Gas prices are headed to ten dollars a gallon, according to one paper. We could mitigate that by increasing domestic production with oil shale, but those damn greenies won\u2019t let us. And in the meantime, we\u2019re burning through our food supply to make ethanol, driving up both gas and food prices and doing absolutely nothing to help the environment. It\u2019s more than an outrage. It\u2019s criminal, and it needs to stop.
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I can now make it through an entire twenty-five minute personal training workout without collapsing. I talked to a woman at church yesterday, and she refuses to go back to a personal trainer because she ends up despising the trainer, no matter how nice they are. I can sympathize with her, although my trainer seems to be a pretty decent guy. But every time he says \u201cfaster\u201d or \u201ccome on, work it!\u201d I want to throw my barbell at him, and I would if I had sufficient upper body strength. Which I don\u2019t.
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I have a lot to do. And the more I have to do, the less inclined I am to do it. I go through sudden spasms of productivity amid long periods of procrastination. That\u2019s why I don\u2019t think I would make a very good farmer.
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If you\u2019re a Mormon, teaching Gospel Doctrine is the best church calling you can have. The worst, I would think, is Scoutmaster.
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I work in an environment where I\u2019m supposed to wear a shirt and tie, but nobody gets too broken up if I don\u2019t. I honestly don\u2019t understand why workplaces have dress codes that require Sunday clothes. I am far more productive when I dress casually. I\u2019m not talking T-shirts and sweats, but I think jeans are OK, and many people do not. I would also be happy to see casual clothing worm its way into Mormon Sunday worship, but I don\u2019t think that will happen in my lifetime. Except when I lived in West Yellowstone, Montana, a guy in the bishopric wore jeans, cowboy boots, and a bolo tie on the stand. I was OK with that. I wish more people were.
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Had dinner with my father yesterday, and he reported favorably on attending an LDS fireside with Gladys Knight and her touring choir. They\u2019re apparently very good and very gospel, which is virtually unheard of in the Church. I really don\u2019t get why that style of music is considered by many old timers to be irreverent. A hot, rocking gospel choir is far more uplifting than a lot of the staid, ultraconservative dreck that\u2019s foisted on LDS congregations. And yes, MoTab, I\u2019m looking in your direction.
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The Jazz are winning, up 3 to 1. Suddenly I\u2019m a fan again. And I\u2019ll abandon them as soon as they break my heart. I\u2019ve always loathed professional sports, but the Jazz won me over in the Karl Malone\/John Stockton days. My cousin once pointed out that the Jazz are the only thing that truly unites all Utahns, both Mormons and non-Mormons alike. There\u2019s a lot to be said for that.
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Reviewing the election, I can\u2019t think of a single Republican I\u2019m excited about voting for. That should be terrifying to the GOP. If they\u2019ve lost me, they\u2019ve lost everybody.
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I\u2019ve been reviewing some old videos of my acting days, and I find myself woefully depressed by them. I can jump right back into the mindset I had while I was performing, and I can see why I\u2019m not an actor anymore. I was always straining; I overthought everything, and I was never able to relax and just do it. I was also quite strange looking, and I don\u2019t understand how anyone would put me up on a stage and look at me for two hours. Unless they dig circus freaks.
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I prefer button-up shirts to golf shirts. And I prefer long sleeves, unless it\u2019s just too dang hot.
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I want to see Ben Stein\u2019s Intelligent Design movie, especially since critics have excoriated it. I\u2019m looking forward to all the big genre movies coming out this summer \u2013 Indiana Jones, Prince Caspian, Batman, Iron Man, and the Incredible Hulk \u2013 but not much else. I think the Hulk is the most likely to suck, because the Hulk looks too CGI. The only CGI character who has ever worked on screen is Gollum from the Lord of the Rings<\/span> movies. Speaking of the Lord of the Rings<\/span> movies \u2013 which I absolutely love \u2013 I can\u2019t seem to get excited about the upcoming Hobbit adaptation. I\u2019ve read The Hobbit<\/span>, and, frankly, it\u2019s not that good. And I\u2019m fully dreading the \u201csecond\u201d Hobbit film, which will supposedly bridge the time frame between The Hobbit<\/span> and LOTR<\/span>. It\u2019s a sequel\/prequel. And it will blow. My brother-in-law and his wife are thinking about naming their upcoming baby \u201cSolomon.\u201d But if you did that, how would you keep from calling him \u201cSolomon Grundy\u201d in a Challenge of the SuperFriends<\/span> voice all the time? Solomon Grundy done with this blog now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gasprices are headed to ten dollars a gallon, according to one paper. We could mitigate that by increasing domestic production with oil shale, but those damn greenies won\u2019t let us. And in the meantime, we\u2019re burning through our food supply to make ethanol, driving up both gas and food prices and doing absolutely nothing to ... Read more<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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