I’m about to make some fun new changes to my website, adding a page for Voice Over information and one for Podcasts. Steps needed to get a new phase of my career life underway. In the mean time, you’ll have a couple of opportunities to hear some of my writing this month. Tuesday, August 10th [...]
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We rolled into Denver last Thursday to spend a few days with Rance’s sister Seana and her husband Jason. I love these two, they’re so much fun to hang out with and we always eat well when we’re with them. In part because Jason is an aspiring chef. In fact, they just got back from [...]
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Traveling during the off season has it’s pluses and minuses. A definite plus: there’s far fewer people to contend with. Also, it’s pretty easy to drive into any town and get a hotel room. A plus or minus depending on how you look at it is that almost all of the normal tourist traps are [...]
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Tagged: Black Hills, Crazy Horse, Mt. Rushmore, South Dakota
Okay, here’s the deal–the west side of Minnesota and eastern South Dakota are parts of the country that make you think, why the hell would anyone live here? It’s desolate and flat–at least the parts you can see from the freeway, which is oh, so, straight and mind numbing. The flat grasslands allow you to [...]
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The alarm went off at 7:30am Tuesday morning, because we wanted to get a hold of a mechanic first thing in the morning so they could take a look at our car. Out of the handful of mechanics and garages in Onalaska I picked out Dee’s, mostly because the name was similar to mine. Yes, [...]
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Tagged: Biggest Ball of Twine, Dee's Auto Care, Mall of America, Minnesota, Onalaska
Rance and I are in a bit of a holding pattern while we wait for our sublet to become available. We’re going to move into our friend Padraic’s place while he goes out to sea for five months, but he doesn’t leave until May 7th. So, in the interim, Rance and I are traveling around [...]
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I’m back home–well, not my home, but Chicago home. We’re staying a week with our good friend Rene and his fiance Jaime. They’ve been so gracious to open their home up to us once again. My last few weeks in Hawaii were amazing; I’ll be posting some pictures soon. Those pictures will include shots of [...]
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Tagged: CIF 2010, improv, R&D Project, Silent Treatment
Two and a half weeks, that’s what’s left of this contract. It’s scary and exciting and good all rolled into one. I have truly loved this contract; Hawaii has been amazing, as have the ship and crew. And now we are focusing on going back to Chicago to somewhat of the unknown. We do know [...]
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Several years back, I had a completely different life. I was an IT project manager working for a fortune 1000 company, making fairly good money, and feeling my soul slowly drip away. One of my saving graces was working for a woman named Joni who completely understood my creative side and supported me in so [...]
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This past Saturday my friends Mike and Jill were in Honolulu visiting Mike’s bruddah David. It was great seeing faces from home and laughing and play catch up with their lives. At one point when we were driving around we stumbled on a pink house with an odd design element of a Hello Kitty glitter [...]
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Tagged: Chicago Friends