It’s a great thing when your Church sponsors an event to go to the shooting range. I wrote a post on our Church’s website about the whole event, but I figured some of you might appreciate the video I made. You can watch it here.
Archive for the ‘Life / Culture’ Category
A Personal Loathing of Public Education
July 30th, 2010
The other day I went the Optometrist because my glasses broke. The last eye exam I had was in December of 2004. I purposefully chose to avoid going for as long as possible because I believe that when you get new glasses, they hurry your eyes to adjust to the stronger prescription. [...]
Short Sale
July 1st, 2010
It finally happened. There were three owners of the house we owned in Lake Forest Park, WA, but as of earlier this afternoon, we are no longer the owners. We listed the house in March of 2008 and ever since it has been a whirlwind of emotion, hopefulness, hopelessness, agony, indifference, despair and finally [...]
Facetime FTW
June 24th, 2010
Something happened today that has forever changed the way I think about communication. I picked up the new iPhone4 today and then this evening my friend Ragan and I tested out the video conferencing feature, Facetime. Neither of us had used it yet. A call came in from Ragan and it said [...]
Fort Collins, CO
June 5th, 2010
Personal Update: Well we finally did it. It’s been three days since Danielle and I arrived in Fort Collins and we are very happy about the change. While there are many things that we will miss about Seattle and the Great Northwest, we are happy to begin a new chapter in our lives [...]
Ding 30
November 24th, 2009
Thank you to everyone who came out to my early birthday party on Saturday, thank you for the gifts, thank you for friendship. Thank you everyone who posted on my facebook wall and filled my gmail inbox to the brim with facebook notifications. I really enjoyed my birthday party, spending time with friends, [...]
Starbucks Rebooted
July 24th, 2009
I believe Clover coffees taste much better and are roasted lighter than the espresso roast at a traditional Starbucks. However, 15th Ave Coffee And Tea serves espresso that tastes really good, surprisingly good. I went there this morning, its opening day, and it was fairly busy, but not a complete zoo of people. [...]
Uber Dry Mail, But Boundary Fail
May 11th, 2009
This is so suburbia. I live up a “street” where eight houses reside. This “street” is really an elaborate driveway because all of the houses are addressed to the “main” street, 55th Ave. You can see what I’m talking about on the map below. So all eight houses’ mailboxes used to sit [...]
A Guide To Buying Stuff
May 4th, 2009
We’ve all purchased crap we didn’t need, things we regret spending money on. I think I have five concepts that help me prevent that from happening.
The goal isn’t to obtain the most stuff…
Most of us are smart and already know this, but do you believe it with your money? Ingrained in our culture [...]
Birthday Roll
March 18th, 2009
If it’s your birfday, Happy Birfday! Play the song. Sign this post.
Go Shawty, it’s your birfday. We gonna party, like it’s your birfday…
[Audio clip: view full post to listen]
A long drive to Nick Tahoe’s in Rochester, NY
March 9th, 2009
I opened a piece of mail from the University of Washington financial aid office I brought along on my trip to Ithaca, NY. I was visiting my brother at Cornell in 2000. In a moment I saw my whole college life crashing and burning. I realized I was already two days late [...]
Via Ready Brew Tastes Good
February 18th, 2009
“Ready Brew” is such a great name for instant coffee. Good advertising makes me really happy. “Ready Brew” sounds like a higher quality instant coffee without sounding contrived, which is probably exactly what Starbucks intended to convey.
It tastes good. Considering that it competes with Folgers Instant coffee or Maxwell House instant coffee [...]
Dear Wedding Venue Website Owners
January 29th, 2009
Wedding plans are well underway. Danielle and I have enjoyed coming up with grand ideas and have met the challenge of seeing these ideas in the framework of reality instead of a dream world. The process requires some tenacity, creativity, and patience, but overall we are having fun as we plan a special themed wedding [...]
Engagement On New Years Eve
January 6th, 2009
New Years Eve Engagement from Chevas Balloun on Vimeo.
(Please leave your comments on this blog post vs. email!) Thank you to everyone who has wished us congratulations all over the interwebs including facebook, twitter, emails as well as the text messages and phone calls. Many of you already know that just before 2009 [...]
