Latin (tem-pu̇s-ˈfü-git): Time Flies
This is the $6 part that caused all the aggravation on our trip to Salt Lake City. According to the dealer who did the repair in SLC, the seal was damaged during installation.
I wonder what the Royal Dodge service department will have to say about that?
Budweiser, The King of Beers, out in the middle of no where on I-15 in Montana is this huge ad. Pretty much a blight on the otherwise gorgeous landscape. The hills behind were dusted with snow while we were in Salt Lake City and are looking quite majestic. The drive up to Butte is very scenic and everyone is enjoying this section of the drive which most of us have not seen before.
Tomorrow we’ll be in Winnipeg, Yahoooo!
Today is the last day of the USANA 2006 International Convention and we woke up to a light dusting of snow! Last Wednesday after the sessions I was laying around the pool at the hotel and it was about 29C, clear and sunny.
I attended the Denis Waitley breakout session this morning and it was excellent, very motivational and I think I’ve captured several good ideas that I’ll put into practice. This is the challenge with most things is doing what you’ve heard and know is good to do.
This morning at the General Session USANA announced a new product, TenX Blast. This new all natural fruit bar has 10 time more antioxidants that he best fruit juices or red wine according to independent Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity analysis.
This is a great new product that will go hard to head with the various antioxidant fruit juices that are popular these days and provides 10 times the antioxidant benefits at a lower cost than Tahitian Noni, g3, Xango and Mona Vie
We’re at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City and Shirley and Debbie are standing outside just before the doors open for the 9:00am start. The day was wonderful and we started at 7am with a prayer meeting where over 500 associates came out. The sessions in the Delta Center were awesome and the presentations and presenters were excellent. The company introduced several new sales aids that were outstanding.
My day was a little conflicted as I spent a lot of time out of the meeting taking and making calls about the van’s transmission. Even with all the frustration over that situation, which I’ll cover in another post, the messages were still received loud and clear. USANA is a great company, this is an incredible business opportunity and we’re doing the right thing by being involved with this amazing team. We’re feeling the love.
Nine more pictures in the set, including Debbie on stage!
We start our day off at an area called The Gateway, where there is a Starbucks and enjoy the Olympic Snowflake Fountain. There are no events planned until 1pm so we have the morning off to relax and recover from yesterdays events. The girls go shopping and I take the van in for servicing.
After a shuttle ride back to the Salt Palace, I pick up my conference registration in 60 seconds flat. They have a very efficient system, and highly organized. I then wander around the USANA store and check out the new stuff. Afterwards, it’s off to the Thaifoon restaurant’s for lunch. In the afternoon I take in three sessions, two on technology and one on True Wealth.
After all the sessions are done I head back to the hotel and down to the pool to soak up some rays in the 28C sunshine and just relax. Then it’s off to dinner at the California Pizza Kitchen, and over to the kickoff concert event at the Salt Palace. Collin Raye is the performer and while he’s a well know country artist, I don’t recognize any of the songs. Must be good stuff as lots of people are getting into it. But before this they gave away two cars. Not just any cars, but a Porsche and a Cadillac. I might have picked the 350Z or the Audi but hey, they didn’t ask me.
The day ended with a night cap at, your guessed it, Starbucks.
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Today was the first day of driving to Salt Lake City for the USANA 2006 Convention. The drive was quite pleasant and fairly uneventful. Keith and I split the driving and we made a few rest stops. One of course was at Medora, where I’ll be back in a few weeks to do some mountain biking on the Maah Daah Hey trail. At one of the next stops this sign was by the washrooms and I only noticed it after I’d roamed around all over the place off the sidewalk taking pictures.
We had dinner at the Outback in Billings and are back at the hotel, which surprisingly enough for an independent middle of the road has wireless Internet for free. Nice touch.
I suspect we’ll turn in very shortly as we’re starting out at 7am tomorrow. I’m looking forward to the drive through the Beartooth Highway and Yellowstone Park.
This is the crew repairing the water main break in front of our house. Fortunately, they don’t have to dig up the driveway as the break is right at the edge of the driveway curb. The water is back on by about 7pm and after filling the hole they move on to the next job up the street. We saw them later in the evening with work lights blazing in this guy’s front yard, a big party going on across the street and quite a few spectators.
It’s amazing how much you want to look in that hole to see what’s going on.
After locating the pipe, things really go quickly. They insert a cage to prevent a collapse in the hole, clean off the pipe, wrap it with a 2′ stainless steel collar lined with neoprene and clamp it on. The line pressure is slowly restored, and the line is flushed out the fire hydrant, so conveniently located in our front yard. Everything holds up and the cage is pulled, dirt replaced and now it looks like we buried somebody in the front yard. The city may get around to fixing up the grass in the spring.
Well, it looks like the driveway may be at risk during the repair of the break. This crew drilled several holes, three across the driveway, and then inserts those long metal rods. The water is then temporarily turned on and with a stethoscope like device they listen to the noise transmitted by the rod to locate the closest point to the break.
The next phase involves a different crew which will have a backhoe, tandem & crew truck with several guys to dig the hole, insert a cage and effect the repair. It’s possible that they will need to cut out the driveway curb and remove some of the driveway. The ETA is unknown for the next phase, but they said they try to get the water back on with in one day or less. The crews are working until midnight most days and these guys have left to find the next one. apparently, it’s been a very busy summer for breaks. Normally, we here in Winnipeg associate these things more with extreme cold in the middle of winter, or as the frost is coming out in early spring. (Eric, I think some driveway repair might be required)
…there was a water main break in our front yard! In fact there were two breaks on our street and 15 in the city yesterday. Scott called it in last night at approximately 1am and spoke with some of the repair guys. Apparently, the dry soil conditions and the lower temperatures triggered a rash of water main breaks. The city only has 10 portable water wagons, so we don’t even have a temporary water source. The current ETA of a repair crew is much later this evening, so it may be Sunday before service is restored.
It’s amazing how much you use water and just expect it to be there. Well, at least the broadband connection is still up & running.
