Hackers

I find it rather intimidating when the hackers writer funnier and better blogs than the bloggers do.

I also find it both comforting and disheartening to have a son who knows me so well.

Touche, Travis. (All you readers will have to supply the accent on the e in touche.)

I finally have something political for Marc. I spent an hour with Chief Justice John Roberts this morning (with about 10,000 or so other people) at BYU's forum address. He gave a good talk on the constitution and the separation of powers with some nice Utah, BYU, and Rex Lee references. (He obviously has an excellent clerk who put everything together for him.) I must confess that I did choke up a little when he said that the role of the judiciary, quoting Hamilton in the Federalist Papers, is to judge, not to exercise will, because in my opinion Chief Justice Roberts has strayed a bit from his reputation as being an advocate of judicial precedent.

While I was hunting around this site trying to figure out how to post something, I ran onto a disturbing window under "profile" that had accounting and Afghanistan listed for me. Then there was another window with a bunch of silhouettes of possible "friends." It gave me the creeps.

I hope none of you are into accounting in Afghanistan. I know the Bush administration isn't.

Treidi has hacked my blog.

hello folks I hacked the professor's blog account because he hasn't been writing lately. So... I thought I would write for him.

*Top 10 Reasons I Don't Blog*

10. These new fangled technologies and hoozits and whatsits are confusing.

9. As an english phd I need time to draft my blog 10-12 times.

8. My ranch needs tending! those animals don't feed themselves!

7. Treidi's posts are so cool I feel intimidated.

6. The world series is better.

5. What's a blog?

4. The Lord keeps me too busy... BYU, bishoppin, and receiving my 38th eagle pawn

3. I'm too stressed about Jack's man purse to think.

2. I've had a horrible sinus infection.

1. I'd rather be on myspace (www.hotcowboyphillip.myspace.com) OMG CHECK IT OUT!

Repentant Blogger

Travis really got after me for not being an active blogger this past week, so I had to promise him I would blog some today before he let me eat my Sunday dinner. Actually, he wanted me to blog that very second, but I explained that as a bishop I had been blogging in the spiritual blogoshere all day and was tired of it.

[By the way, I have no idea what HTML "tags" are, so I'm just going to stick to standard English.]

I'm worried that Travis will find out that Delys and I arranged to infinite texting on our Verizon account and that he'll start wanting me to text as well as blog and email.

I've been thinking about changing my blog to "Too Old to Rock and Roll, Too Young to Die" after the old Jethro Tull album of the same name, but decided against it. I like the mild irony of my blog being titled "Squared Away" because I know I'll never, ever be able to square it away.

Some random thoughts on a Monday: We need to have the Kings over for another Cafe Rio night sometime.
I also owe Bella a horse ride.

I need to throw in something politically brilliant for Marc, but all I can think of is Garry Trudeau's feather (his representational facsimile of George W. Bush) floating around the country blown here and there by the wind until one of the VP's cronies blows it out of the sky with a 12-gauge above some Texas field.

I'm thinking it's a shame the Angels play the Red Sox. Better the Angels knock off the Wankees (as my two Boston grandsons call them) and the Sox defeat the Tribe and Chief Wahoo before the two teams meet to decide the AL pennant. I'm hoping turncoat Travis roots for the AL. (At least the Dodgers finished the Giants this weekend, Trav.) We don't even know yet if it'll be the Padres or the Rockies. And for the record, I'd still rather be in the upper deck of Angel Stadium than in a box seat at Chavez Ravine, even with unlimited Dodger Dogs.

Im wondering whether the baby comes before the name or the name before the baby. To be more exact, will Hamilton Case Spjute become chief justice because of his name or will the name simply foreshadow his ultimate destiny? But I don't let it keep me up at night. When I can't sleep, I count blogs.