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Where Be She?

Well Mckell left for Washington DC tonight. Her original flight at 9 AM was cancelled because there was some kind of problem with the plane's engines. So instead she had to leave on a redeye flight that left at 12:40 AM this morning. "But where is Mckell as you type this?" you ask? Well, let's take a look!



Looks like as of right now she's somewhere over Colorado going 522 MPH at 31,000 feet.

Anyway I thought that was kind of cool. If you want to track a flight of your own go to FlyteComm and type in a flight number.

New Domain

I just purchased the domain www.catalystignite.com because I thought it sounded cool. It's one of those names that just rolls off the tongue.

Now what the hell should I do with it?

The Shaving

...next we have Jason with this stylish new summer look designed by himself in Utah. As you can see the short hair length allows for maximum cooling in the hot summer heat while also providing a stylish and modern look for sexy summer fun. Jason's going to be ready for all kinds of summer fun with this new dew, keep an eye out for him hitting the beach, hangin' with his boyz or at the local LDS singles dance...


Since this is an off Myspace site I am actually allowed to smile. God forbid anyone do it there... I guess I'm just not cool.

This Is A Call

Jon... Jon... Jon? Where are you Jon?

In my first ever post on my new blog there was some cryptic message along the lines of "Jon didn't know you were reading this too" or something like that. I assumed it was my old friend Jon who I haven't talked to for quite awhile because he has gone MIA in California. Well tonight Kasey and I were talking about him and it made me realize maybe he reads this every now and again. And so, Jon, if your reading this, for the love of god call me... I miss ya buddy... (in a totally platonic, non-gay way of course... I ain't no fuckin' queer!)

Summer of Trips

Well Mckell has begun her summer of trips. As of right now she is in Surprise, Arizona with 3 of her friends on a post-graduation trip. This is the 1st of 5 planned trips she will be taking this year all of which I am unfortunately not part of. Less than 24 hours after she gets back from Arizona, she leaves for Washington DC with her dad for 5 days. She leaves again at the end of July for a family reunion at the Grand Canyon. In early August she is going to California with her family for a week, and then only a week later she leaves for Aruba for 2 weeks. All in all these 5 trips will consist of over half of her summer. I'm jealous.

In retaliation I am going to plan 3 trips of my own this summer right here and now. They will be the following:

Las Vegas
Tulsa, Oklahoma to visit my cousin
Lake Powell

I'm hoping to get a California trip in there somewhere as well but I don't want to put it in that list unless it is absolutely going to happen. So there, now I have some trips too. Now I just need to look at the dates. If anyone wants to join me, you know where to find me.

Summer of Trips

Well Mckell has begun her summer of trips. As of right now she is in Surprise, Arizona with 3 of her friends on a post-graduation trip. This is the 1st of 5 planned trips she will be taking this year all of which I am unfortunately not part of. Less than 24 hours after she gets back from Arizona, she leaves for Washington DC with her dad for 5 days. She leaves again at the end of July for a family reunion at the Grand Canyon. In early August she is going to California with her family for a week, and then only a week later she leaves for Aruba for 2 weeks. All in all these 5 trips will consist of over half of her summer. I'm jealous.

In retaliation I am going to plan 3 trips of my own this summer right here and now. They will be the following:

Las Vegas
Tulsa, Oklahoma to visit my cousin
Lake Powell

I'm hoping to get a California trip in there somewhere as well but I don't want to put it in that list unless it is absolutely going to happen. So there, now I have some trips too. Now I just need to look at the dates. If anyone wants to join me, you know where to find me.

6000

After ripping the new Foo Fighters CD (see previous post) I finally broke the 6000 song mark in iTunes. I know officially have 6013 songs in my collection.

I really need that 60 gig iPod photo...

Have a PC? Enjoy the new Foo Fighters album... Not!

So since I work for a radio station I got the new Foo Fighters CD a few days ago (it doesn't come out for another week) and noticed an interesting sticker on the front which reads:

"This CD is protected against unauthorized duplication. It is designed to play on standard playback devices and an appropriately configured computer."

On the back of the CD is a disclaimer which makes things a little clearer. It basically says that when you put this CD in your PC your going to be prompted with a installer which wants you to install software called MediaMax. You must install MediaMax in order to listen to your CD. If you don't install, you don't listen. Wanna copy your new Foo Fighters CD to your IPod, nope, MediaMax won't let you because iPods don't support "their" version of DRM (digital rights management [copy protection]). You can only copy your CD to MediaMax approved devices that play nicely with their DRM.

I tried this on my PC and it did exactly what it said, it didn't allow me to play the CD unless I install their software and accept all their terms about how I must delete any music off my MP3 player if I lose the CD since I have no rights to the music unless I have the CD in my possession, etc, etc. I didn't test it any further because I didn't want to accept their terms or install their software...

Sucks doesn't it... Not if you own a Mac! Just put the CD in and it starts playing in iTunes. Wanna rip it? Go ahead, use any program of your choice to rip it into any format you want and wala, your own digital copy! I guess your software is only designed to punish PC users, because it certainly didn't cause any problems for me or my Mac.

Apparently BMG/Sony plan to imbed this program into most of their upcoming CD releases. Just one more reason to get a Mac.

Apple ♥ Intel?

So I guess Apple is going to begin using Intel chipsets in their computers come next year with all their computers using Intel chips by mid 2007. Pretty interesting considering they've been with the IBM Power PC chipset for over 11 years now... This is HUGE news in the Apple community.

All in all it seems like a good decision. The main reasons for the switch is IBM's slow progress towards a 3 GHz chip and the fact that the G5 processors seem to run too hot to put into laptops. It's a big change, but a nessisary one in my opinion.

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Dr. Jason - Relationship Expert

It's weird how much you start taking for granted when your in a long term relationship. I realized this tonight during some sort of moment of clarity. You start to forget how much the other person themselves mean to you and start focusing on the lesser more immediate details such as what your doing next weekend or why they couldn't make it to such and such event. All this came about after I got bummed out that Mckell was going to be gone nearly half of this summer on various trips. We had discussed this summer quite a bit and had some pretty elaborate and grandiose ideas of what it was going to be to us. Parties, vacations, the whole works. It seems her family has different plans for us though, 3 trips in all so far in addition to a couple she has planned with some of her friends. All of these trips add up to about half of her summer being taken up being on vacation. Because of this I got a little bummed out tonight and found myself taking it out on her and our relationship instead of being rational and planning around them. We sat and talked for about an hour while I tried to explain why things weren't "feeling right to me" which was pointless because it wasn't that anything was feeling out of place, it's was just that I was subconsciously feeling down about this summer. After talking for awhile she had to go finish a final and I started to head home. It was during that drive that I started thinking why I was bringing up all of this when nothing I said described how I was really feeling. It was at that point I realized that nothing was wrong, except for the fact that I had lost sight of what an amazing relationship I have and let my selfishness take over by getting upset over the fact that she wasn't going to be around this summer as much as I want her to.

The moral of this story? Don't lose sight of the things that really matter after being in a relationship for awhile, remember what you have and realize how lucky you are to have it. A lot of people would kill to have what a lot of us take for granted when it comes to love and relationships. If your upset and don't know why, look at yourself and not at the other person. Chances are you'll find your answers.

Actually that sounds more like a Jerry Springer "Final Thought" than a moral...