Emily is pretty much awesome. She got me a new bike for my Birthday. It's a goofy bike for sure. It's a mountain bike with 29", instead of 26" wheels. That means I can run knobby tires or road tires (700c) on it. It has touring bike geometry and braze ons so I can put racks and bags on it and disappear for a week. I can also go for mountain bike rides on it. It'll hold 5 water bottle cages as well. I'll use it mostly to replace my car so I don't have to use it much anymore. Here is a link to some pictures on Flickr. I have an account there and I have some other pictures to check out. Enjoy!Saturday, April 25, 2009
New Toy
Emily is pretty much awesome. She got me a new bike for my Birthday. It's a goofy bike for sure. It's a mountain bike with 29", instead of 26" wheels. That means I can run knobby tires or road tires (700c) on it. It has touring bike geometry and braze ons so I can put racks and bags on it and disappear for a week. I can also go for mountain bike rides on it. It'll hold 5 water bottle cages as well. I'll use it mostly to replace my car so I don't have to use it much anymore. Here is a link to some pictures on Flickr. I have an account there and I have some other pictures to check out. Enjoy!
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Openings
It was a pretty busy weekend here in CO. Started Thursday night. Emily, Jason and I went to the Avalanche Hockey Game. It went to a shoot out at the end, pretty exciting. The Stars of Dallas had some pretty lucky dribbler goals and the Ave's put on a shootout clinic. Unfortunately the phrase is right, it's better to be lucky than good. So the Ave's lost in a heart breaker. But the Stars made the playoffs.
Friday I had the day off for Good Friday. My company isn't 100% on the religious equality band wagon. It also happened to be the day of the Home opener for the Rockies. So I took the bus, that FF's get to ride for free in CO, downtown and hit the bars around the stadium to check stuff out. It was packed, I was quite surprised. I was expecting it to be busy but there were lines to get into all the bars from 1pm, when I got there, till 6pm, when Emily got there. Several of my friends came along and we had a pretty good time all in all. Emily came downtown for dinner and we went to the Wynkoop Brewery. They make some tasty beer there for sure. This is also the place that the Mayor owned partial stock in until they got busted for serving under-agers. It was a good time for sure, might have to take the day off next year.
Saturday was pretty lazy in the morning. In the afternoon Emily ran off to swim and run, to continue training for her Triathlon, which has earned her some personal best times already! Go EM! I went off to a buddies house. He has a field behind his house and he borrowed a couple of monster tillers from work. Armed with shovels and the tillers we cut a Pump Track into a flat section of land.
Here is a quick description of what a pump track is: http://www.leelikesbikes.com/build-your-own-pump-track.html
It's designed to work on strength, skills and be a lot of fun, especially when it's cold out.
After building the pump track, Emily and I went to dinner with some friends. It was very adult of us. We met some friends at their place along with another couple. Lots of talk about raising kids, as we were the only ones with out child there. Lots of talk about being pregnant as well. We did have a very enjoyable time. After getting a solid dose of adult hood Emily and I headed over to a "Kegger" at a buddies. He and his new roommate just got the place and wanted to have some folks over to check it out. Good times there as well.
Sunday morning we got up and headed to Centennial to visit James and Hillary and get a little Easter Brunch. We went to the Dusty Boot. Fortunately the food was better than it sounds like it would be. It was really good actually. Then off to the OUTLET MALL! Lots of walking but a lot of deals as well. All shopped out we headed back to James and Hill's place. James and I finished all the heavy construction on a set of corn hole boards to be played in the back yard. All that's left is the major painting, we got the base coat down for the stripes, and creating the bags. Not really sure where were are gonna find like 20 cups of dried corn kernels, but we will.
With that done and full weekend coming to a close the wife and I headed home to call it a night. It was a good weekend. BBQ season is coming so we'll have the corn hole boards all ready to go. We designed them to fold flat for transport! OK, thanks for reading more news to come. Hope everyone had a good Easter and we'll talk to ya laters alligators!
Friday I had the day off for Good Friday. My company isn't 100% on the religious equality band wagon. It also happened to be the day of the Home opener for the Rockies. So I took the bus, that FF's get to ride for free in CO, downtown and hit the bars around the stadium to check stuff out. It was packed, I was quite surprised. I was expecting it to be busy but there were lines to get into all the bars from 1pm, when I got there, till 6pm, when Emily got there. Several of my friends came along and we had a pretty good time all in all. Emily came downtown for dinner and we went to the Wynkoop Brewery. They make some tasty beer there for sure. This is also the place that the Mayor owned partial stock in until they got busted for serving under-agers. It was a good time for sure, might have to take the day off next year.
Saturday was pretty lazy in the morning. In the afternoon Emily ran off to swim and run, to continue training for her Triathlon, which has earned her some personal best times already! Go EM! I went off to a buddies house. He has a field behind his house and he borrowed a couple of monster tillers from work. Armed with shovels and the tillers we cut a Pump Track into a flat section of land.
Here is a quick description of what a pump track is: http://www.leelikesbikes.com/build-your-own-pump-track.html
It's designed to work on strength, skills and be a lot of fun, especially when it's cold out.
After building the pump track, Emily and I went to dinner with some friends. It was very adult of us. We met some friends at their place along with another couple. Lots of talk about raising kids, as we were the only ones with out child there. Lots of talk about being pregnant as well. We did have a very enjoyable time. After getting a solid dose of adult hood Emily and I headed over to a "Kegger" at a buddies. He and his new roommate just got the place and wanted to have some folks over to check it out. Good times there as well.
Sunday morning we got up and headed to Centennial to visit James and Hillary and get a little Easter Brunch. We went to the Dusty Boot. Fortunately the food was better than it sounds like it would be. It was really good actually. Then off to the OUTLET MALL! Lots of walking but a lot of deals as well. All shopped out we headed back to James and Hill's place. James and I finished all the heavy construction on a set of corn hole boards to be played in the back yard. All that's left is the major painting, we got the base coat down for the stripes, and creating the bags. Not really sure where were are gonna find like 20 cups of dried corn kernels, but we will.
With that done and full weekend coming to a close the wife and I headed home to call it a night. It was a good weekend. BBQ season is coming so we'll have the corn hole boards all ready to go. We designed them to fold flat for transport! OK, thanks for reading more news to come. Hope everyone had a good Easter and we'll talk to ya laters alligators!
Monday, April 6, 2009
Is it Spring yet?
Hopefully it has finally arrived in Colorado! We are expecting rain later this week..... glad it's not snow! I'm still hopeful our tulips and daffodils will make it. They are out of the ground, but after all the cold and snow I'm not sure if they will bloom!
Brewski got an early Easter surprise today. He caught a giant bunny rabbit! Here are some pics.
He's so proud of his skills catching the rabbit!
Then things got ugly and Brewski decided to eat the Easter Bunny!! Oh No!!
Later we see all is fine and they are cuddling the evening away! Phew!
On another note, I (Emily) have been spending lots of time at the gym. I am training for an olympic distance triathlon. Check out www.5430sports.com The race is July 12th, so I have lots of time to train. I'm doing another shorter distance triathlon in early June.... I think it's the 8th. Now if I could just get Jon to the gym..... :)
Brewski got an early Easter surprise today. He caught a giant bunny rabbit! Here are some pics.
He's so proud of his skills catching the rabbit!
Then things got ugly and Brewski decided to eat the Easter Bunny!! Oh No!!
Later we see all is fine and they are cuddling the evening away! Phew!
On another note, I (Emily) have been spending lots of time at the gym. I am training for an olympic distance triathlon. Check out www.5430sports.com The race is July 12th, so I have lots of time to train. I'm doing another shorter distance triathlon in early June.... I think it's the 8th. Now if I could just get Jon to the gym..... :)
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Pillow Update
It worked pretty well. We'll see how much I get to use it tonight. I'm staying at the firehouse for crew and we are getting dumped on again with snow. I had a pretty good nights sleep. The pillow isn't very even across the bottom. So I might try to rig up something to even it out a bit. I've got some extra foam to play with so I might try some other cutting methods. Shorting a car battery with some wire might make a nice knife.... We'll see. OK, that's all for now.
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