The week that was..

Solea was a a restaraunt that I went to this past week with people from work. It looked like a pretty cool place from the outside and we thought it might be a good place to find some girls. It also had a menu outside that said they had Churrasco Argentino with chimichuri, which is an Argentinian steak. I don't know why I keep believing places like this are actually going to have a "authentic" asado because they never do. The steak was just your normal american steak and the girls were non existent as well. I'm starting to believe that the Boston area is capital of the average looking girl and that is a problem.

This past week we also met our goals for sales and installations so Steve, my boss, decided to buy a barbeque and have a big lunch for all the technicians. Well the picture above shows why you shouldnt have the barbeque at your apartment. I really hate having everyone thing my apartment is the hangout spot. It just makes it so you never have anytime to just relax because everyone is always over watching TV or getting on the internet. Adam(roomate) and I spent at least an hour cleaning up after everyone because they leave it like the picture above and don't even care. I later found out that it was one of the wives who knocked over the garbage can and left it like this. I was for sure it was one of the guys.
This is a picture of me on the job being molested by a very friendly dog. What makes this so funny is not that the dog is going to town on my leg but that the same thing happened to Jared and Tyler on a job a couple of days before. I am just glad that my dog wasnt the bulldog that went buck nutty on those two.


Sunday is our only free day during the week and I normally head to the singles ward around 2 pm and then go sightseeing the rest of the day. Yesterday Jared, Adam, Tyler and I went up to Nahant it was a cool little town about 20 minutes North of Boston and its actually a small penisula. I was cool actually being at the ocean. I think it was my first time in probably 15 years. As you can see its still only about 65-70 degrees and nobody is actually on the beaches yet. Which yes was another downer, but I did have some pretty good scallops and so it was worth the drive.

Finally slowing down

Hello everyone, sorry I have been such a slacker on this blog. I am alive and I am going to try and update more often. I now know why Joel sometimes has 3 weeks breaks sometimes between his posts on his blog. I have been really busy with work. I had been working from 8:30 am to about 12:00 pm 6 days a week for almost 2 weeks in a row. Now they have brought in a few more guys to help handle the work load and things are starting to settle down. I should now be able to work normal hours of 2 in the afternoon til about 11:30 to as late as 1:30 am. Everything else is going well out here except that we have 4 extra guys sleeping on our couches and floors because their apartments wont be furnished until Tuesday of next week. Having 4 extra people really makes a nice apartment seem really small. I will be excited for Tuesday when they all leave.

Some of you might know about my past quest in getting vanilla frostys at Wendy's. I would always ask for a Vanilla frosty. When they said "We only have chocolate" I would answer with "I will take a twist then" which was followed by "We dont have a twist flavor" I then would follow with "do you have any seasonal flavors, like eggnog?" "No we only have chocolate!" I would then ask if they knew when they would be getting vanilla back in stock." and on and on it went. Well I couldnt have been more proud when one day about a year ago ask for a vanilla frosty and actually got one. Now they have mix and match frostys with oreo and m&m's but I think the chocolate frosty, coke float on the left it the king of all frosties. I didnt realize it was chocolate ice cream when I ordered it but it actually ended up pretty good.

This is my Kosher 2 liter of Mountain Dew. I am so glad that I can now buy Mt. Dew that has been blessed and prepared by a rabbi. That mark on the lid is a "K" and you can find all kinds crazy Kosher food here.

I took this picture in downtown Boston. Its a building sign on the Massachusetts State house. I guess they are just going to be honest with the "special benefits" that the people in office receive here. This would have made things so much easier on Elliot Spitzer and others. I guess the top guys in office would have their girls enter at the"elite hooker entrance" but I couldnt find that one.

And Since its official Sunday here in MA, I guess I should share my spiritual picture of the day. This is "Black Jesus" calming the seas with his 12 Hommies. I tried to take a picture of the "Last Supper star black Jesus and Black Mary but the lady came back in the room so I couldnt. Alright I'm headed to bed.

D-MAC, T-MAC and all that Jazz.

Hello everyone I have survived another week here in Boston and everything is going pretty good. I am glad the Raiders picked Darren McFadden in the NFL draft in the first round 4th pick overall. Not because I think he was the player most likely to help the Raiders but because he is the player most likely to help me beat Jared in Madden 2009. Now I don't have to go trade for a good running back. I am also very glad the Jazz didn't decide to give another game to Tracy McGrady and finished off game 4. I really feel that everyone(national media) thinks its T-mac and the Rockets playing some team from Iran. I am sick of hearing how great T-Mac is and how if he had help in this series they would win the games and advance. Not once after any of the 3 Jazz wins have I heard about how the Jazz are beating the Rockets its always about how Tracy cant score in the 4th. I just would like to hear someone say that maybe the Jazz are the reason for that. The Jazz need to go down and beat them in Texas again and end this series.

Here are some random things that have happened this past week.

1. Seeing people driving in both emergency lanes on the freeway. I heard about this before I got here but it really freaks you out the first time you actually see people doing it.

2. After making a phone call, having your cell phone say "No Service" and you walk around outside trying to get service and can't get any. Finally you leave the customers house and go to the AT&T store and the hot twenty something behind the counter turns you phone off then back on and says "There you go all fixed" meanwhile you feel like an idiot and walk out the door.

3. People offering everything while working in their house. Beer, other drinks, actually had a guy buy pizza for four of our guys, Chinese food, and anything else you could ever want.

4. Jared told a kid that he better pick up his dog because if was going to set off the alarms to make sure they work. The kid acted like he didn't want to but finally did and when the alarm went off the dog peed all over him. Very funny story.

5. Having no turning lanes on city streets really makes traffic hectic. Then people on the other side will stop and let you turn or let people out of a parking lot, making the traffic even worse.

Once again its obvious I still dont know what I'm doing with the pictures.

USS Constitution

One of the places I have been able to visit since being here in Boston is the USS Constitution. We took a guided tour that lasted about 30 minutes and ended up being pretty cool. Here are some pictures of the boat. There also was 2 other ships in port at the same time that I was able to go on also. Everything else is going pretty well here in Boston. Its supposed to be 75 degrees today so that makes me happy. I am so glad to be out of the crappy Logan weather. I hope to update later with pictures of my townhouse and some more pictures.

The Trip

Hello everyone, this is my first post on my first blog so Im sure its pretty lame but hopefully it will get better as I learn how to do things. These are some pictures I took with my phone as I went from Utah to Boston. The first two are in Chicago where we(Jared, Andy, Steve, and I) walked around Chicago for a night. I liked the city and it would be cool to go back when I would have more time to actually go and visit things. The others are of Niagara falls and looking into Canada. We actually spent about 2 hours over in Canada, the highlight being able to see some NBA games in the Casino where I went to use the bathroom. Well this picture setup is lame I hope to figure it out.