Decade in Review

A lot of people are saying that the aughts were a horrible decade. I think the past 10 years have been pretty rad, actually. I started jotting down a compilation of all of the stuff that’s happened and wanted to put it in list form for everyone to see. Plus, it’s really popular to write up stuff like this right now. So there.

Thanks for reading my banal minutiae — the decade in music post is coming this weekend!

Personal

Number of vehicles owned: 3

• 1991 GMC Safari Minivan (HELL YEAH)
• 1997 Volkswagen Jetta
• 2007 Mazda 3i

Number of jobs held: 8 (* denotes company/business I started)

• Halpin Music Company (Drum/Percussion Instructor)
• Police Productions LLC (Marketing Assistant)
• STAGES St. Louis (Marketing & Development Coordinator)
• Sports Lounge LLC* (Owner/Founder, Marketing & Web Development)
• Hunter Engineering Company (Web Designer)
• Sigma-Aldrich (Web Content Specialist)
• Gladius Communications (Web/Social Media Strategist)
• Gamma Ray Media LLC* (Owner/Principal)

Of those 8 jobs, there were really only 3 serious ones: Police Productions, Hunter Engineering Company and Sigma-Aldrich. The companies I’ve started have primarily been freelance endeavors. And really, at one point, I thought I’d be able to quit my job and run Sports Lounge LLC full-time. Then the bottom fell out of the internet. C’est la vie!

Years in College: 10

• Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (B.A., Music Business ; B.A. Music History & Literature)
• Fontbonne University (B.S. Organizational Studies/Management)
• Webster University (graduate school – going for a Masters in Management & Leadership and a MBA with an emphasis in Web Technology)

Places Lived: 6

• 426 Cougar Village, Apt. 2D
• 217 Gettysburg Rd.
• 3838 Connecticut
• 3220 Winnebago (lived in for 14 days before we moved out because of a robbery & assault on a roommate)
• 4045 Humphrey
• 7040 Lansdowne (we bought this one)

Computers Owned: 5

• Power PC G3 Tower
• Powerbook G4
• iBook G3
• Macbook Core Duo
• Macbook Pro Core 2 Duo

Cellular Companies I’ve had a contract with: 4

• Sprint
• U.S. Cellular
• Verizon
• AT&T

Travel

I left the United States 4 times:

• Canada
• England
• Scotland
• France

Travel inside the United States was also pretty awesome. Here are the states I’ve been in:

• Arizona
• Arkansas
• California
• Colorado
• Connecticut
• Deleware
• Florida
• Georgia
• Idaho
• Illinois
• Indiana
• Kansas
• Kentucky
• Louisana
• Maryland
• Michigan
• Mississippi
• Missouri
• Nevada
• New Jersey
• New York
• Ohio
• Oregon
• Pennsylvania
• Tennessee
• Texas
• Utah
• Vermont
• Virginia
• Washington
• Washington D.C.
• West Virginia
• Wisconsin
• Wyoming

In one year, I drove from Oregon to St. Louis, then hit the East Coast. Wild times.

Sports

It was a good decade for sports teams I follow: the Baltimore Ravens and the St. Louis Cardinals each won championships. The St. Louis Blues sadly did not. Even the St. Louis Rams got in on the action. That’s 2 Super Bowl victories and 1 World Series. Not too shabby.

Football Stadiums: 7

• M&T Bank Stadium
• Ed Jones Dome
• RCA Doma
• Lucas Oil Stadium
• Arrowhead Stadium
• LP Field
• Soldier Field

Baseball Stadiums: 8

• Busch II
• Busch III
• Wrigley Field
• Miller Park
• Great American Ballpark
• Koffman Stadium
• Camden Yard
• Citizens Bank Ballpark

Hockey Arenas: 4

• Keil/Savvis Center/Scottrade Center
• Gaylord Entertainment Center
• Joe Louis Arena
• Nationwide Arena