ROB HIMSELF

FIRST DAY

2012-02-11T00:31:00.001-07:00

I sent Ryder to his first day of school. He got expelled and I was asked to never allow my son near first graders again. Sorry Gracie.

WORK DOG

2012-02-09T11:28:00.001-07:00

I have noticed a trend lately. Blogging about kids. I don't know what parents are so fascinated with. I have seen kids.

Any of you that know me will know that I don't have kids. I have a dog. This post will show just a few things he can do.

I have also noticed that no matter the effort you put into something there always seems to be someone better than you....

DRAWERS

2012-01-19T17:13:00.001-07:00

How many drawers did you build today? Fewer than me I am sure. Take a photo and email it to me if you want 20 points?

NEW PHONE

2012-01-14T11:38:00.001-07:00

I have a new phone. It will now be easier for me to blog with pictures. Enjoy.

HOPE CHEST

2011-12-28T12:35:00.000-07:00

I built a chest for Lauren's mother for Christmas. It is all hardwood. This is the only picture I have of the finished product. The bottom is done in a shiplap fashion to avoid any expansion or shrinking problems.


Rustic Maple With Cedar Interior

THE REIGN IS OVER

2011-12-20T11:33:00.002-07:00

I quit using Facebook. I was tired of being bombarded by worthless garbage every time I logged on. It has been a few weeks and I am very satisfied with my decision.

IT BEGINS

2011-11-17T20:17:00.004-07:00

Logan vs. Bud vs. Rob in a no haircut battle. It is "on". The battle begins. Sorry mommies. Sorry girlfriends/wife.

AFTER

2011-10-28T18:33:00.002-06:00

This is the coat hanger I built today. If you want to have a before picture just use photoshop and remove it.

ART

2011-10-10T19:35:00.002-06:00

FOREVER

2011-10-10T19:13:00.003-06:00

I got a tattoo that means a lot to me. I am very happy with it so I don't want anyone to be sad for me. It is very personal to me and I am not going to just tell anyone about why I got it.

I know it is forever and that is why I have been thinking about getting it for over 2 years. It is a tree. It is a little hard to tell what it is unless you can see around my arm a bit more.

It is not your tattoo so if you don't like it you don't really have to say anything.

VOGAN

2011-09-16T19:02:00.004-06:00

I have an awesome friend. He has at least two awesome friends himself. The specific friend I speak of is a photographer called Steve Lloyd.

Back to Logan. Check out this video that Steve Lloyd made of him when they were at Whistler. It was a well deserved video of the day a while ago.

CHEER UP

2011-09-06T19:47:00.002-06:00

I have been stumbling upon things lately. If you have Facebook it is easy to use because it is possible to sign in with your account. You can set preferences of what you like to see. You can also look at what your friends like. Adieu.

FRANCOIS

2011-08-29T12:09:00.003-06:00

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

2011-08-12T06:16:00.005-06:00

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.

C-41 PROCESS FTL?

2011-07-21T18:44:00.003-06:00

This is as accurate as a photo can be to showing a subjects despair

Yep, you read the title correctly. I was denied 3 rolls of film (36 exposures each) when I took my film to Walgreens today to have it developed. I had spent a few hours overall composing the 108 shots.

The film I used was Ilford HP5. Living in Cedar City I am cursed with only having 2 options for having my film developed as far as I know (I haven't tried asking professional photographers in the area if they would develop my film). I knew Cedar City was cursed in various ways. I had never expected that Cedar City was cursed with incompetent film developers. It devastated me to hear that all of my film had been ruined, conveniently call it "Blank Film", to the point that the clerks at stores could tell something was wrong. It has been quite some time since the last time I was noticeably depressed by an event brought on by others.

I chose to trust Walgreens over the second option, Walmart, based solely on personal bias. I thought to myself, "Walmart can't possibly have someone in the photograph sector that can make prints I will be satisfied with." I am now left wondering if I could have circumvented the Walgreens problem if I would have tried to have my film developed at Walmart. I didn't expect someone with professional knowledge about developing film. However, I did expect the technician to know their abilities. If the proper procedures were not available I would expect to be warned. With an infinite magnitude I would prefer to be disappointed in being told that the developing techniques were not available for my film than showing up 2 hours later to be told that 108 shots had been destroyed forever.

I have written a complaint email to Walgreens in an attempt to have them conduct a more thorough training for their employees that deal with the photography.

Thank you for bearing with me on this incredibly boring post. Venting complete at long last.

RAINBOW

2011-06-17T09:10:00.002-06:00

NADA

2011-06-03T16:55:00.005-06:00

I don't really have anything going on. I have such a surplus of free time that I can do everything that I have even remotely wanted to do. Not e.g. the picture below.

I thought I would post a picture of a real pony tail in response to what I saw on a former roommate's blog that I frequent. I find the humor there to fit me just right, however, not all of you will understand.

At first my hair growing venture was intended for only one purpose, donation. This has become the secondary objective now for my hair. I know that you will be sad to read about my new outlook [Janet]. Some people like it, some people say I look like a creeper. I have been mulling it over for some time now and haven't come to any conclusions on my creeper/non creeper status. (Feel free to comment honestly. I will not revoke points for honesty.)

Happy "No Shirt After Work Friday" (NSAWF) to all of you out there.

DEAD OPS

2011-05-24T20:53:00.001-06:00

My operating system failed on my iMac.

NOT FOR TABLETOPS

2011-05-17T12:17:00.003-06:00

I like to play tennis. I will play ANYONE.

FRAMED

2011-05-13T12:51:00.002-06:00

I have been neglecting my blog lately. It is about time you all know what I have been doing as of late. I have been working on picture frames at work for about 2 weeks straight now. At first I kind of thought they would be a bust but now that they are on Facebook I have been shocked with the response they have made.

REAL ADULT

2011-03-09T12:29:00.004-07:00

I have become a real adult. I purchased my own home near the hospital in Cedar City. I live there, and I am really enjoying living alone. I would like to also point out how long my hair is. Look at it.

WORTHLESS

2010-11-19T14:40:00.003-07:00

The results are in for the spoiler: It goes...

I hope you all learned your lesson about voting. Your votes didn't count because you didn't know that we were using the electoral college system. I choose to have it stay gone (at least for the time being) because while I was removing it one of the screws broke off inside its corresponding hole and it is going to take more than a few minutes to install the spoiler once again. Popular vote loses again!

YAY OR NEIGH

2010-11-01T18:20:00.003-06:00

I am going to put the fate of the spoiler with my blog followers. I would say to comment on the one you like but some people may be a bit nervous about making a comment on my blog. Therefore, there will be a poll on the right side of the blog where you can vote. I am aware that you can cheat the voting, so in the event of a tie the spoiler will stay off. If you have a strong enough opinion either way and choose to vote multiple times for one, I applaud you for your conviction. If you are an economist and believe that your vote won't count, you are probably right because I am going to do what I want almost certainly. Vote if you wish to. Go.

GONZO

2010-11-01T17:57:00.003-06:00

I have driven to and from Salt Lake City a number of times both while living there and while living in Cedar City. There are a few things that I seem to notice every time even when I am not paying much attention to my surroundings. Ever since I can remember there has been a little red car in a field, abandoned. It has suffered some beatings over the years. On one occasion I noticed that the mirrors had been knocked off. Over the years the windows had all been broken. I check on the little red car every time I drive by in the daylight hours.

I was shocked to see last time that the car was missing. All the years we had seen each other and there was little more than tire tracks leading away from the spot that the car had been lying dormant. It didn't call me or even leave a note. You can imagine a red car in the field to see how sad you may become if it were to be gone one day.

BABIES!

2010-10-28T00:34:00.002-06:00

I found a better picture of my Halloween costume from last year. I haven't ruled out being a baby again. Tune in for an update after Halloween is over.

GOOD SPORT

2010-10-21T14:09:00.004-06:00

Brett Grimm is the best. She is so forgiving/apathetic toward my goofball demeanor. She even plays the silly games my family plays with little or no complaining. (i.e. pumpkin suction (sucking up paper pumpkins with a straw and running across the room to deposit them into a plastic pumpkin, and Jack-0-lantern Shootout). If she were on "Shallow Hal" she would look the exact same, or perhaps even more beautiful. In the past I haven't posted the most flattering pictures of her, but it was all I had. I am going to infringe on copyright to bring you these. I love this girl.

This is something of me now.

GRAYSCALE

2010-09-12T21:36:00.004-06:00

I have been taking some pictures with my phone lately and today I decided that I would share some.

I decided that my full face helmet looked dumb so I decided to paint it.

Before

After

I have been riding my motorcycle up Cedar Canyon quite a bit lately. I decided that since I was going near Cedar Breaks so often that i should stop by and see it. I have lived in Cedar City for the large majority of my life but I have never traveled the 20 or so miles up the canyon to see the National Monument. Photos I took with my phone can be seen below. I was told that the tree in the photo below is 1700 years old. That is probably the oldest tree I have ever come in contact with.

POST

2010-08-31T12:50:00.003-06:00

I have this picture that I never put on my blog that I intended to put on the blog. Here it is. Salt Lake City has some cool mailboxes and whilst out walking with the Goddard's, Chelsea and Margot, I was this and decided that it would be cool to get a photo to prove it. Proof?

BAG

2010-08-30T17:39:00.003-06:00

I have a girlfriend. I think that she is great.

CABIN

2010-08-22T04:29:00.003-06:00

I have been seriously neglecting my followers. I must apologize to everyone that has missed reading this incredibly pointless blog. I am sorry [for you]. I have been incredibly lazy about blogging until today when I was talking to Buddy. So the point to this is that anyone that had been checking my blog to see if it had been updated can thank Buddy for a change of scenery. Feel free to award him points. I will add them up and any points that are awarded to Buddy will be accepted as legal tender for a "Buddy point".

I have digressed from the origional point to this posting. I have been working with my uncle Todd Thorley (for stats click this link) this summer, as I was the summer of 2009, doing construction on a cabin for my grandfather (for stats click this link). I have been enjoying it a great deal. I have really been thankful for the experience I have gained about building the cabin with him. I really admire the general knowledge that Todd has and am incredibly thankful that he is sharing that knowledge with me as fast as I can absorb it. I have a vastly closer relationship with him than the relationships with any aunts or uncles from either my fraternal or maternal families.

The cabin have been keeping me quite busy during the day for the most part. I will am sure that i will miss working on it when it is done, but it will also be nice to be able to go to the cabin and just relax for the first time. I have been spending a lot of my time that could easily be leisure time.

At the first part of this summer while being employed by my grandpa it was nearly exclusively just the two of us that were going to work. It was sort of a joke i had to keep myself sane that he was always so tired and couldn't do much work until it came time to do the fun work (i.e. using a chain saw, driving home in the mud). I really didn't mind when he would just sit there and watch me work. I just really liked the company. I thought that it was pretty cool to be able to work with my gramps and hear the stories of his life I have really missed having him around.

I am not going to post a picture yet of the cabin, but if someone can persuade me to add one I will give you a point.

ACID

2010-06-04T16:25:00.003-06:00

This truck made some acid from my stomach lurch into the back of my throat. I found it to be quite an eyesore. What do you think: Like or dislike?

SAM BAG

2010-05-18T18:56:00.002-06:00

I am not sure if this bag is full of sand or sam. It is labeled "SAMBAG" but only the person that wrote it can know that was meant for sure.