When we arrived at the JFK airport in New York, five women were dressed in their burqa, the traditional black dress covering the entire body and face of a woman, with only the eyes showing. Jason called it the ninja wear. And as…
The Big Apple. Wall street. The Empire State Building. New York has much to see and luckily our travels to the great pyramids didn’t begin until Tuesday, so our group – Rob, Shayna, Chris, Ron, Jason, Lisa – decided to head out a…
When someone says they are a salesman, what do you think? Do you envision a church goer who can do no wrong? No. I’d say the majority of people have a negative perception. We always base the worst case example to symbolize the…
Bridget, Lisa, Weavers, Gaedtkes, and I are getting ready for our trip to Egypt in the next few weeks. I can’t wait, but I also wanted to get a better sense of Egyptian history. When we went to Peru earlier in the year,…
Come one, Come all. Welcome to the 2nd (bi)Annual Northwest House Crawl This past Friday we got back on track and had our second house crawl. We had our first crawl in 2008 in late December. We even had an ugly sweater theme…
I’ve been keeping in shape at the gym and run our “loop” around the block. I had my mind on a few races that were coming up. With no real goal in mind, I decided that I should sign up for these. I’ve…
Since 1997 I’ve ran a Fantasy football league with some good friends. I can still remember the day sitting in Kevin’s basement, being a Junior in high school, and picking my first fantasy football team. At the time, fantasy football wasn’t too popular…
On Labor Day Bridget and I decided to take a break from Reno and visit Erron and Alexya in Petaluma. We darted down their Friday night to spend the next two days with them. When we arrived, Erron greeted me with a new…
“If you do things the way everybody else does them, why do you think you’re going to do any better?” Originality. This was the centerpiece of the Purple Cow and really, this is the key element to becoming a maverick. The maverick pushes…
Bridget and I scooted down to Yosemite with some friends (Meghan, Brian, Anya) for a Saturday night. We left early morning (7am) and arrived in Yosemite for lunch. We reserved a spot, at the Diamond O campground, about a mile out of the…