Archive for June, 2011:

20 Q’s With… Craig Dencklau

Tweet This week’s installment features Craig Dencklau, lead singer of the band Nice Bangs and one of my co-workers.  As strange as it may sound Craig is paid to break stuff, or at least try as hard as he can, all day long.  Craig lives in Ankeny with his wife, 2 daughters, and dog.  He

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Summertime Television

Tweet Last August we decided to dump the satellite dish/bill and go with local TV only.  I was able to turn one of our computers into a high definition converter/DVR.  That worked for a while but we soon grew tired of our antenna (the previous owners never completely secured it to the roof and it

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20 Q’s With… John Prigge

Tweet This week’s “20 Q’s With…” feature is John Prigge.  John lives in Des Moines with his wife and border collie and spends a majority of his time in an office at Clear Channel Radio.    John is very active in his church, Community of Christ, and is the Evangelist (think father figure) for the

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20 Q’s With… Joseph ‘Wyatt’ Earp

Tweet This week’s feature is Joseph Earp, formally of the Des Moines Sports Freaks.  Joe currently works for the National Guard doing stuff that is hard to explain to civilians.  Joe used to be heavily involved with covering sports for the Des Moines Sports Freaks blog, a few radio shows, and he was active on

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A Day of New Adventures

Tweet What a day!  Normally I don’t end a day off looking forward to going back to work to relax but yesterday was one of those days, and not in a bad way. We started out the day with a trip to Adventureland thanks to the Every Day God Experiences (E.D.G.E.) program that Clarissa is

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20 Q’s With… Joe Quinn

Tweet This week’s victim feature is Joe Quinn, my oldest cousin on my mom’s side.  Joe currently works for Des Moines Sports Station 1460 KXNO.  Despite constant torture and abuse from his extended family (which he thinks has been taken care of but only because he’s too big to push off the golf cart now),

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Away We Go

Tweet The last few weeks have been a whirlwind of activities, projects, and unforeseen plans that have consumed almost every evening, and weekend, we’ve had.  This week is not going to be much different.  Luckily today (Monday) should be fairly calm.  This is my first day back to work after 2 consecutive 4-day weekends (I

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Has The Time Come?

Tweet There comes a time in a person’s life where the things they used to enjoy doing aren’t as fun anymore.  Last night I realized I was going through that period of change.  It appears that I am at the point in my life where video games aren’t as fun anymore.  I’ve been playing since

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