Notable Quote

"The world would be such a better place if everyone was forced to only buy cars."

(yours truly)

The 2009 Las Vegas Bowl game...

Sorry OSU, but really...it's true.

I can identify with this.

SA week

It turns out that San Antonio is not the only exciting thing this week for me; it's also sister appreciation week in our BYU ward.  Which means that we boy-folk have been doing nice things for the girls all week, and tonight we will escort them to a catered dinner in the Pendulum court in the Eyring science center sponsored by the elders' quorums.

There will also be a talent show of sorts where we will provide entertainment for the evening...apparently they are having trouble finding people to perform, however.  So far they have asked me to perform three different songs myself.  This could be really exciting; I think I'll play a piano piece, a guitar piece, and a ukulele piece. 

We'll see if the tally gets any higher by 6:30 or 7:00 pm this evening...I still could play something on the clarinet.  It's just too bad they don't have a pipe organ.

San Antonio International airport

...happens to be one of the airports that Google is sponsoring free public wifi access at this holiday season.  Coincidentally, I just happen to be sitting in said airport waiting for a flight to Dallas/Fort Worth international, where I'll catch a connecting flight back to Salt Lake by around 9 pm or so.  By then I will most likely be close to dead, if not at least incoherently mumbling to myself and running into things while trying to walk a straight line--it has certainly been a busy day.

Up at 5:45 am central time, ready to meet the charter bus to USAA campus (yes, they call it a campus, and for good reason) by 7:00.  At 7:30 we are there, dropping off luggage in a storage closet, checking out visitor id badges and being led around like lemmings through what feels like the financial services industry version of Willy Wonka's chocolate factory.  First we eat a catered breakfast (provided by on-site cafeterias), then get a short speech from a long time employee.  Then we are interviewed and given a short tour of some "plaza level" facilities, including the 24 hour fitness center and a fully staffed wellness clinic where they had me pee in a cup to test me for drugs.  Then lunch, some mixing and mingling with company employees, and a tour of the mile long building, and they sent us on our way in the chartered bus to the airport.

So now here I am waiting...but wait, it seems that we'll be able to catch an earlier flight to DFW, so I can trade a layover here for a layover there.  Off I go!