Jan 31, 2012

Jet Set Studio recently announced that the largest video game tournament in Iowa will be hosted in downtown Des Moines on March 17-18, 2012. The Iowa Pro Gaming Challenge (#TIPGC on Twitter) is a regional video game event.  It has been established as an annual destination for gamers all around the country.  For the third annual event this year, TIPGC 2012 will...

Jan 31, 2012

When my wife and I (and our baby girl) first moved here from the San Francisco Bay Area last May, it took a little while to get our Iowa legs. While I was getting mine back after being away for 14 years and Rachel, who never lived here, was just finding hers, we looked for anything that felt familiar. Not because anything here in Des Moines was lacking or...

Jan 27, 2012

The Young Professionals Connection showed last Friday that they could not be off to a better start in the new year.  400+ flooded into People’s after making the decision to begin their weekend at YPC’s Annual Kick-off Party.  I don’t think anyone regretted that decision, this was once again the best “social hour” in town. Mike...

Jan 26, 2012

I have been told there is very little music that I don’t like and that I seem to find the good in pretty much everything.  That’s close to  true, but there is one type of music that I kind of universally dislike, and not surprisingly it is modern popular country music.  I say not surprisingly because, for as popular as it is, it seems almost equally as...

Jan 25, 2012

Well, To Kill a Mockingbird has opened and I have my evenings back. Meaning I don’t have to be rushed eating dinner and I actually see my husband for more than just an hour or two a day. While that is of course very good, I am also kind of sad. Not disappointed by any means, after all I am very proud of the work that we did and continue to do in each...