New PC - Custom Built by Me

Tonight I had alot of fun building a custom PC. It was a good learning experience, and it's an awesome machine. I still have to push it to see it's full capabilities, which should be lots of fun too.

Here are the specs:

EVGA 790i SLi Ultra Motherboard
Interl Core 2 Quad Q9550 2.83Ghz CPU
4 GB Ram
EVGA GeForce 8600 GTS Video Card (to be updated eventually)
200 GB Hard Drive
1 TB Hard Drive
Smilodon Extreme Black Gaming Case

I had a hard time getting the pictures to post for some reason.

Here's a link to some pics:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=14518&id=1081611918&l=1c026 

Taken

Tonight we went and saw the movie "Taken" starring Liam Neeson. It's a pretty good movie, with lots of action. It's about a retired agent of sorts, whose daughter is kidnapped while on vacation, and sold into human trafficking. He promises her kidnappers that he has specials skills in which he will find them and kill them. I don't want to ruin too much of the movie, but to say it was a good action flick.

Weight Loss Update

Incase you don't read my Stu's Gettin' Skinny Blog, last night I posted my weigh in video. Last one for January, and I met my goal. Woo hoo! The goal is 10lbs a month until I feel i've reached a good point. I don't usually blog about the weight on this blog, but felt like it anyway.

A trip up the canyon

It's Saturday, and for once we didn't have to be anywhere. I decided I wanted to go up to Temple Quarry at the mouth of Little Cottonwood, and take some pics. Just one problem. There is like 3 feet of snow there and no way to get in, so we drove up to Snowbird and then came back down and parked at the bus stop and took a few pics from the parking lot. It wasn't exactly what I was hoping for, but it was still fun. Here's some pics from the mini adventure.

Playing with different lighting

I've been playing with lighting, and took a few self portraits. One is with lighting from above, the other is a diffused light from the side. 

Random Pic of the Day

Here's the pic of the day. Something I took a few days ago.

New Photo Studio

o, I'm working on perfecting my photography techniques, and tonight I cleaned up the basement and built a "homemade" portrait studio. The pic below is what it looks like at the moment. It's currently a king size white sheet (which hasn't been ironed), and 3 clamp lights, which I'm still working on positions. The next pic was a quick one I snapped while playing with the lighting.

Random Pic of the Day

I took this one cuz I was bored. The frog is actually not mine, but a friend's from work. I borrowed it a while back to make a desktop wallpaper for him. I decided to do a random pic, my headphones just happened to be in the background. Yeah, it doesn't make much sense. But that's why photography is fun.

New Camera Stuff

So I got my new lense for my Canon camera this past week. I have a new goal to start taking more pictures just for fun and posting them here. My first one is my blog header, which is a self portrait! Look for new pics coming soon!

Christmas Photos!

I've finally uploaded Christmas pics. Click the links below to view them, or go to www.stewee.com, and click on photos.

Christmas Day Pics

Christmas Party at Grandma's

New Years Resolution...and another new blog.

I've created http://stusgettinskinny.blogspot.com/ to document all my success and failures at my goal, (yet again), to get skinny.

This time it will consist of no specific goals, just me trying my best to follow a schedule that will put me in a situation to lose more weight than failed plans.

Christmas Dinner and Goodbye to Scott

Scott is now a missionary. Tomorrow he will be entering the Missionary Training Center.

After work, I headed over to Mom and Dad's, and then over to their church to be there when he got set apart as a missionary. After that, we went back to their house, and had our traditional English Christmas dinner. Turkey, Potatoes, Sweet potatoes, corn, brussel sprouts, etc. Good eating! After dinner, we spent the time helping Sam on the computer, and helping Scott pack. It was a fun evening, but also sad to say goodbye to my little brother. He is going to be an awesome missionary, and I know he will do an amazing job.

Book of Mormon....Finished it tonight!

Tonight I finished the Book of Mormon. It's a great feeling, and I must say, I love that book, and know it is TRUE!!

I've been reading for a while now, all thanks to my Stake President! Back in August, he challenged our Stake to commit to never miss another day of reading for the rest of our lives. It's a pretty serious commitment. I did ok at the beginning, but missed a few days here and there. At the beginning of October, I had the opportunity to present the challenge to our Elder's Quorum in a fireside, which helped me recommit myself to the goal. Since that day, I have not missed one day of reading. It's become such a great habit. I can't go to sleep at night unless I've read for a bit. I challenge everyone to thing of doing the same. You'll never regret it! It's amazing how reading effects everything you do, and how often you can feel the spirit. Amazing experience!

I'm a quitter

The beard thing wasn't doing well. I just can't pull it off. It is now gone. Sniff Sniff. :)

Family Christmas Picture

Here it is folks: The Stu & Amy Crapo Christmas Pic!