Ahhh Friday Afternoon...

There is almost no better feeling than Friday afternoon around 4:00pm. The day is almost over and the weekend is here. This is the time my brain usually turns off for the week. So its that time right now and I am feeling good. Its been a long week as usual but a good week. Not as crazy as the last few weeks I have had. So now I am thinking about the weekend. I guess I will be playing tennis Saturday and Sunday morning. Then... I will take some friends shopping.

I have some friends from Tokyo staying at my house this week. Its been fun to see them. So I am their tour guide for the next few days which will be fun. They will fly back to Japan next week. I will be going also for business so kind of crazy.

The weather here is really really hot. As I said in my last post. But this year across the United States we have been having a heat wave. So Utah is not the only hot place around. Other areas are even hotter!! But it's still hot here and tomorrow will get even hotter. So that means lots of ice cream for me!!!

I have been in our cafeteria for the last 25 minutes watching a car chase on CNN. A guy robbed a bank and the police have been chasing him. We have been watching it live. Pretty exciting actually and now its finally over. I am glad no one got hurt. But the robber is going to be in prison a long time I think. He even shot at the police while driving. So that made my afternoon a little exciting...hehe.

Well its about my favorite time of the week... I guess I will enjoy it. Monday is here toooooooo sooooon....!!

Hotter than Hell!!!

It is hot!!! I really like summer but not when its 40 degrees everyday. We are having a major heat wave here now. No rain, no clouds, no wind, nothing. Just blue sky and heat!!! I played some tennis yesterday and today in this weather and it almost killed me. I was sweating so much and drinking so much water. But hey its better than snow right?? Anyway... its tough to do anything outside in this heat. Tennis is about all I can do. Also work in my garden. But thats it! After that its inside with the nice air conditioner. Oh yea and don't forget the ice cream!!!

But one problem is the mountain fires. Its so dry now that we are having a lot of fires in the mountains. My house is at the base some mountains and last week we had our first fire. There will be more. But this year seems early. Usually we don't get this hot weather until mid August... So its going to be a long summer I think!! A long hot summer!

Air Show:

I had a chance to go to an air show with my dad. He is retired military so we had VIP seating. It was really awsome to see the airplanes and military jets. Check out the video above of this air show taken.

Also here are some pics I took.


This is part of the crowd at the show. There were about 100,000 people who attended. I had front row!




Here is a picture of the famous F-16.

Here is a picture of a Japanese Zero Fighter from World War 2. There are only 4 left in the world that actually fly. This is one of them.

This is a piicture showing the history of Americal fighters.

Ok So I am sitting at work....totally stressed out when my friend sends me this video above. Its called "Where the hell is Matt"? I watch this at work and think...."WHAT THE HELL AM I DOING???" I mean here is a guy who quits his job and travels the globe. Even takes a cute little video of himself dancing in all the places he went....

So I am thinking... I should do that! Really I should! But I have one probem.... its called responsibility!! DAMN!!! But hey I am still young.... (kind of). So I will watch Matt dance. I will find some escape in the daily job by watching him... Then someday I may just do it...

But one thing... Mat now has to come back and find a new job and pay for this trip!!! Ahhhh I wish I was 20 again... But I did have some good adventures also!!! Plus.... I know there is much more on the way..

Dance Matt Dance!!! Thanks for the escape from my work day!!!

OUCH!!!

Well I watched the United States and Japan world cup matches today. I was actually working but was able to see these matches...

All I can say is "OUCH"!!! Japan got spanked!! The US lost also but we expected them to beat Ghana. So very disappointing !! Well I guess we have 4 years to try and improve the team. We also have another week to watch Brazil show the world how good they really are!!!!

Strange Night...

Last night I went to a baseball game with my dad. We got to our seats and sat down just before the game. Then some people came and sat down next to us. As I looked at these people I was shocked to see who it was. It was my old girlfriend. I couldn't believe it! It was kind of a strange feeling to see her and talk to her. We dated for about 4 years. We talked to each other and it was interesting to talk about what we both have been doing since we last met. But a really strange kind of feeling. Anyway, I was happy to see her and talk to her. Glad she is doing ok and we could talk. We never really formally broke up back then. I left for Japan and that kind of ended it...hehe. But we both have our lives now. Its always good to run into old friends.

Monday Morning.

Monday sucks!! Its Monday morning and I am wondering why the weekend went so fast again. I think thinking about going back to work is worse than actually going back...HA! But I don't think I am the only one who feels like this. Ahhh another week...

But at least I saw a little better play from the US team in the world cup. They tied Italy 1-1. They were actually lucky with their goal but they played aggressive and looked a lot better. Japan also played some decent defense but unfortunately couldn't score. So anyway at the end of these matches I think both teams are about in the same place they were before the match. They both need big wins in the last matches. Should be fun to watch.

Well the 4th of July holiday weekend is coming up in 2 weeks. If I can hang in there for another couple weeks I will finally have a couple days off to go fishing!!

later......