Thank you to all who have participated in the voting process for my brother Brandon, thus far. I’ve got a good feeling about all this, and am hoping for the best.
As a reminder we’ve only got about one week remaining to vote. They will close the polls on March 2.
Please continue to vote, daily; and let others know about the competition. Thank you all for your help.
For more information about the competition, CLICK HERE.
Got my motorcycle out of the garage and started it up. I was grinning from ear to ear. I just had to ride. Grabbed my bobsledding helmet (figured it’s good luck, now) and went out for a couple hours.
Not much more to share about it other than I’m way excited for Spring. I might just take a ride to St. George.
I’m always amused by the number of random notes I receive on Facebook that say something like, and I quote, “…just thought you would like to know that my generation still appreciates your music!”
Thanks! I don’t perform. I think you’ve got me confused with some other guy — maybe, Donny?
Last November, my brother Brandon signed up for the Mormon Times Showcase Competition; singers/song writers share their music, and the Web surfers get to vote. During the first leg of the competition, Brandon was chosen as one of the top four semi-finalists out of more than 30 contestants. Now begins the semi-finals round. The last three months, 12 people have been chosen for this round. We need your help to get him to the finals. This is round will be a lot shorter than the previous voting: Feb 16 through Mar 2. That only gives us 2 weeks! So, let’s get the word out and see if we can get Brandon into the final round. …and thank you all, in advance, for your willingness to help my brother reach his goal. I think this is probably the first time he’s really put himself out there, and shared his music with the world. I love ya, Bro! Go get ‘em!!!
Ok, here’s what you’ve gotta do…
If you don’t all ready have an account with Mormon Times, you’ll need to get one set up. CLICK HERE! (Don’t worry. You don’t need to be a Mormon to sign up, and they will not send missionaries to your home. Everyone I’ve talked to has said they have never received any unsolicited information or spam from the Web site — I was worried about that, too!)
After you’ve signed up and logged in, go to this link — CLICK HERE!
Everyone gets one vote per day, so make sure you go back as often as you remember and vote for him. I’ll be including little reminders at the bottom of my posts as well. (…and if I forget, I’m sure someone will remind me.)
Remember! We’ve only got 2 weeks, so let’s try to get this out to as many people as we possibly can.
For those of you following my on Twitter, you know are aware that we crashed the bobsled yesterday during World Cup. First, and foremost, we are all ok despite the cuts, bruises and burns. (Nothing that can’t heal in about a week.)
Anyway, this was our first crash as a team; and I’ve gotta give a lot of credit to Jeremy. He did an exceptional job; it could have been worse. The elements that lead to the crash created a recipe for the perfect storm, if you will. The weeks preceding World Cup were spent fine tuning the sled and polishing the runners. Polished runners = Speed! The track was also in pristine condition. The track crew had spent days getting the ice ready and making sure every turn was flawless. Add in the fact that we gave Jeremy our fastest push start ever — 5.2 sec. Put all of those together; you’re going to go fast.
The first 10 of 15 turns were amazing. Jeremy had a perfect entry and exit in every turn. In fact, turn 6 was so nice that we really felt the G’s pushing on us. Everything was awesome! Though no one saw, I was grinning from ear to ear. I just knew we were going to have our fastest time ever.
It wasn’t until turn 11 when I notice Jeremy’s shoulders leaning into the turn a lot harder than ever before. As we exited the turn, the strangest sensation came over me. “We’re going to flip over.” We were on 2 runners by this point and as we entered turn 12, the sled came to rest on its side. It wasn’t a crash or a bang; it was as if it was gently laid on it’s left side. From then on out, we were on our side through turns 12 – 15. We obviously didn’t have enough momentum to finish the track, so we slid back and forth between turns 14 and 15 until the sled came to rest at the low point of the track.
It wasn’t until we all got out that we noticed Brad was missing. Apparently, he kicked out of the sled in turn 13 when he couldn’t find his handles to hold himself in the sled. He was getting badly burned on his shoulder and decided it would be better to kick out. I think he got the brunt of the track with his back burned and cuts on his elbows and ankle. Jeremy hurt his knee pretty bad. I bruised my hand, my knee and got a light burn on my left shoulder. Dan seemed to walk away with not much at all.
During the crash Jeremy was able to get deep into the front of the sled, and with Brad out of the back, Dan was able to duck below the sides of the sled. Unfortunately, my head was sticking out and I was riding the side wall from time to time. The whole time I was thinking, “Oh man! I love this helmet. Now it’s all ruined!” I know, I know; how stupid is that? I’m doing 83 mph on my head, and I’m worried that my helmet is getting ruined.
So, the damage to the sled. Well here I’ll show you. A picture is worth a thousand words, right?
So call me crazy, but I think this crash brought us closer together as a team than before. It’s not going to stop us from sliding — well, at least until we can get the sled fixed.
By the way, we called our friend who was recording times on the track to find out how fast we were going, since those sleds are not equipped with speedometers. 83 mph! I think that’s the fastest we’ve ever gone before. I’m sure we would have beat our fastest time.
Just to give you an idea of what it looked like… No, this is not us. We’re still looking for video of it.
I was listening to the radio this morning, and the radio personalities were discussing Valentine’s Day; is the holiday a mutual celebration between both women and men, or is it solely based on the needs/wants of the woman? (I can all ready sense we are going to get a lot of discussion out of this topic.)
From where I sit, it seems to be a holiday for the ladies. But that’s just my male perspective. Logically, a man would want to do something nice for the woman in his life. Couple that with the fact that the holiday centers around the cutesiness of couples, flowers, chocolates, a romantic candle-lit evening… makes sense, doesn’t it?
So… we are going to have a poll.
…and as always, I welcome conversation on the blog.
(If your single… I want your thoughts too! It’s also Single’s Awareness Day.)
Can someone please explain to me this obsession about the “25 Random Things” on Facebook?
I really don’t get it.
My friends have been clamoring me about writing my 25 random things, so here you go:
1. There’s a blue bird on my shoulder 2. If you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar. 3. Cats sleep 16 to 18 hours a day 4. Karoke means “empty orchestra” in Japanese. 5. Elephants are the only mammals that can’t jump. 6. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV. 7. The Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover Cleveland’s baby daughter, Ruth. 8. On average, there are 178 sesame seeds on each McDonalds BigMac bun. 9. A car that shifts manually gets 2 miles more per gallon of gas than a car with automatic shift. 10. The word “nerd” was first coined by Dr. Seuss in “If I Ran the Zoo.” 11. The Hubble Space Telescope weighs 12 tons (10,896 kilograms), is 43 feet (13.1 meters) long, and cost $2.1 billion to originally build. 12. “Go,” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. 13. In the latter part of the 18th century, Prussian surgeons treated stutterers by snipping off portions of their tongues. 14. The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year. 15. It’s physically impossible for you to lick your elbow. 16. There is a law on the books of Detroit, Michigan that states “Alligators may not be tied to fire hydrants.” 17. In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere. 18. The collecting of beer mats (coasters) is called tegestology. 19. Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise. 20. A tortoise can live up to 140 years old. 21. The tentacles of the giant Arctic jellyfish can reach 120 feet (36.6 meters) in length. 22. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. 23. Human jaw muscles can generate a force of 200 pounds (90.8 kilograms) on the molars. 24. A snail can sleep for three years. 25. Humans blink over 10,000,000 times a year!
