The Pelican People or The OGs

People of Walmart

2009-10-14T16:56:00.000-06:00

Check it out. www.peopleofwalmart.com

Suncoast Seabird Sanctuary and a trip down memory lane.

2009-02-10T14:14:00.003-07:00

Today, I was reviewing a file for a condo located in Indian Shores FL. Low and behold the condo was very close to the Seabird Sanctuary. Wats, Duncan and I all got to do service here. I remember the crazy employee who used to smoke cigarettes with the filters torn off, shoveling soiled sand, feeding baby birds and walking the beach looking for certain washed up fish to feed the birds. I can still see Duncan trying to work and fend off all those crazy gulls with his shovel. Those were some great times. Man I miss the beach and ocean air.

www.seabirdsanctuary.com

For Sale: Michigan - Make your best offer

2008-12-10T13:11:00.006-07:00

It's time to act. I suggest the United States of America sell the state of Michigan to Canada. The price can be discounted, alot. It is well worth whatever the price considering the loss the USA continues to have with having Michigan in our Union. Let Canada, bail out the Auto Makers, supply health care to the unemployed, create a new local government and police the crime and drug problem. The location is perfect, housing is affordable and we'll even let you keep the sport franchises and military bases. Everything that once made Michigan grand is now old and busted. It is time to sell and move on.

Local Politicion & Nut Case; Super Dell

2008-10-22T08:22:00.005-06:00

If you ever lived in Utah you've heard of the now defunct Totally Awesome Computers and the ego-centric owner, self titled Super Dell. Dell has decided he should be Utah's next Governor.

Take a visit to his web page: http://dellschanze.blogspot.com/

"If you don’t vote for SUPER DELL you WILL suffer the wrath of GOD and the consequences of your own ignorance and stupidity."

"God told me personally that if we end abortion we will be able to discover and use the unlimited supply of oil right here in Utah."

"Who am I? Who exactly is SUPERDELL? I am a child of God and am ordained to be a king and priest unto the most high God dependant on my living worthily in this life and fulfilling the covenants I’ve made with God."

"I am Utah's ONLY hope as I am the only SUPER on the ballot for governor this fall. Now get your butt out and fight to get me elected like your life depends on it. Because it DOES!!!"

Bungie.net Group Created

2008-06-17T18:38:00.002-06:00

I created a group on Bungie.net called The Pelican People. Feel free to join even if you don't have an x-box account. It's free to join.

Go to: www.bungie.net, sign up now, then click on groups in the top right corner. Search for The Pelican People from Orlando FL.

10 Year Reunion

2008-05-19T12:56:00.002-06:00

Attention: All Florida Orlando Returned Missionaries—1998-2008.
(The Mission was organized 10 years ago, 1 July 1998)

The Mission Presidents: President King (1998-2001), President White (2001-2004), President Farnsworth (2004-2007) Are joining together to commemorate the 10th year anniversary.

When: Saturday, July 26th 2008. Park reserved from 10am to 2pm.

Where: Salt Lake City-Sugar House Park. 1300 East & 2100 South.
East on 2100 So. Right @ ‘Sugar House Park,’ or Right at 1500 E.
(down to left) @ North West Terrace.

What: socializing, mingling, friendships.
Lunch—begins at 11:30, each bringing your own. Drinks will be provided.

Please spread the word to others you know and have them do likewise.

Rsvp—would be helpful to know how many may attend.

Pres. King (Paul & MarJean)– 801-756-5601
Pres. White (Wesley & Kay) -801-773-2413
Pres. Farnsworth (Kent & Ann) -801- 521-1814

Ameteur Philospher

2008-01-02T14:21:00.000-07:00

A piece by Jack Vettriano called "Amateur Philosopher." A subtle reminder of our days in Florida.

The joys of raising kids...

2007-10-03T07:32:00.000-06:00

Early this morning Lauren is making all sorts of grunting, short breath noises. I'm thinking she's congested and getting another cold. Just as I'm about to get out of bed to pick her up, she releases a few loud and long farts generally associated with large men. Shortly after, Lauren is back sound asleep, I tell Janessa she needs a diaper change and I go back to sleep.

Hard at Work

2007-08-24T14:03:00.000-06:00

Where's Watkins??

2006-12-21T19:51:00.000-07:00

It feels like forever since I've heard from Wats. Has anyone heard from him? His second daughter was due around October/November. Maybe he went out on a dig in some third world country or is standing in line trying to get a Nintendo Wii. Wats, if you see this, give us a shout out.

Marriage. Marriage is what brings us together here today

2006-09-29T19:39:00.000-06:00

Wags got married yesterday, leaving Rum as the last single OG. I'm actually impressed any of us were able to find girls who willing to put up with us, let alone marry us. I ran into a long time family friend a few months ago, whom I hadn't seen for 10 years or so. He offered some sound marital advice, "Happy Wife, Happy Life." How true it is.

Armed and Dangerous

2006-02-05T09:43:00.000-07:00

After many trips to the local stores and websites, and one lame gun show, I'm officially a gun owner. My weapons of choice are a 9mm Beretta 92 FS Vertec pistol and a Benelli Nova 12g shotgun. I purchased the shotgun from through the KSL.com classifieds, it's original owner is a Woods Cross Police officer who never shot it. The pistol was purchased at the Ogden Impact Guns because the "professionals" at Cabella's, Sportman's and SLC Impact wouldn't work with me. Sometime down the road I hope to acquire another pistol and maybe a rifle. Now if I can only find the time shoot them.

How Sweet it would be...

2005-10-27T09:55:00.000-06:00

A new pool of loans came over today, that pool included a loan for the Shaq Daddy himself for his Windermere FL crib overlooking Lake Butler. He's decided to refinance with cashout. The house has been shown on MTV cribs a few times, but going through his appraisal confirmed he has way to much money.

Take his garage for instance, "Main garage can accomodate up to 16 cars, including a private, mirror enclosed display bay. Show garage can accomodate up to 6 cars and includes disco lighting, smoke inducer and a disc jokey table." They Gym aka Shaq Center, is my favorite. Huge Superman S emblem at center court, Laker Purple and 2 NBA basketball standars. It's nicer than most small colleges.

The appraisal values the place at $10,500,000. Built in 1990 13 bedrooms 19 Bathrooms, Gym, 30,000 sq ft on 1.83 acres. Here's his address 9927 Giffin Court Windemere FL 34786.

Jumaine Dupri & Jay-Z said it best, "money aint' a thing"

http://www.mtv.com/onair/cribs/episode_archive/index_6.jhtml Photos of the house

Reunion Fun

2005-10-27T09:52:00.000-06:00

Back to School

2005-08-25T13:10:00.000-06:00

Just wanted to let everyone know that I am back in Rexburg for my 4th year of school. Sadly I am on the 5 year plan so I'm not quite done. Anyway, it is nice to be back in the loop. Hope things are going well for you all.

Detroit Rules

2005-07-19T07:58:00.000-06:00

Last week I visited the great state of Michigan and a few of it's more classier cities. I drove through Flint and thought of that Michael Moore movie, Roger & Me. Heading South I found myself on 8 Mile road and as luck would have it, saw the area where Slim Shady himself grew up. The icing on the cake was the ghetto of Detroit. I met a contractor of ours there who explained to me Detroit Rules. They are simple guidlines to follow when in the ghetto's of Detroit. 1. Never go in alone an after dark. 2. Never make eye contact. 3. Run all stop signs and street lights. and 4. GET THE F*@!$ away as fast as possible. I put Detroit Rules into effect after I got lost and noticed I was the only White Guy surrounded by a bunch of burned out homes and some dudes watching me from every side of the street. Hanging out in the airport I saw Rasheed Wallace from the Pistons. I wondered if he followed Detroit Rules.

Matt Harper's Thesis

2005-06-23T19:33:00.000-06:00

In what may be the ultimate irony of my mission experience, it looks like I'm going to be relying heavily on the thesis of Uber-prick Matt Harper to justify my thesis.

Strange days boys... strange days indeed.

Married?....Yes, Married

2005-06-02T15:24:00.000-06:00

My engagement to Janessa Wright is official. I proposed on the beach in Boca Raton Florida Sunday night. Our wedding will be on Thursday September 8th in the Salt Lake Temple. We've known each other almost 3 years and dated for almost a year. We plan to live in my condo for a while.

They thought I was offended

2005-05-02T17:05:00.000-06:00

I got released from my calling yesterday. I had been leading the Elder's Quorum for awhile now, and the stake decided to combine our two quorums into one, leaving me happily released. Janalyn is home sick, so I've got Maya in priesthood meeting. The Stake Pres. gets up and starts talking about how this is going to be a really good thing and yada yada yada. Maya's playing with a book on my lap and I'm mostly paying attention. She starts squirming so I put her down to play on the floor. By now they've released me and are calling the new president, who is none other than the president of the other quorum.

Immediately after he's sustained, Maya stumbles and hits her head on the wall and starts screaming bloody murder. Not wanting to interrupt the setting apart, I take her out of the room to calm down in the hall. She's still a little mad, so I just keep her in the hall for the rest of the meeting.

As the rest of the guys get out of priesthood, I start heading back in to get my scriptures and stuff that I left. Who should I meet coming out of the room but the entire stake presidency, who take me aside and start telling me what a good job I did and yada yada yada. It finally comes out that they thought I had been offended because they had retained president of the other quorum and released me! Meanwhile my kid had hit her head and I was merely rushing her out as to not disrupt the meeting. In reality I'm feeling bad for the poor sucker who now has a quorum of 80 people to deal with!

If it had been Florida, I'd have probably never gone back to church.

You're fat

2005-04-07T10:12:00.000-06:00

Well, I'm getting old I guess. My wife's family has a big Easter celebration in Spanish Fork every year. It's a pretty enjoyable time with a good dinner and a big Easter egg hunt for the kids. Anyway, I was talking to one of Janalyn's 5 year old cousins and I asked him,

"Hey Benjamin, are you in school yet?"

His response?

"Yeah, I like it a lot."

Later I asked Janalyn's aunt, this kids mom, how it was to have all of her kids in school now.

She says, "Well, Benjamin is still at home."

What the H? This little kid had lied to me over something stupid. I went over to him and said,

"Hey Ben, why did you tell me you were in school when you really weren't?"

So the kid just kind of looks at me for like 30 seconds with this really strange look on his face.

He finally says, "You're fat."

That was it. No explanation, no other response. I of course started laughing hysterically. Everyone else of course wanted to know what was so funny so Ben starts yelling,

"He's Fat! Chris is Fat!"

Looks like I need to hit the weights or something.

OG's return to Florida

2005-04-06T22:05:00.000-06:00

My family just returned from a trip to Florida. Hearing their stories reminded me of the trip Dan, Jared, JJ, and I made a few years back. That was one of the greatest trips ever. The only thing that could have made it better is if all the OG's had been able to go. I can still remember riding Dueling Dragons, Zuma Beach, and Dan and I rolling through Ebor like it was yesterday.
Good Times!

2005-04-06T19:00:00.000-06:00

The Curse of Cedar City

2005-04-06T12:59:00.000-06:00

This entry is a reminder to Rum and Wats of our attempted Vegas vacation and a warning to those who dare venture through Cedar City.

For those who didn't know, Rum, Chris and I decided on a weekend in Vegas during one winter season. Driving down in Rum's Eclipse we encountered numerous snow storms and snow covered roads. Car's were off the road all over the place, but the Eclipse continued on. After passing the main Cedar City exit, an attempt was made to pass a semi. All I can remember is hearing "oooohh Sh!$", a few spins and hits on the guard rails and coming to a stop on the shoulder facing oncoming traffic. The car was filled with smoke from the air bags and I was thinking, "If Wat's is hurt, I'm screwed, I'm trapped in the back seat." The Vegas trip was ruined and so was the Eclipse.

Each time I pass through the area of incident I remember the words from the cop at the scene, "You know about 5 more miles and you would've dropped out of the snow and had clear roads all the way to Vegas." Last weekend I was coming home from St. George. When I came upon the same area in Cedar City. 2 cars were off the road on the median and shoulder.

The curse had struck again.

How to start a new topic

2005-04-06T10:35:00.000-06:00

I posted this in a comment, but I'll post it here too. The only thing that stinks about this format is that in order to start a new topic, you need to log into www.blogger.com and click the "Posting" tab and then the "Create" sub-tab. When finished click the "Publish Post" button at the bottom.

Happy blogging.

OGs Unite

2005-04-05T15:34:00.000-06:00

This could be cool or this could be lamer than Allred and Haught.

When I read Rumel's update to the mission website today

http://www.mission.net/florida/orlando/alumnilist.php?uID=64135

I thought "you know, I haven't seen the boys in awhile and now that I'm taking off I'll lose touch with them unless we do something."

I don't really want to be that guy. Let's give it a go...

Chris