Cody Swainston
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@rcswainston
Husband & Dad. Ag Guy. Golf. Ice Cream. History Nerd. Member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Introducing the founding members of the new club GROSSS Get Rid Of Slimy SmartwatcheS @AndrewBragg5555 @NephiKindofGuy @LatterDayCool After having a smart watch for a few years, I started to realize it wasn’t improving my life. I used to track steps and found it interesting for a time, but it didn’t encourage me to walk more. I used to track my sleep and found that interesting, but realized it didn’t change anything about my sleep. I was getting constant buzzing from notifications on my wrist from too many people trying to get my attention, so I decided to buy a $22 Casio watch, and I haven’t looked back. I’m happier without my smart watch. You should consider ditching it as well!
The internet is going crazy over the newly confirmed Swatch x Audemars Piguet collaboration. Dubbed the “Royal Pop,” the upcoming collaboration is rumored to bring AP’s Royal Oak aesthetic to a more accessible price point, reportedly estimated between $300 and $500. Despite concept images surfacing as a wristwatch, some speculate the collab is a pocket watch. However, the official images of the watch have not been released.
Local Democratic elected officials need to embrace pro growth housing policies. The housing crisis is real. When the median age of a home buyer is 40 you cannot be picky about colored brick vs vinyl. Build. Build. Build.
Love this: #Broncos OT Garett Bolles was driving down the freeway when he noticed a woman who needed help with a flat tire. He immediately pulled over and changed it himself! A reminder that these NFL players are incredible people off the field, too. 🫡 (🎥 @bylucaevans)
Latter-day Saints Should Put Down Roots Outside the Hub of Utah: Building Zion Where We Are: I have hesitated to write this, but I’m going to be bold. The reason I post so much about Wisconsin is because I want good members to move here. It’s a wonderful place and we need you here. Anyone who lives outside the intermountain west has experienced the same thing on a regular basis. Ask anyone, and they will tell you this has happened. A ward, always eager for more families in an area with few members, has one move in due to a job transfer. They are enthusiastically welcomed in and integrated into the ward. After a year or two, the family then moves back to Utah. The ward feels deflated and discouraged. This happens all the time. Another scenario also frequently happens in these wards. Again, ask anyone, and they will tell you this has happened as well. A well established family has a college-aged child who decides to go to school in Utah. They leave the ward to move to Utah, and then they meet someone from there, get married, and stay there. The native ward feels deflated and discouraged. The parents of that child then feel pulled to move to Utah to be closer to their children. This is not an anti-Utah post, but a plea to people to consider putting down multi-generational roots in other places, too. When these remote wards lose good families, they completely change the dynamic of the primary or youth programs. Marriage-aged members have fewer potential prospects and have no choice but to look towards Utah. These remote wards also lose out on experience that comes from multi-generational experience in the church. If every college-aged member in my area stayed here and had families here, and every family that moved here stayed, the size of our wards and stakes would easily be double what they are now, but sadly, the pull to Utah is often a net-negative to the growth here. Lastly, Utah is increasingly becoming unlivable. Now may be the time to move to other places. Our forebears were willing to go to new places to establish a new Zion. We should be willing to today.
We are blessed with sports for the next couple of months 🙏
The Par 3 Contest has always been about family, laughter, and tradition. Augusta doesn’t need to be turned into a stage for celebrity spectacle. Jason Kelce and Kevin Hart are great in their lanes, but this week, and especially today, isn’t about personalities. It’s about the place, the history, and the game itself. When outside noise gets layered in, it chips away at what makes Augusta National feel different in the first place. Just my $0.02.
