Here's to you Little Zebra

The biggest announcement in the history of the Real Estate Zebra came a week ago.  Incase you were not on Twitter, my brother and sister(-in-law) are having their first child due to arrive mid January.

Happy Birthday, Daniel!

            In honor of Dec. 14, 2008, and the special day it is for my brother, here are the 28 reasons why I love my brother, Daniel Rothamel, aka Real Estate Zebra.  This are in no particular order, just as they come to me.

1.              He’s balding worse than me (for now…)

2.              He always gives unusual facts.  Their usefulness can be debated later.

3.              He always knows the best places to use the bathroom.

4.              I think like him.  Like when I wanted to visit the Dick’s Sporting Goods website, he made the same mistake before I did.  FYI-dickssportinggoods.com is correct.

5.              When he went through the high school he left a good name to follow.  Now if only he didn’t leave such a smart one I would’ve had an easier time with fewer expectations.

6.              We communicate on a constant basis.  When he was in college and even while I’m in college.

7.              He is 7 years older than me and helps me get through life choices.

8.              He lets me do odds and ends for his business so I can make some money when I am home on short breaks.

9.              He makes lots of free time to find cool things on the internet then he shows me how to do it.  (By the way, I need help on my site again…)

10.           He always calls to take me out to dinner when I’m home so we can catch up on our lives.

11.           He let me drive the X5 once.  Nothing like taking turns at 30 mph that you should take at 15 mph.

12.           He knows English and I can call him 400 times for help on a paper.

13.           He lets me win at XBOX/XBOX 360/Wii/Game Cube/Sega/etc.

14.           When I do win, he lets me brag like it actually matters.

15.           Also on games, he used to beat me in Monopoly but then when I got good we played every night until early in the morning for bragging rights.  I would finally beat him, every now and then, less now than then.

16.           Two words, I believe from 2000: Ping Pong.  Dad still mentions how we never play it anymore.

17.           He picked a great wife.

18.           He taught me how to blog, videoblog, use of Twitter, etc.

19.           He officiates basketball and it’s a fun time watching him work.

20.           He played baseball in high school and it lead to my infatuation with the sport.

21.           For the almost 21 years I have known him, I don’t think I have ever been mad at him for longer than 21 hours.  If I was mad at him, I had no good reason to be probably.

22.           When I was younger he would drive me around. Nothing cooler than driving with your older brother.  All my other friends had siblings much younger than Daniel.

23.           He always has the coolest gadgets to play with.

24.           When he got married seeing him so happy he was crying made me cry.

25.           The 25 moments of our lives we will sit down and smoke a cigar together.

26.           He does the funniest impressions.

27.           He spoils me with birthday presents.  I wear my Tommy Bahama watch and think I’m pretty lucky.

28.           He is the best brother in the world and I’m lucky to have him 

            There you go.  My first 28 reasons I love my brother.  Happy birthday, Daniel!

Honesty

So my wicked cool brother, Daniel, gave me a shout out in his blog.  It does not pain me to say Daniel is pretty advanced in this web 2.0 and does some really cool, innovated things.  What can I say?  He’s cool.

I was thinking last night, “What is my favorite blog post my brother has done?”  Most of his posts have to deal with real estate so that throws out about half.  The cool thing he does is combine both real estate and real world analogies.  So even some of the real estate ones I still can understand them on a basic level.

That brings me to my favorite post, his one on honesty.  You might see a slight resemblance with the people in the video considering they are my brother, mother and father.  I hope you enjoy it and take to heart the message.  BE HONEST!!