We’re finishing with the home upgrades, I need to run to the airport to pick up my brother … a lot of good things are happening!
Picture it: I had to do a favor for my brother. Aaron goes with me. We walk into Barnes & Noble after said favor is complete. As I make my way through the aisles on the upper level, I approach a near empty table with an Angry Bird plush ceremoniously placed in the center. Right over the opening to the lower floor. It took every ounce of my not inconsiderable self-control not to pick it up, yell the Angry Birds sound, and hurl it over the abyss.
The atmosphere at the Country Club Plaza feels like a celebration tonight because the best baseball players in the country are staying at The Intercontinental for the 2012 Major League Baseball All-Star Game. The fountains have been dyed blue, in honor (we presume) of the hometown Kansas City Royals, it looks like there is going to…
I’m in for a night of crunching financials on spreadsheets to try and figure out if a potential opportunity we came to Texas to examine is feasible or wise at various price ranges. It’s going to be a long night, so everyone ordered up milk and cookies to sustain us until the wee hours of…
I am in a small city in Texas on business. I need to stop by several of the cities here to accomplish various things. As of this moment, I’m in Waco. We were in Fort Worth this afternoon and Oklahoma City this morning. Tomorrow, I’m heading to Dallas for a few days for an unrelated…
Now that the desserts, chocolate covered strawberries, and spa water are done, my sisters have arrived and the Italian food is being made. My niece asked me to go outside with her and play with sidewalk chalk so I braved the 90+ degree heat and we broke out the giant box I keep at the…
As we approach my 30th birthday, I thought about taking a look at what has happened to the economy of the United States in the three decades I’ve been alive to gain a sense of perspective about where we have been. This is the time period during which I went from childhood to adulthood, and…
I went to the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City to see the new Rodin exhibit with Aaron and Jimmy. You already know Aaron, but Jimmy is a mutual friend from college. I had a fantastic time, especially in the 17th, 18th, and 19th century furniture exhibits, for reasons that will be no…
My family is having a houseguest fly in from Houston this weekend, but since the house is still under renovation, we had to improvise. An extra bed was put in the formerly empty guest room, which had been vacated as part of the redesign, and we spent all day yesterday running around Overland Park looking…
My schedule was completely reshuffled this afternoon because my grandmother and four-year-old niece stopped by for a wonderful surprise visit. During the conversation, it came up that Ellie had never seen Mary Poppins. Completely unacceptable! We cancelled everything else for the day, bought it on Apple TV, made English tea with sugar and milk (though,…
