We started yesterday about 7:30 MST from Salt Lake.  Daniel and his family in the truck towing a trailer and me driving there car.  About an hour into the trip coming down the canyon into Price the car started making a rumbling sound.  By the time we had reached the bottom of the canyon the sound had gotten worse.  I was praying that it was not serious and we could get it fixed and be on our way.  We stopped and discovered that the lug nuts had not been tightened properly the previous week when Daniel had the tired rotated.  We were blessed it wasn’t something more serious and we were on our way.

As were driving I saw a farm that was growing, what I estimate was over 100 acres of sunflowers.  I am always chewing on sunflower seeds to keep me alert.  I mused, “What if the sunflower seed I am eating were grown right here”.  I also thought, “It looks like as if one sunflower could fill one of these bags of sunflower seeds I have with me in the car”

We drove Through Albequerque and stopped in Santa Rosa.  It was 10:30 PM MST when we stopped.  We had been on the road for 15 hours.

Friday we got started between 7:30 and 8:00 AM MST.  We drove through POST Texas, where my grandfather had lived as a child.  There were tons and tons of oil wells in Post.  So I can see why my great-grandfather was their with his family.  I wondered if any of the oil wells I saw had been drilled by my great-grandfather.  My grandfather had told the story that Mr. Post or Post cereals had invented the Post Toasties.  A predessesor to the cornflake and wheaties.  My grandfather still called cornflakes Post Toasties.  other than all the oil wells agriculture is the main industry from Post to Lubbock and beyond.  I saw some corn and some other type of crop that I could not identify.  It was short maybe 18 inches off the ground with hearty stem about the size of my thumb around and it had white flowers.

The trip was pretty uneventful and we arrived at Tony’s house about 8:30 CST.  We had been o the road for 15 hours.

Tony and Sunam were very gracious and bought us some texas barbeque from a place called Smokey Mo’s.  As always Texas barbeque is the best.

Aiden it much taller than when I saw him last.

I have my first interview in Austin on Monday September 1st.  Now that I think about it.  It’s probablly going to be Tuesday September 2nd.  I will call the company Monday Morning.

I also got some response from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints about a possible IT manager position in Salt Lake.  Of course I will follow up with that next week.

I also recieved a curious e-mail about part time PHP developer job in Provo.  It’s basically an incentive based pay program.  I am intrigued and will check to see how works.  I will give it a try and see how the comany and structure workes out for me.

For the Past couple of days I have been in St. George trying to sell video for Mike.  Our basic idea is for us to sell the production of one video so people can put the video on their google maps link.  Yesterday I sold one.  Now I need to go follow up on a couple more.

I am trying to get back to St. George to work with Mike on his Google maps Video Idea. He has had pretty good success. And want me to come and see if I can sell some more video. I just have to find a way back to St. George.