Brigham Skarda

Well, I went on a small motorcycle ride last week through trappers’ loop (which was a beautiful, though short road through the mountains) thinking it was going to be the last ride of the season. And then this weekend came, and the weather was still quite nice. So, I decided to go out to Stansbury Island on the Great Salt Lake. To be honest, I noticed it on the map and because I had never been there, I wanted to see it. So, I dawned my coat at 8 am and started the drive out there. It was admittedly a little cold for comfort that early in the morning, but it warmed up later in the day. On the way there I actually got lost. Just before Grantsville I saw signs for Stansbury Park and I figured that was where I wanted to go. It was not, but it led to a little adventure of its own. Stansbury Park Stansbury Park turned out to just be a nice city park. The coolest thing there was probably their observatory. I couldn’t go inside, but it seems like they have a pretty good stargazing club. Other t...

Just wanted to give a life update since a lot has changed in the past couple months. The biggest change is my new employment situation. I'm now working as a software engineer for Borsight in Ogden, Utah. And it has been an amazing opportunity for me. It's really the best job I could have hoped for out of college. I feel fairly compensated, and I'm in an active development roll. Of course, having a real job also means that I haven't had as much time to develop my chess library or do game reviews anymore. I do intend to keep doing both of those in the future though. I've been playing mostly Sea of Stars, and Deep Rock Galactic lately. (I got to salty playing Heroes of the Storm, so I'm taking a little break from that). I haven't spent too much time in Ogden before, so it's been fun exploring a new city. The Union Pacific train station is a must see. And I've been fishing at Pineview reservoir a couple times. I also drove the motorcycle up to Rexburg Id...