David Journal

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  • Out of the habits

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    It’s 10:40 and I just finished getting my steps in. Half the kids are still not in bed despite it being a school night again. We are clearly out of the proper schedule after Fall Break. Despite all the extra things taking up my evening I made sure to get everything in. Now I’m trying…

  • Trying not to get sucked in.

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    I managed to get driving in with Alex before he went to work and then I tried today to focus on things other than politics. I took time to read from Saints Volume 1 (I’m trying to read some of that every week until I get through that whole series) and we managed to get…

  • Adam’s actual choice

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    I’ve always looked at the voice Adam made in the garden as a choice between two commandments but I realized that it was actually larger than that. A choice between two commandments would be a coin flip, neither choice is ideal but either choice leads to keeping one of two. Adam’s choice was not so…

  • Stressing

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    This election season is wearing on me. I keep trying to reset my focus but I also keep coming back to political concerns because of how stark and important this election is. The stress from that makes other things harder to manage like watching BYU perform poorly so far in the game tonight. (I’m not…

  • Mini disaster

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    I tried tweaking some settings on my site to fix my inability to write posts using the web interface. Unfortunately during the process I did a restore of my backup from last week. I thought it was just a restore of my files but apparently it was also a restore of the database so all…

  • Off the sidelines

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    I haven’t truly been on the sidelines of this election but while I have talked about volunteering for several weeks I finally signed up today to do some phone banking tomorrow. I decided that it was time to ignore my hesitancy to talk to random strangers over the phone and just get my feet on…

  • An important step for Alex

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    Alex finally succeeded in passing the test for his learners permit today. That makes our nightly test practices for the last couple of weeks worth the effort. Now we need to substitute that time with driving hours. Of course Alex learned today that he still has to have his permit for 6 months before he…

  • A political encounter

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    While I was out walking this evening I crossed paths with Brother Watt. We stopped and chatted and the conversation turned to politics when he asked if I felt old having 2 kids in college. I said having 4 kids that could vote was more likely to make me feel old and he said “dare…

  • From good to bad to good

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    We had another good day with conference and again capped it off with the family playing Jackbox but in the evening Emma tried to get a drink and the faucet head just came off in her hand so we had to buy a new faucet so we could even use the kitchen sink. It went…

  • Conference Saturday

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    It was a good Saturday of conference. I was awake through all the sessions and we had almost no interruption (besides Coup turning off the internet in the middle of the morning session—he stepped on the power cord for the router and jiggled it loose). After the evening session I went for a walk as…