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).

It seems the Guitar Hero is all the craze right now with the high school and college types. I’ve never actually played it myself because I would rather play the real guitar, but I’m not against it.

I think that if the video game companies wanted to improve the general intelligence of the world population they would make a new game: Calculus Hero.

They could teach the high school students how to quickly take the derivative of 2x²+2x+1. Kids would be able to whip out integrals like nobody’s business.

Of course, there is always the possibility that we could create an army of super geniuses that would take over to world…okay, this might not be such a good idea.

Well, my career as a mock trial witness has come to a screeching halt. Unfortunately, Matt didn’t win in the second round of mock trial competition. It was a good experience for me and it gave me valuable insight into our country’s legal system.

I think that the United States could learn a lot from “The Dark Crystal”. In the film the Skekses, who are collectively the antagonist, choose their leader in a trial by stone. This ritual involves hitting an ancient stone with a large sword . . . as hard as you can. Whoever hits the stone best becomes the leader.

Here in the United States, if we adopted this system, we could abolish all lawyers, save millions in taxes, and all laymen would understand the legal system perfectly. Drawbacks: none. What are we waiting for?