Happy Birthday Tim! (It was yesterday)

Friday I went from work directly to Baja 600 on the Plaza for happy hour. Todd was there, along with Susan and some other people she works with. We were drinking margaritas by the pitcher, and racked up quite a tab, it was perfect outside though. Good times!

Saturday, Kim and I went to a wedding shower kind of thing for a guy I work with. It was actually a lot better than I was expecting. Half of the crowd was doing shots of tequila and it was interesting to see most of the people I work with unwind for a while. I wanted to go to a couple of shows that night, but we ended up staying at the party until 11 or so. Hopefully more things like this happen soon…

Sunday brought with it the usual activities, and lunch at Chipotle! I had one of the largest burritos I’ve seen in awhile! Afterwards, it was time for the sopranos party and Todd’s birthday celebration over at Susan’s house. Great dinner with some huge chicken breasts, potatoes, corn, salad, bread, etc. I had to tape the Sunday Night radio show, and after the party listened to parts of it. Jim, the guy who runs it and brought me into the studio, is moving to Arizona and next week will probably be his last show. I hope the show goes on, and perhaps you’ll hear more of me on that station. :)

The Trolley Run is right around the corner, and it seems like almost everyone is going to do it. I’m going to run along with Todd, and Kim will probably stay on our pace as well. I don’t think she is in a hurry to get it over with. Doni and Phil are also participating, and everyone has the same goal of not puking while doing the race, haha.

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…

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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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. Now we just have to keep the rabbit out of the kitchen…

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…