Brant's Rants

I have seen the future. It is marvelous. The world has united and peace reigns. OK, I have not seen world peace, but what I have seen is a better world. It is made possible by great teachers melded with great technology. It is more advanced than mere computers, it is the growth of the human race through technology. It is as significant as the invention of written language. It will advance our civilization like the discovery of electricity. It is the next step in evolution. All this comes from a unified, perfected, and dynamic education system.

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Dorothy and I went to SLC for her birthday last week. I am just now getting around to posting some of the pictures of the trip. First a note about where these pictures were taken. We decided to ‘go out’ and try to find her a birthday gift (she couldn’t just tell me what she wanted). So anyway, after dinner we decided to go  to a mall other than the trolley square (as we ate at Old Spaghetti factory). There was no mall to be found that was indoors and was close buy, so we decided to go to the gateway mall. Dorothy complained about it being cold after a little bit (the Gateway mall is an outside mall) so we ducked into the nearest store. It just happened to be the gap.  An look what we ran into. Continue Reading »

Well its new to me anyways. It is a 2006 Dodge Durango. It has the V-8 4.7L in it to haul my camp trailer all over the countryside. I had a heck of a time getting my wife to agree to buy this little beauty. She is too practical to WANT to buy an impractical vehicle. The biggest think for her was that it only gets 19 mpg on the freeway and 14 mpg in town. She wanted something that would haul the kids and get really good mileage. Well I wanted a vehicle that a man would be proud to be driving. She wanted an Acura (nice cars, but not able to tow a camp trailer). I had to really talk to get her to buy this. However, like always, the people at 20th Century Ford treated me right, and they were able to get me the vehicle at a price that even my wife wouldn’t turn down. Continue Reading »