No joke.

While walking thru my house yesterday I found a small black bird trapped in a glass cupboard which is built into the wall of the living room.  After the initial shock I decided the only way for a bird to get inside a cupboard was if someone put it there as a joke.  So I put on some gloves and tossed him outside.  Thirty minutes later he was in the glass cabinet again. No joke.

Denmark is consistently rated the happiest country in the world

Last year while walking from the train station to a hostel in Copenhagen I came upon a burning car in the middle of an intersection. No one else was around, just me and the burning vw. During the next week there were street riots but because I dont speak Danish I didn't ever figure out why people were so upset. Today I finally got around to looking up some news articles and this is basically what i found out:

On March 1 the Danish government evicted all tenants/squatters from an abandoned building using Danish Special Forces. The building was completely torn down four days later.

During the next week, the largest riots since WWII took place in downtown Copenhagen. Angry mobs constructed street barricades and built bonfires in the middle of intersections. The riot police had to retake the suburb of Norrebro street by street.

After my initial shock of the burning car, the daily riots became pretty routine and I had assumed that was just what Denmark was like all the time.

Provo River Rapids

Yesterday was my first official day as a Provo River Raft Guide. I did the river twice, the first trip was a couple of teenage girls from the east coast who now believe that moose hide under water and that piranhas are native to the Utah. The second group was a bunch of scouts. Four rafts full of them. The entire 6 miles of river was an extended water fight.

green valley gap to guardsman's pass

Last week me and a couple buddies woke up early Friday and 3.5 hours later found ourselves in St. George, Utah. We climbed the famous Chuckwalla wall and then spent the evening with my grandparents. We spent Saturday biking a trail in the Green Valley Gap. What a sweet ride! After finishing the trail we looked to the Gap itself where we repelled into the red rock chasm and took turns climbing out. That night we ran into a couple of friends who happened to have access to a hot tub. Drove home Sunday morning and managed to make church. Parting ways with my buddies I crashed at my parents' place in Salt Lake. Monday was spent up at 9,000 ft with my dad and brother measuring the depth of the snow at Guardsman's Pass. Not a bad weekend.

 

Epic New Year

2007 will be a year for adventures.  Last week's adventure was surviving the medieval illness that threatened my immune system.

study

"Study without desire spoils the memory and it retains nothing that it takes in." -Leonardo da Vinci

You win, da Vinci, I'll never study again.

History Paper

i've got 7 more pages to write for my history paper and I'm writing a blog.... but i've got nothing to blog about. maybe if i take a break and write my history paper something will come to me.

sleep now or sleep later

stay up late tonight or wake up early tomorrow morning? Jack Bauer would, of course, not go to sleep at all.

Battle of Kadesh

I've got a two page paper due tomorrow in my Ancient Near East History class tomorrow morning which I haven't started. It's getting fairly late and all I've managed to accomplish is signing up for this blog.

test

how does this thing work? if i write stuff here does anyone see it?  how do blog blog blog blog. blog blog blog blog blog.  blog blog blog.  blog blog.  blog blog blog blog.