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Andrew Allgaier


Designer. Entrepreneur. Family Man.

built a new grind box with the kids over the weekend

Some people just need to have more cowbell. Not me. I needed to build a grind box. So, after a lot of searching I found the best free skate ramp plans online: www.diyskate.com. I wanted to make a few modifications to my grind box, so I did a quick sketch and headed off to Home Depot (and you better believe I had to get a new Ryobi drill!).

After some help from the little munchkins, we were done in no time. I added a couple things to make the box a little more fun:

- handrail (finally putting to good use the gift my brother, David, gave me for Christmas)
- custom paint job (wouldn't be complete unless the kids tagged it up)
- and I added truck/wheels on one end to make it a little easier to transport

I was too tuckered out after building it to be able to even skate it, so hopefully sometime this week I can pull it out and bust a few moves on it.

*A special thanks to my awesome wife for helping me win the war against growing up : )

unplugging from work

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I wish I was better at this. Seems like every time I go on vacation I'm either trying to get work done late at nights or stressing about it at the very least. This is a problem. Whenever I am able to unplug successfully, I feel refreshed when I return to work and am overall more productive.

I just emailed a client and got his auto-reply that said, "Woohoo! I am traveling for fun this week. If you need immediate assistance please email support@...."

This is way better than the typical "I'm out of the office but will be checking email periodically, blah blah blah". I have a new standard to aim for when I'm vacationing : )

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