so I just decided to sign up for lifelock and looked on their site and honestly couldn’t really tell what they did. I knew I needed some kind of ID fraud help, cause as a youth my elementary school got broken into several times and the sad thing about having a name that puts you at the front of the alphabet, that’s what the robbers get you know? :)

So I sign up anyway with a deal that gets me a year at 99 bones and I decide to try it out and see what it does. Well first they register fraud alerts on the CR’s, then they have CR’s sent to me. Cool I think, this is easy. Then my CR gets here and I look at it, and I am getting taken to town. There are tickets that have gone to collections, cars that have been purchased, and jewelry that is outstanding (the payments, not the jewels). I’m thinking ahhhh freak. So I drop lifelock an email and this dude calls and says hey, we can’t sick the dogs on em because this stuff happened before you got with us, but I’ll jump on the phone with you and we can knock all these out together to get you where you need to be. So there’s this pro chasing down these creditors that aren’t using any fraud detection stuff, and in one night, we get paperwork done on all of them. So I guess for 10 bones a month, not too shabby. The trick will be if it actually gets it off my record and clears my name eh’? I’ll keep you posted.

In the meantime, take a look at your own reports and make sure you’re all up to par. And thus, the moral.

So I just found this pirated trailer of tron2 or tr2n, and let me just say “YA DANG RIGHT BAYBEE!” I am stoked, it looks so good, and the buzz around it is fantastic. If you’ve never seen the original, shame on you. Playing this game as a kid was a huge part of my appreciation for all things geek, which eventually chose my school and career, so pretty much, I owe my life to tron :) But seriously, I loved this as a kid, and am so stoked to see it getting some attention now. It’s very geeky though, and makes me happy. so…..
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well thanks for all the well wishing guys! I am now officially done, I just sent in my last paper, the finals are done, papers are written, I have proven I can do college. I am really excited to go do something besides school now, honestly, I think so much better on my own. Don’t get me wrong, it has been an absolute joy to have professors to work with as I’ve struggled to develop my own opinions on thinks I’ve never thought about before, but it’s a whole different ball game when I get to read a book because I’m interested in it, or write a paper because I think I have something to say, and not to satisfy a requirement.

My post grad plans are still up in the air, I suspect they will be as much for the rest of this week. The company I am talking to about working with right now is still developing the details of the position, so I am yet to get a firm commitment out of them, so the options are still vast. I’ll let you know when I know though. For now, I plan on being kicked out of my home on Friday, and living on the beach for two weeks so I can have a great ‘homeless’ story when I’m doing motivational speaking with Donald and Guy.

Besides that, all is well, much aloha to you all, and thanks for all the kind words and support. Uncle Jason, Darrell, Sarah, and Mom, you guys have been particularly terrific in throwing your support and love my way, thanks for all you do, without you guys, things would have been a lot more difficult.

Today, the 16th of April, I had my last day of classes, for maybe ever. I just had my last day of classes. It’s pretty crazy to be done, my body can’t fathom the idea of not feeling guilty when not constantly thinking about whats due in which class and when. Could be a nice change.

Here’s to the future though…. what’s next. :)

so I mentioned it in an earlier post, but I just found these great videos that were fun to go watch again. I was entertained anyway. :)
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so this week was general conference, which meant I got to cruise for a bit, having legitimate excuses to calm down and take a proverbial chill pill. So naturally me and mike wanted to live it up, so we made a movie. If you hit play, you have to commit to watching it all the way through…. or I kill you.

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It’s a make you smile, not laugh…. so if you don’t smile while watching this, you also are unable to cry. Just fyi

so I am finding the good side of flying for the first time ever today. I sit in LAX and saw my name on the upgrade list, and being as cheap as I am went up there to get it taken off when the lady informs me “but sir, you’re a medallion member, you’re automatically put on the upgrade list for EVERY flight” “free?” I ask “of course” and so it is. The perks of flying 50,000+ miles a year, I might finally get some leg room.

So it’s been an interesting week this week. Monday held a big luncheon where I had lunch with the Presidents Executive Committee, which consisted of Elder Russell M Nelson and Elder M Russell Ballard, as well as Elder Cecil Samuelson and Kim Clark, Elder’s Tingey and Kerr, President Julie Beck, and on the list goes. It was great to interact with these people on a normal level and hear them having real conversations because normally as we hear them they come across in a larger than life way, so it was a real treat. I was there with 5 other students on a panel to answer questions they might have about students of this University, and I was recommended by my professors and other faculty as one who was capable of speaking his mind, or so they reported, so I was ready for some knock down drag out questions, but it turned into slow pitch softball. That’s okay though, it was pleasant all around, here’s a write up of it and I’m on the right in the last pic there.

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So I am pretty sure this will be my posting schedule, I don’t enjoy posting on a blog quite as much as emailing folks because response is less, and since I feed on affirmations of love, I only post on here when I want to ramble without flooding someone’s inbox.

Well life is moving on, I’m a month or two away from the real world and very apathetic about it all. You see I have too much going on right now to worry about what will happen when my situation changes, and I’m pretty sure I did that intentionally, at least on a subconscious level. I find that there is much that I do just because I can and feel that I should, and by filling my life with random good things, it’s easier to overlook the rest of my life when something is missing. :)

Life is good though, not much to complain about, I really do feel like I am just going through the motions right now though. I did buy Kokua Fest tickets, so Jack Johnson and Dave Mathews will be enjoyed by me my last year out here, which I think is great. But really, not a whole lot else out here I’m aching to do. It’s interesting, since I don’t see myself as a tourist here, I haven’t really been drawn to the touristy things. Maybe I’ll go skydive or something, but for the most part, I’ve lived it up and now am just living.

I am currently reading some great stuff though, Patrick O’Brien is proving to be more difficult to read than I’d thought, but I amazoned (that’s right, it’s a verb) some “Killer Angels” a great civil war bit, and “Founding Brothers” for some Hamilton/Madison loving. :) Also, the third season of News Radio. So life is good. :)

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