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Back from the Ozarks

14 Jul

Alissa and I just got back from the ozarks, we are members of a Topeka Ad club and that’s who ran the weekend.

We have nice rooms at the Tan Tar A resort, Lis had to go to a board meeting all day saturday, but we had a dinner cruise that night which was cool. We had gone down last year as well, I hope we can take a trip one of these days and actually enjoy the place.

We drove up friday night, and drove back sunday morning, not much time to relax.

So a little catch up, we sold our house and bought one on Tutbury ct.  Here is a link with google street view. We close on our house on the 30th, and on the new house like on the 7th. I can’t wait to move in and shoot some hoops!

We got a new style on the TransformTopeka blog. The team really likes the way it’s turned out and I’ve been working on building links from other topeka sites.

I recently purchased a small graphics forum called n2dsgn, and I’ve merged it with our forum for a larger graphics tutorial section.

Let’s see, what else has been going on… I need to fix a few pieces of wood on the house before the house inspector stops by, so I really should get off of here.

The first Dr appointment is coming up, I’ll go with Lis to that and will prolly make a blog post that afternoon :D

cya

-Brandon

 
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Why I choose Topeka Kansas

04 Jul

Why do you live in Topeka Kansas? is it the schools, the great jobs, or the excellent community? The reason I moved here was to follow a girl, who I married shortly after! She was going to Washburn University so I knew it would be at least 2 or 3 years before we were moving, until she finished school…

I moved to Emporia Kansas when I was in the 6th grade. I finished high school and continued to live in Emporia a few years after graduation but the job market just wasn’t cutting it for me.. I had pretty much worked at every job in the town that I had any interest in, it was time to move on.

That’s where Topeka comes into my life… I was able to find a decent cooking job ($7/hr) within weeks of coming to Topeka. I did the cooking thing for a year and had made it up to 10 dollars an hour, which I thought was outstanding. I started looking around for better jobs, I was able to search the classified section online at cjonline and for free! At the time, the Emporia paper was a paid deal for the full online content.

So i won’t go further into my job resume, but I did find a better job and was at it for 4 years before I gave it up for bigger and better things. The point is this… One thing that has definitely kept me in Topeka is the job market.

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We are having a baby!

04 Jul

As always, I take far far to long to post on this blog, but I’ll try to fill you in.

2 weeks ago my mom and I went down to see my grandma Siver for a week. It was a real good time, I wish we lived closer so we could see each other more. The day we drove down, Alissa had a wedding to go to. It was one of her school friends I think, I know she was looking forward to the party afterward. She took a pregnancy test after the wedding while her and Amy where getting ready for the party, and it came back positive.. You can only imagine how excited the sisters were, Alissa wanted to keep it a secret from her mom at leas until she told me.. Both our mothers have been giving us “hints” and “nudges” for a grand baby..

Anyway, long story short.. we’ve already made a Sheley baby blog, where you can see how she told our parents.

I had posted that our house was for sale some time ago, well 50 days later and we think we have it sold. We have until the 31st to get out, and into a new place.. We’ve found a few places we like, but will probably rent a place for a few months before we move in. That way we don’t have to feel rushed, we found a real nice house today, and might give an offer on Saturday..

I just got the new skin on the Transform Topeka website. I also just posted one of the longest post I’ve ever done.. I’m pretty impressed actually.

The Crowdgather job is still going great, I’ve been working closely with some real advertising pro’s. I’ve learned more in the last month about advertising using CPC and PPC advertising then I had in the last year.

oh, I’m looking forward to seeing my Sheley family, we have a reunion in September for a few days.. I’m not looking forward to the drive at all, but it’s well worth it once you get there.

We will be going to the ozarks one of these weekends for the Topeka adclub, I got to go last year but wasn’t a member.. This year I’m a member, so it may not be as free going for me.. I’m hoping to work on my tan and have a few beers!

 
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