Summer Concert

Warp coils and borg nanoprobes. Now that my episode of Star Trek Voyager is done I can finally focus on writing about my latest highlight of the week: my experience at Dom and Jane's Summer Concert. Thanks to living in a big city, I have come to appreciate the joys of having live entertainment easily accessible. As my fourth concert in Denver and sixth ever, (Barry Manilow was the first concert I ever saw, but that is another story)...I was pleasantly surprised. Thanks to Steve's passion for music I went to the concert recognizing most of the songs. In all there were three performing groups, but needless to say we were there for Collective Soul. I was surrounded by individuals bopping their heads and raising their hands to the beat. Feeling a bit out of place, as I normally do when everyone around me is so good at dancing and swaying in place, I finally let my hair down and enjoyed it. There is something liberating when you are in a group of 3,000 all singing the same song. Even though I didn't know all the words, I still had a great time and it was an opportunity to share in one of Steven's hobbies.

Collective Soul

Me and Steve Rocking Out !!!

Our new website

Hi! Well, we have a slick little counter on the side of this website that not only tracks hits, but also tells us what website referred the user to ours. Having looked at the results, it seems that there is a gap in the website offerings for Denver Night Life. We're not exactly the biggest movers and shakers out there, but we do like to eat out once in a while, and we really love movies. Some of our friends from work hit the clubs occasionally, so I've asked one of them to help us out with that side of things. Like I said on that side, it's going to focus on the entertainment aspect rather than the drinking, but I think it'll still be useful. Well, you can find it at www.denvernightlife.net...dot-com was taken by someone who wanted a lot of money, so we ditched that one. Again, if you visit, let us know what you think. That website, much more than this one, is devoted to the visitors...it's nothing without you.

Well, thanks for visiting again.
Steve

Snowmass and Aspen

We made it back, and I thought I'd post up a few pics of our trip. It was all in all a fun time, though we didn't get to go downhill biking (even though I love riding a bike way too fast down the side of a rocky mountain, braking the entire way, I wasn't too broken up about it). However, we did get to ride the lift to the top and take some pretty nice pictures. TIP: If you like doing this kind of stuff, Snowmass has FREE lift tickets all summer. You can ride to the top, hike around for a while, and then hop on it to ride back down. OK, now the pictures.

First, here's a picture of Meredith and I. I figure we were due to post up a pic.

OK, so now some assorted pics of the mountainside:

We also drove up to Aspen on Saturday evening. Wowzers...those people have some serious cash. I could tell that by the fact that when I drove by a cop pulling someone over, I noticed that the cop was driving a SAAB! No Crown Vic's up there. Unfortunately none of the Aspen pics I took turned out very well (dusk is tough), but it was a beautiful place.

Well, that's about it. Oh, and it was a blast driving the Mustang up through the mountains. In spite of the climbs to Eisenhower tunnel, I made 27.1 MPG (amazing for a Mustang) and absolutely blasted by most of the people in the climb (at least the ones I could get around)...doing just over the speed limit!

Thanks for reading. I personally really like the cloud picture and am using it for my wallpaper. If you want a wallpaper sized image of any of these, email me and let me know what resolution you want so I can email you the right size. If there's enough interest, I'll post them up.

That's all for now. Have a good week!
Steve

Get more info at Snowmass Website.

A quick post from Snowmass

Well, I'll make it quick, but I just thought I'd come on here and say hello. This has been a relatively uneventful week, but in a refreshing way. I don't like running around all the time...it's nice to have some calm. Having said that, I'm currently writing this in a condo in Snowmass, CO (close to Aspen). We're out here for a work-related convention for Meredith, so I get to barrel down the mountain on a bike (more on that later) while she's sitting in classes. It's beautiful country...if it weren't so far from Denver (about 4 and a half hours), I'd highly recommend the drive.

Well, time for bed. Oh, and I just wanted to say welcome to all of our first time visitors. I've noticed the hit counter pinging up, and just wanted to say that all of your visits (not just the first timers) really make doing this worthwhile. Use the comments section to let us know what you want info on, and if we've got it, we'll put it up!

Adieu,
Steve

Havin' fun!

Well, here we are again, in the middle of yet another week. It sure is funny how we perceive the passage of time. Some days seem like they'll never end, and so we don't feel any loss at the end of a day. But how we mourn years!

That's enough philosophy for me. This week hasn't been anything particularly special. We did go see the Fireworks display at the Rockies game. It was really great, but after the game started late and went eleven innings, we didn't get home until about midnight. That's a bit late for me on a work night, and I paid for it the next day, but it was definitely one of the best displays I've seen. Wow...a post about Denver Life! Go figure!

Other than that, I've just been getting packages. I got some money for my birthday, so I ordered some mostly useless stuff (that's the best kind of stuff to get for your birthday...stuff that you'd never buy with your own money, but that you want) and it's been trickling in.

Meredith and I started an exercise program tonight. We're trying to look good for our upcoming Hawaii vacation, and so we've kind of kicked it into high gear. We probably can't make much of a difference before then, but at least we can establish good habits. It's never too late for that.

Blah blah blah...are you still here? No way! Well, that's all for now...by the way, I changed the settings on this page so that anyone who feels like it can post comments about our ramblings, so if you feel like it, go for it! We reserve the right to delete/edit any rude/embarrassing comments, so watch the swears and the goofy stories, but please...let us know what you think! Or maybe just me, since that other "contributor" hasn't done much. :)

Steve

Birthday!

Well...I don't really know what to write about this week. It was a reasonably eventful week...after all, I had a birthday. It just doesn't seem that interesting to write about, let alone read. Just for posterity's sake, we went to Red Robin on my birthday with one of my friends from work (more were supposed to come, but cellphone technical difficulties claimed a couple of other people). We had a good lunch, but other than that, really didn't do anything big. We cleaned up our place, which was nice (we've been needing to do it for awhile). I also ordered some final dress-up parts for my car. To be perfectly honest, my patience for pure dress-up is wearing incredibly thin. I like functional stuff...eye candy, especially eye candy under the hood, is pretty meaningless. The only things I can really see myself doing this year are tinting the windows (functional) and getting new wheels and snow tires in the winter (functional). I don't want to pour all my money into my car...after all, the new Xbox comes out this winter! (http://www.xbox360.com) So anyway...it was a good day. I don't really feel different, but I didn't expect to either.

Well that's it. Oh, we bought some more accessories for that mixer. Can you believe I would write about that twice? I can't. Oh well...if you made it this far, you must really like us, so you don't mind me blathering on.

Thanks for coming back...we really appreciate it.