Author: wes

So I am going to rebuild my laptop tomorrow, and I decided to make a list of the stuff I needed to reinstall.  Here’s that applications outside of the factory installed applications that I use on a daily basis.  Anything else I should be using?

Friday ended up being a pretty busy day.  We started out running over to St. Johns to get a colt that my mom had looked at.  (Was trying to pull the pictures from my BlackBerry, but it appears Verizon is working on the EVDO here) (UPDATE: BlackBerry is happy again, picture added)  We pulled him home, and went home to get ready for Rustyn’s party.  He got a hoopy (spelling?) car from Grandma, and he ended up spending the rest of the time in it, so we aren’t sure what else he got yet.  After that we went to the Flashlight Vigil for the Ulrich family.  We got home and hooked up the projectors to the PS3s and played Modern Warfare until it was time for the main event.  The Goonies!!  Check out the video to see our setup.

Today is a pretty big day.  Amanda is at her first day at Summit as an Intensive Care Nurse, and it is Rustyn’s birthday.  Emily, Rustyn’s babysitter, asked if he could have a cupcake so he’s celebrating his birthday without us.  When I get home Rustyn gets to continue the fun times by going on a service project with dad and the young men and women.

I’ll let Amanda tell the story, but I just wanted to post this as we got packed up to leave Albuquerque this morning.  Thanks for everyone’s support.

Grandma and Aunt Mylea went to Show Low today and brought back a pool for Rustyn. He wasn’t too sure about it to begin with, but ended up having a good time when Mylea ended up joining him. Thanks Grandma..

Downloaded the newest episode of Food Mob! today, and we got a mention.  I would recommend anyone who wants to try cooking something new to check it out.  Click play on the video below to play the clip where we are mentioned.  You can follow the Foob Mob show and Chef on twitter at @foodmobtv and @NiallHarbison

This Sunday was a little different than the normal.  The Gila Valley Temple was dedicated ,and we were able to to see it from a broadcast that was streamed to our Stake Center.  After we headed over to my parents were we found Rustyn picking up chicks. For dinner the Lunds came over and we ended up throwing a dinner together.  I ended up making a Food Mob! dinner with the perfect steak, fries, a salad my mom made, and garlic bread.  We ate outside on the patio while the sun was setting. It was a nice, relaxing day.

This morning I was starting to look at our cameras in preparation for the Trek.  The stake asked if we’d video it.  I have this picture in my head to have a time-lapse event where the sun rises on the camp and everything going on.  Turns out the Rebel doesn’t have that functionality out of the box, and I’d need to purchase a separate device to tell the camera to take the pictures.  Soon after I came across a great article at Instructables.  It shows you how to program a Texas Instruments graphing calculator into an Intervalometer.  I found Amanda’s calculator, and programmed it. Here’s the outcome..

Now I just need to make a male 2.5m cable longer than the one that came with my TI Link Cable.

Here’s the original posting from Instructables

UPDATE:  Here is the program for the TI83+

* [STO->] = STO key above the On/Off button.

Disp “START DELAY IN”
Disp” SECONDS”
Prompt A
A*333.3333 [STO->] W
Disp “HOW OFTEN IN”
Disp “SECONDS”
Prompt B
B*333.3333 [STO->] X
Disp “HOW MANY SHOTS”
Prompt Y
For(H,1,W,1)
End
Send(A)
Y-1 [STO->] Y
While Y>0
Y-1 [STO->] Y
For(H,1,X,1)
End
Send(A)
End