Dan Mayer's Blog

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.