The Digester is my 3d model that I spend about 8 months building and perfecting. In my line of work that more automation the better. I am using the Autodesk Inventor CAD based program to automate the building of out digester covers, the picture to the right is this 3d model that is run with inputs from an excell sheet. When a customer askeds for custom parts I simply plug it into the sheet I created and WHAM! the model is complete with a full set of fabrication drawings each of which we charge about $1,500! I cut my hours by 90% on any givven job making each drawing more profitable. Heres a picture of a completed model I have desinged and built for the customer:

Moved out and Got sick on Vacation!!!

The Beach is the best place on earth!!! My vacation to Cali was to see a great friend of mine that I hadn't seen in a couple years. I stayed with him at his mansion home. Seriously a mansion, I'm not exaggerating. The room I stayed in was themed to look like a tree house with vines in the private bathroom. I didn't spen much time there however instead I stayed at the beach singing a little john mayor while Tyler plated the guitar. Also, I went to the emergency room. HA! it was awesome, lets play out how that went shall we?

Tyler: Ever been to in and out burger? They have a burger with six patties on it, there is no way anyone could eat that all at once!

Me: Wanna bet? Get me 3 double stackers that's technically more that 6 patties.

......6 hours later

Doctor: the shot were giving you is 10 times more powerful than Morphine to help with the pain in your stomach.

Ha ha, enough said? IT didn't last long and it was nice when I finally did come home to go to my own place. I'm living up in Coton wood heights in a 1500 sq foot home! I love it and its a great area, actually I live across the street from "The carpet Guy."

The herb garden

At the farm this saturday we planted basil seedlings. Patricia had planted them from seeds in a container used for starting seeds. The plants were only a couple inches long. We filled up bins with a mixture of (1) part potting soil, (1) part Vermiculite, (1) part Pete Moss, and (2) parts compost. The compost was a mixture of used coffe beans, fruits, vegetables, some straw, and egg shells she had collected throughought the year snd was broken down. It's important not to over fertalize the herbs since they don't like the sttronger fertalizes like other fruit plants. It was quite a learning expirience! Can't wait to start my own garden!

How I spent the first day of spring.

Amy and I decided we wanted to dress up and go on a romantic date in late febuary. I was able to find a restauraunt called Log Haven up in Millcreek canyon. It was a gorgeous restauraunt with a gorgeous view and the food was pretty good too. We didn't recognize any of the food on the menu....that's how nice this place was. Come to find out later it is where her dad proposed to her mom!

Afterwards we went out dancing to Murray arts theatre. We have a lot of stories but I think the pictures say it all (:

Life is Pain???

Let's dress up Gothic and go to the club.

Those were the words that made me shop at hot topic for the first time before our big weekend. Amy helped me pick out some clothes and I even tried 'skinny jeans' for the first time while I was there, they turned out to not be so bad but I didn't get them. Instead I got a hat and a nblack shirt with a peace sign on the front. Amy got a dress for less the $4 that was black with white bows all over it and a black necklace. The night started out at olive Garden where we met Jodee for her birthday and Amy's brother, Jeremy. We got the soup and salad and showed off Amy's sunburn from farming that morning.

"Come see my new car!" Jodees sleak SUV with leather seats was parked out front and we all thought it was a pretty sweet ride. Especially considering the beater truck that she was driving... now don't get me wrong it was a good truck, it even survived going through the drive through at mcdonalds backwards so we could pay through the passenger side window!

Dancing was amazing, I think after a few minuites we realized that we didn't care what anyone thought, Jeremy was bustin a move with his newly shaved head (long story) and Jodee broke out into Thirller at one point. As Gothic as Amy looked she definently wasn't depressed at all when Outkast told her to 'shake it like a poloroid picture!" It was a great night filled with midgets, kilts, creepy people, and a lot of great music!!! Happy birthday Jodee, HA HA!

PERFECT WEEKENDS

Since Amy and I have started dating we've had some pretty amazing weekends, most every week we get out to do something fun whether its a banquet dinner at a Jazz Game, Dressing up and going to dinner to the Most Romantic restauraunt in Utah, babysitting her niece and making stuff out of playdough, or farming and playing with honey bees at a local farm; no matter what we do we have the most amazing, relaxing and interesting weekends.

There is so much to tell in this post that I will only have time to tell a couple stories, first of all,

THE CAT:

Willaby is a cat that belongs to Ryan and Rachel, Amy's Brother and Sister-in-law. This is not any ordinary cat, he was forged in the fires of moridor and is more evil than Hell itself. This cat will only let 2 people hold her Rachel and Kirsten, anyone else gets a paws swipe at their face and arms with razor sharp claws. I need to remphisize, RAZOR SHARP CLAWS ON A CAT MADE FROM EVIL.

I've tried everything to be friends with this cat, did I mention she can open doors? She stalks your feet and even sneaks up on you from the counter tops. You don't believe me do you? we will get video and you'll see....

There are pictures to show from our perfect weekends and her evil kitty roomate...more to come.

I Am amazing, and so are YOU!

Part 1
There once was a soul who knew itself to be the light. This was a new soul and so, anxious for experience.
"I am the light" it said. "I am the light"
Yet all the knowing of it and all the saying of it, could not substitute for the experience of it. And in the realm from which this soul emerged, there was nothing but the light. Every soul was grand and every soul was magnificent and every soul shone with the brilliance of God's awesome light. So the little soul was as a candle in the sun. In the midst of the grandest light, of which it was part, it could not see itself, nor experience itself as Who and What it really is.
Now it came to pass that this soul yearned and yearned to know itself. So great was it's yearning that God one day said, "Do you know little one, what you must do to satisfy this yearning of yours?"
"Oh, what, God? What? I'll do anything!" the little soul said.
"You must separate yourself from the rest of us" God answered, "and then you must call upon yourself the darkness"
"What is the darkness, o Holy One?" the little soul asked.
"That which you are not" God replied and the soul understood.
And so this the soul did, removing itself from the ' All ' going even unto another realm. And in this realm the soul had the power to call into it's experience all sorts of darkness. And this it did.
Yet in the midst of all the darkness did it cry out, "Father, Father, why hast thou forsaken me?"
God replied: "Even has have you, in your blackest times. Yet I have never forsaken you, but stand by you always, ready to remind you of Who You Really Are; ready always ready, to call you home.
Therefore be a light unto the darkness and curse it not. And forget not who you are in the moment of your encirclement by that which you are not. But do praise to the creation even as you seek to change it.
And know that what you do in the time of your greatest trial can be your greatest triumph.
For the experience you create is a statement of Who You Are - and Who You Want to Be.
Part 2
God said to the little soul, "You may choose to be any Part of God you wish to be. You are absolute divinity experiencing itself. What aspect of divinity do you now wish to experience as You?"
"You mean I have a choice", asked the little soul.
God answered, "Yes. You may choose to experience any aspect of divinity in, as and through you."
"Okay," said the little soul, "then I choose forgivness. I want to experience myself as that aspect of God called complete forgivness."
Well this created a little challenge, as you can imagine. There was no one to forgive. All God had created was perfection and love.
"No one to forgive?" asked the little soul, somewhat incredulously.
"No one," God repeated. "Look around you. Do you see any souls less than perfect, less wonderful than you?"
At this the little soul twirled around and was surprised to see himself surrounded by all the souls in heaven. They had come from far and wide throughout the kingdom, because they heard that the little soul was having an extraordinary conversation with God.
"I see none less perfect than I!" the little soul exclaimed. "Who, then, shall I have to forgive?"
Just then another soul stepped forward from the crowd.
"You may forgive me" said this friendly soul
"For what?" the little soul asked.
" I will come into your next physical lifetime and do something for you to forgive," replied the friendly soul.
"But what? What could you, a being of such perfect light do to make me wnat to forgive you?" the little soul wanted to know.
"Oh," smiled the friendly soul, "I'm sure we can think of something."
"But why would you want to do this?" The little soul could not figure out why a being of such perfection would want to slow down it's vibration so much that it could do something 'bad'.
"Simple," the friendly soul explained, "I would do it because I love you. You want to experience yourself as forgiving, don't you? Besides you've done the same for me."
"I have?" asked the little soul.
"Of course, don't you remember? We've been All Of it, you and I. We've been the Up and the Down of it, and the Left and the Right of it. We've been the Here and the There of it, and the Now and the Then of it. We've been the Big and the Small of it, the Male and the Female of it and the Good and the Bad of it. We've been the All of it."
"And we've done it by agreement, so that each of us might experience ourselves as the grandest part of God. For we have understood that...
'In the absence of that which You Are Not, that which you Are, is Not'.
'In the absence of cold you cannot be warm, in the absence of sad you cannot be happy. Without a thing called evil, the experience you call good cannot exist'.
'If you choose to be a thing, something or someone opposite to that has to show up somewhere in your universe to make that possible.' "
The friendly soul then explained that those people are God's Special Angels and these conditions God's Gifts.
"I ask only one thing in return," the friendly soul declared.
"Anything, Anything," the little soul cried. He was excited now to know that he could experience every divine aspect of God. He understood now, The Plan.
"In the moment that I strike you and smite you," said the friendly soul, "in the moment that I do the worst to you that you could ever imagine - in that self same moment...remember Who I Really Am."
"Oh, I wont forget!" promised the little soul. "I will see you in the perfection with which I hold you now, and I will remember Who You Are, always."
Authors Details: Neale Donald Walsch from Conversation with God.