FRANCOIS

This is my new dog. He is a Pit Bull/Lab mix. He is a pretty good dog most of the time but sometimes I have to keep him in check. He sits on command nearly every time I tell him. He runs to me when I call him. He knows how to shake.

Yesterday I told him to stay where he was while I went inside. I forgot about him for about 10 minutes and when I went back to get him he was in the same spot. Pretty good Ryder-Francois, pretty good.

MY PROVERBIAL STEP CHILD

I have been neglecting my blog. I don't think that I have reached the point that my blog would turn into an alien if it were a Tamagotchi. However, this blog would make me pretty upset when I came home to see that it had pooped all over the place while I was absent. I don't care to clean up mounds of poop. Ever.

I digress as per usual.

I have a roommate now. It has been a great thing for me. I will perhaps post a picture of him if I can get permission.

The gist of what I have been doing....

I had family reunions for both maternal and paternal sides of the family in July. For the maternal side reunion extended family met together at a park in Salt Lake City as we do each year. I don't have any photos of the inflatables that were available for children to play on. I never cease to be amazed with how similar a family reuinon can be to a carnival.... if that carnival was in a town of a couple hundred people.

The other reunion was much more intimate with only my immediate family being there. Some of the family went to our cabin all week. I am the only boss of me. I am generally very open to give myself time off from working but I thought that I would go to work, where I have a secondary fulltime boss of me, and make some money so I could continue to keep myself alive for when I am the boss again. Digressed once again.......uh. I left work on Friday and went directly to the cabin to join the family. I was unpleasant to be around to say the least. I was tired and was being attacked on all fronts with allergens. I decided that it was going to be too warm to enjoy sleeping in the cabin so I slept outside. I failed to remember last year when I slept outside and was destroyed by allergens. Once again nearly all of saturday i was unpleasant to be around. We went to Kolob Reservoir and rowed around on canoes. I felt I was strong with the paddle until it came time to race. I thought little guys should race the big guys, hopefully creating a David and Goliath epic win, or at least a win where I could just sit there like this one...

I went to warped tour. I will say more about this in a later post.

I went to a AWFS to look at tools with everyone I work with. A picture of me can be seen here all thanks to Bud The Point Champion.

Stay safe.