Desultory Thoughts

My good friend, Clint, has begun recording his adventures in a new blog entitled “BonnevilleMariner“. The current story is one that I had the pleasure of being involved in; a noisy ride to Nevada in my oil-leaking Jeep with Clint and John. We nearly ran out of gas at least once and we were completely lost at one point. I can honestly say that that was the only time I’ve been lost and were it not for the insistence of the majority that we were finally walking up the right road, I might have been lost forever. I’ll comment more on his blog for history’s sake.

I look forward to reading more stories as they’re posted and I’m sure you’ll enjoy a lore or two if you take a moment to visit and browse. It will be more reminiscent for me seeing as how I’m Clint’s adventure buddy and have been involved in many of the adventures he’ll share. The one place he didn’t follow me was down an old, dark, long-forgotten mining tunnel. And wisely so. (Yet again, because he was there I am not still lost or now dead.) Thanks, Clint!

Another hilarious video.  I don’t know if it’s so funny because it reminds me of some Tongan and Samoan friends that I had growing up.  They were tough as nails and seemed to take pleasure in hurting or getting hurt.  This is a game they would have played just to enjoy watching me laugh my head off!

John posted an old video on YouTube tonight that I made a while back. It was great to see it again, I had forgotten all about it. It’s a little bit corny in that you can pretty much tell that I stretched 1 minute of video footage into 4 minutes, but it’s still an interesting look into the past. The last four minutes is a reading of the entire poem that was written by my good friend Matt when he was on his mission in Rome, Italy in 1995.

A family that I have the pleasure of home teaching went to Burbank, CA for a taping of “The Price Is Right” and Taralyn was “called on down”!

I compiled the highlights of her game into a 7 minute video for those of you who may have missed it. Enjoy!

They did it! Or I should say, Sassy did it. As reported earlier, Jeff and Cristie Walk won $10,000 in the season premier of America’s Funniest Videos. Tonight they went on to win the $100,000 contest! Congratulations…again!!!

This time Sassy is the most calm of the three, but that makes sense considering the circumstances.

Here are the highlights of tonight’s appearance: