Welcome to those of you who are here after hearing my song selections on 97.3 The Planet. You can find more info on the bands I selected at their respective websites: American Cherry, Michael Franti & Spearhead and Virginia Coalition. In addition check out the music section of the site to hear the NOW That’s What Ed Calls Music compilations, and other music information and downloads! Thanks for stopping by, and feel free to contact me…

If you are one of the regulars and you have no idea what I’m blabbing about, here is the scoop. I picked out three songs to be played on the best Kansas City radio station, and they were played tonight! You can hear the introduction that was done for my selections here. Jim (one of the DJ’s) had some very nice things to say about yours truly, and I’m very thankful about that and the fact that I was able to help with the program!

Last night Kim and I went to happy hour at the brooksider and met up with all the regulars. We watched some of the basketball games, and I even was cheering for Xavier. Might as well support Cincinnati…
After that we met up with Steve Christy and some others for a Shaking Tree show. I enjoyed this show a bunch more than the first time we saw them. The sound was pretty terrible the first time (outside on a PA system) so there was a ton of room for improvement. I’ll have my recording done eventually. :)

We spent most of the day today re-tiling our kitchen. I already put some pictures up, so go check those out. Now we just have to keep the rabbit out of the kitchen…

Here is the arial view of our place in KC…

Try your own out here…

“Every dog has its day every day has its way of being forgotten. ‘Mom it’s my birthday’ What Would You Say?”

Dave Matthews said it best, it is my birthday today, but it was not forgotten at all. The big 24, geeze I’m getting old. If only it were my 25th so that my ever rising insurance prices would actually go down some.

Sounds like Kim and I are going out for Italian somewhere tonight, and then possibly meeting up with the usuals for some drinks. I made plans with Phil to drink his “free” beers from the brooksider during 2 for 1 night. Well it was last night, and I thought it was tonight. I missed my opportunity…

Kim has already given me a new desk chair, so now it is even harder to get me off of the computer. I don’t know what she was thinking. :)

Those pics from the weekend will be up soon, I promise!

As I was saying, we went to St. Louis for the weekend with Doni and Phil. St. Louis is a cool town, we all had a great time. We visited the Budweiser brewery, union station, the arch, and finished it all off with our own pub crawl that took us to some interesting places. The most interesting was a place called the Royal Dumpe. The entire staff was dressed up in medieval clothes. We later found out that there was a dinner theatre attached to the bar, but that didn’t stop us from getting some funny pictures. Hopefully I’ll have them all up by tomorrow!

I’m sure some of you have been waiting for me to post the following story about totaling my new car. Sunday morning we left the hotel around 11 so we could get back home and watch the end of the UC game. Before we could make it 5 miles along the way, the car in front of me swerved from the left lane into the center lane of the highway. This revealed a pick-up truck bed liner sitting in the left hand lane which I was in. I swerved in the same manner that the car in front of me did, and then quickly went back towards the left lane. I guess this with the combination of my braking sent the car into a fishtail like pattern. It felt as if we were on ice, but the road was perfectly dry. This pattern worsened and the car ended up spinning 180 degrees so that Kim and I were face to face with a semi truck. There was nothing I could do now, but just hang on. Obviously we are both ok, and only had minor scratches and soreness. The car is totaled though, at least that is what progressive is telling me now. All that work from so many people, and now it is all wasted.

I asked progressive to send me the pictures they take of the car, so hopefully I can get those up sometime. I had my camera on me the whole time, but didn’t think to take any pictures.

Kim and I have decided to hold off on getting another car. We really only use one car, and with my rising insurance costs I don’t know if it will be worth it at all.

I’m having such bad luck lately, hopefully something turns around…

Cincinnati barely squeaked a win out today, hopefully they do better the next game…

I’m off to St. Louis for the weekend, I’ll write more when I get back! :)

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I forgot to mention this before, but it was nice to watch the Bearcats win the CUSA Tourney! Hopefully all of you who went to the game enjoyed it…

Friday night my buddy Steve Christy came into town from Wichita for the Steve Poltz show. We took at cab to the show so we call could drink after a long week of work. The minivan cab picks us up, but this thing was PIMPED out. It had to TV screens, a laptop, DVD players, etc. The cabbie made us play guess the one hit wonder, Steve was really good at the game, hahahaha. The show was a blast. Poltz is one funny dude, and he helped Jewel write her big song “You Were Meant For Me” so he has some really good stories to tell. My pictures are up on the site, and I’m working on my recording. After the show we went to the dueling piano bar again, and it was dead. We had a late night dinner and then called it a night. Good times for sure!

Saturday Kim and I just watching School Of Rock. Pretty good movie…

Today we went out to lunch with Doni & Phil to a good Mexican restaurant! Then did some shopping, but I didn’t get anything cool. Oh well, my birthday is right around the corner. :)

Today is the one year anniversary of Marchtober, the huge party we had at our college house last year! Great memories of such an awesome weekend…

Today is March 11th, 3.11! What a cool day!

The show was a good time last night. I won a free CD that I already have a copy of, but oh well. It’s a Train CD, anyone want it???
Blue October was a lot harder than I expected, but I enjoyed their poppier songs. Pomeroy was awesome, although I didn’t get to tape. Hopefully next time it will all work out…

I think tonight we are just gonna take it easy. I’ve been wanting to watch School Of Rock, so maybe we’ll do that. Kim has a test tomorrow for some insurance thing. I probably should know more, but I don’t. She has been studying like crazy for this thing though. I’m sure she will do fine! I may just have to play on my computer all night, and maybe clean up the place a little bit. We’ll see…

While kim was gone I got a few things done for the pending second release of oarsa.org, but Jay is really the one that is kicking ass on developing the site. I’ll see if I can get a screenshot or two up for you all to see sometime in the near future. We hope to have some beta testers start hitting the site in the next couple weeks. As all of that is going on, we still have a ton of data to input into the database, so it will keep us busy enough.

Releated to this, I’ve also decided that it is time for me to learn some php and sql. I’m gonna use it to do some simple things on this site and probably to help with doing some work for others like Ed Hearn…

Tonight is the Pomeroy show that I’ve been waiting to go to. It will be my second time seeing them, this time is a much larger venue, the Beaumont Club. I hope that I’ll be able to tape, but Beaumont has always been such a pain to me. Plus the other band playing, Blue October, is very anti-taping. I’ve been spending some time on their board telling the fans the benefits of taping. I still think some don’t get it, but oh well. It’s tough work, but someone has to do it. :)