I’m looking for a new cell phone service. I have US Cellular, but it drops calls when I walk through the house. Anyone local to Beloit out there have any recommendation? Mostly I’m looking at AT&T or Verizon right now. Thanks!
1DS
I just got back from my wife and I dropping the kids off for their first day of school. Our eldest is now in third grade, and the quadruplets just started kindergarten, so this is a huge day for us all. The school has four separate kindergarten classes, so each of the quads is in a class alone, off to …
Good-Bye, Dan Matheson
From reliable sources, I’ve heard that Dan Matheson died last Sunday from a heart attack. Most people in the gaming industry know Dan from his decades as the warehouse manager of Black Hawk Hobby Distributors, located in northern Illinois, just south of my home here in Beloit. That’s where I met him. Black Hawk was the first game distributor I …
Nephew for Council
As I’ve mentioned before, John Nephew of Atlas Games is running for city council in the city of Maplewood, Minnesota. While I know next to nothing about Maplewood, I know John, and he’s just the kind of candidate any city needs. I’ve counted John as a good friend for years, and I’d trust him with both my checkbook and my …
Back from La Pura Vida
My apologies for the radio silence. My wife and I just got back from a week’s vacation in Costa Rica. We stayed at BahÃa de los Delfines. This beautiful resort sits just outside of Tambor, a tiny town on a sheltered bay on the end of the Nicoya Peninsula, out on the central Pacific coast. We had a wonderful, stunning …
Happy Birthday
Five years ago today, a team of 25 doctors, nurses, and technicians at Rockford Memorial Hospital led by Dr. Susan Hendricks helped us bring four of the most amazing people into the world: Patrick, Nicholas, Kenny, and Helen Forbeck. Born 11 weeks premature (one week better than average for quads) they weighed, respectively 2# 12 oz., 2# 9 oz., 2# …
YouDance
I don’t mean to make this into a blog all about my kids–amazing as they are–but the video below has two purposes. First, it’s hilarious. Sure, it’s of Nick and Helen’s first dance recital, which probably only I and my direct family care much about, but I laughed so hard through much of it I couldn’t keep the camera from …
RC News
My alma mater, the Residential College at the University of Michigan, puts out a quarterly newsletter, RC News. In the Spring 2007 issue, which just showed up in my mailbox yesterday, they ran a small piece on me on page 10 as part of a larger article called “Unpacking Alumni: Success in Business.” For some reason, they used the cover …
House Hunting
Ann and I are on the hunt for a new house. When we bought our three-bedroom/one-bath home, we only had us and Marty in the house, and we had plenty of room. Now we are seven, and the quads will be five years old in about three weeks. While we love our house, it’s bursting at the seams. So, if …
Sad Day for the Hokies
By now, you’ve probably heard of the shootings on the campus of Virginia Tech, the bloodiest such incident in American history. This struck closer to me than you might expect because Pinnacle Entertainment Group, the gaming company I co-founded with Shane Hensley back in 1996, is based in Tech’s hometown of Blacksburg, Virginia. I lived and worked in and around …