Vindicated!!!

As some of you may know, I have taken heat over the years from various people (some of you may even be in that category) for slouching or reclining backwards as I sit. Nicole gets after me for leaning the driver's seat of our car back so far and for sitting sideways on the couch leaning back on the arm. My mother has gotten after me for years to "sit up straight..." Well, now I have been vindicated. This article states that some recent research using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) indicates that a position reclined back 135 degrees with your feet still on the floor provides the best support for your back while sitting for long periods of time.

So, next time any of you roll your eyes when I say that you need to have the proper amount of "slouch", remember that for once I may just be right. (wouldn't that be something...)

You can take the boy out of the desert...

But you can't take the desert out of the boy. Also, I would argue with the fact that you can take the boy out of the desert for very long. But that doesn't sound nearly as (insert adjective for poetic or literary here).

Nicole and I went to Orderville for the Thanksgiving holiday last week. I must say that the combination of my mother's home-made noodles in turkey soup, home-made stuffing, home-made pies... well, you can imagine that I didn't do much other than lay around and suffer on Thursday afternoon.

Friday we went hiking and shooting (the two pretty much go together, but I thought I'd spell it out for those of you who hike on trails in populated areas :-p).

People often ask me why I haven't been to more places in Zion than I have been, considering it's 15 minutes away. This is why:

My dad has a Heckler & Koch (HK) USP Tactical .45 that I quite enjoy to commandeer when I go down, as well as his HK G3 (NOT the select fire military version, the semi-auto only civilian version). Both are extremely sweet-shooting pieces (although it's much easier to double-tap with an AR-15 than the G3) and I have to bust a few caps whenever we go down.

Maybe next time we go I'll take some pictures of my own rifle and do another post, but as for now, it's back to the old programming project...