Super Mario

Can you spot Julian Wright?

Rock Chalk Championship!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Championship Bound!

'Nuff said.

Final Four!!!!

Here we come Roy!!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Wow, I've got a lot of updating to do. Hopefully I'll get to it this weekend. I'm heading down to Lawrence today for the KU Engineering Career fair to do some recruiting. In the mean time, here's a hilarious Valentine's day comic from the folks at Explosm:

Silver Lining

Megan and I went to Arrowhead stadium to see the KU vs. MU game. Here's Megan doing some food prep out the back of my Pathfinder:

We ended up meeting up with my sister Megan and her friends before the game:

Here's some more pics from the game.

Yeah, yeah, I know, KU lost. But guess what? Mizzou isn't going to any bowl games and Kansas is in the Orange Bowl!!!!

KU vs. MU this Weekend

The KU vs. MU football game is this Thanksgiving weekend and guess what? I've got tickets. The game is sold out at Arrowhead and tickets are going for several hundred dollars on ebay.

We are ranked #2 and MU is ranked #4. This is one of the most anticipated games of the season, not to mention the most important sporting event at Arrowhead in the last many years.

I'll also be visiting Arrowhead the next morning for the Chiefs vs. Raiders rivalry game. My family is coming up and we're all going to the noon game.

Here's a nice little Simpsons dig at Missouri to set the tone for this weekend:

Christmas Wish List

Like last year, I've put together a list of stuff I need or just want ;) I'll update it as I think of more things. Seems like there's more stuff I need now that I have a house (especially tools).

Download in PDF, Excel, or Text.

KU Homecoming

We went down to Lawrence yesterday for KU's football homecoming (went last year too). We stomped Nebraska to make our record 9-0 and #4 in the country! We went to Marsh's sisters place which is right by the stadium. Megan just so happened to be in a nearby house and came by to hang out. Ryan was in town as well for the Chiefs vs. Packers game today. I took a few pictures. Here's one of the three of us:

Pumpkin Carving

Megan and I carved pumpkins last night. I went with a KU design and Megan created an owl.

More pics of the pumpkins.

Sibling's Day

Last Saturday (2/24/07) was Sibling's Day for Megan's sorority. Ryan came up earlier in the week and was staying at Clint's. Saturday morning, Megan and Ryan came to my apartment and we headed off to Power Play. Megan looked up the directions on MapQuest and it showed Power Play being in Independence, MO about 30 miles away (map). So, we headed off and about 30 or 40 minutes later, we were at our exit, but with no Power Play insight. Megan called her friends to find out exactly where it was, and they were saying they were at 62nd and Pflumm off of Shawnee Mission Parkway. What???? This is nowhere near where we are (Independence, MO), and I actually live pretty close to 62nd and Pflumm. So, we make a complete U-turn and had Megan (other Megan) look up directions on the Internet to the correct location. Finally, 1.5 hours later, we ended up at the correct location (map). Here are the correct directions. Megan felt real bad about it, but don't worry Megan cause we had a good road trip :)

We immediately hit up the buffet because we were starving by then. Here's a pic just after we ate (don't we look plump and full?):

I'd also like to add that it was pretty amazing we actually got Ryan to pose for a picture.

Then, we got down on some gaming. We mostly hit up the basketball and air hockey games:

Of course, Megan being blonde and in a Sorority, ended up losing the card they gave each of us that had points for playing the games. Sorry Megan, I couldn't resist. Finally, I'd like to end this with some picks of Ryan and I doing some serious cap poppin:

The "Other" Side

On Thursday (2/15/07), the manager (actually, my old manager) in the KS office I work with and I went to the Engineering and Computer Science Career Fair at KU in Lawrence. They had the career fair in the Kansas Union (map) and it was just like I remembered it.

Although it was only about 2 and a half years since I graduated from KU, it seemed like it had just been yesterday that I had attended the career fair looking for a job myself. Which, by the way, I never got a job this way :(

It was a relief to know that the students I talked to were just as nervous as I was when I was in their position. After they realized that I was not much older than them and I was actually still in school, most of them loosened up around me.

The fair started at 12:30 (with an awesome buffet lunch before at 11:30), but by 3:00 we had only gotten about 3 resumes. We were worried that it was going to be a bust, but the last 2 hours until 5:00 were much better and we ended up with about 20 resumes. I even talked to a couple of graduate students that we might consider for the team I'm on: SAM (Strategic Account Management).

I definitely don't miss the days of looking for a job and the notorious catch 22: employers are looking for applicants with experience but the applicant needs the job in order to get the experience they're looking for.

Migratory Weekend

Both Megan and Clint moved this weekend.

Megan moved just down the street from me (map) to Highland Ridge Apartments (map). You can throw a rock at Tanner's from her apartment...bonus! We pretty much got all of her crap moved between Friday (1/5/07) and Saturday (1/6/07). Her parents came up on Saturday with the big stuff and we went and got her new bed from Nebraska Furniture Mart (map). Amy, Megan's good friend, is going to school up here for 6 months so she is moving up here too and staying at Megan's place this week in the mean time.

Clint moved up to Lawrence on Friday. Him and another guy got a real nice town home at 6th and Wakarusa (map). I went down on Saturday night to check it out. He was managing the On The Border on the West side in Wichita (map) but is now going to be managing the On The Border in Lawrence (map). It will be nice to have Clint closer and a place to crash in Lawrence with free OTB food :)

BTW, the Jayhawks better beat OSU tonight. Sweet picture from last year when we beat them:

New KU Motorcycle Club Web Design is Up

I finally got the new design done and live for the KU Motorcycle Club at http://groups.ku.edu/~motoclub. Changes:

• Fixed F.A.Q. to look good through Firefox.
• New image on entry page.
• Condensed a few of the pages into one page.
• Updated the left-side navigation bar (new image, pages, font, size, etc.).
• Added images to the different news sites on the front page.
• New Club Officers page that shows images for each officer.

Best SI Cover Ever

Parental Visit

My parents and brother drove up from Derby (map) on Saturday and got here at about noon. Then, my sister, Megan, came up from Lawrence. Friday was her 19th birthday and Saturday night was a thing with Megan's sorority for Fathers where they were going to Dave & Buster's (map). So, that's basically why everyone came up to my apartment.

When Megan came up, we all (Myself, Mom, Dad, Ryan, Dennis, Megan P., and Megan M.) decided to go to the Elephant Bar for lunch. It was pretty good, and I had what I usually get, The Smokehouse:

I usually have to squish the chicken breast, ham, bacon, onion ring sandwich to even fit it in my mouth.

Then, my mom and the Megan's went shopping at Oak Park Mall (map). My dad, Dennis, Ryan, and I watched Click while they were gone. I wasn't really expecting that much, so it wasn't that bad. I'll probably never watch it again, but it was worth watching the first time.

Later that night, Megan and dad went to Dave & Buster's while Megan, my mom, and I watched KU beat the shit out of Northern Arizona. I'm so excited about this season. Rush and Wright are freaking amazing and the freshman Collins and Arthur have been real impressive. We basically chilled for the rest of the night.

In the morning, we went and ate breakfast at First Watch (map). Megan and I have been trying to go for the last two years in both KC and Lawrence but the wait is always so long that we end up going to Micky D's or IHOP or something. Anyways, I had The Works Omelette and breakfast was pretty good. Afterwards we went and picked up my brother and Dennis' and went back to my apartment and mom cut my hair. They left shortly after.

All in all, it was good to see the whole family and we had a good time.

Bulls vs. Supersonics at Allen Field House

Megan P., Megan M., Morgan, and I went to the Chicago Bulls vs. Seattle Supersonics game in Lawrence. Mind you, the game was at 1PM in the afternoon and Megan and Morgan and I didn't get back from Westport that morning until 3:30AM :(

It was really cool to see Kirk Hinrich and Nick Collison playing in Allen Fieldhouse again. They both started the game and every time they did anything of note, the crowd cheered like crazy. Likewise, every time they committed a foul, the crowd booed loudly.

Going into the game, they have a new addition to the front of Allen Fieldhouse, the Booth Family Hall of Athletics. This is really cool and contains all kinds of KU basketball information and memorabilia. They have a piece of the original court (see pic below) in addition to the original "Beware of the Phog" banner. There were too many people so we didn't really get to check everything out. I'm definitely going back sometime to look through everything.

The Bulls were the acting hometeam and had a rather lively mascot, "Benny the Bull". There are a few picture of him up on my site in addition to other pictures from the game. He was quite the dancer, although he probably couldn't keep up with me ;)

I also really liked seeing Ben Wallace. That guys is freakin huge but talented at the same time. I'd hate to catch an elbow from him when he's ripping a rebound off the glass.

Anyways, the Bulls lead most of the game by 10, but right towards the end of the game, the Supersonics caught up and but the game in overtime. The Bulls end up winning in overtime.

Although I definitely like college basketball over the NBA, it was a good game to watch and seeing all of that talent on one team was impressive. It was also good to see that Hinrich and Collison are making a difference at the professional level.

KU Homecoming

I decided to take Ember and go down to Lawrence yesterday for KU's homecoming. I have a few friends that still live there and several other friends that were coming into town. I followed Marsh and Tina (my friends and neighbors) down to Lawrence pretty early in the morning. We were at the liquor store by 10AM :) We headed down to the stadium to tailgate. I ended up meeting with my sister, Megan, there. We stayed until the end of the first quarter and left.

We went to another bar, The Wheel, to watch the rest of the game and have more beers. It was dissapointing and we lost in the last quarter. We left and made our way to Teller's for an awesome lunch. I had the Chicken Pancetta. A little too chewy, but hit the spot after a morning's worth of beer drinking!

Everyone ended up hanging out at Johnny's for the rest of the afternoon and then we went to the Yacht Club for more drinks :) and dinner. Finally, we went to Louise's West which seems like where we always end up in Lawrence at the end of the night.

Tina had left earlier in the day so I agreed to take Marsh back later that night because they had engagement pictures this morning. We took off around 10PM and made it safely back to OP.

Just when I thought the night was over, I get a frantic call from Tina around midnight and I quickly headed over to their place. Marsh had tried to make something to eat when he got home and apparently passed out in the middle of it. Long story short, he set the smoke alarms off and the cops showed up. I swear, I can never have a normal day/night out!