Tagged A-Z

A - ATTACHED OR SINGLE: Single and looking (jk not really)
B - BEST FRIEND: BFF's are overrated. It's just me and my pals
C - CAKE OR PIE: Pie (strawberry pie preferred)
D - DAY OF CHOICE: Friday
E - ESSENTIAL ITEM: Wallet/money. It's a good thing to have.
F - FAVORITE COLOR: Blue. dark or light
G - GREATEST ACCOMPLISHMENT: This is more of a blessing than an accomplishment but surviving a skull fracture when I was 2. Everything else I've done is because of that.
H - HOMETOWN: Farmington, Utah
I - INDULGENCES: Tennis, Snowboarding, BYU Cougars, music, Seinfeld and the Office
J - JANUARY OR JULY: January (I'd take the cold over the heat any day)
K - KIDS: zero
L - LIFE IS INCOMPLETE WITHOUT: BYU and good food
M - MARRIAGE DATE: none
N - NUMBER OF SIBLINGS: 3 younger bro's. (Nick, 14; Josh, 10; Zach, 4) I'm basically the king at my house
O - ORANGES OR APPLES: Apples
P - PHOBIAS OR FEARS: If I was to get attacked in the dark or if i got my finger cut off
Q - QUOTES: Best one on the top of my head "That was totally wicked!" I can't really think of another one right now
R - REASON TO SMILE: Idiotic people
S - SEASON: Fall
T - TAG SOME FRIENDS: anyone who hasn't and wants to
U - UNKNOWN FACT ABOUT ME: I wish I was black
V - VERY FAVORITE STORE: I'm not much of a shopper so I don't really care. DI, I guess.
W - WORST HABIT: LOSING MY STUFF! I can't emphasize that any more. It can truly be a nightmare sometimes
X - WENDY'S OR MCDONALD'S(sorry, not much goes with x's): Carl's Jr. could beat them both combined
Y - YOUR FAVORITE FOOD: Chinese, 6 dollar burgers, banana splits, and smoothies
Z - ZODIAC: Scorpio

Yep. There you have it. So since I'm excited for BYU football, I need to put a little blue in a post before the season. Here's some pretty cool facts about BYU and some of the players. By the way I got these from this site.

BYU has won 70% of its games since 1972. Based on a 13-game schedule, that's a solid 9 wins per season.

BYU Football has produced 4 of the 10 largest ESPN audiences in the program's history. I've heard this stat before, but it's still amazing.

Travis Bright benched 540 freaking pounds.

Di Luigi rushed for 2,159 yards as a senior in high school. His high school mascot was the Cougar.

Ray Feinga had over 70 knock-down blocks last season. Come for breakfast, because he makes pancakes.

For a white guy, Kellen Fowler has wheels. He runs a 4.47 second 40.

Spencer Hafoka averaged 24.6 yards per reception his senior season of high school. If you ain't haulin' in a long bomb, it ain't worth catchin'.

Justin Sorensen kicked a 62-yarder in high school. His once killed a man with his big toe.

Why I like Michael Phelps

So I was just browsing the web on what I could say about America's favorite Olympian. Obviously I could have said that he's considered one of the greatest athletes of all time. But that would've been a very short post and wouldn't serve this amazing swimmer justice. Then I read this. It's a post about Michael Phelps on someone's blog I found. I couldn't have said it better myself. So I am basically dedicating my post to this guy's post and pretty much his entire blog. I am seriously considering putting this random guy's blog on my blog list. Just from what I read, (Olympics, and everything else is BYU) it looks like a awesome blog. Anyways, I just wanted to dedicate a post to Michael Phelps and the random guy's blog. There you have it.

Crazy Life at the House

So first of all, after thinking about my lifeguarding rant, I decided that I could start a another whole lifeguarding rant. I was looking through the comments and I thought of a ton of other things I could say. I almost could have written a book with all the ideas that were poping up in my head. But I decided not to. Summer's almost over. Why complain? Just another two weeks and lifeguarding will be over.

So anyway, there has been a lot of crazy things going on at my house. These are just a couple.

So this is a picture of what used to be my pool. It is now a tangled ball. I wasn't there when the wind blew it over but it must been exciting to watch that thing blow over.

I don't know if you can tell what this is. If you didn't know, that is the bumper to the entire back of my dad's Toyota Camry. I wasn't there for this either but I guess he wasn't looking when he backed up his car and hit our broken down junk car which doesn't matter anyways. The saddest part is that with only one car to use, I have to ride my bike to work for the rest of summer. I'm not going to lie. Life's rough.

Lifeguarding Rant

As most of you know, I lifeguard. And as a lifeguard I see that some people totally get the wrong idea about us. If I even think to blow my whistle at someone once, I am hated, called a jerk, and told that I am a mean ol' lifeguard that isn't letting anyone have any fun. So I decided to post this so you guys know not to make the same mistake as these clueless idiots.

First of all, the thing that you must know is that the uttermost goal of a lifeguard is to get as least chair time as possible. While on the chair, we constantly watch swimmers and to make things worse, we're not allowed to talk to anyone while on the chair, except for, of course, patrons of the pool that break a rule. As you can see, sitting on the chair is boring. I would rather be on break changing the garbage than sitting on the chair. I'm not saying that sitting on the chair is torture. I'm just saying that I would prefer other things.

Now, there are indeed some things that can eliminate chair time. If there are less people in the pool, we can lower the number of guards on chairs from 3 to 2 or from 2 to 1 or even from 1 to 0. Now there aren't a lot of things that we can do about the number of people swimming. But there are a couple of things. First of all, if there is lightning, the pool closes. Keeping a watchful eye on lightning is something that we do all the time. Now if someone continually breaks the rules, we are allowed to kick them out. Yes, that can be a pretty harsh thing. But if you want to break the rules, that's your fault. Kicking people out of the pool adds excitement to our day. It's fun. It lowers the number of people in the pool. We don't want to kick you out, but if you want to mess with us, you will get kicked out.

So that's just a little perspective for you. Now about whistling at people. First of all, I find it annoying that some people think that getting the whistle blown at them means that we are mad. No, that is not true. In fact, we don't even like to blow the whistles ourself. It's all about safety and eliminating any risk of an accident so that we don't have to worry about saving you or worse, send someone to the hospital. Not only that but if our manager saw somebody breaking the rules and we neglected to whistle at them, we would get in trouble.

So that ends my long rant. Just remember next time you're at a pool: don't be annoying, don't break the rules, and if you're getting sick of swimming feel free to leave. Don't make us watch you if you don't want to swim. Thank you very much. Have a nice day.

Stop Sign

This is a little video clip that I thought was pretty hilarious. If you don't think so, then it's your fault for being in a bad mood, because trust me. It's hilarious.

Stop Sign Video

A New Problem Creates a New Blog

Hi it's me, Sean. It's been a long time since I've last posted and I have exceeded a month-long hibernation. Well, this time, Pointless Effort is going to have a never-ending hibernation because for some reason it won't let me log in. After trying to log in 10 times I give up. I no longer have the will to continue fighting this stupid computer. So goodbye Pointless Effort. I hope you're happy spending the rest of your life in the cold, living all alone as you eat up dust until you suffocate to death.

Well now I got that over with. Welcome to my new blog.