April Showers Bring May Weeds...
well if you haven't mowed yet this spring I guess they don't count as May weeds more like late fall weeds that died and since you didn't do anything to keep them dead they just came back. Anyway enough about uncut yards. It's been 2 months since my last post and I hate doing these first posts after a long wait because they always feel rushed but here goes.
Biggest thing that has gone on was our amazing trip out west. My wife and I and 2 other couples went to Breckenridge, CO for my first big skiing adventure. The area was beautiful and the mountains were awe-inspiring. Having spent most of my time in the woods in the Appalachians and the Sierra Nevadas I was absolutely floored by the Rocky Mountains. Thier size, snow coveredness and juttiness, if that's a word, were awesome. For space sake here is my wife's blog on the trip. I will just say a couple things
1) There is nothing like a trip with best friends. Spending a few days away with them is amazing with all crazyness of our lives it's hard for grownups to develop the same type friendships we had as children but a trip like this is perfect.
2) Take ski school. My wife went from falling down the mountain and having dispariging things to say about the sciences on day 1 to skiing down some of the hardest greens just the day after, DO IT.
3) Skiing rocks. It's fun, not dangerous if you take it seriously and in a place like Breckenridge you get the same outdoors feel of backpacking with out all the packing.
Next up although my next job is still up in the air I did finally get full recognition for what I am doing now. The crew I have is great and everyday is challenging trying to figure out how to fix problems we have when not everyone is there at the mill. Also I will be done with shift work on July 1st if everything goes as planned, WOOT!
A Netflix update: I appreciate all you guys/girls who watch your dvds slowly and some of you know who you are who keep the same one for weeks at a time. I appreciate you because you keep Netflix affordable for me since I have about the shortest turnaround time you can get as of now I have had the service for 2 months and have gotten 18 movies and 3 full seasons in the mail and using the instant watch feature watched another 25 movies and 4 seasons. So like I said thank you to everyone who slowly returns movies and keep up the good work!
I want to give a shout out to a great comic book series that I just finished reading in graphic novel form, Y: the last man. I don't know if I mentioned it before but it is outstanding. Story starts with an epidimic that kills everything with a Y chromosome except the main charachter Yorick Brown, the last man alive. It's collected in 10 graphic novels as he tries to cross the globe to find his girlfriend who was on vacation in Australia after the world starts to fall apart with one gender gone. Read it.
On that note I also have read some great books since my last post so here goes:
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald (4 out of 5) Classic set in the 1920s the narrator, Nick, is new to New York and moves in next door to the mysterious, party throwing, Jay Gatsby. The story follows a year of his life hightlighting the changes of the time with women gaining more rights, the rise of jazz and the stock market. Great read and a difinitive look at the "roaring 20s"
In the Woods - Tana French (4 out of 5) Thriller would be a good description. A detective who had a harrowing experience as a child is brought back to the same neighborhood he left behind to solve the grisly murder of a young girl left on an archeaology site. He should recuse himself from the investigation but doesn't and as the try to figure out who killed the young girl he also learns more about himself. It's a real cliff hanger story and I don't usually read these but I liked it, just enough twists I never figured it out until the end.
Marley & Me - John Grogan (5 out of 5) Great story and written soo well. The movie skips alot of good stories and information from the book so having seen it doesn't mean the book isn't worth your time, it is. An good story about a bad dog who despite his quirks means more to the family than they really know. I think anyone who has a dog can relate to some or all of the story.
Bad Dogs Have More Fun - John Grogan (2 out of 5) Got it thinking it would be another good story from Grogan but should have read the cover. It was just his columns reprinted. Some good ones but too short and quick. (That's what she said)
Hot, Flat & Crowded - Thomas Friedman (5 out of 5) Really more of an extension of his last book "The World is Flat"that I reviewed back in June 07. The book centers on how the flat world affects the environment and our love as a world for getting everything that we can no matter the outcome. Lots of great facts and figures and discussion about what it will be like when the emerging countries of the world catch up with the U.S. in oil consumption/person.
The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell (6 out of 5) A why the world is the way it is book. Reminded me of "Freakanomics" in style. Discusses what it takes for things to tip from obscurity to epidimic from personality types to stickiness factors it is awesome. Comparing a suicide epidimic in Micronesia to teen smoking may just be the neatest part of the book. I would recommend anyone in the business world to read this book now.
well if you haven't mowed yet this spring I guess they don't count as May weeds more like late fall weeds that died and since you didn't do anything to keep them dead they just came back. Anyway enough about uncut yards. It's been 2 months since my last post and I hate doing these first posts after a long wait because they always feel rushed but here goes.
Biggest thing that has gone on was our amazing trip out west. My wife and I and 2 other couples went to Breckenridge, CO for my first big skiing adventure. The area was beautiful and the mountains were awe-inspiring. Having spent most of my time in the woods in the Appalachians and the Sierra Nevadas I was absolutely floored by the Rocky Mountains. Thier size, snow coveredness and juttiness, if that's a word, were awesome. For space sake here is my wife's blog on the trip. I will just say a couple things
1) There is nothing like a trip with best friends. Spending a few days away with them is amazing with all crazyness of our lives it's hard for grownups to develop the same type friendships we had as children but a trip like this is perfect.
2) Take ski school. My wife went from falling down the mountain and having dispariging things to say about the sciences on day 1 to skiing down some of the hardest greens just the day after, DO IT.
3) Skiing rocks. It's fun, not dangerous if you take it seriously and in a place like Breckenridge you get the same outdoors feel of backpacking with out all the packing.
Next up although my next job is still up in the air I did finally get full recognition for what I am doing now. The crew I have is great and everyday is challenging trying to figure out how to fix problems we have when not everyone is there at the mill. Also I will be done with shift work on July 1st if everything goes as planned, WOOT!
A Netflix update: I appreciate all you guys/girls who watch your dvds slowly and some of you know who you are who keep the same one for weeks at a time. I appreciate you because you keep Netflix affordable for me since I have about the shortest turnaround time you can get as of now I have had the service for 2 months and have gotten 18 movies and 3 full seasons in the mail and using the instant watch feature watched another 25 movies and 4 seasons. So like I said thank you to everyone who slowly returns movies and keep up the good work!
I want to give a shout out to a great comic book series that I just finished reading in graphic novel form, Y: the last man. I don't know if I mentioned it before but it is outstanding. Story starts with an epidimic that kills everything with a Y chromosome except the main charachter Yorick Brown, the last man alive. It's collected in 10 graphic novels as he tries to cross the globe to find his girlfriend who was on vacation in Australia after the world starts to fall apart with one gender gone. Read it.
On that note I also have read some great books since my last post so here goes:
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald (4 out of 5) Classic set in the 1920s the narrator, Nick, is new to New York and moves in next door to the mysterious, party throwing, Jay Gatsby. The story follows a year of his life hightlighting the changes of the time with women gaining more rights, the rise of jazz and the stock market. Great read and a difinitive look at the "roaring 20s"
In the Woods - Tana French (4 out of 5) Thriller would be a good description. A detective who had a harrowing experience as a child is brought back to the same neighborhood he left behind to solve the grisly murder of a young girl left on an archeaology site. He should recuse himself from the investigation but doesn't and as the try to figure out who killed the young girl he also learns more about himself. It's a real cliff hanger story and I don't usually read these but I liked it, just enough twists I never figured it out until the end.
Marley & Me - John Grogan (5 out of 5) Great story and written soo well. The movie skips alot of good stories and information from the book so having seen it doesn't mean the book isn't worth your time, it is. An good story about a bad dog who despite his quirks means more to the family than they really know. I think anyone who has a dog can relate to some or all of the story.
Bad Dogs Have More Fun - John Grogan (2 out of 5) Got it thinking it would be another good story from Grogan but should have read the cover. It was just his columns reprinted. Some good ones but too short and quick. (That's what she said)
Hot, Flat & Crowded - Thomas Friedman (5 out of 5) Really more of an extension of his last book "The World is Flat"that I reviewed back in June 07. The book centers on how the flat world affects the environment and our love as a world for getting everything that we can no matter the outcome. Lots of great facts and figures and discussion about what it will be like when the emerging countries of the world catch up with the U.S. in oil consumption/person.
The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell (6 out of 5) A why the world is the way it is book. Reminded me of "Freakanomics" in style. Discusses what it takes for things to tip from obscurity to epidimic from personality types to stickiness factors it is awesome. Comparing a suicide epidimic in Micronesia to teen smoking may just be the neatest part of the book. I would recommend anyone in the business world to read this book now.
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