Ridiculous Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions Happy Friday, all. Tomorrow night (Saturday) we'll be at The Porch here in Salt Lake City. The show starts at 9:00 PM (DON'T WORRY! IT&
Ridiculous Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions We are now on day eight or so of Jolyn Metro's "I'm just going to stay tonight" visit. Today I asked her what her
Ridiculous Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions I ran for two hours on a treadmill tonight. It was the stuff of nightmares. And I know what you're thinking. "Eli. Why didn't you
Ridiculous Moving Heavy Things As you know, Mr. Daniel came to town last week. Him and all 12,000 of his heavy bags that were opened and spilled out over my apartment for five days. It was wonderful to have him around and it felt a lot like
Ridiculous Pictures From My Phone & Weekly Distractions Daniel flew into Salt Land last night. This morning I ventured off to the office, of course making sure he had food and that all of the child locks and
Church Palau Meets Salt Lake City Last week my worlds collided. And it was really strange. One of the boys from Palau, whom I got to know very well working with the church kids for one
Ridiculous Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions Happy weekend, Strangers. I just ran on a treadmill for 90 minutes. It was the worst 90 minutes of my life. Besides every 90-minute period of every single scout camp
Pictures from my phone Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions Today is my baby sister Micalyne's 60-somethingth birthday. For some reason she's always stuck at age 16 in my mind. Which makes her story a really
Mexico 2013 I just read the 2012 wrap-up post. I read about how it was my best year. About how our past can be an asset or a liability depending on how we use it. About how if we are living the right way, the best
Corey Corey Came to Town This feels like a fake post. I don't really have a story for you. I'm just going to be blathering for a minute. You should probably
The Siblings Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions Merry Christmas, all. It's been snowing here. There is great misery in all the land. My best friend Corey is coming into town today for a wedding. I
The Siblings Other Idiots on the Road On Saturday we had our annual family adult Christmas outing. Wait. That sounds wrong. That sounds like my family once a year engages in x-rated Christmas festivities. You know what I mean. The adults get together and have an evening in December where nobody
Snapchat Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions Just rolled back into Salt Lake City after a very fun night at The Porch. I should have the videos up for you over the weekend. A huge thanks to
Church Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions Happy weekend, Strangers. Glad to see you've survived it. I walked to work this morning and it was 12 degrees. TWELVE. TWELVE, GUYS. TWELVE DEGREES. TWELVE. Do you
Ridiculous The Tinder This week on “things the kids are doing” I bring you something called “the Tinder.” When I got back from Palau I came quickly to find that every single person
Ridiculous Wait. Is Today Friday? Look. I know. I KNOW. Today you're dying to see half a dozen out-of-focus pictures taken of the streets of Salt Lake City, my friends, and the occasional gratuitous selfie. And also, you've come to rely on a small list
Ridiculous Whelp, TIME TO MOVE AGAIN! I woke up this morning at 5:00. Started singing at the top of my lungs. Dance-walked to the shower. Sang at the top of my lungs there, too. The
Church Choices On Sunday I attended a giant Mormon congregation in Salt Lake City. Sitting in the middle of it all was interesting because I immediately found myself thinking about the contrast between this and my Palauan church-going experience that ended just two short but significant
Ridiculous The Many Lives of O2 I have a plant named O2. I know I've mentioned him before. Usually when I've mentioned him it's because I'm comparing myself to all of my peers who practically have grandchildren by now and I want
Ridiculous Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions It's been a long and exceedingly difficult week here in Salt Land. Maybe when my head stops spinning I'll tell you about some of it. But
Ridiculous Cologne Recently I was informed by a multitude of individuals that apparently "smelling good" is not a thing I'm good at. I'm good at a lot of things. I know the Heimlich maneuver. I can quote word-for-word the entirety
Videos The Car Accident Videos Jolyn Metro has used technology from 1974 to provide us video proof on what the kids are calling "the Youtubes" that we recently visited The Porch. At Stranger, we only go in reverse when it comes to technology so this time we
Corey Lamps There's this really serious problem that I have that I didn't realize I had until I moved back to Salt Lake City. It's sort of a subset of a greater problem that I did know I had. And,
Ridiculous Window Washer The other day I was sitting in my 16th floor office, minding my own business. It was a beautiful fall day outside and I occasionally glanced a few inches above
Palau Settling Dust I got back to the United States of God Bless America about six weeks ago. The last six weeks have been a whirlwind of change. And it's been difficult to catch my breath and take a bird's-eye view of what
