Longest Time

Well I realized last night that I hadn't written for a while.

I put my two weeks in at The Old Spaghetti Factory, so my last day will be on Wednesday. I am happy to have my nights back again. Working during the night is rough especially when my wife works the days so we didn't ever see each other. Now we will be able to see each other every night except those that I have scouts. Speaking of scouts that is going well. We have planned out most of our trip to Lake Powell and are preparing as much as we can for being so far ahead. This next Tuesday we are going shooting down at the Lee Kay shooting range to see how well these little goofs can shoot. I remember the first time that I ever went down to the Lee Kay range, it was for Hunter's Safety, and Ron took me down in his Fiat. He had only been home from his mission for a week or so. It was kind of fun but I didn't do very, well that's what I remember most.
So, Lauren said that for the most part I can type fairly well. However, she said that I have quite a few mistakes like run on sentences and things like that. I don't know how I can get better besides becoming an English major like she did. So, if you don't like my punctuation then tell me where I screwed up and I'll try Harder.
I am slowly becoming the king landscape and tree man around Western Gardens. The other day there was a lady that came in looking for a tree and Melissa was out where I was and I started talking to the lady and after I answered all of the lady's questions and she lift Melissa came up to me and said that she was impressed with all that I was able to tell this lady. That made quite proud and more confident in my abilities. So now my reputation has jumped a bit from "Dumb High School Dork" to "Dumb College Dork." Hopefully one day I will be elevated to just "College Dork," that is my goal.
My services as a landscape artist are starting to be tested and tried as my services have been employed to design and landscape a yard. This will be the first yard, besides my own, that I will have full responsibility for. I am going to take pictures throughout the project and use them for showing people that I am not just a moron, and that I know a little bit about the whole thing. Thanks to my dad and the guy down at the sprinkler wholesale store, sprinkling systems are starting to become a lot easier for me. I think that with that knowledge and the knowledge from the books I have read I should be OK.
Today I was down at the Student Center trying to find out how to start a club at SLCC, and I have found all of the resources I need to start one. Now all I need is five students and a faculty member to head this new "Bonsai Club at SLCC" I know that name sounds funny but that's all I could come up with at such short notice. This club will be a SLCC chapter of the already established Bonsai Club of Utah. My involvement will be a lot more along the lines of what I want to see happen with the club and go in a direction that I think would be more helpful. The people who head up the Utah club are all in their own little tight knit group of friends that all studied under Ben Skillary, the original Bonsai Ben. Any attempt to violate their circle of trust is not met very nicely. So unless you are brought into the group by a long time member then you are treated like an outcast and an outsider, even if you know a bit more than some of the other people. Then they all come to you when they need someone to go and sit at their little functions and answer questions. Kind of irritating but such as life.
My yard is coming along, I am at a standstill however. I called the Water District of Kearns and talked to the head Honcho dude about code and what not. He told me that in order to meet code that will be state wide in two years, MANDATORY AND FINE ABLE, I need to install an RPZ valve. A 200 dollar valve that prevents irrigation water from getting into your culinary water lines. The sprinklers with the valves already on them wont work apparently. I am a bit bummed out about the whole thing but hey if my yard looks awesome and is done right the first time with the right parts then I guess I don't have to worry to much about the whole thing. I would hate to have to do it with the wrong parts and then do it again in 5 years.
Well life goes on and I keep trucking along so live well and BE FAMOUS.