Category: Personal Stories

  • Top 10 (mostly wholesome) Animes to watch that is not made by Studio Ghibli

    Top 10 (mostly wholesome) Animes to watch that is not made by Studio Ghibli

  • Homemade Treasure Hunt

    Homemade Treasure Hunt

    I am going out of town for about a week and decided to create a little treasure hunt puzzle to amuse the fiancee while I’m gone. Here is what I came up with: Before I head out the door, I put a little sign on the drawers next to the bed that says “Look inside…

  • Why I Want to Teach English in China

    Why I Want to Teach English in China

    This was the letter I wrote to the academy in China where I will teach English for 6 months starting in September.  The interview process took a few weeks over several Skype sessions, and I officially accepted their contract today.  I’m so excited!  But if you’re curious to know why I’m quitting a well paying…

  • I Took the Strength Finder Test Twice

    I Took the Strength Finder Test Twice

    The company I work for have stacks and stacks of the Gallup Press’s Strengths Finder books.  Everyone that work for us have to take the test to find their top 5 strengths.  New recruits will have a print out of their strengths by the end of the orientation process, to be taken to their cubicles…

  • My Brother’s Old MySpace Blog

    My Brother’s Old MySpace Blog

    So I’m cleaning up my files and found a saved archive of my brother’s MySpace blogs.  I don’t know why I saved it 4 years ago, but it only took a few mouse-clicks and I figured what the heck.  Well, it’s 4 years later and he no longer uses MySpace.  He thought he saved the…

  • Nostalgic Blacksburg

    Nostalgic Blacksburg

    I made this video in the winter of ’09 before I left Blacksburg for Austin.   It’s only been a year, but those days seem so long ago.  I miss everyone there, thanks for being a part of my cherished memories. On a side note … I figured out to convert a video to flash…