency

Me: I've had an hour of my sleep stolen. I want it returned to me as soon as possible...please.

It's not so easy to be a street walker in SLC

UTA goes Vegas w new bus signage (since when?!)

TGFiPod Upgrades

Love me some Oscar's (& the cookies help too)

Scott & Stef Jackson finally got married (photo of the 'future' Jackson's below)

I caught up to the Chow Truck @ 10:00pm Saturday night (not me in the picture)

Now all I need is a gallon of Winder Dairy fat free milk