So here’s why people go to the Aspen area – the skiing! these r some shots of the slopes and views from the ski area. What a great way to celebrate the outdoors!
Here’s why they call the area Aspen:
These r aspen trees i believe. During Autumn the leaves turn beautiful golden yellow. They are taking a winters nap in this shot.
Here’s the rest of the room –
And here’s how to get the most out of your checked bags. 50 lbs max, this was obv weighed at home first!
Next up, the slopes!
Well it truly is spring. earlier this week it was close to 80 degrees (i think 77 one day and 78 the next. Then the cold front came thru yesterday. in about 1.5 hours the temp dropped from 64 to 44. after another hour it went down to 34.
Here’s what else came through with the cold front:
When i cleaned off the car i discovered we had gotten about 4 inches of snow. April snow is not really expected here. but not unheard of either. A friend got married April 16th about 30 years ago, and they were blessed(?) with a storm of 18 inches of snow.
So i guess this isn’t too bad. at least i didn’t have to go to work last night or today.
Tick Tock goes the body clock. The way its supposed to work is, u have a schedule, your biology adapts to that schedule. After a while u don’t need an alarm clock. u sleep and wake up, look over at the clock and its like 5 min before the alarm goes off.
(insert normal daily routine, fast forward to bedtime)
Now at your normal time your body (brain) naturally takes a chill pill and drops out of impulse drive (u spent your day at various numbers of warp drive!) and sleep happens without much effort. The thing is so effective that if u stay up past your “normal bedtime” u may fall asleep almost on your feet. without wanting to. yawn.
Now lets take a visit to my sick and twisted schedule. First there’s the days of work: 2 on, 2 off, 3 on, 2 off, 2 on, 3 off. repeat. btw 12 hour shifts. add a good sized dose of commute, 60 minutes. top off with night shift, 6 pm to 6 am. So basically the days i work i have a 14 hour plus work commitment. Overnight. now i don’t mind the overnight thing, my ‘natural’ awake time.
and i have sort of adapted to it. but there r complications. like i like to sleep with my wife when on my days off. so i try to just nap when i get home around 7am after my work instead of ‘regular sleep’. just a few hours on the couch and then theoretically when we go to bed i sleep at night instead of work at night. Sometimes it works.
and other times my body just naps and i wake up at say 12:35 am and the body is telling me – “hey why r u in bed, its the middle of the day?” I can force it back to sleep by staying in bed until boredom shuts off the mind, but that can take hours and i risk waking up my lovely normal schedule wife with my tossing around.
so usually i get up, and now i can blog in the wee hours when in theory i should b sawing virtual wood. zzzzzzzzzz zzzzzzzzzz zzzzzzzzz
this may b shaving years off my life. really hope not.
p.s. – I DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS SORT OF SCHEDULE TO ANYONE
thanks for listening, i feel a little better.
So here’s one reason why the roving correspondent was there – the awesome mountains!!
Where i live the mountains are not so high. I’m ok with that, and later this year i promise to get u some awesome shots of our mountains here.
Till then . . .
I’m sure you have heard stories about people stuck in a small cabin and snowed in for the entire winter. Tensions rise, emotions take over and then the descent into insanity. Well not always but the stories are there. This location i live in is not prone to such maladies, but we truly had a lousy winter from my perspective. The perspective of having a 60 minute commute and a snowy winter. And what seemed excessive cold.
So it is with great enthusiasm that i greet my favorite seasonal emotional period:
SPRING FEVER!!!!!
I feel very happy and know it is also infecting the local population as well by the audio signals – you can hear the motorcycles and hot rods cruising as the driver winds up the engine and gets that wind in your hair sensation. Although in this state the helmet is decreed by law. That’s another subject. For now – HAPPY SPRING! YAHOO!
Look at these cute cubs. The do grow up to at least 350 lbs and like to ravage trash cans when they can. While still bears and a dangerous animal they are small compared to the grizz or polar varieties. At this age they are just cute.
Sometimes i feel like him and just want to nap in the sun.
These are not part of the group from the park. This shows the flowers from a rhododendron pjm in my yard. The thing is beautiful in bloom. Only thing is the flowers drop too soon. Guess maybe becuz its a hybrid.
Remember: A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
Credit where credit is due dept: this is not my idea. Originally from a woman at my church, my wife taught Sunday School with her for a number of years. So Connie, i herby give u credit for noticing and describing the principle. I have decided its time to lay it out for the world to see and acknowledge, to name it and “scale” it, so those inclined may find themselves a spot in it.
The idea is this: us menfolk tend towards either technical skills and preferences, or sports skills and preferences. By sports i mean a physical, coordination requiring activity such as, but not limited to: football, basketball, tennis, hockey. Etc.
So here’s my “Tech – Sport continium”. The center of the scale is M – for median. This would b someone who is evenly divided technically / sports sense. (Not sure if there r actually any people out there that would fit this spot on the scale. Just in case we will assume there should b.) So now your engineer types might be T+8 or T+9, a hard core programmer geek a T+10. While your pro football and hockey players might be S+9 or S+10. It seems to me it is rare for most techs to b really into sports. This is where i place myself. I also see that many sports types might have trouble wiring a light switch. Thats ok. I can wire a house but u can’t depend on me to consistently catch a ball thrown my way or shoot a great swoosh and “snap the cords”.
Both types can b taught the other end of the continium. We r just talking about the internal gift the person carries.
I have tried not to b negative in any way. There is no zero just a theoretical medium. Both sides of the scale are positives. We need warriors and builders, coders and quarterbacks to make the world go round. Any thoughts?
