Called To Serve

I have been called to serve as a missionary of the Church of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints. 

I will labor in the Alpine German-Speaking Mission. I report to the MTC June 27.

My area covers southern Germany, all of Austria and Liechtenstein, and most of Switzerland. You can see it here in the green.

Thats my new best friend. The Book of Mormon in German. 

Its happening again

I've said it before and I'll most likely say it again. 

Expect a few posts and then a long pause with another  statement similar to what I'm about to say. 

With this in mind here it is.

I'm Back. 

There I said it. I'm back for good. For now. 

With so much time passing between my last post and this, there is a lot I could talk about. I could give you a boring summary of my new semester and 'how its going' but no one including myself wants to read that. Everyone goes to school and no one really cares about other peoples non interesting lives. So again, I'll refrain from that type of post. 

I could rant about how the patriot's receivers  The Patriots blew the super bowl when in fact Eli Manning and the Giants won it by making plays and playing consistent defense, but there are others who get paid a large amount of money to do that for ESPN. And even if these well paid writes give biased, and often unfair analysis of these games people still read their columns. So I guess I'll stay away from that post as well. Just don't read Rick Reilly. He's truly the worst.

After much deliberation on what to write, I'll stick with a basic staple in all blogs. A top ten list. 

My top ten for the week of Feb. 6th 

10. New Nike Sweats I bought. This could actually make a case for number one

9. I'm seeing the shins play in vegas in April. So pumped

8. My Studio Beats By Dre. They keep my ears warm and play music. Incredible 

7. Skype

6. This

5. Arrested Development. 

4. Thursdays. Yeah Buddy

3. My glasses

2. New Vans

1. I'm opening my mission call this week. 

I leave this post with this picture. I may or may not have spent a solid portion of my childhood in a batman costume. I also may or may not have walked around to neighbors houses in this costume asking people if they knew who I was. Yikes.

And the home, of the.......... TOUGH

Where do the toughest people on campus party?

Obviously the Dee Glen Smith Spectrum.

With this knowledge in mind, the students at USU must be some of the toughest people I know. Or for that matter, the toughest people anyone knows.

Guess who gets to sleep outside this hallowed basketball arena for the next two nights with all these tough guys? 

This guy.

Just to show you how big of a operation this thing is, watch this video. It honestly looks the exact same as here. But let me put this into perspective here. That video is DUKE. Yes that duke. Known for being home to the Cameron Crazies. The spectrum has turned into an exact replica of 

Krzyzewskiville. 

Saying I'm pumped for this campout would be an accurate statement. 

Saying I'm pumped for the BYU game on friday would be a understatement of historic proportions. 

More posts on this camp will follow. Pictures and all.

Stay tough my friends.

The Real Top Ten

Lately ESPN has been very un-tough. 

They ranked every NBA player all the way from number 500 to number 1. 

Mostly I had no problems with the list until the top 15. Then things really got out of hand. 

Here is the top 15 for you uneducated folks. 

15. Russell Westbrook

14. Steve Nash

13. Amare Stoudemire

12. Carmelo Anthony

11. Pau Gasol

10. Blake Griffin

9. Deron Williams

8. Derrick Rose

7. Kobe Bryant

6. Kevin Durant

5. Chris Paul

4. Dirk Nowitzki 

3. Dwyane Wade

2. Dwight Howard

1. LeBron James

Okay a ridiculous list I know. Lets review this debacle. 

1) Amare and Carmelo both should be higher. Especially Carmelo. Easily a top ten player. 

2) Blake Griffin is way to high at number ten. He's good for 20 points and a hand full of rebounds a night. But in no possible way is he the tenth best player in the NBA. To be in the top ten you HAVE to be able to carry a team to the playoffs single handedly. Blake was watching the playoffs at home this year, despite the fact that he has some nice, young talent around him. 

3) Kobe at 7. Stop it. He's unquestionably a top 5 player in the world. The man has lost one playoff series in the past 3 years. Just because you get bounced in the second round by the eventual world champs doesn't mean you're suddenly to old to carry a team like you used too. If you think that you need to stop. He is only 33 years old. This guy has a few more years left in him. Number 7 is straight disrespectful. He has more rings that the other six ahead of him combined. Like I said. Disrespect. Don't hate the Mamba. You'll regret it if this lockout ever ends.

4) Chris Paul? Ahead of Durant, Rose and Kobe? And the highest offense, at NUMBER 5?? I feel like I don't even have to explain myself on this one. Put him in the top ten, but no where close to number 5. More like 9 or 10. 

5) Number 2 kills me. Try saying Dwight Howard is the second best player in the league with a straight face. He is simply not good enough yet to be labeled number 2. He wont get that distinction until he gets more consistent offensively, learns how to shoot better than 60% from the line, and wins a championship. He can't be number 2 until he is putting up 25 and 15 a night. 

6) Number 1. I'm not going to say a word. I'll let Magic, Stephen A. Smith and Skip Bayless do the talking. Check out the rant here.  

There is my rant on the joke ESPN called a top ten list. Sorry if its long, but I had to get it out. 

 Stay tough my friends

Post season

I'm back fools! Sorry it took so long

So Football is pretty tough. Post season is pretty tough too. 

If you haven't made the connection with me and football I'll help you out. 

The Honey Badgers are 2-0 in the playoffs.

I'm pretty pumped about it. This video should help illustrate my excitement. 

POOOOOSSSSSTTTTT SSSEEEEAAAASSSSOOONNNN!!! 

Pretty tough if you ask me.

Honey Badgers.

Who is the toughest creature in the animal kingdom? 

Please don't say a lion because that is the wrong answer. 

The correct answer would be a Honey Badger (see below) 

Now I know that you're asking yourself why I am on the subject of the mighty Honey Badger. SO.... let me tell the secret. The honey badgers are my intramural football team. We put up a VALIANT effort agains a bunch of loser seniors. I guarantee everyone hates them on campus. We lost by 4 but we showed plenty of promise. I see a championship in my future 

On a cowboy boot

Half my room mates are gone and the football game doesn't start until 6, so I'm basically all by myself today. So I've spent a solid 45 minutes on youtube. This guy takes the cake for being the funniest human being alive. Thank you John C. Reilly. Thank you.