Be a little better...

As I am sure most of you know, President Gordon B. Hinckley passed away last night. When Amy and I received the call from my Mother last night, it kept us up talking about how much we would miss him. Neither of us personal knew him, but we felt like we did. He is a man of integrity, honesty and love, who taught us all important principles, not just with his words but with his actions. As many of the members of the LDS faith, I am so grateful for his leadership and love. I am especially grateful that he always taught us to be a little better, to do a little more and to stand a little taller. I will always know that if I can be a little better than I was the day before, then that is what the Lord wants for me. I am so grateful for his service and while we will miss him, I am so grateful that he is with his loving wife again. Thank for your years of service and love.

How do you know that you have attended a bad sporting event?

I am glad you asked, because I have an answer.
Recently about 90% of our Ward here in North Carolina travled over an hour to watch TsDS(which for those of you who don't know stands for BYU-The School Down South) play Wake Forest. At school on Wednesday I asked one of classmates if he took the long trip to watch TDS lose by 17 and he said he did. So I asked him how it was and he responded by saying, "The trip to the game was a lot of fun." That, my friends, is how you know you have attended a bad sporting event.

I need to Rant...

So, I will. And it is NOT about how much of a Moron Roger Clemens is or how much of a Moron he must think we all are. I mean, COME ON...do you honestly believe that we are going to think that you think that taking steroids gives you a 3rd ear on your forehead???? WHAT??? And you called a guy and taped the conversation after he asked to call his son WHO IS DYING!! I just don't know what to think about this guy. Anyway....I digress a little.

I am not going to rant on how boring the BCS bowls were and how much better we would all be off if they would just grow up and have a playoff system. Nope, I will not rant about how ridiculous and ubsurd this is. I mean every other sport has a playoff and because of some tradition the fan never gets to watch competitive Championships. Nope, we never get to an actual champion. Man that makes me want to rant...but I digress.

I am not going to rant about how sick of the Presidential Elections I am. I will not complain about we have spent the last 1 year getting to know each of the "candidates" that I don't really care who wins as long someone does and their name does not end with Clinton. And how come we still use the word candidate. Isn't the root word Candid, which means, "outspoken; open and sincere." Are these people really candid with us? I wish I could rant on this...but I digress.

I really want to Rant about what took place today as I prepare to start my second semester of graduate school. Today I went and bought my books for school. I remember back in the day when I was young and naïve undergrad at the only University in the state of Utah, I would go and buy my books and think, "I cannot believe that I just spent $300 on 12 books" or "How did I just leave that book store with $400 less?" Boy, was I innocent. Today I went to the Health Affairs Library and left thinking, "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!" I bought 6 books for $755! That my friends is $126 per book! 6 BOOKS FOR $755! Why does this bother me so much that I feel the need to rant and rant and rant??? Cause I probably won't even read them.