Mike Hall: For Sale

My good friend Brenda recently posted this entry. I thought it might be fun so here is my quite results. Take a glander.

Five things I was doing 5 years ago:
1. Finishing my Junior year at Pleasant Grove High School
2. Working at Jiffy Lube in American Fork, Utah
3. Driving a beautiful green 1998 Ford Taurus
4. Living at my parent’s house
5. Snowboarding multiple times a week

Five things on my “To-do” List:
1. Save money
2. Finish my homework
3. Finish designing my website
4. Find a good excuse for not working today
5. Find a good birthday present for Nikki

Five favorite snacks:
1. Boston Baked Beans
2. Roasted Almonds
3. Dark Chocolate
4. Smart Food White Cheddar Popcorn
5. SoBe Cranberry Grapefruit Elixir

Five things I would do if I were a Millionaire:
1. Get married
2. Buy a house
3. Travel
4. Drive a Range Rover Sport
5. Invest

Five places I have lived:
1. Utah
2. England
3. Illinois
4. New York
5. Connecticut

Five jobs I have had:
1. Marketing Assistant
2. Web /Telephone Sales Representative
3. Waiter
4. Lube Technician
5. Fast Food Grill Cook

Now I know the Olympics are over but I just had to get some things off my chest. I loved watching the Olympics this year; it was fun to see all of those amazing people competing for the gold, silver and bronze. While on vacation in Europe the Olympics were really the only thing on television late at night when we got home. It was fun to see the difference in how the Olympics were reported on in Europe and here in the United States. In my apartment we had the Olympics on every night and we had a lot of fun watching them together. It’s been a lot of fun and I am very proud of my country and the 110 medals that we won (36 Gold, 38 Silver and 36 Bronze) Way to go America!

Alright, now it’s time to vent… It is very fun to watch the different competitions during the Olympics. I’ve gotten to see some great sports that I don’t get to see very often. Things like Handball, Judo, Fencing, Badminton, and Table Tennis… it was very fun to watch these sports but… what about Golf? Yes! Golf! I love to golf, I live to golf. It is truly one of my favorite sports. Now I am by no means a good golfer and I will never come close to playing well but I enjoy taking pride in golf! I have many much mucho memories of golfing with family and friends and having some great times. I was bummed out when I didn’t get to see and golfing as a sport. Table Tennis and Badminton over Golf? No offense to the competitive Table Tennisers and Badmintonites but I feel that Golf is definitely at least on the same playing level as those! So I’m asking why! Why isn’t golf an Olympic sport!? I understand that Golf is already and international sport with the Ryder Cup, the Presidents Cup, even the Solheim Cup. That doesn’t even take into account the four majors and the four World Championships but still! If anything those should be reasons to have golf in the Olympics! It goes to show you how strong of a sport Golf really is! So Olympic committees where ever you are… I vote that you add Golf to official Olympic sports. I understand that you have to remove one sport in order to add another, so take something like Synchronized Swimming out. I understand that there will be a lot of unhappy synchronized swimmers out there, but think about how many more happy golfers there will be! Get to it! Go!

Now, I feel like I need to end on a happier note. I thought that China did an amazing job with this year’s Olympics. From what I saw everything went wonderfully well and it was a great success. Also on a geekier note, I watched a few of the events online at NBCOlympics.com and I have to say that they did a fantastic job with their online video. Props also have to go out to Microsoft’s Silverlight which really pulled it off without a hitch. Congrats guys!

Also, Nikki just reminded me about my anger about those darn-tootin’ ‘cheatin Chineses!’ I mean come on. Does everyone really think that they won that many medals? I think that them Chineses were cheating their brains out. We already know about some their crazy antics… take the gymnastics! and the opening ceremonies with that poor lil’ girl. I mean hey hey, thats just mean. Sure China did a good job looking good during the Olympics but they still had their dark acts like always… I’m just not happy about it.

Now many of you out there already know the news I am about to enlighten you with but I figured it was still time to tell the people that don’t know. So… about a month ago I got rid of my trusty Jeep. Yes yes, sadly that is correct. Genevieve has moved on to bigger and better things, as have I. So I now am the proud owner of a 2005 Nissan Altima. She’s black, 3.5 liter engine, mighty fast and mighty fine. I love her. So, I am happy introduce you all too ‘Miss Midnight’. She is beauty. Come on by anytime and we can go for a ride.

Nextly… I have done it. I have finally made the fateful switch. Yes indeed, I am now a die-hard Mac user. I know I know! Many of you thought it would never happen! Many of you laughed and said “Oh come now Michael, you will never switch over, it’ll be too difficult for you.” Well… not so fast mister, I have done it! Anyway, I love my Macbook Pro. I got the seventeen inch, I love it so much. I’m so very fortunate to have it. I really am also just very excited to have the right to put the following at the bottom of my Apple forum commentary! Bring it on world! Bring it on!

MacBook Pro 17″ - 2.6GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB RAM

iPod Touch - 8GB

AirPort Extreme

Also, before I forget… I am leaving on vacation this next Monday the fifth. Going to England and to Portugal for a couple weeks. Be sure to check back for some new posts! And as my father always taught me… live long, prosper, become the president.

“Yes, your father has seen The Police. Yes! It’s true! I saw them live, in person. No they weren’t dead! No! They were amazing! Too bad you couldn’t have lived when true music was still alive.”

Yet another year at Pleasant Grove’s Strawberry Days was… amazing! How could it be anything but amazing! It was fantasmagoric! Gotta love it. Check out the video from the rodeo and be sure to glance at the pictures. It was a great time. I’m ready for next year! I’m already craving those delicious strawberries and cream.

I’m a huge lover of Slurpees and today I bumped into SlurpeeFlavors.com, you can search for flavors, update what flavors are at your local stores and simply be a part of Slurpee lovers worldwide. Checker out!

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Well here we are, winding down (finally) on the semester! Whew! What do we have now… a week and a half to go? Yes yes! and I can’t wait for summer to come. I’m majorly excited to go to California, Disneyland here we come! We’re leaving on the 28th and it can’t come soon enough!
On another note, a few of the friends and I (and the lovely girlfriend Nikki of course) went to see Jimmy Eat World in concert last night (oh, and Paramore [be grateful Nikki, this clarification is being made just for you! Love ya!] the girl’s a big fan of them.). Over all it was a great show! Paramore was, in Nikki’s words… “Amazing!” and it’s true, they put on a really good show. But the beauty in the night… yes, Jimmy Eat World. It was fantabulous! Amazing! Scrumtrelecent! I loved it! Here are some pictures courtesy of Bailee Russell… Enjoy!

Yes yes, Adobe has yet again done something I love them for. They are giving Flex Builder 3 Professional to students for free… free you ask? Yes! Free! I know I know, I didn’t believe it either but I sent in a picture of my student ID (took it with my phone, looked like poop) and they sent me my registration key today! Amazing I know! Anyway, so all you web design buddies of mine, if you didn’t already know about this go get it. Here’s the link: http://flexregistration.com/
I’m taking a class right now on Flex, I’ve really fallen in love with it. I’m excited to play with it more and more in the upcoming weeks, months, and years! Enjoy!

Another sweet-o year at Holi (the Festival of Colors for you uneducated people). For those of you who don’t know of Holi, it surely is the highlight of my month of March. Here is Utah it takes place at the Sri Sri Radha Krishna Temple in Spanish Fork (check out their website: utahkrishnas.com). Holi as good ole Wikipedia puts it is…

“a popular Hindu spring festival, bonfires are lit at night to signify burning the demoness Holika [and] people spend the day throwing colored powder and water at each other.”

Here are some of the nifty pictures that we got while celebrating with our Krishna brethren.

You can view, download, or do whatever with any of these pictures on Picasa, Flickr or Facebook.

We were also on the news and there are a few shot of the friends and I, here are the links to the videos… Fox13, Deseret News, and The Daily Herald.
Enjoy!

Oh oh! P.S.
Check out jarviedigital.com he got some sweet pictures. If you went, take a look-see and see if you can find yourself… as for my companions, we’re in there a few times. Loads-o-fun! See you all there next year!

It has been time for me to blog about something for a while now so Voicemail is it. I’ve been loving on Voicemail for a couple of months now. In my (very serious and notable) opinion I think that Voicemail is currently the best online comedy series. So go, go and check out ABC’s Voicemail. If it doesn’t bring a smile to your face then you are a lame and boring human being (my apologies to those that are lame and boring).
Again, Voicemail is a weekly ‘online original series’ following a man named Michael through his day-to-day routine, the story is told through his voicemail messages. Check out full episodes of Voicemail at http://dynamic.abc.go.com/streaming/landing.

Below is a clip of (I believe) the first short from the first episode. Enjoy!

Oh and P.S. Thanks to my friends Brooks and Phil I have come across my current favorite YouTube video. The prize goes to Johnson Automotive…