Here is Lucas' performance for the concert a couple of weeks ago. He did a great job, but I was sorely disappointed that they wouldn't let him sing more. Thanks Mom & Monette (and Alexis and the baby-to-be) for coming! His selection: Flying Without Wings...
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Friday, February 29, 2008
Tiny Update
It's been so long since we've included anything...
Joshua is 21 months and is all over everything. He speaks sentences now and is a very assertive little boy. At the same time, he is good-natured and loveable; truly a joy to see grow up.
Lucas just finished midterms (yeah!), so only 1.5 more semesters to go. He is getting geared up to go to Calif. later in March.
I am doing very well; pregnancy has been quite good. I purchased a serger to increase my sewing capabilities and have found it to be awesome! It makes me want to get more stuff to work on...
Well, that about sums it up; have a great day!
Joshua is 21 months and is all over everything. He speaks sentences now and is a very assertive little boy. At the same time, he is good-natured and loveable; truly a joy to see grow up.
Lucas just finished midterms (yeah!), so only 1.5 more semesters to go. He is getting geared up to go to Calif. later in March.
I am doing very well; pregnancy has been quite good. I purchased a serger to increase my sewing capabilities and have found it to be awesome! It makes me want to get more stuff to work on...
Well, that about sums it up; have a great day!
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Car Accident February 12, 2008
Wednesday February 13, 2008
6:10pm
So, I went up to Helen's house last night to go to institute with her. We have had ice storms since about 4 o'clock yesterday and the weather finally started warming up and has thawed all the cars and such since about noon or so today. So the temperature is finally warming up.
I went up to Helen's house to go to institute. I left Fairfax at 5:30. Traffic was horrible. I pulled into Helen's house at 8:30. We missed all of institute so I watched American Idol with her and her Mom.
After it was over (about 11) I left for home. Traffic, again was a bit slow cuz of the weather conditions. (flow of traffic was moving about 45-50 or so) It took me a while, but I eventually came around to the 495/270 split. I stayed to the left to continue through on the 495. I came up onto the bridge going about 40, and I started spinning, lost control and slammed into the cement barrier on the right side of the road. My rear tire came up onto the wall and it bent the rear right tire inward on the bottom at about a 45-degree angle (really bad, see picture number 6) and then I came down off the wall and spun, sliding back into traffic.
No oncoming cars hit me, thank heaven. I tried backing up to get further out of the lanes of traffic, but that didn't' work because of the rear wheel. I had no idea of the condition of the car and was still totally shocked and flipping out. After cars passed and it was clear, I put the car into gear and inched my way across the ramp to the other side out of the lanes of traffic. (the left side of the bridge) and then I stopped and saw that a man was coming over to talk to me. He had seen my initial slide and swerved to keep himself out of my way and pulled off to the left side to make sure I was okay. He had seen the whole thing and explained it to me as we were talking. He came over to talk to me and I could barely get the drivers side door open far enough to talk to him.
He told me that he had called Fire and Rescue and they were on their way and that he would stay with me until they got here to make sure everything was okay. It took them about 35 minutes to finally get there. The accident actually happened at about 11:43 or so, and they finally showed up about ten or fifteen after midnight. In the meantime, while we were waiting for the cops. I was standing near my car, and I heard a loud crashing sound behind me, and turned around to find a car that had lost control, had then been hit by a diesel and the diesel was fishtailing toward my car. I immediately after turning, dove (almost literally) over the cement barrier on that side, to get out of the way. I thought that the diesel's trailer was going to fishtail and slam and completely take out my car. Thankfully, he regained control and stopped, finally pulling off about 500 yards down the road on the right side. The person he hit had been spun around and was now facing the little oncoming traffic that was filtering through the debris strewn road. One person, within 5 minutes later, lost control and slammed into his car. So there was 3 accidents within about an hours time. I was just blown away at how dangerous and treacherous the roads were, and they were only getting worse.
Long story short, I called Dane Larsen who's been staying with us while Mom and Dad are gone with Mariah to the Caribbean on the Book of Mormon lands cruise. He brought his wife, and they made their way over to pick me up. We had to wait for the tow truck to load up my car. Mine was the first to get in an accident, and the last to get towed, but that is because they had to get the other 2 cars out of lanes of traffic. So, we finally got the tow truck and I climbed into the truck to guide him home incase we got separated from Dane and Sarah who were ahead of us. We got home, and had him put it down in the circle of Sideburn Ct. (as you can see from the pictures) We paid him, he left, and we went inside and then I eventually got to sleep. This was now 3:15 A.M. I finally got myself to sleep about 3:30. I wanted pain killers to dull my pain, but was in too much pain to go get them. So I went to sleep.
I woke up about 9am and got up and did Dad's DVD orders export, finishing it by about 9:02 or so. I hadn't set any alarms or anything and figured I needed to let myself wake up when I woke up. I'm surprised my body didn't want more sleep. I took a two hour nap from 7-9pm tonight though and that really helped my pain to go down.
Well, long story short, the Honda is more than likely totaled. I'm in slight pain, but doing okay, and I am still trying to get a hold of Mom and Dad to let them know I'm okay. Say a prayer for my pain, and I will update as things come along with the car search and such. (or whatever it is that we end up deciding to do) I am going to go to bed now, I'm exhausted...
6:10pm
So, I went up to Helen's house last night to go to institute with her. We have had ice storms since about 4 o'clock yesterday and the weather finally started warming up and has thawed all the cars and such since about noon or so today. So the temperature is finally warming up.
I went up to Helen's house to go to institute. I left Fairfax at 5:30. Traffic was horrible. I pulled into Helen's house at 8:30. We missed all of institute so I watched American Idol with her and her Mom.
After it was over (about 11) I left for home. Traffic, again was a bit slow cuz of the weather conditions. (flow of traffic was moving about 45-50 or so) It took me a while, but I eventually came around to the 495/270 split. I stayed to the left to continue through on the 495. I came up onto the bridge going about 40, and I started spinning, lost control and slammed into the cement barrier on the right side of the road. My rear tire came up onto the wall and it bent the rear right tire inward on the bottom at about a 45-degree angle (really bad, see picture number 6) and then I came down off the wall and spun, sliding back into traffic.
No oncoming cars hit me, thank heaven. I tried backing up to get further out of the lanes of traffic, but that didn't' work because of the rear wheel. I had no idea of the condition of the car and was still totally shocked and flipping out. After cars passed and it was clear, I put the car into gear and inched my way across the ramp to the other side out of the lanes of traffic. (the left side of the bridge) and then I stopped and saw that a man was coming over to talk to me. He had seen my initial slide and swerved to keep himself out of my way and pulled off to the left side to make sure I was okay. He had seen the whole thing and explained it to me as we were talking. He came over to talk to me and I could barely get the drivers side door open far enough to talk to him.
He told me that he had called Fire and Rescue and they were on their way and that he would stay with me until they got here to make sure everything was okay. It took them about 35 minutes to finally get there. The accident actually happened at about 11:43 or so, and they finally showed up about ten or fifteen after midnight. In the meantime, while we were waiting for the cops. I was standing near my car, and I heard a loud crashing sound behind me, and turned around to find a car that had lost control, had then been hit by a diesel and the diesel was fishtailing toward my car. I immediately after turning, dove (almost literally) over the cement barrier on that side, to get out of the way. I thought that the diesel's trailer was going to fishtail and slam and completely take out my car. Thankfully, he regained control and stopped, finally pulling off about 500 yards down the road on the right side. The person he hit had been spun around and was now facing the little oncoming traffic that was filtering through the debris strewn road. One person, within 5 minutes later, lost control and slammed into his car. So there was 3 accidents within about an hours time. I was just blown away at how dangerous and treacherous the roads were, and they were only getting worse.
Long story short, I called Dane Larsen who's been staying with us while Mom and Dad are gone with Mariah to the Caribbean on the Book of Mormon lands cruise. He brought his wife, and they made their way over to pick me up. We had to wait for the tow truck to load up my car. Mine was the first to get in an accident, and the last to get towed, but that is because they had to get the other 2 cars out of lanes of traffic. So, we finally got the tow truck and I climbed into the truck to guide him home incase we got separated from Dane and Sarah who were ahead of us. We got home, and had him put it down in the circle of Sideburn Ct. (as you can see from the pictures) We paid him, he left, and we went inside and then I eventually got to sleep. This was now 3:15 A.M. I finally got myself to sleep about 3:30. I wanted pain killers to dull my pain, but was in too much pain to go get them. So I went to sleep.
I woke up about 9am and got up and did Dad's DVD orders export, finishing it by about 9:02 or so. I hadn't set any alarms or anything and figured I needed to let myself wake up when I woke up. I'm surprised my body didn't want more sleep. I took a two hour nap from 7-9pm tonight though and that really helped my pain to go down.
Well, long story short, the Honda is more than likely totaled. I'm in slight pain, but doing okay, and I am still trying to get a hold of Mom and Dad to let them know I'm okay. Say a prayer for my pain, and I will update as things come along with the car search and such. (or whatever it is that we end up deciding to do) I am going to go to bed now, I'm exhausted...
Sunday, January 27, 2008
Gordon B. Hinckley - 15th President of the Church passes away...
President Gordon B. Hinckley, 15th President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints passes away at 97 years old in Salt Lake City, Utah.
KSL in Salt Lake City has a story at
http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=148&sid=2560294
I heard the news about 2 hours after it happened. Dad was talking to Andy and told me from the top of the stairs, and I came to the base of the stairs just shocked at the news.
President Hinckley has been the most amazing wonderful prophet in this dispensation. I know that I personally have had revelations as a result of counsel he has given that has changed my life. I will truly never forget the impact that this man has had on my life. He was truly God's mouthpiece and an honest, humble, servant of the Lord Jesus Christ. Be sure to pray for the family of the Prophet in this time of hardship. Love you all.
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Orientation day last week on Saturday...and first day on Monday this week.
Wednesday January 23, 2008
8:45pm
I had orientation last week on Saturday and it went great!
I did a tour of each studio with a group of 4 other guys. First we went into Studio C which has an API 24-track console. Danny is playing around with a track that a student band had recorded some time before that. So we listened to him solo certain portions of the song (strings, acoustic guitar, vocals, etc.) and EQ it.
I then moved on to Studio A which has a NEVE VR-60 Console with Flying Faders and Total Recall
Here's a picture of Shannon doing his thing with a track he had pulled and had been working with from tape that morning.
We then went into Studio D which is the mastering, or ProTools studio. That's where all the mastering is and some MIDI- Audio production is done.
One nifty thing about the console inside studio D is that it, similar to studio A's NEVE console, has fader automation (or flying faders)
This is a little video of what the engineers like to call "Vegas mode". It is mainly for testing lights to make sure there aren't any lights out, and they really don't know of any other purpose for that button, than a really showy display of lights and fader movement. Here's the video...
8:45pm
I had orientation last week on Saturday and it went great!
I did a tour of each studio with a group of 4 other guys. First we went into Studio C which has an API 24-track console. Danny is playing around with a track that a student band had recorded some time before that. So we listened to him solo certain portions of the song (strings, acoustic guitar, vocals, etc.) and EQ it.
I then moved on to Studio A which has a NEVE VR-60 Console with Flying Faders and Total Recall
Here's a picture of Shannon doing his thing with a track he had pulled and had been working with from tape that morning.We then went into Studio D which is the mastering, or ProTools studio. That's where all the mastering is and some MIDI- Audio production is done.
One nifty thing about the console inside studio D is that it, similar to studio A's NEVE console, has fader automation (or flying faders)
This is a little video of what the engineers like to call "Vegas mode". It is mainly for testing lights to make sure there aren't any lights out, and they really don't know of any other purpose for that button, than a really showy display of lights and fader movement. Here's the video...
We continued our tour on to Studio B which has an SSL 4048E/G Console with Total Recall. This studio is also similar to Studio A in that they both have Total Recall. Total Recall is a nifty little feature where you can set all the settings exactly as you want, and then save that to a disk, and take it to another studio that has a board with total recall, and it will set their board exactly as you had it on the board at the originating studio. It's really cool!
After studio B we went on to the MIDI-Lab where Larry works. He'll be teaching me the Audio Production Techniques class (APT) where I will learn how to sequence and construct my own music with a synthesizer and a number of different external sound engines. It's way cool. I'm really excited for that class. Anyway here's another couple pictures of the orientation day. (these are the last couple pictures I took during the orientation day- they're in the MIDI lab)
Anyway, I've got a lot of reading to do before my first class of the Career Development Program tomorrow. So I'll update again as soon as I can! I hope this gives you all a little taste of the environment I'll be in for the next 10 months! I love you all!
After studio B we went on to the MIDI-Lab where Larry works. He'll be teaching me the Audio Production Techniques class (APT) where I will learn how to sequence and construct my own music with a synthesizer and a number of different external sound engines. It's way cool. I'm really excited for that class. Anyway here's another couple pictures of the orientation day. (these are the last couple pictures I took during the orientation day- they're in the MIDI lab)
Anyway, I've got a lot of reading to do before my first class of the Career Development Program tomorrow. So I'll update again as soon as I can! I hope this gives you all a little taste of the environment I'll be in for the next 10 months! I love you all!
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Truman...How's School?
I am expecting some fun pictures and a whole download of info...Lucas was recording with a guy and was thinking about you and how you are doing, so let's hear it!
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Completely out of nowhere!
Thursday January 17, 2007
2:45pm
I took Mom and Dad to Reagan International Airport this morning at 5:45. We got there at like 6:15. I dropped them off and then headed for home. I got home by about 6:35 and went back to sleep.
2 and a half hours later . . .
I woke up, got up, showered, and then was in the office checking my email. Around 10 or 10:15, I was walking from the office to the kitchen for something. I glanced out the dining room window at the cars in the drive way...and ::gasp:: guess what I saw...
2:45pm
I took Mom and Dad to Reagan International Airport this morning at 5:45. We got there at like 6:15. I dropped them off and then headed for home. I got home by about 6:35 and went back to sleep.
2 and a half hours later . . .
I woke up, got up, showered, and then was in the office checking my email. Around 10 or 10:15, I was walking from the office to the kitchen for something. I glanced out the dining room window at the cars in the drive way...and ::gasp:: guess what I saw...
This reminds me of Narnia with the lamp post... hehe.
Soooo ya, we have like 3 inches of snow on the ground, and its stopped for the moment. I took some fun close-up pictures too! (you know me, I enjoy playing with my macro setting on my camera)
Anyway, I just thought I'd take a minute to show those fun pictures of the snow. I hope everyone's having a wonderful week! I'll update again with the first day of school as it comes around.
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