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March On Comrade Recording Strings
Nothing like walking into your house and seeing four members from the Fort Wayne Philharmonic recording strings for your roommates band, March On, Comrade! This stuff is sounding so good!
This is what I walked into, after work!
Ryan, tracking along with the sheet music
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Tagged Cello, Chris Leonard, Derek Reeves, Fort Wayne, Fort Wayne Philharmonic, Indiana, John Ptak, March On Comrade, Music, Recording, Ribbon Mics, Ryan Holquist, String, Viola
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John turns 28
These guys have quickly become like brothers to me! Tonight we celebrated John’s 28th Birthday! Cheers to you, John! May 2016 bring you things you’ve only dreamed of! You’ve helped me so much in such a short time! #Yolo
John’s 28th Birthday!
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Chad’s 40th
Had a great evening celebrating Chad’s 40th Birthday and to top it off, Drew Billings made an appearance all the way from LA. Cheers to a great night and good friends!
Chad, Drew, and Lesa
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Tagged 40th, 40th birthday, Birthday, Chad Van Meter, Drew Billings, Fort Wayne, Indiana, Summit City Brewerks
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Notre Dame
Spent the day touring the Harman factory / headquarters in Elkart, IN and checking out their amplifier and speaker installs at the University of Notre Dame. Pretty impressive stuff and it’s not everyday you get to go behind the scenes to see all the production that goes into collegiate sporting events or go above the court!
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Tagged amplifiers, amps, audio, crown, elkart, Harman, Harman Factory, Indiana, installs, jbl, Notre Dame, pro audio, South Bend, speakers
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Adi turns 3
Love being this little girl’s uncle!
Happy Birthday Adi!
Focused on the Cake!
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Coin 2.0
In 2013, I caught wind of a device I thought would make my pockets smaller and my life a little easier. It goes by the name, Coin, and its essentially a physical/digital wallet allowing you to program all your debit, credit, gift cards, and some other membership cards into one single card. Through funding the company’s Kickstarter, I was grandfathered into receiving their newly updated and NFC capable Coin 2.0 product. Coin has the ability to switch between any of my programed cards and allows me to use whichever card I choose when stepping up to the register, all without having to carry any of the actual cards in my pocket or wallet.
A cool feature is Coin’s ability to ping your smart phone equipped with the Coin 2.0 app. If you happen to leave your Coin card at the restaurant, store, airport, dropped it or its somehow fallen out of your pocket, the Coin card will try to ping the app on your phone and if you’re not in range, Coin will shut off and cease to function. I think thats pretty handy and clever!
Long story short, I got mine in the mail today, took some pictures and I’m anxious to start using it. Check out a couple pics I snapped real quick. Now off to the mall I go…
Coin’s Box
Coin 2.0 in the box
Coin card reader
Cards my coin is replacing
My coin synced and ready to go!
Here is Coin‘s product trailer:
Dawson & Maddie Fishing
Glad to have Dawson and Maddie back home again in Indiana.
Dawson’s Bass
Maddison’s Bluegill
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Tagged Bass, Blue gill. Ponds, Dawson, Fishing, Fort Wayne, Indiana, Maddison, Pond, Reel Fising Line., Rod
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Cactus
I look at this cactus almost everyday at work. Today I took its picture.
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Tagged cacti, Cactus, Fort Wayne, Galliher Studio, Green, Indiana, Main Street, Photo, spikes, Square
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1995 Volkswagen Golf GL for Sale
Its hard for me to wrap my head around and grasp that the time has come where I finally need to get rid of this trustworthy ole girl. This 1995 Volkswagen Golf GL has literally taken me all over the country, its never left me stranded, its always run strong, moved me in and out of college, transported who knows how many friends of mine all over the place, and most importantly its put up with me learning and working on, abusing, and customizing her over the last 12 years.
Check out these one off custom floor mats that I made out my high schools left over astro turf!! 
I know, mind blowing right?!?
I bought this car during my freshman year of college from a tiny dealership and service center called Little German Village in the town of Ridgeville, Ohio. I highly recommend them and would buy another car from them in a heart beat. There are so many memories, crazy stories, and likely too many momentary brushes with death in this car to want to relive! None the less, I made this car mine, she made me hers and we’ve had an amazing ride together this last decade or so.
She’s become a parts car, its likely her most useful and beneficial purpose at this point in time and she’s for sale on Craigslist so check her out!
I’d love for you to leave a comment or share any thoughts/memories you might of have of her!
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Tagged 1995, 1995 Volkswagen Golf, Fort Wayne, Four Door, German, German Car, Golf. GL, Green, Indiana, MKIII, Parts Car, Volkswagen, Volkswagen Golf
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Dan Swartz at TEDxFortWayne
There were so many great speakers at today’s TEDxFortWayne event so I wanted to sit back and take it all in. Snapped a couple during Dan’s talk about collecting people and curating community. Its always enjoyable to hear what he’s up to!
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Tagged Collecting People, Cultivating Community, Dan Swartz, Fort Wayne, Indiana, Mirro Center, Parkview, TED, TEDx, TEDxFortWayne, TEDxFW, Wunderkammer
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