In that I’m a drummer and love drumming more than anything. Well not anything, my family is more important, but right up there is drumming. One of my favorite drummers is Thomas Pridgen. For as young as he is and what he can do with a pair of sticks and a standard drum set is amazing. When you watch him he really makes it look so easy. His rhythm is clock work and he really brings in his own style to what he plays. I honestly could watch him over and over again because every time I watch him I learn something new. IT as if he was put on the earth to play drums and do it better than anyone else.
It isn’t that his style is so unique it is the fluidness he has as he transitions form one rythem to the next or how his fills are effortless. He also mixes up the beats with some amazing foot work that compares to other favorites like Carter Beauford drummer for the Dave Matthews band. If you like great instructional videos Carter has one called (Under The Table & Drumming) it is great and really helped me with some stick technique.
YOu know if your going to do a video for one of your listings get creative. This may be a bit over the top but at least the agent stepped out of the box and had some fun. Today with the ease of video and sites like www.youtube.com and www.wellcomemat.com it becomes very easy to embed video into almost anything. Much like I have done here with this blog post.
In addition with the new Windermere photo gallery tool it will be a piece of cake to make this happen. As our market becomes more demanding we as Real Estate professionals need to start thinking out of the box and be willing come up with new creative ideas on how we do a better job at exposing our listings out there to the masses, but in a tasteful and professional way.
Ok so I took the family to Disneyland for 5 days last week. I have to say that we had a blast. I’ve only been to Disneyland a handful of times but every time I go it is new to me. My son Jack who is almost 5 was the most excited out of all of us. We also went with my parents and my sister and her son.
The first day there we needed to get our bearings so we quickly figured out the benefit of the fast pass. Wow this is a great thing. Lines were a bit long and being in line with a hyper 4 year old for 50 min can be a challenge to say the least. Fast Pass made it all bearable. I also found out that my son is adrenalin junky. Hi favorite rides were Space Mountain, Splash Mountain, Thunder Mountain, and the Matterhorn, basically anything fast with lots of turns and drops. He actually had a melt down when he found out he was too short to go on the big roller coaster at Disney California.
My daughter Emerson had lots of fun in Toontown. She loves Minnie and Mickey’s house and the Roger Rabbit ride. Often she would be in a back pack on my back as were would walk from ride to ride. At one point she was on my back in a gift store, because after every ride they feed you directly into a gift store so you can hear your kids say to you “daddy look at all the stuff I want you to buy for me”.Well Emerson being on my back was just at the right height to just reach out and take what she wanted without me even knowing until we had left the store. This was fun to go back in and tell the cashier “hey my daughter just lifted this Donald Duck and I’m bringing it back”, as she is screaming on my back “My Duck My Duck” I had to buy the duck.
Ok so we are excited. Next weekend on the 12th the Woodinville wine passport festival is going on between 11:00 and 4:00 my band Natalie Wouldn’t will be playing at my good buddy’s winery. The Gorman Winery. That is chris and some of his help.
Chris and I go all the way back to college. We were both students at Western Washington Univeristy. He played guitar and I played drums in a band called the Ruff Yuppies. He was my roomate and then we both worked together at an Italian Wine distributor (Bianco Rosso Imports). We played in 4 bands together and now we get together on occasion and just enjoy wine and good food. Chris is an amazing up and coming wine maker and because of his love for wine and music he is having Natalie Woulnd’t play at his tasting this Satruday the 12th. This is a perfect match Chris loves music and Natalie Wouldn’t loves wine. Don’t we look like wine lovers?
This is a picture of my two favorite guys in my life. My son Jack and my Dad Harry. Not long ago someone asked me who my Hero was. I took no time to respond by saying my Dad. It is often that I feel very lucky to have such an amazing dad. Much of who and what I am today is because of the parents I have. In this photo my Dad is teaching my son Jack how to drive the boat up in the San Juan’s. Boating is something my father loves to do, as well as spending time with his grandson.
When I think of the all the stuff my Dad taught me I often get a bit scared that I may not be able to teach my son all of it. Growing up my Dad was a strong believer of working hard, having fun, not worrying until there was a reason to worry, and always help those less fortunate then you. He also had great saying such as, “It will feel better when it stops hurting” “There are 3 kinds of people in the world, those that can count and those that can’t” “Don’t let your alligator mouth over run your humming bird ass” “Don’t ever start a fight but always finish it” The list goes on and on.
Not really sure why I wrote this post. I did just spent 6 days with my folks in Disneyland and saw such great interaction between my kids and their grandparents. I felt compelled to say I have an amazing Dad and my son has a great grandpa and I also just wanted to make sure he knows what a positive impact he had on me growing up and I can never repay him for being the man he was and is today.
