Hole in the floor. Minecraft

Minecraft does for gamers what Legos did for them as children. If you haven't tried this sandbox game I suggest you give it a shot. Simple graphics and unlimited possibilities.

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The Orange Julius

I've recently rediscovered the Orange Julius. I remember my parents making them for us as kids and then it stopped. I went years without a homemade Orange Julius. Why? I don't know. There wasn't a shortage of concentrated orange juice in America that I missed or anything. They just stopped.

Until...! I noticed that little round cylinder of concentrate in the frozen food section of the local grocer. For weeks I lazily pushed the shopping cart right by the frozen nectar of orange. The sight of which would jog my memory back to the wonderful drink of my childhood years. At one point I even thought out loud, to my wife and others within earshot, that having a homemade Orange Julius again would bring purpose into my life.

My wife, having enough of my weeks of inaction, told me to grab one and make it for us that weekend. The moment I put the concentrate in the cart a sensation of worry came over me. What if it isn't what I remember? What if by tasting it again after all these years I only let down my childhood memory? As an adult your childhood memories of "how things were" or "this was cool when I was a kid"  become more and more precious with the passing years. Every time one of these memories are "let down" by re experiencing them as an adult, another coveted piece of your innocence and imagination hemorrhages then dies.

Now you understand why I was worried. I couldn't afford to lose anymore of these memories to adulthood. Nevertheless, I pressed on. I don't recall how many days the concentrate sat in the fridge at home... two... maybe seven, but I finally got around to making the Julius. With, what I can only assume to be my great grandmother's 1950's made blender, I began adding the ingredients. One can of concentrate, milk, and water. Then a cap full of vanilla, followed by as many ice cubes you can get to fit in your blender. Then proceed to blend!

As I took my first drink my mind drifted back to those wonderful memories I held as a child drinking an Orange Julius. Then it happened! That memory, the one I was holding so dear, gained a foothold in the present. It was if a window opened between the memory I had as a child and the experience I was currently having. Both the memory and the current drink, I was guzzling down, held the same weight on the internal scale in my mind. I felt for the happiness for Orange Julius now that I did then. The wonderful childhood memory had now become a wonderful adult memory! My innocence and imagination were now safe for another day, until another memory has to once again be tested.    

Side note: My wife likes Orange Julius's too but not as much as me...at least not to the point where she's attaching memories to them.

San Diego

San Diego was great! I know know why my wife wants to move there. We road tripped the whole trip and really got to relax and enjoy ourselves on the 75 degree beaches. I even got a little bit of a sun burn.

Road Trip

The Wife and I have been looking at getting out of town for spring break. Of course it's her spring break but we're going to call it a vacation. We've always talked about road tripping here or there but we weren't married and we couldn't do it(parents and what not...). But now we are as married as it gets so here comes the road trip.


I'm not going to say where we are going because I want to post where we went when we get back. I know that makes me a nerd but I'm very comfortable with that label at this point and time in the my life. So here are some of my ideas for displaying the trip to you (the blog). 


1. A time lapse video of the entire road trip (from Ogden to the destination)


2. Plenty of goofy off the side of the road pictures along the way.


3. The video camera (of course). I think I may even let the Wife video. 


4. Mobile photo uploads while on the trip.


5. and so on