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This post is overdue, but since I’ll be visiting Chicago for a few weeks it seems fitting to finally do it. So without further delay, here we go!

Walking
I miss using my legs. Sure I get to use them when I go to the gym or play basketball, but to get from point A [...]

If you haven’t heard yet, I recently moved back to Southern California (where I grew up) from Chicago for personal reasons. It was a very efficient 3 solo road trip.

Day 1 (8 hours): I took a middle route heading down to Kansas City, MO to stay with my cousin Julie. Along the way, I [...]

I went to the NRA show 3 different days and my favorite was on Monday. That was the day when I gut suckered into one of the brands with the 1-2 punch of sizzling bacon and a free t-shirt…I’m an easy sell.
Punch 1) Beautifully lined up bacon. While I was taking [...]

On Friday morning, I went to my first LikeMind coffee chat at the Intelligentsia on State/Randolph. There were 4 of us and coffee was paid for by Anomaly. I first heard about LikeMind from Mike Maddaloni’s The Hot Iron. In a nutshell, it’s a chance for like-minded people to get together once [...]

Coming off the fun time we had at Tech Cocktail 4 last week, we’ve been following up with all the great contacts that we made at the event. One of the nicest guys we hooked up with at Tech Cocktail was Mike Carruth, founder of Digital Bootcamp, a Chicago training facility that offers courses [...]