The New Start Over

Well, I guess I'm back in blogness at least for the moment. I previously had the blog entitled thebrothersheiner which I started and kept up in Taiwan and a bit after but that I very stupidly attempted to delete a few months back when I grew tired of it and felt it wasn't appreciated. I don't expect this new blog to be any more appreciated except maybe by myself. This will be manifest in that I will not attempt to delete this one because I now realize that sometime in the future I may appreciate being able to look back on my ramblings as an insight into what I may have been doing and thinking at the time. Otherwise I'll have no idea because I don't have one of those things called a memory that people are always talking about. "Hey, remember such and such" people will often say. "Shut up Mr. I actually have a memory" I say. But back to the deletion attempt now- So I went through all the process to officially have my blog deleted and it was for the most part. I recently discovered not completely. If one types in my old address a blog still exists there which contains a few of my old posts but none of my photos and two new random advertisement or consumer report looking posts that I haven't cared enough about to read. I find this very strange and quite annoying that someone has commandeered my address and a few old posts which are supposed to be extinct. However, I am grateful to have been able to reclaim a couple stolen posts that I included below here via copy and paste. I am not certain that the dates I put on them are correct but it's what the renegade blog had posted. Below I'm going to list a few bullet points of significant events that have taken place during my bloglessness in an attempt to get back up to speed somewhat.

End of June 2006
* Returned home from Taiwan where I had been teaching English for a year

July 2006
* Bummed around at my parents' in Idaho, hung out, visited friends and family

August 2006
* Moved to Twin Falls, lived with my friends Jake and Heidi, and worked for a temp agency at the Twin Falls County Fairgrounds in Filer being a night garbage man among other things.

* Enlisted in the United States Army Reserve to be a Civil Affairs Specialist in the 405th Civil Affairs Battalion in Pleasant Grove, UT.

End of September 2006
* Shipped off to basic training in Fort Knox, Kentucky where I had to wait for a little over two weeks for my Basic Training to start.

October, Friday the 13th 2006
* Officially started Basic training.

December 2006
* Graduated from Basic training and came home to Idaho for almost three weeks for Christmas break.

January 2007
* Flew to Fayetville, North Carolina and entered Fort Bragg for AIT (Advanced Individual Training) to become a Civil Affairs Specialist.

April 2007

* Graduated from AIT and returned home to Idaho and Utah for a couple of weeks where I visited friends and family.

May 2007
* Moved to Salt Lake, stayed with Thurm and Nat for a couple weeks, until I got the apartment that I'm in now and started working for Cambridge Builders Inc.

Summer 2007
* Worked, rock climbed, swam, hung out with Amy, Leisel, Anthony and Thurm and Nat.

September 2007
* Started playing drums in a band called January with mine and Amy's friends Chris (guitar) and Jess (Bass) and their friend Ryan (keyboards) with Amy as our busy little manager.
* Climbed the Grand Teton in Wyoming with Dax and his friend Mike. Flew to Houston and visited Adena for a few days. Smashed my left index finger at work real good with a large beam and got thirteen stitches. It's just now starting to look a little more normal.

End November 2007
* Started what has turned out to be an extremely long yet pleasant hiatus from work with the plans to do a lot of traveling and snowboarding (bought season pass to Brighton) and return to work in a couple of months.

December 2007
* Did quite a bit of snowboarding and a whole lot of movie watching. On my way to Idaho on Christmas Eve, I was hit in my car by another car while going through a green stop light. I was ok but my car wasn't. Hung out with Amy and her family Christmas Eve and Christmas morning and then her and I went to Idaho.

January 2008
* Got a check from Farmers Insurance for just under $1,000 for my deceased car and bought my mega gas guzzling Isuzu Trooper. My Uncle Harlow died and me, Amy, Anthony, Thurm, Nat, and Marci and her girls went home to Idaho for the funeral which was really good as far as funerals go. At the end of the month Anthony and I started the Zone diet and exercising, both of which I'm still keeping up with for the most part.

February 2008
* Went to Korea with five other people from my reserve unit to a training exercise at Camp Redcloud which is about a 45 minute train ride from Seoul. While there, we had a lot of free time and I got to go into Seoul a few times and see Lumina and Karyn and some of there friends.

March 2008
* Amy and I flew to Paris on the 17th and got back on the 24th. We had a fantastic time, stayed at a great hostel, rode the metro all over, saw all the cool touristy Paris stuff in addition to just doing a lot of walking around and looking. We also took the train to Orleans and stayed with my friend Kirill (former exchange student that lived with my parents and I in high school) and his wife Carolyn and their son Aliosha that live there and had a great time. They were wonderful hosts, fed us very well, took us around, and even took us on walks. Amy and I both loved our time in Orleans and especially the exquisite cheeses and bread that followed most meals. We also got to eat a traditional French Easter Lunch (as far as I know) at Carolyn's parents'. It was fantastic and I wish I had pictures of each of the five courses.

Well, that pretty much catches everyone up on the last year and a half of my very busy life.