Treasure Hunting

I heard on the news last week that the state government had listed about 25,000 names of people who have claim to different types of property like lost paychecks, deposits, money forgotten in savings accounts, etc; which up to this point have gone unclaimed. A few days later I read an article in the paper about the same thing. The article mentioned that each year there is over $100 million of unclaimed property which the state invests or uses to pay for other government programs if not claimed, but the state is not responsible for contacting all of these people so they resort to just listing these names in the newspaper or online every so often. 25,000 people from October 2007 up until now alone!! Why not me? So on Sunday I decided to check and unfortunately I had no unclaimed property, but as I checked for other people that I knew I found that my Uncle and my cousin had some. Although Becca wasn't quite as amused as I was, I found it kind of exciting, almost like a modern day treasure hunt where you just didn't know what kind of treasure (unclaimed property) was going to pop up when you input a name. I passed the info along to my dad and told him to tell my Uncle. Hopefully I will get some sort of finder's fee for my discoveries.

Pregnancy powers

Although we don't play as much as we used to, Becca and I on occasion still love to break out the chess board for some intense battles. Luckily we have always been very evenly matched which has made for some really good games. But it seems like ever since Becca has been pregnant she has just been dominating me. The last few times we have played she has won pretty handly. But this last Sunday things were completely different. I was taking pieces left and right and before Becca even knew what hit her her King was mine. I guess it is just a sign that our baby boy is almost here and Becca's reign as the pregnant chess queen has come to a close.

Best class ever!

Right now I am currently enrolled in one class in order to get as many credits out of the way before the baby comes, but also not too many because the end of finals and our baby boy's birth fall on the same day (June 18). So I have two more weeks left for this class which is a surveying class. If you ever see those guys out in the streets with their tripods and gps systems, yep that's what I'm doing. Definitely not as fun as it looks. Another reason I took this class before the baby came is because it is known for being a pretty intense class. Luckily I am taking it from one of the easiest teachers I have ever had at BYU. He's an older guy who is super nice and I believe this is his first semester teaching at BYU.

I pretty much began to minimize my effort for this class about 3 weeks ago when the teacher said "I've only failed one person in my teaching career and that was because he didn't come to class and he didn't take the tests. So don't worry you are all pretty much going to get a C or better." Now let's face it, a C is not a grade that most people strive for but sometimes I get a C after trying fairly hard. And to top off this excellent class, today the professor went over the final and he gave us 5 different options to choose from; 1) closed book, testing center, time limit 2) open book, testing center, time limit 3) open book, testing center, no time limit 4) open book, take home, time limit, do all problems 5) open book, take home, no time limit, choose 5 out of 10 problems to do. After voting it was pretty much unanimous that option 5 was the winner (although 2 people voted for option 2. Some of those civil engineering students are a little strange). So, I will have a whole week to spend taking the test in the comforts of my own home or in the hospital depending on when little Miller decides to come.