Well, another month has almost come and gone. Still sitting reserve here in SLC, which I half expected since it is one of the more senior bases, but life is good. I keep moving up the totem pole by about 4-5 people a month. The good news is that I am high enough up on the list to get whatever reserve line I want, so though I'm still on reserve during November, I have Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays off. Not bad at all.
Pinky has been complaining to me that there is still a severe lack of furniture in this apartment. He says that while it's true that girls want guys with great skills, they also want ones that have places for them to sit when they come over. I guess my rugged good looks and boyish charm will only take me so far.
Last weekend our friends Casey and Sarah came over from St. Louis to play in the mountains with us for a few days. We went hiking to Doughnut Falls (the same place Ben and I went a few weeks ago) and saw a moose. It continually astounds me how stupid people are. This particular moose, which will be henceforth named Mortimer (Pinky's idea), was grazing in an open field near the parking lot for the trail we were going to take. There was a guy there and a college age idiot (more on that in a minute) and his girlfriend. Anyway, the college idiot seemed to be out to prove that Darwin was right and through acts of sheer idiocy remove himself from the gene pool. This guy walked to within 10 feet of this moose, which outweighed him by a good, I dunno, lets say a conservative 900 pounds. He then proceeded to use his FLASH on his camera, spooking the moose. The moose grunted, and moved forward a few feet. At this point the kid did the smartest thing he could at this point, which was to turn and back away. Alas, if the moose had decided to charge, which would have done us all a favor and prevented the idiot from spawning, the chase would have been short lived, as we soon saw when he turned around that his shoes were untied and he was smoking. Wonderful. If only the moose had decided to go his moose way home through this guy's midsection, we'd be saved from this obvious drain on society. Sorry. Not much pity from me on this topic.
On Sunday, Kelly, Casey and Ben went rock climbing. Since I still haven't developed the need to dangle above the ground on a rope, I went with the girls hiking. It was a good time to say the least. We hiked up a canyon on the south side of the city. It started to get really steep near the end. We found this really cool waterfall, much of which was ice. (It was a nice 55 degrees in the valley that day, but the mountains were a little chilly!) I wish we had run into more people cause I could have introduced Sarah, Alison and Julie to those people as my wives. Hey, we're in the land of the Mormons, why not milk it right?
This week was spent sitting on reserve and not getting called. It gave me plenty of time to run errands and the like, so that was good.
One other thing, Kelly and Julie had a Halloween Party last Friday, and I needed a costume quick, cheap and easy. With all the trash and packing material I had around the apartment from all the boxes I've had shipped to me, I duct taped them to a big black lawn bag and went to the party as white trash. Get it? It was pretty sweet. Nice play on words too. Anyway, I post more as the days go by. For a music suggestion, I'd recommend anything from the early '90s. I've been on one of those kicks lately. Also, Michael Jackson's album, Dangerous, is pretty sweet. Not gonna lie on that. Pinky's getting pretty good at the moonwalk.
