TweetOn February 22, 1980 I turned 6 years old. In Mrs. Parker’s kindergarten class if I do the math right. And I don’t remember much else from that time of my life. Just about that time I was learning how to hit a baseball off a tee. Playing wiffle ball in the back yard, occasionally [...]
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TweetYet another Groupon deal, Jen and I took a half hour ride over Chicago in a Rotorzen helicopter back on July 20, 2012. It took off at Midway airport, and we flew over the southwest side to the West Loop where we went over the United Center and my condo building. Headed east to the [...]
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TweetSpring break! Vacation in Arizona, March 2012 (where the temp in Chicago was warmer than Arizona most of the week). Jen had never been to the Grand Canyon, and I don’t need an excuse for Arizona in March for some spring training baseball, so there we go… let’s rent a yellow Ford Fiesta and take [...]
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TweetThat’s right. On the Wednesday, September 14th episode of the Colbert Report, it was announced to the world that Craig Parshall is a Hero in the scrawl during the segment about the financial troubles of the US Postal Service. Contributors to the Colbert Super PAC “Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow” are the Colbert Nation [...]
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TweetFor some reason, Jen & I decided to spend the Saturday afternoon of Memorial Day weekend up in Lake Geneva Wisconsin at the Lake Geneva Canopy tours zipline course flying through the trees on a wire. A few years ago I really wanted to go ziplining in Vancouver up on Grouse Mountain during my Blackhawk [...]
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TweetI mentioned to Jen a few cities that I wanted to travel to and see the Blackhawks play. Montreal, Toronto, Boston, New York, and one other of those cities is Detroit. Jen, having connections in the Detroit area, hooked us up with some FANTASTIC seats. And hey, it was Jen’s birthday weekend, where else would [...]
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TweetWanted to do this for years. Thanks to a Groupon discount, I finally got around to it. Although, whatever i saved on the drop reservation, I gave back to them with the video package. But hey, figured I’d only do this once, so might as well take as much away with me as possible, assuming [...]
Read moreTweetIt was a long way to go to see the Blackhawks lose a hockey game, but the chance to see the city of Vancouver was worth it nonetheless.
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