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I went with a friend, Charlotte to see a Peter Breinholt concert last night at Sundance Ski & Summer Resort. It was held outside, it rained the whole time but we had plenty of blankets and some stadium chairs. We found a spot under the only pine tree in the grassy general seating area which helped shield us from most of the rain. The concert was really good. I haven’t seen them play live since I was in school. I was surprised to see the bass player – Mike Ensign. He and I are good friends but I haven’t seen him for probably 5 or more years. I knew that he was one of the original members of the Big Parade and had collaborated with Peter on their first album and has also played with him quite often since. I didn’t even think he was going to be there last night though. The thought hadn’t even occurred to me however, maybe he always plays with him.

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I’m happy to say that I’m preparing again for the Multiple Sclerosis 150 mile ride this year! Last year was a awesome, both in people who supported me through encouragement as well as many who were able to donate to help my fund raising goals.

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Went with some friends: Melody, Jason and Natalie on a walking tour of downtown Salt Lake City on June 19, 2006. Very cool. Spent some time looking at old buildings but didn’t have nearly enough time to do the whole tour. We only were able to do the first third or so. Took some pictures of the buildings we visited.

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A friend of mine, Melody and I went to Garden Park Ward last Tuesday. It’s a fascinating place in the neighborhood where I grew up. I used to float boats in the duck pond and walked through there on my way to and from my high school (East High).

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Last night I hung out with Melody. We had a great time. We were supposed to go hiking up Brigham Fork of Emigration Canyon, East of Salt Lake City, UT. but there was a storm that was coming in so we changed plans.

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A group of us got together Saturday afternoon at Thai Chili Gardens on 800 N. in Orem for and early dinner. The food, of course, was awesome. My favorite dish there is their massaman curry – probably the best I’ve ever had. We also ordered some vegitarian spring rolls and some Thai BBQ calimari. All good. Kristen ordered some sticky rice and peanut sauce but she didn’t really like the peanut sauce that well. Apparently there is another restaurant near by that has a better peanut sauce – can’t please everyone it looks like. Despite the apparently sub-par peanut sauce, we all had a good time.

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A front was coming in last Thursday and the wind was steady out of the North West so I called a few friends after work and we went to a local soccer field on the UVSC campus to do some power kiting. I had all four kites there – the 1m Ozone IMP, 3m Edel, the 5 and 10 meter Ozone Frenzys. It was too windy for the 10 meter but everyone was able to fly the three smaller kites and we all had a really good time. Pretty cool. I met Jen and Seretta for the first time. Below is a picture of Jen with Seretta and myself in the background.

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This morning at about 10, my friend Sara, her dog Nellie and I met at the Bridal Veil Falls parking lot to go mountain biking. We followed the Bonneville Shoreline Trail for about a mile an a half. It was pretty steep and rocky but a good initiation back into single track. Now that I have both my road bike and my mtn. bike, I put the fat tires back on. It was a weird feeling and it took me most of the ride to get used to the tires and riding off road again. I’m still not there and haven’t got my rythm back yet. A few more rides should do it. I think it’s been two years since I did any serious off road on my mountain bike.

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This past Saturday (March 25, 2006) was a perfect day for kiting – the wind was steady at 15 to 20mph out of the south and it was in the 60s. A bunch of us got together at a park in Orem, west of Geneva Rd. to kite. It was awesome! Most hadn’t flown big kites before so we started off with the 1 meter two line kite and most flew the three meter. I was impressed by thoes who flew the 5 meter :)

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The New World movie poster

Well, a friend and I are going to see The New World tonight. It should be pretty cool. I’d also like to see some other movies: Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Peter Jackson‘s King Kong and Hoodwinked sometime soon as well (I’m a CGI movie fan).

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Saturday evening, Dec. 10, 2005. virtual0.mecworks.com, my “main” server experienced a HD failure on it’s root hard drive. The LVM array with all the data survived intact, the root drive with the OS did not. I was able to salvage most settings and configuration but it took over 12 hours to get the machine back up and running smoothly. There’s still some work that needs to be done and some missing configuration files that need to be re-crafted. It’s nice to spend a weekend in December rebuilding a server when you’d rather be out with friends at a Christmas party or something like that.

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Carrie and I spent part of this past Saturday and Sunday together. We watched the first part of the LDS semi-anual conference then went hiking and finished listening to the second half in the afternoon. On Sunday she came over for the afternoon session which we watched in High Def…so cool. I had to run up to my parent’s place for a family dinner after that. We had a great time.

Rob was a good friend to many. Jim Freeman wrote an email today to several mutual friends with a link to Rob’s obituary published in today’s Deseret News. We are all very supprized at his passing. He was a very good person, a friend to everyone. I remember when I was working at Caldera, stopping by his office once in a while to talk about Linux and technology. He was always inviting and easy to talk to. He also knew my parents well and always asked me to say ‘hello’ when I saw them next. Rob, you will be missed by many… continue reading…