Brooke Geery

Diversify!

My latest business venture is building websites. I use the term "business" loosely though, as for the most part I've been building them for friends and family to gain experience. I'll tell you a secret, Wordpress is really easy to use. The hardest part of making it look good is figuring out where in the back end the stuff you want to change is located. But I'm definitely getting better, and faster, at it, and I'd almost say I enjoy it. While YoBeat is a wordpress site, Jared gets the credit for that one. However, when Sarah Morrison decided she wanted her own blog on YoBeat, I created Act Like…
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Best Week Ever: April 10, 2009 (Guest Author Edition)

Sarah’s friends made her go to Vegas today. Since “planning ahead” isn’t in her job description, I am writing Best Week Ever this week. Sorry. -Sarah’s brother has taken to leaving random and not very nice comments on all of Sarah’s friends’ social networking profiles. Now I should specify they are not nasty towards the person they are left for, but more towards Sarah. I felt like I should inform her he was doing so, and she apologized, saying he drinks too much. After a little discussion, we used our clinical training to diagnose him with Anonymous Commenter Syndrome, however a rare strain where he actually comments as himself. -I…
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April in Portland

My friend Jen just wrote a blog about April in Colorado, and how it can snow at any time. It's times like these when I am glad to live in Portland. Sure, it might rain a little bit, but this past weekend's weather can only be described as epic. It also happened to coincide with my birthday, and the completion of a new backyard mini. Since you'll probably ask, the ramp is at Steve's house and is the culmination of his dream since the age of 8. If you are nice I will take you there. So in short, we ate, we drank, we skated and I made a web…
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East Coast Super Post

I am officially home from a week on the East Coast, and I have returned on east coast time with whooping cough, but I am not mad. It was one of those trips where I actually appreciated the east coast, in spite of the cold and having to scrape my car, etc. Mostly it was due to three incredible snowboard events (one of which was not the US Open.) Most people seemed confused that I turned up at the World Quarters after not being at the Open the day before, but it seemed perfectly logical to me. First of all, watching the US Open on go211, complete with chatroom was…
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