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March 24, 2012

Best Compliment You Can Give A Band (Styx)

I tried, unsuccessfully (thank goodness), to blow my home theater speakers watching the Styx Grand Illusion / Pieces Of Eight DVD. Those two albums from the late 70’s are so great.  The band plays both albums back to back.  It was the first time I’ve ever heard songs like Castle Walls and Aku Aku performed […]

March 21, 2012

The “OMG Dad You’re Annoying” Wave Off

When you’re the parent of a teenager who is dropping your child off at a friend’s house, you wait until they are in the door. This is what you do. You are a good parent. The teenage boy is absolutely horrified by this, especially if the friend’s house belongs to a girl. This is when […]

January 14, 2012

How To Schedule A Yammer Message For Later Delivery

Here goes my most geeked out blog post ever. This is for Yammer users who want to schedule a Yammer message for posting to their Yammer network at a later time. We use this at my company, Intrapromote, for staff announcements on new blog posts set to publish the following day. So, you want to […]

December 31, 2011

Some Thoughts On Giving More in 2012

I’m reading a book that’s main focus is about a “hole” in the Gospel. The author’s main point is that the Gospel of Christ is more than just believing, it’s also about living it out through tangible expressions of our faith. I had a bit of an epiphany recently. I was walking around totally engulfed […]

December 21, 2011

Baby Jesus 2011

It’s time for the 4th annual Where’s Baby Jesus annual tradition at our house. Here are links to the last three years: 2008, 2009 and 2010 (amazing to see how Collin has grown the last 4 years!) So this year, Collin didn’t hesitate to let Baby Jesus take a camel carriage ride all by himself. As you can see […]

June 19, 2011

My “Pick 5” Stock Experiment, 5 Years Later

Five years ago today, on March 18, 2006, I decided to choose 5 companies that I liked and buy their stock. I didn’t spend any time researching the companies I chose. I simply chose companies whose product or service I liked! I took $10,000 and bought $2,000 of each stock. Here are the companies I […]

April 21, 2011

Some Of My Favorite Quotes

Here are some of my favorite quotes: No man is poor who has a Godly mother. You could see the bright side of a plague. Call on God but row away from the rocks. Hunter S. Thompson Suck is non-linear. Maturity is knowing the difference between having something to say and just having to say […]

February 2, 2011

Kim On Can You Relate?

Kim’s segment starts about about 19:00:

January 2, 2011

Cribbs Vanilli?