In Line
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
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
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
May 26, 2008
Here are some photos that I took on the night of Monday, May 26th.
Montezuma
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
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 take this new gun, as well as a little .22 pistol, a .22 rifle, a few .45s (Grandpa really likes his Sig Sauers and his Kimbers), and an AR-15. I’m really excited to try out our new gun and the AR. I’ve never shot an AR before and Granpa’s is really nice. I took it apart and put a new barrel on it last night. It’s amazing how quickly those things can be broken down.
Making the News
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
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 of the over-sized portions of food. Tonight I walked 4 miles, at an expense of 440 calories, and have walked at least 2 miles each of the last four days.
I’ve already had a 7% weight loss but I think I need to be closer to 10% to beat Jason.
No Warrant Necessary?
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 been enough to pique the interest of undercover sheriff’s investigators scanning the crowd with their eyes.
They cornered Clement and began peppering him with questions.
He was quickly handcuffed and falsely arrested. He was taken to a station to be strip-searched and then to a hospital, where doctors forcibly sedated him with a cocktail of powerful drugs, including one that clouded his memory of the incident.
A camera was inserted in his rectum, he was forced to vomit and his blood and urine were tested for drugs and alcohol. Scans of his digestive system were performed using X-ray machines, according to hospital records obtained by the Times Union.
The search, conducted without a search warrant, came up empty.
In all, Clement spent more than 10 hours in custody before being released with nothing more than an appearance ticket for resisting arrest — a charge that was later dismissed.
Honesty
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 back.
“Right when I found it I kind of knew what I had to do because my dad’s a cop,” Jared Gray said. “He raised me to be honest and do the right thing.”
