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Peter Breinholt Concert at Sundance

marc — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 16:08:15 +0000

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 [...]

Multiple Sclerosis 150 mile bike tour 2006

marc — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 16:24:32 +0000

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. For those of you who are not aware, each year [...]

Walking tour of downtown Salt Lake City

marc — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 00:55:05 +0000

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 [...]

Garden Park Ward Photos

marc — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 20:59:37 +0000

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). We took a few pictures while [...]

Kyoto, Garden Park, Back allies, Arrested Development

marc — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 15:30:23 +0000

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. We went to the Kyoto restaurant on 11th East and 13th South [...]

Thai Chili Gardens

marc — Tue, 30 May 2006 15:22:59 +0000

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 [...]

Power Kiting: April 25, 2006

marc — Tue, 02 May 2006 04:10:54 +0000

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, [...]

Mountain Bike Ride: 0h 41m 48s

marc — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 18:01:28 +0000

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 [...]

Power Kiting Last Saturday.

marc — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 17:00:14 +0000

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 [...]

Movie: The New World

marc — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 08:42:15 +0000

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 [...]

virtual0.mecworks.com: Harddrive Failure

marc — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 16:20:50 +0000

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 [...]

What a great weekend…

marc — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 03:08:24 +0000

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 [...]

Rob Penrose

marc — Mon, 27 Dec 2004 04:19:05 +0000

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 [...]