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Entries from March 21st, 2010

Home with a range…or two or three

March 21st, 2010 No Comments

After only a few hours of sitting down with Todd at Mirador we managed to clean up the space and get things in the right place. Then it was time to head down to Sugarland and discuss equipment with Willie McBride of Hangman Kitchen Outfitters, where I got to peruse equipment catalogs and play on Auto-Cad like an engineer in a candy store.

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Frito pie happenstance

March 7th, 2010 No Comments

At 11 years old I didn’t think of my proposal to set up a concession stand at the weekend basketball tournaments as a business concept. I thought of it as a grandiose money-making scheme that would garner untold riches, already spent in my head on model rockets and fancy colored pencils. My mother, however, only agreed to support my venture under the terms of garnished wages. While I would receive a modest reward, most of the profits would be put into a college savings account, untouchable for what at the time appeared to be an eternity. With an unusually acute awareness of the importance of this savings account that would someday buy me a one way ticket out of small town New Mexico, I agreed without protest.

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