Schlitterbahn Opens

We were at Schlitterbahn Kansas on opening day! A quiet opening with not all of the phase I rides open yet but still a fun few hours with an exceptionally small crowd. The potential is absolutely there for a great water park but not just yet….as expected for the first few weeks until the final …

Stone Canyon Golf Course – Kansas City, MO – Independence, MO

All Spring the Kansas City area was bombarded by commercials on TV, radio and print for Stone Canyon Golf Course in Independence, MO designed by Greg “The Shark” Norman. And all these promotions included promoting a $50 preview rate in 2009 before the club went private in 2010! Well, today (6-20-09) Stone Canyon sent out …

A talking post?

This post is really a test post, I am testing NaturallySpeaking from Dragon Software it is dictation software that may or may not be working. I am watching the words delayed by about anywhere from 1 to 5 seconds as I speak them, but the accuracy seems to be pretty good. I will talk a …

The Kansas City Royals 2009 Outlook

I keep hearing the Royals as the “sleeper pick” to win the AL Central. I just don’t see it. I’ve been a Royals fan for my entire life and as a high school student enjoy winning the World Series in ’85 very much but it’s been a little lean since then. So let me say …

Firing your Secretary

Another great e-mail that you have to love, even if you see it coming in the end. Last week was my birthday and I didn’t feel very well waking up on that morning. I went downstairs for breakfast hoping my wife would be pleasant and say, “Happy Birthday!”, and possibly have a small present for …

They’ll never learn!

I’m getting so tired of hearing about stuff like this.  This is exactly why these companies should have been allowed to fold and go bankrupt.  Then maybe somebody would learn something.  Instead, we bail them out.  And when I say we I mean that almost literally – it’s government money and government money comes from …