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Erin made a great post about all the things we have been up to in DC. It is a great post if you will be visiting DC and are looking for things to do. Also, since I haven't posted anything it will serve as a great post to keep you up to date on what I'm up to these days.

visiting tourist destinations in DC

Total cost of gas + snacks + drinks + meals + etc = $249.93

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But now we are in DC, we finished apartment shopping and will have a nice little place near Eastern Market. Unfortunately to get our parking pass, we have to get DC licenses, register the car in DC, and then get some city section parking permit to park by our place. We also need to get parking passes for our moving pods, so we still have a lot of moving hassles to deal with before we can really be settled in.'

Progress and at least I found a fun part of the city that I like.

We have more pictures as well, but we went on a day trip to another island in the DR. That day we bought a cheap underwater camera and took a bunch of pictures. These are the pictures from that camera. The pictures that look like they are just pictures of the ocean are actually of dolphins which you can sort of make out in a couple of the shots.

This year I was lucky enough to get to spend some time with my girlfriend over Valentines day. I headed out to NYC the Thursday before the holiday, and stayed over the weekend and we had a busy but amazing time... I will try to share some of the highlights but I am sure my words and pictures won't do justice to the joy that the trip brought me.

I arrived about 4 hours late, due to delays from high winds. It was one of the scariest landings I have ever experienced. It turns out it was a bad day to fly as another plane in NYC actually crashed. After arriving late we had a chill evening and tried to get to bed at a reasonable hour because Erin had classes the next day and I had some work to do.

The next night we met up after Erin was done with classes and walked around the city enjoying the sunset. We then went to see her friend perform in The Vagina Monologues, which I had never seen. It had been on my list for some time just because you always here about it. Parts of the play were amazingly funny, other parts were sad, and some still just reminded me how women and men still see some sort of competition between each other... On more than one occasion I felt like I had a need to defend myself, but everyone is free to share their thoughts and it was interesting to say the least. Some scenes still cause me to laugh when I think about them. After the play we headed out for a evening of wine and appetizers.

Saturday we decided to spend Valentines day at the most romantic place on earth, Ellis Island. Waking early (well early for us), we took a train for about an hour then got on a ferry headed to the Statue of Liberty. Since you can't actually go up inside the statue anymore, we didn't even get off at the first stop. You get as good of view from the boat as you would at her toes, and I was all disappointed about not finally being able to get inside a woman's head.

So we got off at the second stop to check out the Ellis Island history museum. Since Erin is all into history this was like Disney world for her... hehe We watched a movie there and learned a bunch of interesting facts about immigration. I found Roland Mayer in the database of people that went through the island, which may or may not be a late relative of mine. I learned that Erin's family was apparently to rich and awesome at the time and didn't have to go through the island as rich people's immigration was dealt with on the ship... haha

The city as a backdrop as we ride the ferry back to the city.

We then used the awesome iPhone app Urbanspoon to find a delicious place on the water to grab a late lunch. I like Urbanspoon when I am other places, but the app is simple amazing when you are in NYC, it guides most of our restaurant choices when we are there and we always find great spots for a meal.

That night Erin had gotten us tickets to see Jazz at the Rose Theater from her school. For the price it was an exceptional deal. We enjoyed the show although we left a little early because the second group wasn't as good as the first in our opinion. The funniest part of Jazz was that the host of the show was Wendell Pierce, AKA Bunk from The Wire. The Wire is probably the second best show I have ever watched.

After the show we wanted to grab some wine and quick appetizers while looking for somewhere to eat dinner. We ended up finding Clo wine bar, which was hilariously stupid and fun for me. I am a tech nerd and had heard all about these various table top technologies that allow people to interact with the image on the table. Clo was a uselessly funny merger of technology and wine. The wine list is projected on the table and by doing incredibly unnatural motions on the table you can select the wines you would like to try. In theory you then go self serve yourself glasses of wine from the wine pumping machines, but we were having none of this and had our choices brought to us. Erin could barely make the table top work and it frustrated the hell out of her, I found that hilarious but had to agree the technology was just plain bad. Since I am a nerd I really enjoyed paying $11 a glass of wine just to try out the technology which was far worse than a wine book that includes reviews and descriptions. We did enjoy a little appetizer as well which was good. Below you can see that even after you get your wine and food there is really no way to get ride of the image being projected onto your table, which becomes annoying.

While enjoying our wine we were looking up what options existed near by for dinner on Urbanspoon. We ended up at Gabriel's, which awesomely enough "Bunk" had also decided to go to for dinner. I couldn't resist quickly taking a really bad picture on my phone. After that I figured I should just try to ignore him and let him enjoy his night out. It was hard to ignore him when he laughed as his laugh was instantly recognizable. The dinner we had was amazing, and I would highly recommend restaurant, we had some great food. We really enjoyed this part of the evening.

After that we quickly tried a nearby club hoping to get some dancing in on valentines day, but that wasn't in the cards. The club was kind of seedy, and for some reason they wouldn't serve us gringos drinks. I guess perhaps since we were the minority in the club they thought we would be bad tippers, whatever after 30 minutes of failed attempts at getting a drink we headed home to dance to music playing on Erin's iTunes.

Sunday Erin and I enjoyed breakfast in bed. We then sat around reading the news and chatting a bit. Taking care of little odds and ends for awhile. Erin finished up a paper that was due Monday, while I took care of some work. We then headed out to do some shopping. Erin and I were buying each other Valentines day gifts while we were in town together. Erin first took me to a hat shop and picked me out my awesome new hat. She then picked me up a nice bottle of port. After that we went a few places. I ended up buying Erin a pair of shoes at Kenneth Cole, you can see her trying on tons of shoes in the picture below. We then then went and picked up some other clothes for Erin, before realizing that there was no way we could make it home to shower and still make our dinner reservation.

We moved the reservation as late as we were allowed and still made it a few minutes late, going straight from shopping. We went to a vegetarian all you can eat restaurant called Vatan. It was fantastic, I am now saying it is the best Indian food I have ever had. The food came as little tiny portions of everything they made, and then after trying and sampling you could simple ask for more of any dish. I thought that out of trying 15-20 Indian dishes I would end up liking 4 or 5. I was completely amazed when I think I really liked nearly every dish, with only perhaps a single dish that I didn't like. We enjoyed sharing some odd Indian beers while eating the food and trying to track down which ones were spicy and causing our mouths to melt. This was simply an amazing dinning experience and it was cheap considering NYC restaurant standards. It should be on any Indian food loving persons must try list.

After leaving the restaurant we headed to Hair Party 24 hours which we had seen on the way to the restaurant. Erin had been saying all day she would love a pedicure, which seemed like a great Valentines day gift. So finding a nice place to get her a pedicure at 11:30pm seemed perfect. She enjoyed her pedicure in a message chair with a glass of wine. I enjoyed just hanging out in the massage chair next to her with my own glass of wine chatting away. It was one of those moments where only in NYC can you have a desire at nearly midnight and find that your desire can be fulfilled around the corner.

We then enjoyed a quite Monday just hanging out, grocery shopping, and making dinner together. Overall the trip was amazing, we both had a blast and it was great to get to share the holiday with Erin. I must say NYC is a great place to spend Valentines day, I think I am learning to enjoy the city a bit more each time that I visit.

Continuing to catch up with long over due posts, here is a post about our ski trip to Dillon.

Erin and I wanted to enjoy a quick little get away while she was around over Xmas break. We looked into trying to do a cheap short ski trip. Normally we have ended up staying in Breck, but with our budgets a bit tighter we searched around for some other option. We ended up finding a great little place in Dillon.

The location distance to ski resorts was great. We ended up skiing one day at Keystone and one day at Copper. Our place was very nice and only cost $100 a night, which at nearly peak ski season is pretty amazing. It had a fully decked out kitchen, and access to a community hot tub and pool. The only problem was we wanted to go out to dinner one night, but couldn't really manage it. Getting to town and back via a cab was nearly impossible ($100), we were to far to walk, and we wanted to be able to have drinks with dinner so we didn't want to drive.

The Dillon trip was planned quickly and worked out amazingly well. It also got me thinking that I really haven't spread the word of VRBO enough. The site has been amazing every time I have used it. In fact I think I have started to take it for granted. I mean if I use Ebay, I carefully check out the seller and I am very careful to make sure I am not getting scammed. Any Ebay transaction makes me nervous. On VRBO things have gone so well that I barely even check out the rentals anymore. I contact them get a price quote and then send in my deposit weeks or months early via paypal or check without a second thought. It has never failed me, I have never had anything remotely close to a problem or a scam. In fact I have never been disappointed with how it has worked out.

Erin is a huge fan of the sun, she claims to still worship the sun god, with that in mind we found a place with a nice deck, check out our view and check out Erin enjoying the view.

Frontier lost my bags for 5 days over xmas break. They managed to get my bags with all of my clothes and xmas gifts to me about 13 hours before I left town to head back to Denver. The crazy part is that my bags spent 5 days only 1.5 hours away from me in St Louis.

So I am pretty upset with Frontier Airlines. The basic story is that I left from Denver airport on a direct flight to St Louis on Dec 22nd. Somehow even though I was 2.5 hours early for my flight my luggage didn't get on the plane. I arrive in STL and I am told they will send my bags later that evening because my bags should arrive on the next flight from DIA landing at 6:30pm. I am picked up in STL and off to Springfield, IL after leaving the address I will be at and even discussing that this is in Springfield.

They decided they could ship it via a shuttle service. I call later and that shuttle service had no more trips after my bag arrived. They told me it would go the next morning. Late the next day I call and they realize oh whoops they forgot about the bag, but they would Fedex it in the morning. It didn't go to Fedex until the next evening (6PM), at which point I was moving from one house to another with a different address. It sat in Fedex STL for a day and a half and arrived the evening before I left. Just in time for me to unpack some gifts (some for people that had already left after the holidays) and for me to repack gifts I received. I head back to STL on the 28th bringing my bag back to the airport and city where it had spent the majority of the trip.

Seriously how could Frontier screw up so bad! I was one city away... Hell if they would have told me they couldn't deliver a bag for 5 days, I would have drove there and picked it up myself. It can't get a bag to someone that is only an hour and a half away from the bag for FIVE FREAKIN DAYS!

One of the many times I called about my bag, I finally called customer service to file a complaint. Frontier gave me a $25 travel voucher... Seriously? $25 dollars didn't even cover the BAG FEES I now have to pay when I fly with checked lugged ($15 each way totaling $30). Frontier, I want all my bag fees reimbursed, ALL of them for anytime since the bag fee existed... Since I normally refuse to fly with checked luggage it wouldn't even set you back much... Flying has become one of my most hated activities, partly because of the horrible treatment of the airlines. Partly because of the TSA.

All I wanted for Xmas was for the TSA to stop making me take my shoes off to fly, but instead I had such a horrible travel experience that I hate all the airlines. Frontier was my favorite airline, hell I even have a Frontier credit card (the one with the cute ass penguins). Now I am furious at them and hate the idea of flying with them.

I believe this leaves me with JetBlue who has given me some serious delays and lost my luggage (they got it back to me the next day), but has never wronged me... So yippie for you JetBlue you are now the airline I dislike the least. Frontier you went from the only airline I liked to being the worst of the bunch and nearly ruining my holiday...

I went to visit my girlfriend in NYC for a week because we had been busy and not seen each other for 7 weeks. Long distance sucks and waiting that long between seeing each other sucks really bad. It was great to get a chance to make a longer visit out there. It was also a busy and exciting week.

The first night I arrived my friend Steve happened to be in town because he was dropping off a plane. He was only around for a few hours so we met up for dinner and drink. Since we ended up getting together so late nearly every where's kitchen had closed. We eventually found a place still serving food and got to spend some time catching up. We tried a couple bars around Columbia and I got to get a better feel for that area, as I wandered around trying to find a place to eat.

Erin had some schoolwork and a busy day Thursday, so basically I worked on my computer and read a bunch while she went to class and got some work done. Kind of a lame day in NYC but when visiting for that long it is expected that Erin will have some things she has to get done.

The next morning Erin had to go give a presentation at school, while she was gone, my computer decided to blow up. It refused to boot and I was stuck for the rest of the trip with out a computer which really limited my ability to get anything done. I was on vacation but I was planning to have some time to accomplish some tasks. Unfortunately, with out my mac startup disk there really wasn't anything I could do unless I took it to a Apple store which would have taken 5 hours or so with travel to get my system working... Crappily Ben's machine had just died to so Devver had a really bad week with low productivity. A the life of a startup, it is all ups and downs, a roller coaster man.

Friday night was my first Halloween in NYC, which was cool. I have done Halloween all over and really enjoy seeing all the crazy costumes and how people dress up. It was kind of surreal to be on the subway with all sorts of crazy costumes and outfits. It is like a dream world to look over and see 3 or 4 Furbys chatting away. Since I had never seen the Halloween parade we decided to check that out. It was cool to see some of the costumes that best where when large groups got together to all dress as a group. There were some great outfits, but the wall of people to see the parade was pretty crazy. Erin and I had pretty boring costumes this year, but with time and money limited we at least dressed up. We were referees, I will post some pictures when ever I get them since they are locked away on Erin's camera. We then went to a party recommended by a friend that just wasn't our cup of tea, mostly bad music and no body dancing... It was also insane trying to get a drink there with some horrible rude bar tenders. It was cool to get to meet up with my friend Adam from Ignighter for awhile and chat. Then we headed to the CU party at club Touch, which sucked. Basically the free tickets we had weren't honored, they were packed full and not letting people in even with paid tickets. It was just horribly negative energy and everyone in the crowd was angry and arguing. We were tired and it was just lame so we took off, calling it a night.

The next night was our night out I had promised Erin. A really nice night of dinner and dancing. We had a great time, the restaurant we ended up at wasn't exactly what we were expecting, but it was pretty delicious food. We downed a nice bottle of wine and started walking around looking for a nice place to have dessert. We found this tapa bar with live music and asked about desserts, which they don't serve. They recommended a pastry place next door we grabbed some stuff and headed back to the tapa bar for sangria with out dessert. We finished our food and drinks right as people in the place started dancing, Erin loves to dance so we joined in and had a blast. This ended up being one of my favorite evenings of the week.

Trying to keep ourselves busy in NYC we went to see a Circus, since Erin had a friend in the show and we could get cheap tickets. We saw two shows by Spiegelworld Desir and Gazillionaire's Late Nite Lounge! It was a good time and we found a great tiny little Italian restaurant to eat dinner between the shows. Desir was in the same spirit as Cirque du Soleil but with a much smaller more intimate audience. The 'big top' can only hold maybe 200 people. It was a much smaller audience than that when we saw the show. It was a sexual show, keeping it pretty tame, but a nice erotic energy. My favorite was two trapeze style acrobats swinging and dancing on a raised square using each others body to counter balance every move, and using each others bodies as equipment to perform acrobats on.

An unexpected treat while I was visiting was that the Flobots were in town while I visited. Erin got a hold of our good friend Jesse Walker (Flobots Bass Guitar) and we got free tickets to the show. iDave was also coming around with some friends to see the show. It was great to seem them outside of Colorado because there shows here now are crazy. Erin and I got to dance a bit during the show. We got a quick tour of their tour bus after the show. Then we headed out with a bunch of the band and friends after the show to grab pizza.

My last night in town was Election night, we originally were planning to go to an election watching party, but after 4 nights out in a row I wasn't in the mood to go anywhere or to get on the stupid subway again. Don't get me wrong the subway is great the ability to get nearly anywhere in NYC for 2 dollars is amazing, but it is gross, crowded and getting anywhere in NYC takes forever. The last two nights because of construction and bad luck we had spent nearly 3 hours each night dealing with transportation. So we decided we would make dinner and watch the election results at Erin's home in Harlem. It was great to see Obama win the election, we celebrated with some drinks out on the street, watching Harlem come out to celebrate. There was dancing, cheering, fireworks, and joy in the streets. It was a pretty cool site to see.

So that was my NYC trip in a nutshell. It was a blast and it was a much needed time for Erin and I to be together.

Until I get some pictures here is the only picture I can share of the trip. I had read all about this silly hand drying machine, and finally while flying back from NYC got to use one. It was not really that impressive better than other hand driers, but this simple man prefers paper towels.

I have a number of stories to share for Erin and I's trip to Mexico, but I haven't had time to blog much lately. So I haven't really gotten around to the various posts. I did finally complete one of the posts, but I didn't do it on my own blog as I thought it would get a better response and more interest over at my old energy drink blog, so check out my review of a horrible mixed beer drink that Erin and I had in Mexico called, Michelatos.

Michelatos Review

Honduras the whole idea about writing all my thoughts on my trip is overwhelming. In fact I have promised this post for months and months. I have collected many of my thoughts, written many on paper, emailed some, and just pondered on others. At no point did a coherent or publicly readable post come together. So I sit down now to share my thoughts on Honduras.

a view across La Esperanza

Imagine arriving in what is considered a third world country after not seeing your girlfriend for over four months. The start of your vacation begins by trying to find a bathroom while going to customs and trying to ask a security office for a bathroom who clearly doesn’t understand English. One of my 20 sentences/words of Spanish comes to the rescue, “Bano?” Then not knowing what to expect walking through some glass doors bags in hand to see your loving girlfriend looking at you and smiling. We walk forward embrace and kiss, a great welcoming to the country that will be your home for the next ten days.

Warning this is one of the longest blog posts I have ever made...

I am back. I have a ton to do but it was a great trip.

While I was gone my cactus died which sucks. Oh well live and learn right? Right? sure why not... anyways I will make a post about the trip later when I feel like it.

Well I leave town and will be out of contact for awhile. I should have a good time. I am headed out to one of the virgin islands and I get to play beach volley ball, scuba dive, and enjoy good food. Hopefully I wont be to crazy while I am gone, but come back with some fun stories. It should be an odd trip since it is only with my brother and mother, for the first time. When I get back it is going to be busy busy busy until school starts. I need to move right away when I return. I have to set up a couple of meetings when I return. We have to paint and clean the hell out of my current place. I have to finish learning .net compact framework so I can write a few applications. I have to start applying for jobs.

Oh well I guess all of the stuff I will have to do will keep me busy and out of trouble. Which might be a good thing. Who knows. Anyways everyone have a good week while I am gone, and try not to burn anything to the ground.

I forgot some funny things about bathrooms in europe. Most toliets have two flush modes, half flush and full flush. So you don't have to waste water if your only peeing. The second thing is even the full flush or the pipes or something don't do as well as around here, our trip through out europe was also a trip leaving clogged toliets behind in every country. It was nuts seriously they clogged so easy. I guess the entire area of europe is on the double flush rule.

Anyways just thought i would share.

Well I guess i am am adjusting to being back. I am on a almost normal sleep schedule now. I have still been extremely tired earlier than normal though. It has been kinda cool that I haven't had problems sleeping as I normally do. I have a big presentation at work on monday so i have been nervous about that and kinda laying low until I have that taken care of. If it goes well i might get to work with a bunch of really smart people on continueing work to expand my senior project from last year.

This morning was a crappy experience. Our power went out, along with our power went out my server. So since the power has been out for a couple hours my server has been down awhile. (Not the server my blog is on), but a good section of my website is currently missing in action and that makes me upset. Hopefully when I get home from work we will have power back and I can get my server up and running again.

Party on wayne, party on Garth.

Hey i am in munich now. I saw a concentration camp today which was wierd and scary. It was a good thing to do though i think. Like one of the walls there said, `Never Forget'. i figure that is something important to remember. I have been having a blast everywhere i have been. The overnight sleeper train car with all four of us packed it in was an adventure and a half it was hilarious. (we were in that little room for about 12 hours). We are going to see castles around here pretty soon either tomorrow or the day after.

We have done a good job balancing partying and seeing stuff. I havent written enough in the journal with me but i guess you really cant capture a trip like this anyways. I have done more reading than expected which is cool. Oh well Lots of thinking and ideas during this trrip... it is going to be hard to go back to work after this trip. It has been very cool. There are tons of odd little differences between here and home. I will never get over having to pay to go to the bathroom. wierd!

Well we did paris. It was fast but we saw a ton of stuff. Also going up the eiffel tower was cooler than i would have expected. So it was a good time. We did a very quick run through Amsterdam for one ni ght we leaev for germany later this afternoon. We have been able to get around very easily through out europe. We have been having a blast and just kind bouncing all over the place it has been great. Some places are just so different. I can't get over having to pay for bathrooms. It just is so wierd to me. Also w ater is worth it's weight in gold here... It is so hard to get water anywhere. We did get a full case of beer for 7 bucks. That was pretty cool. Anyways I guess i should get off the computer now and see what it up next.

P.S. Happy Birthday I am sure you will see this... hehe

London Calling
It is a far away land.
It frees your mind,
and makes you take a stand.

Or something like that. Hey everybody back home. Hope your all doing well and having fun. Anyways today is my last full day in london tomorrow I am headed towards Paris.

London has been awesome. We have seen basically everything (Westminster abby, Dali mueseum, Tower Bridge, History museum, Big Ben, Buckinham Palace, guards in big fuzzy hats, the underground, Pubs, etc. We have partied a pubs alot trying all sorts of crazy beers. I even found a apple based beer that tastes good. Everything is so expensive here though. Man it has just cost so much for everything. Saldly the food sucks as you have always heard. The best meal i have had in London is our hotels free breakfast, all you can drink OJ and eggs and hashbrowns. Mmmm breakfast.

Nothing really crazy has happened yet so i don't have any really insane stories. Last night was jesse's birthday so we bought a round of shots and for these locals we were tlaking to. We alll did that and then the locals to off to go to another pub. Then some crazy guy started talking to jesse and was saying how he is jewish (which he isn't) and that his mom is from the same town as he is (in isreal). So they were family. This guy was scary and a little violent so he went to get another drink and we all ran out an emergency exit and jumped over a roped off thing. and ran off down the street. Very odd it was... crazy bastard.

Mass public transportation rules in london. It is seriously amazing, I never want to own a car again. We should all be able to use underground train systems to get everywhere. The problem there is very frequent �3 beer which is 6 bucks... So we have probably spent an arm and a leg drinking. Oh well... Rock on and talk to you all later.

Well I guess that is all I can report for now.
peace, fleece in greece,
Dan "Wanker" Man

I am so happy it took over an hour of sitting around and talking my way through hoops at the Tmobile store in boulder. They gave me the piece I need for free. I just have to return it when i get back from europe. This rules because it is a $20 piece that just couldnt be shipped to me in time. Thanks so much people of the Tmobile store. They hooked me up big time and I owe them. I guess that is Tmobile being nice and paying me back for my HUGE phone bill as I went WAY over last month with calls to my mom. I have music and fun back in my europe trip time to celebrate... where's the beer! hehe

Now everything is perfect!!! This trip is going to be great!!!! like tony the tiger says.... GREEEAAATT!

peace out happy as can be,
Dan "with music" Man

Well tomorrow is my last day. I am pretty much all ready to go with one small problem. I have no way to charge my phone/pocketpc/ALL of my music and games for the trip! They sent the wrong thing from Tmobile and I didn't look at it today and then they can't get a new piece here before I take off wends. So I might be out of music the entire trip. This doesn't make me happy. I am hoping to fix this tomorrow by saudering together some stuff and building a charging cable but I dont know how that will go. I could also look into charging via putty on my external battery as i did to extend the life of my previous pocket pc.

Off to europe to see London, Paris, Amsterdam, and Munich. I am really excited it should be a great time. I hope everything turns out perfect. I am sure we will have a blast. Who knows if i will have net access there if i do great I will update my blog a few times. If i dont i will have a journal that i write in that i will put little blurbs about europe in. I am really looking forward to the trip. I hope i am not to exhausted when i return but i probably will be.

peace, love, and have a great time everyone... see you in about 2 weeks.

Well lately to make me happier I have been making dumb photoshops. I have been posting them on a well known photoshop site. Anyways I just made this one to show George W/Dom^2 some of the other artsy things I do. Anyways I also decided that nudity also makes me happier. So I have included a naked woman, and a almost naked man. The almost naked man is my roommate Scott, I hope it maks all of the women out there happier. If you know what is going on our not, I will say that I am doing ok, perhaps even a little better than expected. I am still down and having a hard time studying, but I have been keeping myself busy with dumb little useless activities. Currently I am feeling pretty good, but that means there is an inevitable downswing that is soon to follow. Thank God, for my incredible support network of friends, crew, internet people, and family (of sorts). Hope you find this quickly made collection of images amusing.

I just wrote this while posting else where and it seemed appropriate...

Each day people wake and work on their art,
perfecting their craft and polishing out imperfections.
One day a man felt like his piece had begun to take shape,
he began to form his final details and colors,
others gathered around to watch his piece take shape.
As he turned to grab a new brush saturated with color,
his piece was destroyed and came crashing down around him.
His entire life had been dedicated to this creation,
which now was nothing more than the ruble at his feet.
He picked up the fragment closest to him and said,
"It is time, I began to rebuild a new piece."

Well currently there is a dark cloud hanging over everything I do. It is hard to focus or care about anything else at the moment. I dont know if i really want to discuss it or mention it on such a public forum. So just understand that things will probably not be the same around here for awhile, as I am deeply saddend by the recent event. Thanks for all of your support through out the time I have written and the things I have said.

I had never been to greely. It was a fun night out. I went out with some friends met 2 new people and watched a movie. There was lots of laughing and talking. It was great. Then we got in a really cool and fun religious conversation on the drive back. I always enjoy a good religious conversation. I guess the problem is that i feel like they are all begining to go the same. I have heard most religious peoples points and nothing much seems to change or be new. I have the same arguments about it and against certain things, many of which may be new to the person i am talking with but are not new to me. I really think i need to spend some time sometime and write everything out about my thoughts and views on religion and let people just read it and then post their opinions and thoughts and ideas. Then it could perhaps grow change and have a different perspective. Also then i could persent my thoughts in a easy to understand and read solid source.

Anyways tomorrow i actually have to go to school and work again for a little while, but then i am going to go have fun again so it is ok. Then i think i might have to end my little vaction from school and work a little early and get back to really doing some work on friday.

Also for those that are in the know here is my little love poem for the girl from newsradio, who is also in the welcome to mooseport movie:

Your as cute as a button
I wish you were a button
then I could put you on and bring you everywhere
I would then be able to just keep you in my pocket
I love you and all the cute smiles and looks
I love your voice and everything you say
If we were together i would do things that must be illegal
Your so hot that i will love you forever.
I don't know your name,
but when i feel you i dont feel the same
If I could ever speak to you
I would make you see
that it was always meant for you and me
The whole world was made only as a way for us to meet
Each person only made to be able to see the amazing love we have
I love you blindly and always

Ok dumb post but that is all for now.

It wasn't great, but the snow everywhere sucked yesterday. It is currently snowing really hard core right now though so that is pretty cool. I guess that means that i will have to go skiing this week sometime. Anyways El Dora is a step above anywhere in the midwest and when there is good snow it is probably way better than anywhere in the mid west. The terrain park should be better since that could be one of the best things it can offer. I tried rails for the first time which was fun. I fell on my hip both times it was great. Anyways, I am pretty happy with the $99 season pass just because at only 30 mins away i am sure i will end up skiing alot more than i would have otherwise. Then i can go chill in the hot tub. NICE!

Anyways last night was fun. We went to Old C's and had some food then came back and chilled and watched a movie, played some poker at my house. It was a good night, mainly cause it was chill enough that i will be able to enjoy myself skiing today. Also because I got to chill out with Anthony a friend of mine who i really dont get to see that often. He is a fun kid to chill out with for a night. Anyways i am off to go skiing at el dora for the first time i will give it a quick review when i get back. Ahhh skiiing, in my choice of skiis.

Well in more rejoicing over my new orleans trip with friends. here is my current background click it for a larger version. Feel free to download it and give it a closer look or make it your background if you were on the trip as well. enjoy the fast and fun times that is my young adulthood.

Here is another photo from new orleans showing one of my favorite moments of the trip. When the two megans made a meghan sandwhich out of me.

Just to give a quick idea of how great new orleans was.... here is a pic of us all out on burbon street one night.

Seriously new orleans for my birthday and new years is up there as the best 3 days in my life. Each night was just incredible in different ways and for different reasons. I am seriously lucky to have found such amazing friends in highschool, and to have met such amazing people in college (for the few that were from Colorado in new orleans) It was everything i could have hoped for and more. Seriously some of the conversations and discussions will probably help shape and change the lives of many of us on the trip in the coming year. It was just amazing.

Well I am 22 now I guess i am getting old. At least I can still look good take a look at me in my new suit. I dont have many reasons to wear one yet, but i am not really growing anymore so i might as well have a really nice suit. Perhaps i will wear it to job interviews.