The Dilts clan grew by one more yesterday afternoon. Urban Roland Rencher Dilts was born to Jesse and Jenny. Urban weighed 7 pounds, 15 ounces and was 20 1/2 inches long.
Personally, I’m upset at his initials being so close to something cool. URR Dilts? I’d rather see Urban Schilling Streisand Dilts: the USS Dilts!
On Saturday, I invited a half-dozen of my friends from the local Mormon singles ward to watch Big Fish on my projector. I thought everything was going fine–we made a huge pot of popcorn, crowded onto a couple couches and a Love Sac, and settled in for a great movie.
I still thought everything was going fine one minute before the movie ended. As soon as the credits rolled and the lights turned on, though, everyone started saying how cold it was. I guess I’d just gotten used to living in a cold house. But everyone had spent the entire movie shivering in their pride. (more…)
In my eyes, the next-generation console war is over, and PlayStation 2 is the hands-down winner. The sold-out PlayStation 3 is going for around $800 on eBay, the Wii for around $500, and the X-Box 360 for about $400. The launch lineup of games for the PS3 and Wii are both anemic, and the current offering (and expected offering for the next 12 months) on the X-Box 360 is equivalent to the offering for the PlayStation 2. (more…)
This weekend, I went to Lisa Pilzer’s 30th birthday party in Las Vegas, NV. The main event was in the Caramel lounge in the Bellagio. The food was fantastic, the company was illustrious, and Lisa was as beautiful and charismatic as ever.
Getting Children to Love You
Adults are okay, but kids are great.
I served a two-year ecclesiastical mission in Las Vegas, NV a few years ago. Rather than fly to Vegas and stay in an expensive hotel, I made arrangements with an old missionary companion to drive down for the weekend and stay with an old friend of his. We arrived at their house around 6:00 PM on Saturday, and I set about using the following highly effective and repeatable steps to make their children love me. (more…)