Milwaukee to Chicago

Here in the states we just had a long weekend. Jillian and I celebrated it by traveling with some friends to Milwaukee Wisconsin to visit our friend Laura who recently moved there for school. To make the most of it we took a red eye Thursday night and had Friday off to make it a four day weekend.
We arrived at six in the morning , after a little sleep in we found some energy to get up and go see some sites of the cheese state. Our friend lives in cool part of town which is a lot like Fremont in Seattle or Freo in WA. That artsy type feel to it. We walk around there and got to see the great lakes and it is crazy to see a lake you can not see the other side of after that we headed in to the main part of the city and man was there history and architecture to boot.
It is cool but seriously the highlight of The day was when we took the pub tour called the "Pedal Tavern". It is a 12 seated table that you pedal around the city from bar to bar unfortunately they are still working out the liquor license, so the tap on board was dry. A lovely dinner was had to round out the day. 
Here is a pic of Jillian and the "Pedal Tavern".
















The next day was was a little bit more chilled out but just as fun. We spent the day with our friend Charlie and his family and friends. Charlie lives in Seattle with us and coincidently is from the same place our friend is now going to school. We spent the day bbqing, having a few drinks watching football, playing games and rounded out with us sitting around fire.














Sunday we made am2 hr trip down to Chicago and man was it great. I don't think I can explain how cool and overwhelming it was, by far the biggest city I have been to. As soon as we step out of the tunnel we get to see one of the city's most infamous pieces of art. Here is a couple of pictures of it.
On the second picture can you pick me out? Cause when you were looking into it, it was hard to find yourself.


























 Chicago is famous for many many things, but we were hungry and hunting for one thing deep dish pizza. Let's just say it was worth the long walk and long wait.
Our now friends Annie and Mike (Charlie's brother in-law and sister) came up with a great idea to do a boat tour. Man what a dam good idea that was. We got see great stuff while learning so much about the city.
On Monday we just cruised around and tried to soak up as much of our friend as we could until our flight.

The weekend was great.

Work on the weeknds has never been so much fun

Every year my school SVC has an event called a Wayzgoose which is the old tradition of celebrating letterpress. And to celebrate this tradition my schools asks local design firms, artist and companies to join in the Steamroller Smackdown as well as many other activities.
The Steamroller Smackdown is where each firm creates a design, cuts it out of a 34in by 44in piece of linoleum and places it under a steamroller for printing.

I was mad stoked about this event anyway, but because my own design had been chosen to represent DC, I was over the moon.
The day was so much fun with DC crew getting under the sun.

Here are some photo's of the design, cutting and the steamrolling with the crew.

Well that is it for now. Much Love

Meeting the president

If you call standing about 50 meters away with a few hundred people meeting him. Then yes I met the president.

Mr Obama was having a meeting or something about two blocks from my work. So a few of us headed down there for a little meet and greet.

Our meet and greet was a little more like bird watching you wait, you need binoculars and you see that presidential bird for two fleeting seconds.

It was a fun time. Here is a picture i took on my phone. Don't worry I pointed him out. He is the one in the white shirt with no jacket.

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Wedding and art show

While Jillian, Nick and I are living in the chaos of the kitchen remodel we have all had a few things going. Our friends Teigan and Trevor had a beautiful wedding. There tears of joy, speeches and a whole lot of dancing. All in all a great night.



A couple of weeks ago my work offered me a full time position which I am so amped on. Today August 10th was my official starting date. Yahoooooooo I am
so excited.

While I am on the subject of work. We had a great opening night for our latest art show. The art was by a poster design company called "Patent Pending Industries". It was their ten retrospective show. With a few hundred people strolling through the doors throughout the night, a keg, fresh popcorn(courtesy of my old work) and a whole lot of kick ass art.
A bunch of my friends and family were among the few hundred people to walk through the doors. Here is a pic of Jillian and her cousin Thomas.


Peace to ya all. I'm out.
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Big news

Last Thursday my boss asks me to meet in the conference room and before both cheeks could hit the chair he asks me if I would like a full-time position at the company. I was so excited I said yes before hearing what they were offering. Luckily they offered something that I was super stoked with. So as of August tenth I will have my foot firmly planted in the world of web design.
Also the firm I work for has a great crew of people who all have mad skills. There is is such a great work atmosphere that males going to work each day very enjoyable.

Feel free to check out the web site www.designcommission.com

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Another place to rest a heavy heart

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A month to remember

For this post I am just going to pump out the big things over this month.
First off we moved out of our condo which we rented out for the price we wanted to a lovely young couple. We are living with Jillian's parents while the current tenants are still in the new house. Dammit. Awh well they are out on the 15th.



Jillian spent a week in Vegas for work. Her and her sister Natalie put on a huge conference for her work. Both of her bosses were so stoked and spoiled both her and Natalie as a thank you.

We had so many birthdays over the month of June. Including mine oh man I was spoilt with movies, gift cards, clothing and a whopping gift of tickets to see my favourite band the Black Keys.



Jillian and I had our 4th wedding on July 1st. We spent it apart as I had to work. But we did get to spend the next day together and went for celebratory breakfast. Jillian surprised me with an iPhone4 which I get in a few days. I gave her a poem. I was definitely out shined in the gift department.

After our anniversary breakfast we headed down to Portland four the 4 th of July week end. Our friend Nick parents has a beach house in Lincoln city which is right on the coast. Not on a lake. We had a great weekend with nick and his family. A highlight for me was meeting a pro skater at the local park there. The park was one of the raddest bowl parks I have ever seen. I couldn't skate it for crap. But was still stoked to be there. Food, fishing, games and fireworks made the weekend great.


The Tuesday straight after the weekend away my bosses took me to a Seattle mariners baseball game. We had great seats and fantastic time.



Oh I also played my first game of softball. The game is a social
game but is taken somewhat seriously. So I was pretty nervous when it was my turn to bat but that went well. I was more nervous when I was put in to pitch on my first. That went well with me striking out my first 3 batters. But I had a glitch when I ran into to antelope team mate trying to catch a ball. Idiot I am. I am now the starting pitcher. Let's just in my softball game there was many highs and lows, humorous lows. I made a softball blunder and slide into first. I have the grazes on my elbow and knee to prove it.

I think this enough for now.
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