Finally, you can buy 8gb iPhones on eBay for less than $399. I knew it would happen eventually, and it looks like the 16gb iPhone is probably what did it. I really don’t know why I am so excited about this, because I am not in the market for an iPhone at all. Thanks to my recent budget, I do have the money for an iPhone, but also thanks to my recent budget I can’t justify it.

Today I received an email forward from someone I knew in Ogden, or possibly by a scam artist using his name. The email told of a poll that NBC did this morning asking whether “One nation under God” or “In God We Trust” or other such references to God should be taken out of our national culture. According to the email, the result was 86% against removing these references.

I love receiving emails like this, because whether they warn of impending danger to my person or my computer, or appeal to my sense of right and wrong, they are completely fake. I absolutely love looking up the real story on these emails on Snopes.com. In this case the email was loosely based on a poll that CNBC did in 2005.

I am happy to know that the people I know want to make sure that I am not killed in a gang initiation, or infected when reaching for the gas pump, or missing out on sharing in Bill Gates fortune. However, I do find the thought of creating a hoax email very intriguing. I would love to get back an email that I sent around warning that mosquitoes that are black in color carry the dangerous goblutes (pronounced Go - bloots, e.g. bloots is your favorite sports team and you are cheering them on) virus, or that every time my email is forwarded Procter & Gamble donate five cents to the homeless.

So keep your eyes open for those emails that seem a little too good/crazy/emotional to be true, hopefully one of them will be mine.

I have officially decided that Thursday is the worst day of the week. By Thursday the resolve I had when the week began is nearly gone, and the dull hopelessness that comes when you feel like everyday of your life will be the same from here on out starts to creep in.

Or, as Aurthur Dent said, “I could never get the hang of Thursdays”

I don’t know if it was something I ate, but I have been feeling a little under the weather lately. I have the world’s most awesome immune system (in my opinion) though, and I am able to deal with it. My body doesn’t really get sick, I just get more of the feeling that I ate too much candy, or only had 5 hours of sleep.

Don’t get me wrong, 5 hours of sleep or too much candy can be brutal, but they don’t take you out of commission. I always think it would be nice to take a sick day, but if I take one I want to actually be sick, so I can watch 7 movies instead of go to work.

On a completely unrelated subject, I still haven’t come up with a slogan I like for Salt Lake Pearl Co. I need to wrack my brain, but I don’t have a good brain-wracking location. Oh well, I am sure I will come up with something anyway.

It seems that I like to cook. I had some people over to my house yesterday, as I had the day off. I made chicken curry, and rolls for the occasion. My basic rules for feeding people are that there should always be enough food that everyone gets as much as they want, and that the food should be good enough that they want as much as they can have.

I think the total food preparation time was probably three hours, but it didn’t seem long at all. I really have a good time cooking whenever I do it.

So I pose the question, is cooking work. For me, I would say “no.” Unfortunately, I don’t have time to cook good meals very often.

I’ve noticed something several times in my life, but only recently have I started thinking about it more seriously. I have stubborn hair. I can’t really get it to do what I want and I have to use mounds of gel to get it to do anything. What is amazing to me though is the effect that sleeping on my hair has.

When I wake up in the morning my hair, as is most people’s, looks nothing short of awesome. I usually have some sort of wing sticking out of these side of my head. The thing I’ve noticed is how seemingly plastered in that state my hair is.

Last night after I went running, I decided to take a shower. This morning when woke up I remembered that I’d taken a shower last night and since it’s Saturday, I figured I didn’t need to take another one. I tried to do my hair. I had obviously been sleeping on my left side, judging by the sticky-outiness of the hair on that side. I took a handful of gel and ran it through that area of hair. It probably held it down for 5 minutes trying to get it to stay, with no luck.

Finally, I ended up running my hair under the faucet for a few minutes to wet it down. That did the trick.

Anyway, to end up this post, I want to suggest a new product that someone should create. What I need is a gel that has magnetically charged particles in it so that after I apply it to my hair I can simple press a button and have the particles be magnetically shaped to whatever hairstyle I want.

Today my office had a delayed opening because of snowy conditions. Unfortunately, I come to work early and wasn’t up to speed on how we get messages that the office will open late. That meant that one of my coworkers and I spent three hours in the office alone this morning. I thought several times about how much I would have loved to be at home in bed, but there was nothing for it. I am sure it will still be a good day at work, and our team meeting got pushed off until tomorrow. Now I have a team meeting to look forward to and a mini golf tournament that we have in the office tomorrow. I can’t wait to see how my putting skills fare.

Well, it’s been about 3 weeks since I started my diet and exercise extravaganza. I have to say that I have been pleased with the results. Before I started I weight consistently between 196-198. Now I’m weighing between 190-192.

Ben and I have seen a lot on the web in our time. We have seen things that work and things that don’t. Every time either of us looks at a website we immediately think of how it could be better. It has been suggested (and not just by Ben and me) that we should do web consulting. This has always sounded like a good idea. We have had a fair bit of experience in marketing, business, and creating our own websites. I am convinced that Ben has enough design expertise to deal with any situation, and his experience as a programmer will give him the ability to offer advice on what is possible to do on the web, how hard it will be, and how much it will cost.

We have recently become more serious about starting a web consulting company. Some of Ben’s friends from high school have recently started a business that imports pearls. Their prices are low, and from what I understand, their quality is high. They have a website, which they hope will help them broaden their customer base. Unfortunately, the website really isn’t that good, and there expertise on the web is lacking.

Enter Ben and me. Ben and I are currently negotiating terms under which, if acceptable, we will make their website successful. It should be a good experience and possibly the exact springboard a new consulting company would need to get started.

Now we’ve gone and done it. Go check out the awesomeness of the tankz battle.

Here’s the link: See the tanks

So, it turns out . . . I lied. My brother Matt actually did make it to the next round of his mock trial competition. I wrote my last post I was basing all of my statements on closely held opinions that I have about this kind of competition. I typically assume that judges base their opinions on quanitity instead of quality. Because (I am not sure if I mentioned this in my last post) Matt didn’t get much time to present his case during this round of competition. So, if Matt can get them to let him conduct next weeks trials at 8:00, everyone will still have the opportunity to come and see me as a witness (which I am sure you are all dying to do).