acoustic night
Friday, September 12th, 2008 | Uncategorized | No Comments
It’s a rare joy to play infront of a crowd. There’s this excitment that comes with a crowd cheering for you as you play to your little hearts content.
Wed, Hayley Haws through a concert for her guitar students for a singles ward activity. all in all, it was awesome and fun.
here are some pics.
Warranty?
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008 | Rants | No Comments
So I had some car issues. a few things had broken or come loose. so I did what a good client should do and I called a head of time to set an appointment for me to drop off my car.
so 9 am rolls around and It’s time for me to drop off my car. I informed the dealership that i had class that night and needed it back. He re-assured me that the car would be done in the early afternoon.
Also, all the problems were covered under my warranty except an oil change.
well 3 rolls around and I decided to call up and ask how far along my car is. the man on the other side tells me they haven’t even looked at it yet. I reminded him that the appointment was at 9 am. he said they were busy. mind you there were 2 other cars there besides mine. and mine was supposed to be the first one in.
I show up at 4:30 and wind up having to wait till 6:30 till they’re done. also, they decided some of my repairs were not covered under the warranty.
this was the tire well. they said that if it breaks loose they’ll cover it but if it grinds against my tire they won’t any more.
wow, so $200 dollars later I leave the dealership only to find the tire well was not put on properly. it’s missing screws and was folded, yes folded, at the base of the front.
a phone call to them this morning reveled that i can set an appointment to bring it in some other time.
Superhero Taco Night
Monday, September 8th, 2008 | Just Me | 1 Comment
So first things first, I decided to give people more notice. No, not eveyone came, infact I think a little under half showed up, but we had blast.
RULES OF SUPERHERO TACO NIGHT.
Everyone had to dress up, EVERYONE!
and we ate tacos. basically that’s it.
se habla English?
Thursday, September 4th, 2008 | Rants | No Comments
Now just so everyone knows, I’m very much in favor of allowing imigrants from different countries into the U.S. I think we’re a very blessed country and we should share our blessings with others.
However I have 2 requirments.
1: no laws are broken in your passage from there to here.
2: You need to learn English.
2.5 if you’re currently learning english don’t work in a place where I would have to trust you with my financial transactions.
I recently (about 5 min ago) had an experience that was frustrating and annoying. I went to pay my school fees and found an asian woman behind the counter.
“hi I’d like to pay my school fees.”
“you pay your what?”
(mind you this is her only job is to take school fees)
“I need to pay for my classes!”
“oh ok. what student number?”
“I have my ssn.”
“ok, you tell me ssn”
(I did)
“ok you pay all?”
“no I’m set up for the payment plan.”
“ok you pay half now.”
“no I should only have to pay 1/4 of my payment.”
“yes yes, you pay half now.”
“no I’m already set up, it should only be this much.”
“yes yes, you pay half now.”
“is there someone else I could talk to?”
“I talk you. you pay half now?”
“um, no, um, what days do you work here?”
“I work wed, thru, firday.”
“so you don’t work here tuesday?”
“no, no, you pay half now?”
“no thank you. I’ll be back tuesday.”
Satelite phones are wierd!
Friday, August 29th, 2008 | Uncategorized | 1 Comment
So work asked me to make sure their satelite phone worked. The thing is bulky and in reliable! It seems like just another way to make it harder to escape society.
I stood outside for ten min pointing the oversized antena at the skies and had no service. Ha ha ha. Aparently we have our hand in all sorts of technologizes.
However I just learned that the company that provides our service has satelite issues. So we’re going to cancel.
Back to school mess ups
Thursday, August 21st, 2008 | Rants | 2 Comments
School is important, I know, I get told that all the time. And yes I do understand that it is important. However, ever since I returned home from my mission I have had nothing but bad luck getting into school.
1st try, provo colledge. I was accepted, but they didn’t have courses I wanted to take, and infact tried to talk me into taking classes I had no desire to take. later I learned they were short in those classes. man those guys were pushy.
2nd try, BYU. first off, BYU’s website is a joke. I recently went back and found the only way to actually get around their site is by going through their crappy HTML and javascript encrusted site. than the acceptance letter. oh wow, they got it too me too late for me to sign up for any of their classes. the people who tried to “help” were stuck up snobs. frankly, I’m glad I didn’t go there.
3rd, SLCC. they ran into a small problem that BYU ran into as well. for some reason the state of Utah had me down as a non U.S. citizen and there for my semester of 3 classes was going to cost me about $4000 dollars. hmm, doesn’t seem fair.
4th try. Again SLCC, and again, non-U.S. citizen. however, after my birth certificate and valid drivers license wasn’t enough, a letter from my mission presidet seemed to do the trick. still I had to drop a class because they couldn’t offer it to a non-U.S. citizen.
well now I”m on my 5th try. again SLCC. the people at SLCC are super friendly (a lot more than I can say about the people at BYU) however, this time I ran into some issues as well. I had signed up for a math and english class along with a web page design class.
my english teacher resigned and the class was dropped due to lack of teacher. my math class was given to a non-U.S. citizen version of me which I later recieved an e-mail for apologizing that they had messed up and they were sorry but the class is now full.
for being institutions of education, there are not a lot of smart people running schools these days. I guess the nice thing is my fees will be next to nothing this year, but now I have another semester to take on later. goo!
First post from the iphoone!
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008 | Uncategorized | 1 Comment
Holy crap guys I could blog durring a funeral on this thing!
Why I NEED an Iphone
Monday, August 11th, 2008 | Uncategorized | 2 Comments
1: it’s cool
2: it’s cool
3: organize my life
4: it’s cool
5: all the cool new apps.
6: it’s cool
7: work wants me to get one
8: It’s cool
9: GPS
10: it’s cool
11: I want one.
12: it’s cool
ok so more than half the reasons are that it’s cool, but today my supervisor hooked me up with a 1st gen iphone and frankly, I love it. yes I can remember my days with a suddely crappy nokia and or motorola phone. they remind me of the days in my mission when really bad news comes from home. Hell would be a welcomed sight than returning to those days!!!
frankly I find myself running into very few reasons not to have one! The one thing keeping me from the phone that will link me to 3g internet at all times is, School. thus I have decided that School is an assistant to the leages of hell! or maybe I just have already realized that school is more imporant in the long run than an Iphone.
darn it!
MISTAKES
Friday, August 8th, 2008 | Uncategorized | 3 Comments
Should not be repeated! Lesson learned.
Family Picitures
Monday, August 4th, 2008 | Uncategorized | 5 Comments
So My Mom decided it was time for a new family picture. Probably a good idea considering our last one was taken before Mark’s mission (about 6 years ago). Since our last picture there have been a few minor changes to our family, the first being Debbie, the second, Merrill, and the Third, Zoey. Oh I’m almost forgetting the fourth, my missing eye.
Alright I admit that fourth one was a lie.
Anyway, there is our family picture.
Us Nott kids (deb included) as many of you know, are very creative/exciting (except Mark. Mark is not exciting) and we can’t stand the typical family pictures without a bit of a twist. and here you have it.
by the way, this picture was Mark’s idea, so I guess he’s a little exciting.