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In Line

josh | May 29, 2008

I went to the shooting range today and shot at targets with the new gun for the first time.  Here is a photo that I took with my lame camera phone.  I shot this target from a distance of about 25 feet.

beep beep beep

josh | May 28, 2008

The alarm at some company not too far from my house is going off and it’s really annoying me as I try to sleep. It’s been beeping constantly for about 90 minutes at this point and it’s driving me nuts.

Psycho Ladies and Planes

josh | May 27, 2008

Ask me about the psycho lady on my flight home from Phoenix today. It involves shoving, cursing and spitting, all as the result of the ingestion of a Bloody Mary coupled with nicotine withdrawal. I couldn’t begin to write it up.

Mesa Arizona Temple

josh | May 26, 2008

Here are some photos that I took on the night of Monday, May 26th.

Montezuma

josh | May 25, 2008

We visited Montezuma Castle National Monument today, which was about a 95 mile drive from Melanie’s parents’ house. Here are a few photos:

XD 40

josh | May 24, 2008

We picked up a little something while we’ve been in Arizona. We got a stainless steel Springfield Armory XD 40 sub-compact handgun today. It’s the .40 caliber small version of the XD and it’s quite nice. David, Byron and I are going out shooting with Grandpa on Monday. We’re going to [...]

Making the News

josh | May 19, 2008

What a way for a Provo kid to make the national news.
A newspaper photographer got a little too close to the action at the state high school track championships — and was speared through the leg by a javelin.

Uncharted Territory

josh | May 16, 2008

Well, I’m on the verge of being somewhere that I haven’t been in, well, a long time.  I am on the cusp of being under 180 lbs.  I have less than two weeks remaining in my weight-loss contest and I have some more weight to lose, so I’ve been hitting the treadmill and laying off [...]

No Warrant Necessary?

josh | May 13, 2008

What on Earth were the cops thinking?  It should be common knowledge that a warrant should be necessary to do a forced body cavity search.
Two years ago, Tunde Clement stepped off a bus at the city’s main terminal downtown.
Clement, a black man, was carrying a backpack and coming from New York City. That may have [...]

Honesty

josh | May 9, 2008

An 18 year old kid found $100,000 in a school parking lot and returned it to its rightful owners.  Good for him.
An 18-year-old Southern Utah University custodian didn’t think twice about what to do when he found more than $100,000 in cash in one of the school’s public parking lots last month.
He gave it [...]