Solo at the gym

I often wonder when I go to the gym how people can read a magazine or a book while riding a bike, running on the eliptical or treadmill. But today I blog for you from my iPod touch as I ride a stationary bike, and I know what you must be thinking, "wow that's really neat but what would be even better is if you blogged from a NON-stationary bike!" but for now I'll settle for my stationary bike. I have only rode 2.6 miles and burned a measly 92 calories. I like the gym especially the strange people who come to the gym. Here at UW there are predominantly two groups, the puny people who have come to the gym for the first and probably last time of the year and the humongous people who are here every day that appear to have the same nutritionist as Mark McGuire. But before today I had never seen a sixty year man with both nipples pierced! Well now that I have burned off nearly one fourth of the calories I consumed at lunch, I better call it quits.

Adios

Last year of law school

Hi everyone! I think that I am due for a blog update after 3+ months.

I first need to thank Lindsey again for her gift of this Ipod touch upon which I am composing this blog
while our new dean talks about the law school additions which are actually pretty awesome.

I have fifteen credit hours this semester which includes: secured transactions, administrative law, public lands, taxation of business entities,
and trial practice. However this is not the most exciting thing this semester!

I have a big announcement!!!

I now get around Laramie on a 1986 Honda Fat Cat! I unfortunately don't have a picture yet but I'll post one soon

I'll continue my updating this blog as the semester progresses.

Happy Birthday Lindsey!

Today is Lindsey's 24th birthday! I just wanted to write a quick message about her. Lindsey is a wonderful mother, wife, and my best friend. She is extremely kind and thoughtful and I hope that she has a wonderful birthday. Love you Linz!!!

6 Minutes Left In Evidence

As the title indicates, there are only a few minutes left in evidence and I could think of no better way to spend it than to update my blog. We're discussing the Federal Rules of Evidence, in particular rule 403, which is titled, "Exclusion of Relevant Evidence on Grounds of Prejudice, Confusion, or Waste of Time". I just realized that this class, as presently constituted, should be excluded from our education. Our Professor, bless his heart, cannot teach this subject. He just repeated a hypothetical 5 times to try to clarify a certain point. However, we as a class remaine: Confused, Unfairly Prejudiced against the professor, and ultimately our time was wasted.

Lucky for me, my books are fairly clear and descriptive so I can attempt to learn this complex subject on my own, (2 minutes left in class).

Class is over! I better cut this short

Better Late Than Never

In my last post I promised that I would blog over the Christmas Break about all the recent adventures...and technically I have over a week left until school starts again so I am keeping my word to all my avid blog followers. You may wonder why I would blog now when I have set a tradition of laziness...the answer: Everyone else is watching Mama Mia and I just cant take it anymore. Honestly I can barely stomach Pierce Brosnan as James Bond when he's pretending to be athletic, tough, and able to kill people, there's no chance I'll be able to stand 2 hours of his singing.

(Pierce at his best!)

Anyways, right now Lindsey, Brinley, Clark, Lisa, Amy, and myself are staying at a fabulous Marriot Vacation Club in Orlando Florida. We are about 1/2 mile to the west of Sea World and about a 2 miles East of Disneyworld. The weather is absolutely perfect here! My apologies to my family and friends spread out across Utah and Wyoming who are freezing. Today we hit golf balls at the Nick Faldo Golf Academy and swam in one of the pools here at the resort. I think I got a sunburn!

Since it's 2009 now I'll start from yesterday and work back. Yesterday was one of the coolest days ever because.......the Utes trashed Alabama in the Sugar Bowl!!! I will admit I had my doubts, but there was always a glimmer of hope in my heart for my "Runnin Utes." I don't think I've seen anything more pleasurable than watching Alabama's coach Nick Saban squirm after every miscue. I think he's a slimeball. (For all my law buddies that might read this don't worry I have not committed libel because he is definitely a public figure and the matter is a public issue and I did not speak with actual malice).

New Years: We spent a lovely New Years with my family in Delta. We had as much fun as ever enjoying the annual family game night, amazing Mexican food, and of course fireworks. Unfortunately I was unable to convince my family that we needed some "REAL" fireworks from Wyoming but I think they're still nervous from the enormous fireworks we had on the 24th of July. My dad also introduced me to the world of Crow Hunting. I have always ignored crows until I was informed of the serious damage they do to the pheasant population. We actually have some decoys and had a "blast," pun intended.

Prior to New Years, we went ice fishing twice at Otter Creek State Park. The first time I had GREAT success, I caught about 12-13 fish most of which were 18-20 inch fish weighing between 1.5-2.5 pounds each. I caught my limit and most of my dad and uncle's as well. The second trip included ONE...that's right ONE bite and no fish. It was a tad slow for my liking.

Job Interviews: I was lucky enough to have 2 job interviews over Christmas Break, both of which went wonderfully. The first was at Parsons, Behle, and Latimer in downtown Salt Lake. The clerkship would allow me to work directly with an attorney who is known by many in Utah as being one of the best, if not THE best, water attorney in the State. Everything is a go with the attorney in charge of hiring, we lack only the approval of the board of directors. The hiring director thought that the odds were good that they would approve the clerkship so we'll keep our fingers crossed. The second interview was with the firm in my hometown of Delta. I visited with the county attorney for Millard County. We had a long visit about the possibility of a PERMANENT position upon graduation. We talked about holes that I would be able to plug in the firm and about some other areas that I could possibly take over. It was extremely encouraging. So we have some options and I'll update as soon as we hear something definite.

Christmas was also tons of fun. We had Christmas Eve with my family, including the annual Christmas Eve Party at my Uncle Dave's house. It was wonderful to see all of my family members. We stayed the night at my parents house and got to spend Christmas morning with my parents before we hurried to Orem to visit Chase (my brother-in-law) who is on his mission in Portland.

I realize this is extremely long but I really need to ramble on and on until this movie is over or else I know I'm going to have to listen to it at least. I apologize to all of you who loved this movie it's just not my cup of tea. I'll download pictures and get back into the rhythm of my once-a-week blogging and I promise that the future posts will be much more humorous. Humor is after all one of the essential elements of this blog. I hope everyone is enjoying the break and the return back to work.

See ya'll soon. GO JAZZ!!!

p.s. Jeff if you see my blog please either accept or deny my trade for Boozer, the suspense is killing me. Boozer's out at least another month probably closer to 6 weeks and I am willing to take him and let him ride out the time on my bench. Plus I watched the Utes marching band at halftime of the Sugar Bowl and I thought of you. Ahh t'would be nice to be talented.

I DON'T BELIEVE IT, Lisa stopped to talk on the phone and they PAUSED the movie!!! There's a lake here that they claim may have alligators in it, I may go for a swim. I bet the alligators can hear Pierce singing from inside our hotel room they're probably really agitated.

Ok, I just read over my blog and a lot of it sounds very cyncial. I do not speak to insult or criticize I merely make a poor attempt at humor. Anyways if you can't laugh at this movie or the goofiness of it then you may not appreciate my type of humor. My apologies.

Estaban Toledo

Law School Finals

I don't like finals, and they have arrived once again. Only 8 more days and I'll be done with my last final. I have several ideas for upcoming posts so stay tuned. I'll be much more willing to blog when 1 of the two worst weeks of the year are over. Thanks for all the well wishes, and I will emerge from my carrel at school shortly....

Muchas Gracias

Esteban Toledo

Just one piece away from completing the puzzle

Do you ever feel like you're missing one thing that would make everything else fit together and complete the whole picture? I lack but one piece at the moment that might make all the difference in the world. Do you want to see what my missing piece is?

This is the brand new Titleist D2 from the 909 series. For those of you who know tons of useless things about golf equipment (probably very few of you) you'll recognize several interesting features about this club. 1st- This is Titleist's first attempt in including adjustable weights to the head of the club. This allows for instant adjustment of trajectory and ball flight. 2nd- This is the first Titleist Driver ever that doesn't not have a bore through shaft...or the head doesn't have a hole drilled through the head with the bottom of the shaft exposed. 3rd- This is Titleist's first real attempt at reaching the 460 cc mark. Callaway, Titleist, Ping, and Cobra have been dancing around the 460 number for years but Titleist has finally figured out that they can push the boundaries. 4th- This club has the hottest face Titleist has ever created...with an extremely large amount of recoil in the face. 5th-The traditional Titleist design remains essentially unchanged...same old standard pear-shaped design.

This MAY be my missing piece. Ok all of you who know me know that I have a balky putter and hit my current driver really well, longer than most of you!!! Sorry, I know that sounds ultra-confident but I can still fit my over-inflated head through most doorways.

But this driver may allow me to follow in Happy Gilmore's footsteps...by driving most greens and maybe even making a hole in one on par 4s, then my putting problem will also be solved.



Now here's the catch. I cannot justify the purchase of this game changing club. So here's my pitch...if my extensive number of blog readers (ok so there's really only like 4 of you {including myself}), would commit to a small donation of a nominal sum of money around $125 each I would be able to make this. Let me tell you what's in it for you.

1) Lot of laughs...I never miss a beat to make people laugh by inserting "that's what she said" in the most opportune moments.
2) I can cook (kind of)...I am willing to prepare meals to satisfy your donation. My best recipes are usually salsas and at the reasonable price of $62.50 a bowl you can enjoy 2 bowls during the holiday season.
3) I took Karate for like 9 years as a kid...for $125 an hour I will perform my routines and even include the excessive breathing exercises which sound really stupid and actually serve no purpose other than to make Karate look like more of a nerdy activity.
4) One day I hope to be an Attorney! I can do something awesome like write a Will or get you out of a speeding ticket or something...let's face it, that's worth tons more than $125
5) I am pretty awesome at pool on Yahoo. I am not above playing people for money. Unless it's Ronnie who inevitably beats me about every other game.

I accept paypal, checks, or direct deposit.