travis' brain dump

so, ya know those days that you just feel like you should have stayed in bed? yep, having one of those… not only is work just kinda dragging along today, but I got a ticket this morning… wtf!?

so, it starts off – i woke up this morning a little late, i truly thought about calling in, yeah right… pulled my butt outta bed and proceeded to take a shower to wake up. i thought to myself, “today is going to suck”. boy i had no clue. so i’m on my way to drop off my daughter and i decide to take a slightly different route this morning (shoulda been my first clue). i’m cruisin down the street in what i thought to be a 40mph (yes, my mind is on other crap, so i wasn’t really paying attention) zone at about 45 and my radar goes off… thinking i was okay, i just kept rollin, until one of broomfield’s finest pulls out behind me with his lights going… so at this point i’m thinking to myself… great… 10 yrs w/o a speeding ticket and i get popped – oh well i’m due… so he comes up and he’s all ‘ i got you doin 48 in a 35 ‘ — realizing it was a 35mph zone not a 40 mph zone i think to myself… “4 pts, thats just great” — so he asks for my license, reg, insurance – the usual stuff… i go rummaging through my visor and get him the docs… unfortunately it seems that my insurance card was out of date… oh yay… so, on top of the 4pts and 13 over, i’ve got no proof of insurance to add to it… at least the latter is easy enough to dismiss… hopefully the d.a. will be in a giving mood give me a plea bargain so i can get it down to 2 pts and under 10 over (or perhaps better). we’ll see… knowing my luck i’ll be the poor bastard they make an example out of — no slack. wouldn’t that be some bull… crackhead 17-18yr olds who blast 35’s @ 90 get plea bargains that let them keep their licenses and pay some slap on the wrist fine and a 27 yr old single father dropping off his kid gets owned for going 13 over… would be my luck ya know? *shrug* oh well… as long as they give me some kinda break i’ll be happy… i mean after all i *WAS* speeding which I am not trying to say i wasn’t and try to get out of everything, just get a nice reduction that is easy to deal with… lol  we’ll see how it goes… i don’t have court until the 25th of may so i’ve got a while – im not too worried about it, just more annoyed at myself than anything…

on other notes, today had some other issues with it not worth mentioning… all just seeming to pile on me… at least im heading out of work here in about an hour… that makes it nicer. got a little job to do on the way home and then its pickup the kiddo and go do some grocery shopping… gotta restock after the cleanout that occured last week around my pad… i love my friends to death… you hear that you ungrateful pains in my ass? i love ya all!(hehe just messin with ya, you’re not ungrateful pains – you guys are some of the best friends anyone could ask for)

only one more day till the weekend… just gotta make it through today and tomorrow and i’m set. i think i’ll work on destroying (so that i can remodel) the guestroom… should be fun. as soon as i’m done it means people don’t have to sleep on the floor when they crash at my house… i should have crash capacity for up to 6 which will be great for those weekends everyone wants to hang out all night before going snowboarding… *cough* last weekend *cough*

anyway, enough… gotta get a couple things wrapped up here and get outta here.

later

heh a year later…

i was going to post yesterday, but i passed out (you’ll learn why later) and never got to it…  in other news, its a year later from the first day i posted a blog on this thing … i cannot believe i’ve had a myspace account this long — seemed like yesterday i swear.

ok — so i did my first solo trip up to breck yesterday… (usually im with at least one person going up, but no one could make it so i had to go it alone) all in all it was a pretty good day – fresh powder mmmmm…. I got the urge on thursday while I was at work and checking out the snow stats at breck from this lil storm we had pass through and it excited me. (perhaps in that way, you may never know) — i was burnt, i had worked all the previous weekend and pulled an all nighter on this database migration that kept going sour (i wont even bore with the details) but all the same it carried over.

So I got up Friday, took the kiddo over to her grandparents for the day and headed for the hills… the drive up was freakin nuts! Snow all over the roads, i think CDOT was taking the day off too. Once I got up there however, it was well worth it. I got there at about 8:30 or so and there was hardly anyone there… Can we say no lines to the lifts!? I didn’t even have to unstrap a couple times to get onto the lift… lol Got a lot in, a bunch of boarding, a little hiking and quite possibly the best view i have ever seen – all before 2pm… very nice. got back here just in time to take a shower and get a 30 minute nap before andy and mark came over. I was so wiped by the time the day was over i passed out, didnt even fight it.

I was supposed to go up today too but I didnt get a chance — no babysitter… *shrug* oh well – next year I wont have this problem… gonna strap arwen to a board next year for sure! I hope she likes it — however judging by her daredevil attitude now, i dont think i have to worry…

ok… well i have stuff to do and i’m sure i’ve grammatically butchered this blog enough as I don’t care to actually re-read this thing.

later