Don't panic. It's me

I started this website when I moved to New York - July 31st, 2004. I moved here from Oklahoma in search of fame and glory in the advertising world. I will write about what goes on in my life and in my head. I will share my experiences with those who wish to keep up, and those who mistakenly stumbled here.

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Quick Updates

Look here for quick updates on what I am up to. Everything from eating fried chicken to running late for meetings

I can read

Below are the last few books I have read and my rating for them. If you click on the book title, you will get my 4 sentence review.

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Honeymoon and Back

We are back! Amy and I just from our honeymoon trip to Thailand and Cambodia. We had an absolute blast and are back to report with photos (and later video) on the trip. You can view our slimmed down (still 500 photos) photo album from the trip. Photos Here. If you have any questions about the photos, just leave a comment on the photo in flickr. 

Road Trip Photos - Up

I have uploaded the Road Trip 2008 photos onto my flickr. I still need to sort through the actual bachelor party sets and upload a combined album. I also want to aggregate all the twitter posts onto a page as a road trip log. 

Road Trippin’ USA

Follow Mike & I on our cross country road trip from OKC to NYC. Watch our twits below for mile updates, cities we are in and especially urls to photos taken.

Click the down arrow in the twitter boxes above to see previous twits.

So, How was it?

Sorry about leaving everyone hanging about my scottish stories! The trip was amazing. We flew into Edinburgh on the overnight flight and got in early Sunday morning. We rented a massive 9 person mercedes van (for 4 of us) to fit all of our luggage and four sets of golf clubs. We then drove to St. Andrews, about an hour and a half drive, on the wrong side of the road.

Although I don’t have any pictures yet (I will upload them when I get them from my buddy gary who brought a camera), St. Andrews was as picturesque as all the photos and golf tournaments make it out to be. The St. Andrews links trust runs the 7 courses that make up St. Andrews links with the Old Course being the oldest and most prestigious. The Old Course was formed and first played in the 15th century (although this is debated) and the first ever golf course. All the courses we played were public as are the majority of the courses in Scotland. The caddies we had, in fact, made fun of americans a bit for having such a snobbish attitude toward golf with all the country club elitist nonsense. The courses there were open for all. If you wanted to go for an afternoon walk on the Old Course with your dog - thats totally fine, just watch out for golf balls.

The Old Course was the only course that had any requirements at all to play. They required a handicap of 24 or better to play to help keep the pace of play high enough as the demand to play the course far outweighs the availability.  I, of course, had to fake my handicap as I had only played one or two real rounds of golf in my entire life much less had a real handicap. Gary got us memberships at a club in Washington State and I was able to post fake scores via the internet and they mailed me a member card with with my handicap.

Other than St. Andrews we only played one other course - the championship at Carnoustie or also known as “The Beast”. It is consistently rated in the top 5 hardest courses in the world with over 120 impossible to exit sand traps. We each had a caddie for this round, and boy did I need his help digging out my balls from every nook and cranny on the course. He didn’t give me too hard a time for my terrible play, but he did laugh when I broke the second of two clubs. The clubs I was borrowing from Amy’s dad, nonetheless. I hit two nice shots with his 6 and 7 iron and the club heads just went flying! Just what I needed.

Outside of the golfing we were able to sample many whiskeys and drink a good share of cold beer at the clubhouses. The trip was awesome and I can’t wait to put some photos up here for everyone to see! 

Holiday Photos

Here are some photos of the holiday trip amy and I took to the switz.


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Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas from Davos!




The weather here is great! The town is a like a winter playland with everyone skiing around and kids on sleds. Everywhere you turn there is a cup of hot chocolate and sleigh bells jingling off somewhere. Feels like I am in a movie sometimes. Learning to ski has been a bit less majestic but it is coming along. I hope everyone had/ is having a great christmas and holiday season.

Aruba photos

I wish I had a bunch of stories about our Thanksgiving trip to Aruba, but I don’t. We sat on the beach, read newspapers and magazines. We did one day of snorkeling and it was awesome - saw a ship wreck and some great fish. I swam in the ocean for hours each day and drank drinks with umbrellas. Had a great trip. See our photos here.