My obscure internet fame

Upon innocently browsing the web.. I have recently discovered that I am “out there…” in ways I was either repressing with hopes to forget, had truly forgotten, or was unaware of.  So to continue the trend, I’m posting my fifteen famous minutes!
(It doesn’t add up to quite that much in total as of yet.. so I figure there may still be 12.5 minutes of more fame to come in my future… in order to fulfill the given fifteen minutes of fame allotted to everyone.  Although when I become a rockstar someday, I may unfortunately go way way over that and use up all the minutes of some poor hopefuls waiting for the swiveling spotlight to fall on them.)

FIRSTLY, the Tampa Tribune Article that I was interviewed for as a Mormon Missionary.  Yeah buddy!

Second.. A little surprising, but not so much exciting.. my old job still has me posted on the New Employees Section. (scroll toward the bottom.)
It has been 3 1/2 years since I was a new employee there, and I am obviously no longer working there.

Nextly.. this one will be much more exciting to you..
I am youtube famous!
Some of you may have seen this already, but my internet movie star fame may come as a shock to the rest.  The explanation: this was made for a contest related to wind energy promotion.  You can thank Chris Koch for this masterpiece.

The funniest part to me? The comments section… where they defend me for not being that bad. You can’t see that here, but go to this link if you like.

And lastly… I am one of 14 people, according to the United States Census, who is named my name.  I guess it could be worse. 

I hope you enjoyed your journey through my fame.  Thank you for coming.

I’ve been sucked in

..to blog world.

having just recently returned from what turned out to be a 19-month, life-changing excursion I like to call a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the lovely Tampa, FL… I reemerged from obscurity only to discover that blogging and facebook appear to have taken over the world. I had the facebook part down, because I’ve always been known to jump ahead.. but the blogging part had only happened for me on occasion through the apparently now-forgotten-and-irrelevant myspace world.

SO! given that I am partial to this internet medium of self-expression.. I caved today. I knew it was too late when, as the days passed after my discovery that the world was blogging, I began to catch myself thinking in blog form. I was a goner.

my observations in the little blog-perusing I have done are as follows:

blogs are more interesting when they have pictures.. a video.. or come in short paragraphs, but when it hits about 50 pictures of one birthday event, my eyes start to roll back in my head.

married couples that have blogs together do not actually have blogs together. 9 times out of 10 it’s just the wife’s blog. especially if the background is pink and/or flowery with a playlist of david archuleta and a female folksy pop artist.

if a couple has one or more babies.. it is the babies’ blog. period.

this is clearly NOT an attempt to bash on these people. I love many of them dearly, and if that is what their life consists of, then that is exactly what they should blog about! 
but I must confess that I am not married, do not have a baby, and will probably not be manifesting the aformentioned characteristics here. so if you must have your fix of it, continue browsing.

this blog will be under construction indefinitely.. until I figure out what I’m doing, so, as they say on every good mall construction sign,
“pardon my progress.”

...for good measure.