For those who wonder what i do for a living, my company has put up some samples on the their website:
The one that I was most involved in was the Nutrition lesson, but I got the chance to work on all of them.
I also have another blog going on the U Monthly website:
Just click on “Staff Blogs” and then on my name. You can also see a list of all the articles that I wrote for U Monthly.
We were stuck in North Dallas, hungry. I wanted some Mexican food, so we headed down 75 to find a place to eat. We remembered this place called Blue Mesa Grill that had looked good. So we decided to go there.
I have to say that walking up to the door made me wonder “are we cool enough to go in here?” On top of that, you enter in the front door and there are three flights of stairs to go up. That means it’s a really cool place. I thought they would take one look at us and kick us out.
But, this is Texas, and even the cool places are friendly. And the food was excellent. The funny thing was that I had been to Santa Fe on a business trip a few weeks ago and we tried to find a place like this, but failed. We found a good place, but it wasn’t the style that we were looking for really. Blue Mesa was – southwestern.
We topped that off by going to a container store (yes, a whole store for just containers) and a MASSIVE Barnes & Nobles. I mean, massive. Once again, I must have looked like a hick, just gawking at the big city. Two stories, with it’s own escalators right in the middle. A music section, a movie section, and rows for every section of books (versus the few selves for each “section” that they had in Waco). This was the Mecca of bookstores, for sure.
So we saw another movie. It’s weird, but we really don’t get to see that many movies. Maybe we should get to know some people here. But the new Batman movie is THE best Batman movie. Period. Don’t waste your time on Mr. and Mrs. Smith. It was pretty good, but not that great. Batman Begins is the real deal. I just wouldn’t take little kids to it. It deals a lot with facing fear, and there are some scenes that reflect that. And of course the usual Hollywood-ish blurring of the lines between good and evil that is happening a lot today.
The funny thing is, one of the premieres that they showed was for the Dukes of Hazard movie. That already gets my vote for the worst movie of the year. I don’t even need to see it. Too bad, because I was a big Dukes fan growing up. Yeee-haaahhhh!!!! I had the cool General lee t-shirt for T-Shirts Plus and all!
I am a big U2 fan. Before you read what I have to say, you need to know that. I’m not afraid of their spiritual side, and I’m not offended by their honest examinations of reality. It seems like people that have a problem with U2 seem to have a problem with one of those two issues. they are either too religious for the secular world or too worldly for the Christian world.
My wife is a big U2 fan, too. But when she gets into something, she will play it over and over again, daily, for about a year, and then she’ll move on to something else. So, I can now say I have listened to How to Dismantle An Atomic Bomb at least a hundred times now.
Everything I have read about Atomic Bomb has compared it to the reviewer’s favorite U2 album. I have given up trying to find a favorite U2 album. What I tend to ask myself now is “What U2 am I in the mood for now?” Because here’s the shocker – I even like Pop and Zooropa.
Blasphemy, yes, I know. I have to admit that if I had to rate U2’s music, these two albums would be somewhere at the bottom of the list. But that would still put them way above most an other album that I like. With the exception of Michael Knott, but that’s another story.
So, I find myself in the mood for Atomic Bomb U2 a lot. How can you not like the song “Vertigo” if you like guitar? It’s just what rock should be, pure and simple. If it wasn’t U2 and the music buying world wasn’t so snobbish, it would have been the biggest smash hit of the decade. Even though so many people did turn their nose up at it because it was U2, it still made a huge splash. A splash that most bands only dream of.
The next song on the disc comes as a bit of a shocker. U2 rocks you like a hurricane, and then downshifts about 8 or 9 gears into “Miracle Drug.” That’s about my only gripe with this album – I would switch this song with a slightly faster song like “Love and Peace or Else” to make the album flow better, but that’s what the programming function on the ole’ CD player is for. “City of Blinding Lights,” “All Because of You,” and “Yahweh” are some of the other songs I find myself singing over and over again as I go throughout the day.
And for all those who say that U2 has turned their backs on God, check out “Yahweh” for heaven\s sake.
Something to point out is that there is a really cool bonus track that is only available on the Japanese version called “Fast Cars.” Why the Japanese always get the bonus tracks, I’ll never know. Yeah, yeah, something about CD’s being more expensive over there. But if you have iTunes, find the song and fork over the extra 99 cents for it.
And I know that some people find Bono a bit egotistical. But think about this: Do you think anyone would care about the AIDS crisis in Africa (or any other cause he has championed) if he wasn’t that way?
We are finally back from our dial-up exile! Our cable modem is up and humming away. I just got back from a business trip to Santa Fe. I really still haven’t figured out why they needed me there, but I did enjoy the town. It’s a really cool place to visit and hang out. But, I love the mountains, so I am probably biased.