Interview with illustrator Dave Habben

i stumbled on an LDS illustrator's Interview. nice work

Interview with illustrator Dave Habben

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Caribbean Cruise Vacation: scam or deal?

us arriving in Bahamas

Amy at the bottom of the Abyss water slide

Atlantis Resort on Paradise Island

Promo photo: float through the shark tank

Promo photo: Shoot through the shark tank

I did it! (Amy did too! but "once is enough".)

Our cabin

At dinner (yum)

At Epcot
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A co-worker wanted to know the details and ACTUAL price of our cruise...
My conclusion: cheap way to spend

• 1 day of fun in Bahamas
• 1 day at Disney world
• get a taste of cruising
• and 1 week away from work
  
• while getting a lot of laughs about the "cheapness"
  

Our Bahama Cruise information (video) if you're interested:
We took this trip last week (Sep 2009) and some people asked about the price, details and, "if it's a scam?".

Package Includes:

• 3nights cruise to Nassau Bahamas on the Bahamas Celebration from imperial majesty
  
• 4 nights in Orlando and/or Ft. Lauderdale Ramada Inn (welcome center)- Orlando (actually Kissamee is the nicer but the ship ports in Ft. Lauderdale
• AND 1week Budget car rental OR $100 for gas OR Universal Studios Hollywood tickets)
• All Meals included (at hotels and on cruise ship)

The Honest Costs:

• $398 per couple (we opted to upgrade that to a top deck window cabin)
• $258 Ship porting fees + taxes
• Upon arrival guests pay only Florida taxes on the hotel stay (~$15 p/night)
  
• 1 week car rental (~$65 if you claim 1 driver)
  
• Hotel buffets (~$2.50 p/person)
• Sit through your standard "low-pressure" time share presentation on one of the mornings on land (we really want to buy one eventually, but said "not now, thank you" and they presented very tempting foreclosure deals thereafter)
  
• On the cruise is where you can decide your Bahama Excursion: We chose the ATLANTIS AQUAVENTURE and tour. A waterside park merged with spectacular aquariums = By far the best part of our trip. There are watersides through shark tanks and into piranha aquarium surrounded caves. (awesome and worth the admittance price of $150ea)
• The beds on cruises are bunk-style so we put the mattresses together on the floor
• must book your reservations within a year of purchase
• we spread out the cost by purchasing in spring, buying our plane tickets in fall and traveling in late summer
• must love buffets (the cruise food was actually really good)
  
• must have the ability to have fun laughing at hokey decor, accommodations, salesmen and while waiting in porting lines
  

We purchased from Imperial Majesty:
Direct line to "Opal": 1-954-630-9449 dial 0 for operator and extension 4134 for Opal
Use our reference number: RI 101 708-071 OV (under your "friend's friend" Amy P.) for an additional discount

latest and greatest brother-sister prank

It all started when my mom and my sister were in the temple gazing into the mirror and my mom thought; "i wonder if we'll get married at the same time?".
I "got my sister good" by- when i was talking to my mom and she told me this.

During the conversation, Amy and I came to the conclusion that my mom and my sister should only go on double dates with single fathers and their son's.
If Clara has a date, she has to ask if the young gentleman has a single father and they have to spend every date T O G E T H E R :). My mother loved the idea too! H A P P Y

I know Clara will appreciate this idea. :)

Patchwork Canada or BANFF BANFF BANFF banff banff !!

These are Pictures from our trip to BANFF Canada with Kyle and Debbie +. They are patched together in "panoramics". I found them interesting composed this way and opted not to crop many of them to prevent cutting out details. click the pic to enlarge...






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Baby Picture (1977)

Kid Picture (1985)

Juvenile Delinquent Picture (1998 in Salt Lake with family the day before my mission)

Wilson stories

Wilson stories related on father's day 2009

Written by H. Allen Wilson IV's point of view: related from and edited by Howard A. Wilson III-

My Great Grandfather Howard Allen Wilson. (1st) "haywire Wilson" to his friends- Rancher/Farmer and Scavenger (reselling found items like metal or anything "lying around" by the train tracks.)

My Dad's Grandmother- Clara Mason (married name) second wife of Louie Mason.

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My Grandfather Howard Allen Wilson Jr. "Junior or Uncle Jr." to the family - mechanic and industrial metal logy worker heat treating- his wife would read the "text books" to him which he had difficulty reading. 

My Dad's Mom- Edith Patricia (Mason) Wilson was named "Patricia" because she was born on St. Patrick's Day and went by Patricia or Pat. She was the second daughter of Clara's and the third daughter of Louie's.

 The LDS church near Lodi Lake was built on Mason Property which is why my Patriarch knew the Wilson family well and spoke well of my GGF and GF. The church is Ham Lane near the intersection of Ham Lane.  and Turner Rd.

The old Mason ranch that included vineyards and the Lodi Lake, had pigs that would swim across the lake to islands in the a.m. and back in the p.m. (On two occasions he built bridges to the islands from a point on west of the lake near the Woodbridge Cemetery but the next spring runoffs took them out each time.) Louie Mason wanted to give the lake and the land around it to the city of Lodi. He talked to his neighbor to his east Mr. Beckman about his plans and that it would so much nicer for the new park to have access to the islands from the east and could he also give some of his land to the city to make this possible? This was agreeable to Mr. Beckman so a strip of land on the west side of his property, east side of the lake, was transferred to Mr. Mason then Mr. Mason gave, the lake, islands, the land south of the lake north of Tuner Rd., and enough land on the east side for park goers to have access to the islands, but kept in his name a narrow strip of land on the east side in his name, that he and daughters built homes on and moved into.  He sold the old family home south of the lake across Turner Rd. 

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My dad's mom's mother's family descended from the Lytle family in the west of Ireland - English Irish The family lived in a stone house overlooking Sligo Bay, County Sligo, Ireland. The son was sent to college where he met a girl from a neighboring county, also a student there, and fell in love with her. He brought her home to his family, but his family didn't think she was good enough for him. He wouldn't give her up, so they kicked him out, and the couple came to the US.

 

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Howard Allen Wilson III- my dad – December 8, 1945 NAVY Sea Bee Construction Electrician

Dad's adopted sister- Mary Elizabeth Wilson

Some Protestant Christian German on my GP Wilson's side (?)

Asay's my (mom's side) - English (?) or maybe French from Canada- ask Grammy

 

 

Channel 1049 (KCNL-104.9fm)

Channel 1049 (KCNL-104.9fm)

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Designatoruim reminisce

Here's a picture of our Designatorium before it went (is going) all "HOLLYWOOD" on us...
posh furniture and giant-screens with movie graphic effects are being installed as we "speak".
image: getting ready to sketch
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H. Allen Wilson IV
Industrial Designer & unicyclist
WAGIC Design

Thank you!

To all you who called yesterday,
Thanks for helping make Amy's birthday great :)
Even if we didn't pick up, (we may have been in the city) she appreciated the messages, birthday wished and songs.

We HIGHLY recommend seeing "WICKED" . It was very very clever and funny with awe striking sets, spectacular vocals and a heartwarming and revealing story.



And of course, some of you know how much Amy loves Roy's Hawaiian Fusion, she'll always recommend that restaurant.
Thank you all :)

political joke

	♫ They said pigs would fly before we had a black president... And sure enough, after 100 days in office "Swine Flu". friend's sketch http://lineweights.wordpress.com/2009/04/30/pig-zombies/

"If I had a million dollars, Allen" by Anders

Anders: ".... HAHAHA! Allen, you can always make me smile... You know, with you're humor, if I had a million dollars I'd start your own kid's show. One where you teach kids to build stuff. All this A.D.D.-hyper-active crap like Blues Clues is just not cutting it. It would be something where you're like...
'Hey Kids!! We're going to make an Oxygen recycling apparatus with a tube [holding his hands in the air] and a _____ (i don't remember the other things listed but it was funny)...'
Something where the kids actually learn something interesting."

me: "Remember Commander Mark and the Secret City?"

Anders: jabs an extended finger toward me "Exactly"

me: states "that's a compliment"

Much of my childhood I looked forward to seeing this man come on PBS and i would SCRAMBLE to find paper and pencil before the 8-minuite lessons were over. You can now see many of them on You-tube... Meet Commander Mark and his secret City...
(You may notice that my drawing style is quite similar)

Wedding Photo Locations

Amy's Facebook Album: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=2315393&op=4&o=global&view=global&subj=638582650&id=647949664#/album.php?aid=97090&id=647949664
A few more in mine: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=638582650&v=photos&so=45#/album.php?aid=40245&id=638582650

RabbidSlippers

Yugen, my co-worker, made rabbit slippers for quite a few people in the office--- Half making fun of the company logo--- Half for a reason/excuse to walk around the office in slippers.

I simply added the vampire teeth to give them a "friendlier" touch.

Hard Boiled Chickens

A funny thing happened today. As I was getting ready for work I tried to consolidate a few things in the fridge by putting the 3 hard-boiled eggs in the carton with about 13 fresh eggs. You think you know where this story is going, but you actually don't. I was smarter than you think and I had decided to mark the boiled eggs so they could not be confused (even though we DO know the spinning egg determinant). When I got home for my lunch break I noticed Amy baking and saw that there were 2 egg shells in the sink.


I pried, " So...? did you notice anything special about the eggs?".
Amy: "Yah, you marked them" Allen: "Yah, but did you see what they SAID?!"
Amy: "Yah, (we say 'yah' a lot) you marked them 'hard boiled' or something."

Allen: "NO...! silly! LOOK! it says....
(Now I distinctly point out each of the three eggs individually)
"I"...."<3"....>"U"

"I" the capitol letter "I"
"love" represented by a heart
"U" representing "You"

Unfortunately she opened the carton sideways and read "HBC" which obviously stands for "Hard-Boiled Chickens".
My romantisism was lost.
Luckily she's more... appreciative of laughter than "mushy stuff"
;)

Kristi

Amy made the nicest comment I've ever received.
We were talking about her memories of her mom because we had to go through her (Kristi's) things stored in their storage unit.
Needless to say it's been a hard weekend.

She told me, "My mom would have really liked you."
me: "Yeah?"
Amy: "Yeah, i really think she picked you out specially for me form heaven"

I told her, "that was very nice of her to think that'" and cried a little because I wished I knew her too.