I'd like to take a moment to brag about my wife, the genius. She was notified today that she's on the dean's list, and she's too humble to write about it herself, and with a little help from dictionary.com, I'm going to take a moment to brag about her genius. ;-) Please excuse the run on sentence.
My wife has an incredible ability to absorb things she reads, she is full of accomplishment, she has a miraculous acumen in nursing, she observes her patients at the hospital with great acuteness, not to mention how adept she is in her homemaking and taking care of me, she has a great aptitude for reading, in fact, her aptness in reading give way to an astuteness in conversation, she is constantly bent over backwards trying to get everything done, she’s got a brain worth two of mine, and her brilliance can be seen from miles around, she has a great capability for love, she has a wonderful capacity for creativity, she has a discernment for feelings, she has an endowment of beauty, she is an expert in ‘Public Health Nursing’ in which she works with the faculty of nursing in interviewing people with a flair of her own, she’s got a great grasp on all things gustatorial, she’s got a great head on her, she has a wonderful imagination, and an inclination to help everyone around her, she has a great ingenuity for solving problems, and she is always my inspiration, she is full of intelligence and inventiveness, she has a knack for conversation, she is maestro at the flute, a master at crafts, a mastermind in family economics, and she was more mature at 18 than I was at 24 when we met, she has a great originality, her percipience keeps me in awe, and her perspicacity keeps me on my toes, she has a power to lift me in my darkest hours, and her precocity makes my brightest days brighter, listening to her parents talk about how she devoured books, you know she was a prodigy, she has a propensity for crafts, she has a prowess in card making, while she may not be able reach the chocolate on the top shelf, she has the sagacity to know the right moment to ask me to get it, she has a superability to do anything that she sets her mind to, she has a great talent for making every turn a good turn, she has a deep understanding of what is important, she is a virtuoso of all things good, and best of all, she has the wisdom to keep me around. :-D
Saturday, February 24, 2007
My wife is a GENIUS
Saturday, February 17, 2007
The new stuff
This has been a pretty good week; busy as usual. Last Saturday I got to go to a ballet (Swan Lake by Ballet West) up in SLC which was very impressive and fun to see. I got to go with BJ's mom and two nieces, and we made a day of it!
This Sunday we got new callings in our ward. We are now on the activities committee. This is a calling that BJ has had several times before, and one that I look forward to and think will be very enjoyable.
On Valentine's Day, I was in clinical all day. I spent the first half of the day in Mother/ Baby and got to take care of some new moms as well as do newborn assessments, which was sooooo much fun. In the afternoon, I went over to the prenatal clinic area, and I followed the ultrasonographers (the people who do ultrasounds) around. I got to see several ultrasounds, and I was amazed at the skill it takes to interpret what you see on the screen. I loved watching the parents' faces as they saw their baby on the screen for the first time, even if you could hardly tell what was being shown, and their reactions to finding out the gender of their baby(s).
After clinical BJ picked me up, and he surprised me with a big beautiful bouquet of flowers and a card! He also made a delicious dinner for us- very nice, just like in my avatar picture! We will continue to celebrate Valentine's Day next weekend, when we are going to a marriage retreat up in the canyon. We have done this around Valentine's Day for the last two years, and it has become a really fun tradition for us. We stay a night and they provide some catered meals for us, a marriage seminar, and cross country skiing. We have enjoyed this every year we have gone.
This week we decided we couldn't stand our television any longer (the speakers have gone out) so we looked online and bought a used television on craigslist for quite a low price. It turned out to be a nicer and bigger TV than we were expecting... we are going to be rearranging the furniture in our living room anyway, so this will be one more thing to take into account. We have a lot of furniture, and very little space in our apartment! It's kind of cozy though!
On Friday night, we went to our stake's Sweetheart Dance. I borrowed a formal dress from my sister, and BJ dressed up too (we were matching- wearing black- very dramatic.) and we danced the night away! It has been such a long time since we went dancing, and I almost forgot how much fun it is! There was a photographer there taking pictures of couples, and our pictures are supposed to be emailed to us. I'll have to post our picture if it comes anytime soon.
This morning BJ played racquetball with some people in our ward, and I studied to take a test which I have no idea how I did on. :( This afternoon we had a "cousin party" with my mom's side of the family. It was nice to see many of my cousins that I have not seen in a long time. We had a talent show and dinner, and visited with family. Most of my cousins have children of their own, some of them the ages of my siblings. It was fun to see how much they have all grown.
I am really looking forward to President's Day... mostly because I get to "skip" my busiest school day and have a chance to catch up! Unfortunately BJ still has to work, so we won't get to spend the day together, but maybe I will be able to do some stuff for school or hang out with my sister Marissa or something. Maybe laundry...
Well, I wrote way more than I thought I would; I guess we did a few things this week!
This Sunday we got new callings in our ward. We are now on the activities committee. This is a calling that BJ has had several times before, and one that I look forward to and think will be very enjoyable.
On Valentine's Day, I was in clinical all day. I spent the first half of the day in Mother/ Baby and got to take care of some new moms as well as do newborn assessments, which was sooooo much fun. In the afternoon, I went over to the prenatal clinic area, and I followed the ultrasonographers (the people who do ultrasounds) around. I got to see several ultrasounds, and I was amazed at the skill it takes to interpret what you see on the screen. I loved watching the parents' faces as they saw their baby on the screen for the first time, even if you could hardly tell what was being shown, and their reactions to finding out the gender of their baby(s).
After clinical BJ picked me up, and he surprised me with a big beautiful bouquet of flowers and a card! He also made a delicious dinner for us- very nice, just like in my avatar picture! We will continue to celebrate Valentine's Day next weekend, when we are going to a marriage retreat up in the canyon. We have done this around Valentine's Day for the last two years, and it has become a really fun tradition for us. We stay a night and they provide some catered meals for us, a marriage seminar, and cross country skiing. We have enjoyed this every year we have gone.This week we decided we couldn't stand our television any longer (the speakers have gone out) so we looked online and bought a used television on craigslist for quite a low price. It turned out to be a nicer and bigger TV than we were expecting... we are going to be rearranging the furniture in our living room anyway, so this will be one more thing to take into account. We have a lot of furniture, and very little space in our apartment! It's kind of cozy though!
On Friday night, we went to our stake's Sweetheart Dance. I borrowed a formal dress from my sister, and BJ dressed up too (we were matching- wearing black- very dramatic.) and we danced the night away! It has been such a long time since we went dancing, and I almost forgot how much fun it is! There was a photographer there taking pictures of couples, and our pictures are supposed to be emailed to us. I'll have to post our picture if it comes anytime soon.
This morning BJ played racquetball with some people in our ward, and I studied to take a test which I have no idea how I did on. :( This afternoon we had a "cousin party" with my mom's side of the family. It was nice to see many of my cousins that I have not seen in a long time. We had a talent show and dinner, and visited with family. Most of my cousins have children of their own, some of them the ages of my siblings. It was fun to see how much they have all grown.
I am really looking forward to President's Day... mostly because I get to "skip" my busiest school day and have a chance to catch up! Unfortunately BJ still has to work, so we won't get to spend the day together, but maybe I will be able to do some stuff for school or hang out with my sister Marissa or something. Maybe laundry...
Well, I wrote way more than I thought I would; I guess we did a few things this week!
Sunday, February 11, 2007
Not much new
I'd like to say that we have lots to talk about. But we don't. I suppose no news is good news... but it isn't very exciting to blog about. And so here I sit on a Sunday night being grateful for the many blessings I have, and trying to come up with something worthy of telling to all of my fans out there. ;-) And so, whenever I don't have anything to talk about from my life, I have to come up with something from my musings. Please note... unless you are really bored, or are interested in the tech world, read no further... I will be talking about Windows Vista.
It seems to me that Microsoft is the great divider among those in the IT world. IT guys seem to feel in one of three ways... 1) They love Microsoft, 2) They hate Microsoft or 3) They love to hate Microsoft. The coming of Windows Vista will renew the debates among these groups.
There is an article about Windows Vista done by an IT guy that I read parts of the other day. If you are interested, you can read it here: http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html
Although I didn't read all of it, I read enough to realize that Microsoft has yet again done things I do not like. In the past I haven't had *too* much to complain about regarding their operating system. They have had their quirks, and their problems, etc., but in general, what operating system doesn't? Linux certainly does. Macintosh certainly does. The remaining operating systems are typically small enough and unknown enough that they have niche uses, but aren't very comprehensive. But Microsoft has done things with Vista that will keep me from ever putting it on any computer that I own. It seems Microsoft has decided that they want to stop the pirating of music and videos. A noble cause, to be sure, but in order to do it they have taken some extreme measures. They have developed a layer that goes in between your media player and your hardware that tries to stop illegal music. The problem with this is that Microsoft wants to be sure that whatever it is playing the music on is real hardware, and not virtual hardware (one way that people could illegally copy music). So how do they do this? They make all the hardware vendors pay them to certify their hardware with Microsoft. This increases the cost of hardware, and makes the hardware you and I already have on our computers obsolete (if you decide to buy Vista). What happens if you have obsolete hardware? One of two things happen, and I'm not certain about how they decide what to do, but they either simply will not let you play your music or video, or they will make your music and video sound and look bad so that anybody copying it wouldn't want to distribute it because of the poor quality. And so if you don't have Microsoft approved hardware (including video card, sound card, and monitor) you can say goodbye to your music and videos. Another side effect of this is that because of the regulations Microsoft is putting on its hardware vendors, it is going to be harder to get drivers for your hardware... especially if you aren't using Microsoft. They don't want any of the hardware vendors to put out detailed specs on their products any more, so now the only the companies that make hardware can put out drivers. Oh it is going to be a mess. But the hardware vendors will be fine... they will just pass the price of the increased work on to us. So Microsoft with one sweeping stoke of their brush has increased costs on all of us for many things, and have made listening to music a pain. Not to mention the fact that even when you do have all the right hardware, the extra layer takes a huge chunk of processing time whenever you are listening to music... up to 50% of your cpu time. That's enough to slow down your computer considerably.
So in short, my message to you all is:
Buy a Mac! Our next computer will be a Mac.
Have a good day all!
BJ
It seems to me that Microsoft is the great divider among those in the IT world. IT guys seem to feel in one of three ways... 1) They love Microsoft, 2) They hate Microsoft or 3) They love to hate Microsoft. The coming of Windows Vista will renew the debates among these groups.
There is an article about Windows Vista done by an IT guy that I read parts of the other day. If you are interested, you can read it here: http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html
Although I didn't read all of it, I read enough to realize that Microsoft has yet again done things I do not like. In the past I haven't had *too* much to complain about regarding their operating system. They have had their quirks, and their problems, etc., but in general, what operating system doesn't? Linux certainly does. Macintosh certainly does. The remaining operating systems are typically small enough and unknown enough that they have niche uses, but aren't very comprehensive. But Microsoft has done things with Vista that will keep me from ever putting it on any computer that I own. It seems Microsoft has decided that they want to stop the pirating of music and videos. A noble cause, to be sure, but in order to do it they have taken some extreme measures. They have developed a layer that goes in between your media player and your hardware that tries to stop illegal music. The problem with this is that Microsoft wants to be sure that whatever it is playing the music on is real hardware, and not virtual hardware (one way that people could illegally copy music). So how do they do this? They make all the hardware vendors pay them to certify their hardware with Microsoft. This increases the cost of hardware, and makes the hardware you and I already have on our computers obsolete (if you decide to buy Vista). What happens if you have obsolete hardware? One of two things happen, and I'm not certain about how they decide what to do, but they either simply will not let you play your music or video, or they will make your music and video sound and look bad so that anybody copying it wouldn't want to distribute it because of the poor quality. And so if you don't have Microsoft approved hardware (including video card, sound card, and monitor) you can say goodbye to your music and videos. Another side effect of this is that because of the regulations Microsoft is putting on its hardware vendors, it is going to be harder to get drivers for your hardware... especially if you aren't using Microsoft. They don't want any of the hardware vendors to put out detailed specs on their products any more, so now the only the companies that make hardware can put out drivers. Oh it is going to be a mess. But the hardware vendors will be fine... they will just pass the price of the increased work on to us. So Microsoft with one sweeping stoke of their brush has increased costs on all of us for many things, and have made listening to music a pain. Not to mention the fact that even when you do have all the right hardware, the extra layer takes a huge chunk of processing time whenever you are listening to music... up to 50% of your cpu time. That's enough to slow down your computer considerably.
So in short, my message to you all is:
Buy a Mac! Our next computer will be a Mac.
Have a good day all!
BJ
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