Here I am actually live on the radio! There are two segments that were taken from two different parts of the show with a couple seconds on silence between the two. Hopefully I don’t sound like that big of a dork, haha.
Listen here!

Back to another wonderful week of work…

Let’s see, on Friday Kim and I took it easy since we had to get up somewhat early on Saturday. We played a few games of two player euchre in a few different ways. I tried to find directions on the internet, and found all kinds of different ways to play, so we tried them all. Perhaps I’ll post a link to our favorite version, I think we need a few more games though…

Saturday we did wake up early to get our butts out to Lawrence, KS. Bobbi was intown with the rest of the UC crew team. We drove out to some river in Lawrence just in time to see them getting their boat ready and heading off to start the race. It was pretty chilly out and the last place I would want to be was that close to the water, but these people are nuts anyway. They wake up way before the sun rises to get out on the water before classes start, reminds me of morning hockey practice, yuck! Back to the race though, those boats really move. I was surprised, but I heard that they do reach a speed of about 11 mph or so. Bobbi’s team won the race, beating both KU and K-State. Their time also beat UC’s first varsity team time!

Sunday was Easter, so happy belated Easter to everyone! My day was full of things to do. First, we went to the Royal’s game. This was the 6th game of the season I think, and the Royal’s were just about 500. We did see a win though, so they are now 4 and 2 on the season. Hopefully this won’t be the last game we see…
Later in the day I went out to 97.3 The Planet studios for the Sunday night show with Jim McCroy and Chris Phoenix. I listen to their program just about every week and therefore they invited me to come in and participate in a show. You probably remember the clip I put up before where they played some songs that I picked out, well this time I was going into the studios to talk about these songs and other musicians. I’ll try and get another clip up of some of the show highlights. Even though you don’t see anyone who is listening to what you are saying, it is still kind of intimidating. The guys said I did a good job though, and so did Kim. It was a great time, and hopefully I’ll be able to do it again…

Ed really on the radio? That’s right! I’ll be sitting in on the Sunday Night show at 97.3 The Planet tonight! I’ll likely get to talk about a few of the songs getting played, and pick some of the songs once again. I wish there was a streaming audio link for you all to tune in, but I’ll try my best to record some of the cooler parts!

I’m off to the Royal’s game for now, more about the weekend later…

I’m guessing that most of you saw the pics of the blue fountain. The city is pretty obsessed. :)
I think that we are heading to a Royal’s game this weekend actually, on Easter!

Work has been really busy lately. I’m searching for the perfect automated testing tool for our company. It’s pretty cool that they are letting me pretty much decide what software we should purchase, but it is also kind of stressful…

Kim and I have been contemplating going on the rock boat this year. It’s an extended weekend cruise with something like 30 bands on the boat as well. It sounds like it would be nonstop fun, and for a pretty reasonable price, I think. You can check it out here and let me know what you think…

Today is opening day for the Royal’s and I guess a bunch of other mlb teams. Almost our whole office is over at someone’s house watching the game and most importantly not working. I felt obligated to stay here at work since Steve was doing so. So I’m sitting here at work while others are out doing nothing. I should just leave and go home. :)

We went to both of the nearby museums yesterday. The nice things is that they are both free, minus one exhibit at the second museum. First we visited the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. I really don’t understand most of the abstract art, but there were a few interesting exhibits. It was a smaller sized museum and we went through it all pretty quickly. We then headed over to Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. This is a huge older building. There is everything from ancient European and Chinese sculpture, to modern paintings. There is definitely a bunch to see. I put some pictures up of both museums but only the outsides. I really didn’t see anything that was that interesting to me to take pictures of. Plus the guards might think I was a little weird.

We have a pretty typical Sunday planned for today. Laundry and cleaning, along with Chipotle!!!

Progressive messed up and admitted to it. They are going to pay the $14,950, so hopefully that works out for the credit union. So much fun…

We went to happy hour last night at O’Dowd’s. Ended up starting pretty early so it was an early night for us, but still fun. They are talking about doing it every Friday now, but hopefully next time we can get an outside table somewhere. It was awesome out last night.

It looks to be another beautiful day in KC. I’m hoping to hit up one of the museum’s that is right here by our place. I think Kim also wants to get haircuts. Time for lunch, later…

So, progressive is only going to pay $13,000 dollars for the car, so I owe the other $2000+.

Just kidding, april fools! That was pretty bad, but I don’t have any good jokes for this year. Progressive actually did come to me with a number of $14,450 which is much less than what we were expecting. They did make a mistake though, and the number is actually $14,950. I haven’t heard back from the credit union yet, but I’m just hoping that whatever happens I don’t have to pay anymore money. I did purchase gap coverage on the car, which is supposed to cover this difference. We’ll see…

On Monday I saw Mission 19 as part of The Planet’s new artist showcase. A few guys from the OAR board have been talking about this band for a long time now, as they should have been because this is a good band. It was only the two main guys of the band playing acoustic guitars, but it was a very nice hour long set. I did get a chance to talk to them right before leaving the club, and they were very nice and easygoing. We ended up talking with them for awhile and found out that Joe’s mom is from Cincinnati. We talked about Cincinnati a bunch, amongst other things. I really enjoyed the show, and I hope that they make it back very soon…

Nothing else terribly exciting has been going on, although Pig-Fest is likely going to be on July 10th this year. So keep that date open on your calendars. I’m working to clean up that website, and then I’m sure we will be sending out the invites very soon!

I have a Tanner Walle show to catch tonight, especially since I skipped the show last night. I needed some extra sleep though…

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