Thoughts 'n Random Shiz

1. Shiz is actually a character in the Book of Mormon. He was the 2nd-to-last descendant of a huge civilization that came to North America shortly after the fall of the Tower of Babel.
2. We started substituting the word "shiz" for a similarly spelled swear word in high school. You know...in the same vein as "Fetch" or "Son-of-a-Biscuit-Eater".
3. I am hiking to Duck Lake soon for our annual trip and find myself daydreaming about it often.
4. My sister Melissa fixed my backpack, which I tore a couple months ago while working out.
5. It was filled with 50 pounds of food storage and I picked it up incorrectly.
6. RIIIIIIP......Oops.
7. I'm not real happy about the backpack ripping, since this thing cost a lot o' moola and should easily handle 75 pounds of elk flesh.
8. I need to go buy my elk tag soon. If they run out, I am hosed.
9. I went to Cabela's yesterday. First time in a long while.
10. Bought a new sleeping pad. 2 1/2 inches thick and 76 inches long. Dee-lish.
11. I could live at Cabela's.
12. Seriously.
12.1. I am not kidding.
13. I plan on living on mostly trout while at Duck Lake.
14. I am taking plenty of tin foil and lemon pepper. And butter.
15. MMMMMMM
16. Someone told me that there were still a lot of bugs in the Uinta Mountains of Utah, as of last weekend.
17. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
18. Mosquitoes were invented by the devil.
19. No, seriously. God said, "Hey, Lucifer, wanna do a little creating?" "Sure!", he said. And voila, mosquito.
20. Two of the four weeks I am given for vacation will have been used in the summer months this year, yet it feels like I have not done enough camping.
21. The elk hunt will make up for that.
22. I still love my job as much as I did the first day. Maybe more.
23. My co-worker just had a deviated septum fixed and a bunch of nasal polyps removed. Not here at work.....in the hospital. Yowchie.
24. I have been busier than a one-legged man in a butt-kicking contest lately and writing this blog entry is seriously cutting into my work.
25. I ran the boys at church through a shooting competition in June.
26. I beat them all.
27. I eat a fresh fruit smoothie made by my own hands each morning. And two pieces of wheat toast.
28. I've been eating extremely healthy for a couple months now and weigh around 184.
29. My weight has fluctuated between 180 and 190 since shortly after I was married.
30. Regardless of how I eat.
31. I think my metabolism is ROCK solid.
32. I *LOVE* Smashburger.
33. More than 5 Guys and WAY more than In-N-Out.
34. I haven't had a burger in several weeks.
35. I didn't bring any lunch to work today.
36. 'Cuz the stuff in the freezer at home didn't look very appealing.
37. Coke Zero Vanilla is my new beverage of the Gods.
38. I still enjoy a good Pepsi Max now and again.
39. But Coke Zero rocketh the proverbial cazbah.
40. I think I might sleep on my new sleeping pad for the next several days so that I am accustomed to it for Duck Lake.
41. Yeah....maybe not.
42. I have not been sleeping well lately.
43. I wake up every morning around 3:30 AM.
44. I had a Red Bull once. I burped a flowery taste in my mouth all day.
45. Bryce just registered for high school today.
46. These posts are just random enough that it might seem like I have been downing Red Bulls by the dozen.
47. I like trout.
48. Fishing is fun.
49. Elk meat is delicious and so very good for you.
50. My wife is a smokin' hottie.
51. I had to look up the word "vein" in the dictionary because I wasn't sure if I should use "vain", "vane", or "vein" in item #2.
52. I am still not sure.
53. I am a pretty good speller.
54. My son's teacher read a hand-written note from me once and was amazed that the writing could have come from a man.
55. She even called in other teachers to show them my penmanship.
56. Someone will inevitably find a spelling or grammatical error on this blog and point it out to me.
57. My sister Michelle dropped off two cases of Powerade at my house last week.
58. She's pretty charitable that way.
59. Sean and Kristi are the same way.
60. Such loving siblings.
61. I cannot type today.
62. Must be a syndrome of Friday.
63. I was asked to be a substitute for a High Councilman in my stake for a disciplinary council.
64. Turned out they didn't need me at the last minute.
65. Big *whew*
66. I haven't taken an allergy pill since June.
67. I have a meeting in 5 minutes and will not likely type another 33 items in this blog before that time.
68. I have major work to do today and should stop soon.
69. I would like to purchase a Spot locator for hiking in the back country.
70. They are expensive-ish. $100, give or take.
71. I am singing in my ward on August 21. It'll be a solo in sacrament meeting. My solo will serve as the closing hymn.
72. It's a lesser-known hymn that is played at the end of the movie 17 Miracles.
73. I am spending less and less time on Facebook.
74. It really doesn't fill any sort of "need" in my life.
75. 75's a good number to stop at.