Jimmer Mania

So I'm sure by now everybody at least in Utah knows of this monumental game tomorrow. The last two days there has been tons of media coverage regarding the SDSU/BYU game on Wednesday in the Marriott Center. Today thousands of BYU Students lined up outside of the Marriott Center to even get a wrist band to enter the game. Today Jimmer was on Pardon The Interruption - a highly rated ESPN show and was interviewed by Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon... great interview by the way - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53JF1MfRoqs

I was also driving down the road earlier today and heard him live on the Brian Kenney show on ESPN Radio - apparently Jimmer sets aside 30 minutes each week solely for national media attention. At tomorrows game there will be 24 professional scouts in attendance. If you told me even a month ago that this game would have received this much hype I probably would have bought a lot more tickets to this because they are more than doubling in price. Hoping that BYU doesn't crash and burn in the national spotlight and can really make a push to be the team that a lot of people think they are and should be. Here's to you Jimmer boy!!! Just bought your jersey today.. and will be wearing it at the game tomorrow.

The World of @Task

So here at Adobe my role is that of Business Analyst in Client Services - Consulting. We have recently migrated over 2,500 projects over to a new system called @Task. It's a really neat piece of software to use to manage projects and various tasks that are billable to a client. The old system (and I think this says it all) was ONLY accessible via Internet Explorer 6. This day in age, using IE6 is kind of like watching a VHS for a movie and listening to a cassette tape for music. It is super ancient and NO ONE ever uses it anymore. It was skewing data and not a very intuitive tool to be using as we report that data to clients. I would like to personally thank @Task for their wonderful new solution to our team and company. So far it is great, with every new tool there is a learning curve and that's what I have been dealing with this week I have been the main point of contact for everything @Task related. It has been a good experience to go through the run around of this new system and broaden my horizons with new tools.

This is SUPER boring to a lot of people, but this alone saves TONS of time on our end and will hopefully give me more time for other interests which I will talk about here in another post this week.

Back In Action!!!!!

So it has been, let's see, since September 2009 since I have blogged. What was I thinking. I believe that crazy arm injury that I incurred in the summer of 2009 kind of set me back a bit. Meanwhile, A LOT has happened since the last time I updated this. Let's see, Jazz got a new logo and new colors, BYU has gone independent, I took a trip to Texas to see the BYU/Oklahoma game which was pretty much amazing. Omniture has been acquired by Adobe Systems and now I can officially say that I work for Adobe Systems. We will be building a new campus in Lehi which will open probably fall of 2012 - it is supposed to be amazing! Last summer (since I now have a new hobby besides long boarding) I golfed about 30 times. I went to Sleepy Ridge in Orem a lot, HobbleCreak, Thanksgiving Point, Cedar Ridge, Fox Hollow, Eastbay, Murray Parkway (funny story there). So in a nutshell, here is my post back into the blogging world.

Nintendo 64!!

I love Christmas gifts just as much as the next person. I don't, however, believe I have seen this type of reaction to any gift that has been given to someone except for this kid..

Kid in the Red Shirt

I thought this was hilarious!! Kid in the red shirt dancing. Gotta love his stellar moves..

Turn Your Face Away from the Garish Light of Day!

Ok... So I really have NO idea why, but for some reason the last few weeks I've been on this big Phantom of the Opera music kick. I listen to it at work all the time, and have even caught myself running to it at night... ummm, yep, weird I know!! Anyway, I think it is great music and I can play a handful of the songs on the piano. I came across this YouTube video clip that I thought was drop dead funny a while back. Now we know more about the Phantom...

Enjoy..

The Great Fall

There are many hobbies and interests I have in life. Sports, piano, movies, family, friends, outdoors, etc. One of these interests I have just happens to be longboarding. I became interested in Longboarding a few months before my mission in 2001. After I got home I moved up to Rexburg, Idaho with some buddies and got more into it. I ended up getting my own so that I could get around town and go down some gnarly hills. All my friends including myself had a longboard and we would find some good, wide streets to ride down. One time I was riding down a pretty steep hill (which was way fun), and was coming to a flat road which made me slow down a bit. This lady just happened to have her sprinklers going in her front yard which was making the whole road wet as well. I was riding down this street at a reasonable speed making some quick longboard turns and ended up falling back because of the wet road and landing on my wrist. I thought it was just sprained or bruised or something like that. 8 months later I noticed that it still hurt every time I would play basketball or football. I decided to go get it checked out finally. Next thing I know, I'm having surgery and they're putting a screw in my wrist.

Well, to add to this amazing folly I was up at the cabin in Vivian Park up Provo canyon over Memorial Day weekend. There is a trail that goes from Vivian Park all the way down the canyon. I have ridden this trail many times on my longboard as it's a pretty easy ride and not too steep. It ended up being a ride that, well, also ended up in surgery. I feel dumb admitting that I was riding on a flat surface not going amazingly fast, but I ended up taking a pretty bad spill on that flat surface. I knew immediately that I had broken my right arm. It was some of the worst pain I had ever felt. I had to walk all the way back down the canyon in order to take a visit to the hospital. I was surprised that I didn't black out because I was so dizzy and light headed walking down because of my arm. At first glance from the X-Ray machine it looked like I had a simple radial head fracture since I couldn't even remotely move my arm for an x-ray at the time. Later on that week they took more x-rays and realized that not only was it fractured but that the bone was completely detached from the socket. That might explain why it hurt so bad all that time. My bone had been coming in and out of socket every time I had been moving it. I ended up going into surgery the next day and having 3 screws put in my right elbow. Surprisingly enough, I have not had to take 1 pain pill. I guess once the bone is back where it's supposed to be it ends up feeling a lot better. Not all the way better though, I still have physical therapy to go through which is never fun in the least. Perfect timing for something like this to happen as it's my favorite time of year (summer). Well, hopefully these next few months go well and I'll be back to new. Gotta love longboarding!!!









Fun rides like this down Mesa Falls in Idaho won't be happening ever again. Dang!