A fun game to fish for compliments

If you want to read some sappy explanation of what this is, click the link on my sidebar that says "Smalgina" or something. Then scroll down.

1. As a comment on my blog, leave one memory that you and I had together. It doesn’t matter if you knew me a little or a lot, if it is recent or years old, silly or serious–anything you remember!

2. Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you. It’s actually pretty funny to see the responses. If you leave a memory about me, I’ll assume you’re playing the game and I’ll come to your blog and leave one about you.

So Zach Got Married

Allison put me up to this blog post. In fact, she put it half together for me.

The wedding was in the Mt. Timpanogos Temple, over in Lehi or Nephi or Kolob or some weird place in Utah. There will be tons of real photos later, but these are some of the one's my little Sony Exilim got.

Here be the mom. She was upset about some foolishness while we were waiting for Zach and Danielle to get dressed and make their debut.

Dad Hite, Gabi, Betsy, Uncle Bill.

There was a pro trying to take the same picture, and her expensive flashing mechanisms were janking some of our photos. Here are all the happy Hites, except Z+D look like... angry? confused?

Some Grandma of Danielle made the cake. Here she is showing them how not to eat the ribbon.

The Dad Hite. This has nothing to do with the wedding and, in fact, didn't even occur in the same fiscal year. Allison just loves him so much.

Mexican soda = happy luncheoneers.

Grandma's cake = not quite as good a blemish cover as you might think.

Gross.
The Danielle's Brother captured the garter and, well... continues to be a 17-year-old boy.

Caitlin, prior to an elegant fall.

Z+D making a grand entrance... err, exit?

The Uncle Richard; word of the day? Obfuscate. (He really did teach me that word, but now in editing, that works on another, funnier level)

The Zach half. Grandfolks, cousins, etc.

The cool kids' table.

The flash worked a little better here, and the Danielle must have calmed down a bit, judging by her mellow, happy demeanor.

I figured out how to blog from my phone!!

A Fat Hite

Well, I weigh like five hundred pounds and all but my mouse muscles have atrophied. The mouse muscles receive daily calisthenics at work, where my eyes are over-worked as well (you'll notice that in the photo below, also my quadruple chin). I'm a big fat dude. I plan to chronicle my desperate coming-of-fat saga over at Hungry Hungry Hippos, the Fat Hite Blog. I may also post here from time to time. Thinness, rippedness, and fitness, here I come.

Nerding it up at Home

photographer's gallery

Two Real Winners, Together at Last

Or Adam could be this guy:

"Closet" adj. - [1913 Webster] {Closet sin}, sin commited in privacy

I had written this post earlier on my phone in the mobile version of Internet Exploder, which apparently is incapable of clicking the "publish post" button. It was a travesty among travesties. I was walking from work where I am employed in an IT department that supports the Press and Mail Services departments at BYU. It's against the rules to recite my complete job title on the clock, because they like me to spend my time doing productive things. They don't have budget to pay students to stand around babbling.

I have a nerdy history in general. I played and was quite good at Magic: The Gathering throughout high school, even being crowned president of the official Conflict Simulation Club on campus.

Shout out to Chris Levy! I stand behind all my arguments as to the assignment of trample damage, but concede that the way I used Gaea's Cradle with Crop Rotation was less than legal.














I beat Pokemon on a GameBoy emulator on my Apple Performa 6100 well before the cartoon ever aired. I'm not denying watching or liking the cartoon, though, even if their interpretation of Misty was way off. I played Dungeon's & Dragons, even creating a new class that used a debauchery of the experience requirement multiplier. The Vitamancer gained levels and hit points quickly with very few trade-offs! I seriously considered accepting an invitation to go LARPing with a couple of friends.

Shout out to Adam Foxx! I still think Dawnette Larsen was just using you for your Magic cards.

I am a geek, a nerd, a dork. All that being said, don't tell anyone, but I am a casual and an infrequent gamer. I don't know how it happened. I never meant for things to turn out this way. I should, by all measurements, be playing World of Warcraft right now. I ought to have a [whatever the highest level is] of [whatever the best class is] [whatever the best race is]. But I don't. I am a closet casual gamer. I play 10 minutes of Diablo II every other week. I have a level 16 barbarian who probably has a crappy set of skills. I am always excited when the latest and greatest games are announced, even making a mental checklist of what to buy, but when I caved in and laid down cash for a new console, it was a Wii, and I haven't even turned that on in the last month. I wanted a DS, so my brother gave me his. I played a third the way through the Zelda game and lost interest. The only game I played much was the Bejeweled game with some farce of an RPG attached to it. Today the game I play most is the hangman gadget in my iGoogle homepage.

So there it is. I like the idea of games, I just don't have what it takes. I don't have the time to invest in GTA or WoW or FFX or whatever. even some of the more involved Flash games are too story intensive for me. Forgive me for what I have become.