Shelf Toilets.

For those of you that know what these are, you know the trials associated with them, for those of you that don't, stay tuned, A guest writer will be giving us the lowdown...

New Yorkers are Funny.

Ok so not all new yorkers but some. I am sitting in JFK airport in NYC and watching 4 guys that spent 5 minutes too long in the bar chew out a gate agent for not letting them on the flight. They are screaming this profanity and that. asking why they can't simply call the plane back to the gate and let them on,

Quite entertaining. It's better than the screaming baby sitting near me or the stinky foreigner I sat next to on the flight to boston. He smelled so bad the flight attendant actually allowed me to sit in the jumpseat in the galley while they served drinks. Very helpful because when you sit in the last row of a plane and the guy next to you smells like a shrimp boat, it's tough to get through it.

Overall I think what this comes down to is I thoroughly enjoy people watching, I do not like interactive people watching where it involves smell. That is not so good.

The trip to boston was great, 41,000 people at a trade show and a 10 foot by 10 foot booth that was unbelieveably popular, with 5 of us manning the booth it was clear to everyone around us we had one of the most popular products at all of green build.

Oh and for those of you who care, I have my very first full time Job since 1998. crazy I know, lots of negotiating and batting things back and forth. I started the sale of both my product lines, they have been acquired by a canadian company and they will keep the name and products as is. Pretty cool, what a whirlwind 2 weeks.
I'll have some fancy title that I will blog about I am sure, the company is based in Munich Germany and is based in the commercial and residential energy conservation product category. It will be a great new dierction for me and has virtually unlimited potential. (and no, I will not move to Germany, I will work in SLC.)

Here's where I have been in 2 weeks

SLC
Houston
LA
San Diego
Honolulu
Maui
LA
Houston
Boston
NYC
and in 4 hours I will be back to reality in SLC and see my lovely wife that I miss.

Whew. now it's only hawaii and germany in the next little while

Time Zone Competition.

This is a little competition for my friend traveling through berlin... email me if you can beat this schedule this week...

Sunday: Mountain time, central time, pacific time.

Tuesday: pacific time, Hawiian-aleutian time zone.

Thursday: Hawaiin time: pacific time, central time, mountain time.

I count changing time zones 9 times in 5 days too much, what do you think?

When I get back, I am going to take my new transportation method and head up to mt aire for some R and R.

Sporto, I found you a sitter.

not just for Sporto but for all my friends... It is the latest craze in babysitting and I think we should all try it out tonight. Implement this innovative sitter and let's go to dinner!

No more "kid" excuses, this sitter is always available and cheap! What are you waiting for? It looks simple enough, you can even integrate toys into the sitting.

City Dogs...

For those of you who didn't know, I run a school for dogs born without part of their name.
I take Bernese Dogs and teach them to be Bernese Mountain Dogs, you know, like their ancestors. Check out more photos on the Bettis 08 blog.



It's important to keep heritage and tradition alive in a culture and these dogs are no different. Teaching them to jump 12 feet down a slot canyon over and over again is more important than learning to chase a ball.



These dogs passed with flying colors and and have now reached level 1 of mountain training. I think they are still Bernese City Dogs at this point but they'll get there eventually.

Good Job Bode and Harley for keeping your cool and hanging in there. (literally at some points.)

Yep. I know him.

Wait Until you see that my friend, Chef Peterson is running for office, I never would have thought! I knew I was cool for knowing him, but now I am even cooler. you can see a photo of him in an older post, skiing at Norman's house.

Check it out

I am a winner.

For those of you who are unfamiliar, Raney and I have been having a little cat and mouse game with her "new" game of Dig-Dug. Raney received a full size 1982 arcade game for her wedding and hasn't left the house since. She finally did leave the house and I went up there and obliterated her best score on Dig-Dug. Yep, Cat, I killed it. :) (oh and I took second place and 4th place as well.)

According to your husband you will feel better to know that it took me quite a few games to do it.

You may be able to ice skate faster than me but you can't win Dig-Dug!

Good luck in your qualifier this weekend!

I don't care who you vote for.

I really don't care who you vote for, I just have a couple of suggestions.

When you go into the little polling booth, or stand in front of the computer in Utah, Don't vote for somebody because you like their glasses.

Don't vote for somebody because you think they are "hot"

Let's think about this scenario, the lady with the cool glasses and the not too shabby appearance becomes vice president. The actual guy who's running, John Mccain, God forbid, Dies. You now have a couple of firsts, the first woman US president, the First time I become Canadian, the first time the whole country steps back and says, "but she was wearing such nice shoes in the campaign, I didn't know she didn't have experience"

Now like I said, I don't care who you vote for, I actually like(d) John Mccain and what he has stood up for over the last however many years. I just want to see people vote for the person that shares their common goals (not taste) And vote for that person because they are qualified to run the country and lead us in a direction of positives rather than more downhill.

I'm sure that Sarah Palin is a great person and has done good things for Alaska and the small town where she was a Mayor. I'm sure she will deal well with social issues like special needs kids. I'm not so sure she can see Russia from her house and I don't think we know enough about her to elect her to what could ultimately be the president of the USA.

I don't want somebody to be elected to office because they are "just like me" (or you) I want somebody smarter than me, smarter than you (no offense) and experienced enough to know what decisions to make regarding the things that matter to the best country in the world.

If you read this blog you can figure out who I am voting for and that's all fine and great, I voted early already so I am locked in, you should too.

overseas help.

So I was having a little trouble with my computer over the last few days and I couldn't figure out what it was, it started out that I couldn't get in to my paypal account and transfer money into my personal account. so I called Paypal. After what seemed like 15 transfers I finally got to talk to a real live person. His name was John, but I don't think he was convinced of that. His accent was so thick I could barely understand the words "how may I help you"

I told him I couldn't understand him and he said maybe if he pedals faster. Made no sense to me at the time. Once he sent me an update email that included his picture it all became clear.

Happy Easter

I don't know why this strikes me as so entertaining, but it does.