Happy Thanksgiving

ArmYavinFlowers
Originally uploaded by hbrownii.

Closest thing I could find this morning to flowers :)

Everyone have a happy Thanksgiving. I, for one have a great deal to be thankful for, and you are all part of it. Thank you.

Peace,

Harry

Bug ? ...Windshield ?

Ok so the aliens that inhabit Whole foods next dor to B&N are definitely odd, but I must say, (atkins dieters avert your eyes...) they make some fine bread.

I got a lovley loaf of Green Olive and parmesan Sourdough today, and belive it or not, I'm sitting here eating it with Sundried Tomato and Walnut Hummus, and a Chai ice tea watching the snow fall.

Ok not to freak anyone out, I did have a corndog for lunch... :)

Somedays you are the windshield, somedays the bug.

Man it gets late (early ?) quick when you work til midnight.

Everyone have a great weekend.


hairball

The Arapahoe Basin Story...

So Pete and I decided to go boarding at A-Basin on Tuesday because we both had the day off and it seemed like a better idea than going on Saturday.

We both have passes to A-basin, the pass was more or less the cheapest of a bunch f options and it gets you unlimted A-Basin and Keystone riding, with some discounts for other mountains, but not unlimited.

A-Basin, and I'll get yelled at for this, is like a BIG Ragged mountain. I say that because short of a grill and a bar, there is nothing there, except a very expensive place to buy sunblock. But that makes the parking lot a short walk to the chairs, and it looks like it could be some pretty challenging riding when they get a good dumping.

The ride up is, to me, amazing, although the Rover disagrees. It was a bit of a struggle finding a good gear for the climb. Problem with the AMerican Discovery is it is geared for soccer moms that either drive on pavement in the city or going 85 on the highway, so there really is no climbing gear. From 3rd to 4th is a hug gap, and I would say the ebst gear for this hill would be 3.5 :).

About 3/4 of the way there the car started to smell funny. Not funny ha ha, but funny "what the hell died ?"

At first I thought we would sees omething in the road, but the only thing there was construction workers, and they looked as alive as road crews can. Ok they were breathing...

So the 2 of us started wondering what it was, which allowed for the casual "Hey, did you rip one?" Or "Hey put your shoes back on..."

Well almost everything that can go wrong with a car at stress has already happened to me and frankly nothing ever smelled like this. ANyway, so now we re driving up with the windows open.

When we got to the mountain, Actually we were deep in mountians, so I guess once we got to the destination, we started gearing up. ANd Pete noticed that his board was covered in White goo...

I thought maybe he had found a long lost bottle of my sunblock, but, well it didn't smell like sunblock, it smelled like S%^&t.

Turns out Pete's sister in law had used his boot bag as storage for some of her babay things aand in this bag, which had been in a nice hot attic all the Colorado summer, was a "sippy" cup of milk.....

Well that pretty much nailed the smell, so we cleaned up as best as we could. hah.

When we got off the chair lift for the first run, I swear I heard someone sat " What the hell is that smell.. ?"

Got the first run in, this being my first run ever in Colorado, I was expecting something I had never felt before. Well it was like a good day in New England, which eans everyhting was ice with a dusting of baby powder.

My legs were killing me and so were my lungs. But we got on the chair for another run. And true to form, I crased on the ICe about 3/4 of the way down the run. And slid for about 40 yards. you don't just crash and stop here, it's steep and as I said, the snow is like baby powder, it's extremely dry, and it doesn't provide any friction at all.

So I dusted myself off, or started to when I realized that my shoulder was killing me. I had landed on the same damn shoulder I landed on like 6 years agao on a trip to Mt. Snow I(That was when I tried to thread the needle in between condos at speed rather than taking off my board and walking like a sane person)

Well long story a little shorter, I had whacke dmy shoulder hard enough tthat it hurt to even think of moving it. And it still hurts quite a bit. If it continues to be this painful, I may have to give in and test the hospitals out here.

SO my shoulder is whacked and my car smells like the travelling gnome got his stinky cheese fetish satisfied.

My first day riding in Colorado... Glamorous, eh ? X-Games here I come, at least to someplace with a TV so I can watch them. :)

Off to work, if I can shift. Have a ggreat weekend all.

H

Arapahoe Basin 11/16/2004 First time riding in CO

Arapahoe Basin 1
Originally uploaded by hbrownii.

There will be a longer story here shortly of my first day boarding in Colorado.

Just be happy that there is no scratch and smell HTML tags.

I wish there were more people pix, but frankly, I was concentrating on breathing.

HB

Arapahoe Basin #2

Arapahoe Basin #2
Originally uploaded by hbrownii.

Arapahoe Basin #3

Arapahoe basin #3
Originally uploaded by hbrownii.

that one lift you can see in the middle is the one that is open out of two. the second starts mid mountain.

Colorado Life - Geek style

Living Room Fireplace
Originally uploaded by hbrownii.

Ok, so I have a fire going in the fireplace and I'm playing Star Wars Galaxies with snow falling.

If only I didn't have to work today,life would be grand.

Anywho, just a quick note because I haven't been writing. Sorry, just nothing but gripng is coming to me, and I have no desire to trun this into anothe gripe stage.

B&N is playing the "how can we screw with your schedule now" game.

I give em 2 more total flip flops of what they told me would be my schedule then I'll go work at Circuit City. It's 2 blocks closer.

By the way if anyone has any interest in playing SWG with Pete and I there is a free trial n the website, if you can't tfind it, pick up a copy of the special 3D edition of Maximum PC.

Anyway,

Off to work.

Cheers,

My Boulder Flat

Studio Window Plant
Originally uploaded by hbrownii.

Not trying to be EUro or anything, but this place is small enough for me to call Flat.

This is the main living space looking out the Window to the rather shallow porch and the (luckily) south facing outdoors.

H

Boulder Flat #2

Studio Corner
Originally uploaded by hbrownii.

With Savannah.

Boulder Flat #3

Studio Window no Plant
Originally uploaded by hbrownii.

Savannah again, looking ito the main room from the kitchen.

Boulder Flat #4

Long Kitchen
Originally uploaded by hbrownii.

Kitchen. Door to outdoors. Across form this door is a small storage closet where I keep my snowboard and stuff like that.

Ok so who....

....wants to move to New Zealand ?

Ok I know,I know this is a great country, but 4 more years of this blatent stupidity and something's gonna blow. Trust it coming from a master of stupidity and it blowing up in your face.

There's some new Notes in the Star Wars Galaxies (SWG) blog. Mostly startup bits from getting the release of Jump to Lightspeed (JTL).

Saw a great movie on Kerry if you want to cry in your beer... It's called "Going Upriver - The Long War of John Kerry" I got it on NetFlix.

NetFlix by the way has lowered it's 3 DVD disks unlimited price back to almost what it used to be, so if you ditched em, it's a good time to come back, if you never had them and you want a great way to rent DVDs drop me a line and maybe I can get a bonus for bringing someone onboard. If youget your timing just right, you can actually have a movie coming in the mail everyday. Thats what I've maneged to do excpet around holidays whenit gets all weird because they do come US mail.

Will try and write more. Been busy with the Jeffco project and trying to learn how to fly a X-Wing. :)

ALso will try pushing some more pictures up .

hairball