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		<title>Well Seasoned</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:50:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angry Gardner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I turned 40 this week. I am not sure what I think about that&#8230; I&#8217;m not sure if I am happy with the life that I have forged. I feel like I do very little that makes a difference in the world. Before my wife get all, well you know. I have the greatest family, and while not perfect I am a good father and provider. I have a good stable job doing things that I find interesting and rewarding about 30% of the time. All things considered things in my life are great I am truly blessed and I recognize that fact. But being who I am I want more. I want to be somewhere further ahead of where I am. At 40 I expected to be more than I am, and the only one to blame is myself. I could take more chances, but fear holds me back. I have tasted failure and am still paying the price. I could put myself out there more, but I tell myself I am not ready and people wouldn&#8217;t like me. I have a &#8220;interesting&#8221; and possibly offensive personality in real life. So I put up a wall that is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: The Cause</title>
		<link>http://www.angrygardner.com/2012/01/20/book-review-the-cause/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:42:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angry Gardner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Honesty up front:  The author is a friend and gave me a copy of his book.  Also I am not a book reviewer just some guy who wrote a review. So I actually enjoyed this book. Which I will admit surprised me; I have read books for friends before, and well to be frank I would rather scrub my eyes with sandpaper than read some of them again. It helped that I am a big fan of books/movies that make me think about what would I do in the face of impossible choices. The cause is set in a &#8220;perfect&#8221; world where one never is tired, never gets old, there is no crime, no hunger and every night is one big party. What would you do to have that? What would you give up to have that? Those are the key question that are central to the book. The hero of the book was a fleshed out character who I really enjoyed following.  His story was compelling and interesting. However, other characters were more cut-outs and fairly generic. Many thing that were critical to the plot where actual left vague and I think it was intentional. Really in life how many things [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oh My Hectic Holidays</title>
		<link>http://www.angrygardner.com/2011/12/30/oh-my-hectic-holidays/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:37:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angry Gardner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How busy has it been for you? It seems like it was just barely December 3rd and I was giving a recap of the first weekend of December. Here I am and Christmas is past and the we are coming up on the New Year. We didn&#8217;t even get our tree up until the week before Christmas. I am unaccustomed to the frantic lifestyle that having a teenager brings; it seems like there was an activity every night. In fact we didn&#8217;t even get a chance to go up to This Is The Place for the holiday lights. The things that we did do were well worth it though. Chey was in the stake choir and it was a very good meeting with some great thoughts and songs. Logan was in a choir for his school and had alot of fun with that. Chey and I went on the Photowalking Utah Temple Square walk and had alot of fun there (separate post here) One of the things I look forward to every Christmas eve is a big fancy dinner. For some reason this year I decided that I would keep it simple. So it was a ham in the oven, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Temple Square Photowalk</title>
		<link>http://www.angrygardner.com/2011/12/29/temple-square-photowalk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 22:28:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angry Gardner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hard to believe that this was my 3rd Temple Square trip with the Photowalking Utah crew.  My goal for these is less about me getting good pictures, but I am there to help my daughter get pictures that she want.  This year was a stunning success in my book.  Because not only did she get some great shots, but I was able to finally meet some of my Twitter and Internet friends.  @lookieloosuz was as kind and generous as she seems online and @findmimi was just as funny and real as you can get. Chey and I (a photo of us anyway) were even in the Salt Lake Tribune here and in the January 1st print edition.   Super cool huh! Cheyenne&#8217;s pictures This was a real process for Chey she wanted a &#8220;reverse silloute&#8221; of the temple and it took many very long exposures to get this picture the way she wanted. Mine]]></description>
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		<title>Do, Did, and Done</title>
		<link>http://www.angrygardner.com/2011/12/15/do-did-and-done/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 22:54:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angry Gardner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So last week was a big week for me.  Why?  For the first time in my career I job title does not have anything to do with support.  For almost 10 years now I have been in a role that was &#8220;titled&#8221; as a technical support role.  It is not what I did, but that is what my business card said, that is how I was paid, and that is how I was thought of.   Also, for the first time since I started working for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) I am not assigned 100% to the Printing Division.  It has been very interesting to me to watch the world change from a paper world to a electronic one. Don&#8217;t get me wrong I still believe that paper books and magazines will have a place and a role in our world, but more and more people (I am one of them) would rather use their electronic devices for reading. Sorry tangent&#8230; I am now one of five system admins for the supply chain (the organization that makes and delivers Church products throughout the world). Which means nothing to most of you, but it is a promotion and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Normal December Weekend</title>
		<link>http://www.angrygardner.com/2011/12/04/a-normal-december-weekend/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 18:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angry Gardner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Busy, Busy Busy. So the first Saturday in December went a little like this.  We had our ward Christmas party, a breakfast, so I had to get up early and cook the breakfast casserole that we had  signed up to cook. It was a blast, I spent some time getting some photos of the smaller kids adverse reaction to Santa. Funny stuff. Later that evening we went to the Church History Museum for their program, A Pioneer Christmas. It was interesting learning about the activities that the went on in the early days of Utah. Even more interesting was the fact that I remembered doing some of the dances as a kid in the Oak City hall with my family. No I am not THAT old; just time flows a little different in small Utah towns. Of course, a trip to Temple Square will always be a photo trip so I had to stop several times to line up a couple of different shots. My favorite image of the night is this one from my phone. But there is always time to take a couple of pix with the &#8220;big&#8221; camera. All in all a truly great day]]></description>
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		<title>Love The Holidays</title>
		<link>http://www.angrygardner.com/2011/11/26/love-the-holidays/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 14:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angry Gardner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love the holidays, mostly because I love being around my family. Sure we may not always agree, sometimes we might even fight, but it is always a really fun time. This is my step-mom playing with my niece. It just kind of captures the joy family brings us. Plus the food is always tasty.]]></description>
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		<title>Prayer</title>
		<link>http://www.angrygardner.com/2011/11/12/prayer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 21:15:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angry Gardner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been wanting to participate more in a program that my church is doing. It is called the Vineyard. They have several different projects that you can participate in from family history, to technology, to multi-media. It is a really good idea and has seen some great success. Most of the code for the moblie apps have actually been written by this group. I had a chance to give my feedback to the organizers of the photography program at a recent Church Technology conference. I am excited to see how they make the changes that will make the site even more productive. Anyway, last week they sent out a weekly challenge: Prayer. They asked for people to submit their ideas for prayer. Here is my submissions. I tried to apply what I have learned about Stock photography and create images that could be adapted to many different cases. If this is something you think you might interested head on over to Vineyard.lds.org or create.lds.org for more details.]]></description>
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		<title>Just A Minute for Reflection</title>
		<link>http://www.angrygardner.com/2011/11/01/just-a-minute-for-reflection/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 19:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angry Gardner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I am a little down right now. So I thought I would take a couple of minutes to look back at the past month and post about the great times that have occurred. My little one turned 4 and we had a couple of different parties. With two parties that meant two cakes . This was a &#8220;Cookie&#8221; cake biggie sized chocolate chip cookies with chocolate icing. It was delicious. Here was the little guy and his good friend. My wonderful daughter entered the Reflections contest with this entry. The theme was diveristy I love that she was able to envision this and make her vision come to life. For Halloween we went to Gardner Village for the night of the Witches. And a final shot of one of my favorite models.]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts and Regrets</title>
		<link>http://www.angrygardner.com/2011/09/28/thoughts-and-regrets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:36:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angry Gardner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the weekend we were down in Southern Utah for a funeral of a family friend. She was a wonderful lady and the core of a great family; taken much too young. I have lots of regrets as a person, but as I looked at the program for this friend of mine I regretted not asking to take pictures the last time we got together. It wasn&#8217;t that it was a bad picture it was a really good picture taken with a point and shoot, and who knows I might not have been able to do any better. However, I should have tried. That being said we wanted to get some pictures of my wife&#8217;s Grandmother before we left to come home. We asked where she wanted to take the pictures and she choose the only place that I was afraid of&#8230; the atrium. Direct sun, trees, glass, a dark room behind, and probably 100 degrees, just not what I would have chosen, but that is what she wanted and so that was what I was going to do. I think that the picture turned out pretty good. There are things I could have done better, but there always is&#8230; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Last Hoorah</title>
		<link>http://www.angrygardner.com/2011/09/20/the-last-hoorah/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 02:02:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angry Gardner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While summer ends socially on Labor Day and by the calendar on September 23 (this year). For me summer is officially at an end when we go to Maple Grove for our end of summer/beginning of fall fling. This year was a little different as it became an reunion of sorts for my family. Unfortunately, my youngest brother and his wife could not make it, but everyone else was there with bells on The weekend started out with a dark cloud over the proceedings; I mean a literal dark raining cats-and-dogs cloud. However, Saturday morning the sun came out and fixed everything. For the rest of the weekend there was nothing short of weather perfection The kids had fun playing whatever games their minds could imagine, hide and seek, run and scream, climb and jump, and most frightening: chop and burn. My sister had a couple of different activities planned, but the only one we did was sock tie-dye. Which was a big hit with the kids and adults alike. I was in charge of the dinner that night so I didn&#8217;t get many pictures in but the brisket pot roast was well received and I think I will have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Day (or 2) At Cub Country</title>
		<link>http://www.angrygardner.com/2011/08/18/a-day-or-2-at-cub-country/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 21:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angry Gardner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that my son is involved in the Cub Scouts I (my wife) am very concerned about everything that could happen to him.  With that in mind I (my wife) decided that I should go to Cub Country this year.  I (my wife) thought that my son might need some parental guidance through the dangerous waters presented by the Cub Scouts.  I was not too excited about the proposal of spending a couple of days surrounded by crazed Cub Scouts, but I was excited that I would be able to spend some time with my boy. It was a 2 day event with the first day themed Superhero Academy and the second day was Jurassic Journey. I didn&#8217;t take my real camera so all of these were taken with my phone. Anyways here a several of the highlights. Bow and Arrows I was quite surprised at this station. After a couple of arrow he was shooting straight and was actually hitting what he was aiming for, maybe there is a little natural talent. My wife&#8217;s favorite activity. When I tweeted that we were at this station she replied back that she was holding her breath. It was easily all of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Motion</title>
		<link>http://www.angrygardner.com/2011/08/17/motion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 13:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angry Gardner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kids or funny they are in it for the here and now.  Parents are even funnier we support that behavior for as long as it is convenient.  Take this slide for example, he wanted go down it, and they were charging a freak&#8217;n dollar to go down a blowup slide.  ROBBERY!  So who do you think won the argument.  Guess what; I did. I gave him his choices he could go down the slide or get a treat. It is apparent what he chose. Most of the evening I was spent with a friend from work&#8217;s family.  This little girl is a joy to see in motion.  You see I have literally held her heart in my hand, granted it was an experimental, mechanical heart at the time, but it was still life changing. Every time I see her I am reminded that miracles still happen, and they come in so many ways.  It can be our Heavenly Father himself intervening to prolong a sweet young life, the mercy and kindness of strangers giving at their time of greatest tragedy, and amazing minds, talents and dedication that so many people share with the world.  However they come to us I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Favorite Week Of The Year</title>
		<link>http://www.angrygardner.com/2011/08/05/my-favorite-week-of-the-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 20:05:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angry Gardner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We went to the jewel of the Utah State Parks for the last week of July.  We stumbled on the Fremont Indian State Park a couple years ago and it has been one our family&#8217;s favorite places since then.  This year we went to there for a week.  I have to admit I am still in a photography rut and was not interested in taking any pictures.  I did have a a couple of pictures that I had in my head one of the Hoodoos in the campground with the brilliant central Utah skies in the background.  The other was inside the pit house with some basic off camera flash. It didn&#8217;t turn out exactly as I had planned, but I really like this picture. Of course the we went to the museum several times and were able to see petroglyphs on a couple of different hikes we went on.  Unfortunately, I had messed my knee up loading the trailer or something and really was laid up for most of the trip. In the shadows of these amazing Guardians we cooked, ate, and laughed.  The kids really enjoyed playing in the stream that ran through the camp they created a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quite Possibly The Funniest Thing Ever</title>
		<link>http://www.angrygardner.com/2011/03/24/quite-possibly-the-funniest-thing-ever/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 17:03:03 +0000</pubDate>
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