travis' brain dump

well, i’ve got to say this weekend ranked right up there with one of the best and so far the best for 2007 for sure.

friday gave me a pretty bad start, but it evened out. i started picking up a migraine sometime around 4pm on friday but decided to push through it to go hang out with andy at old chicago’s for a bit. i’m so glad it subsided long enough to have some fun with andy, however by the time we got back it was kicking in full and i was out for the count. my usual remedy and the 2 hour sleep fix didn’t cut it this time and when i woke up with it still pounding i knew i was screwed… luckily jon had a couple of good high powered advil’s floating around from when he hurt his back and that numbed my head pretty good, even got my ears too… it still didnt stop the nausea though, what a pain, but that too passed eventually. i thought for sure my weekend was screwed since i had no clue how this would effect my sleeping and of course getting up early for boarding saturday since it already threw my plans into a downward spiral and delayed me at this point… however, it would all work out.

i popped out of bed at 0545 and i was wide awake and ready to rock, lol. i started bomb calling mike since i hadn’t informed him that it was a complete go for boarding (due to being put out of commission friday night with the migraine) so i was a bit worried he wouldnt make it. however, it worked out and i got ahold of him about 20 minutes before i was ready to head out so he made it just fine… i headed down to pick him up and then headed down to pick up sharon and rodney for a fun day in the powder (4-5″ of fresh up there from our last snow that hit Friday night) and it was on. oddly enough, despite the temps being around 10 degrees around denver all day, we enjoyed the high 20’s and a spike of 30 during the day up at breck… haha suckers! it was an awesome day, i love some fresh pow, let me tell ya. mike and i got in a couple of good fast runs and it appears we even got sharon over some of her fears of the dreaded toe edge… been there on that one and its a scary one for sure. she beat it a little easier than i did and even left me trying to catch up on the last run of the day… i was tired okay? lol we’ll see how well this weekend goes. gotta try to get mark up there with us for sure. the guy hasnt been all season and needs to hit the hills, its unacceptable. over all i’d have to say it was one of the best days i’ve had up there, nice speed, good control, low traffic, just phenomenal. it gave me a good chance to unwind and work on my skills a little bit. 

the rest of the weekend went pretty good as well… hung out with the kiddo, talked some plans over for my house with jon, hung out with sharon and jesse, typical stuff, but all pretty relaxed… not to mention that i got a good finale with 2 hours of 24 (and again tonight!) so that was awesome. i’ve also got some pretty cool things figured out for some remodel ideas in my house, so i’m pretty excited to see how/when i can get some of these things started up. 😀 first things first though, we’ve got to get that heater installed out in the garage – we can’t be droppin 30/wk on jetfuel to power the rocket anymore, its just not economical, but the furnace is awesome – mad props to tom for scoring that and jon for lining it up for me.

well, i guess its back to monday stuff for me… yay. need to go run a couple errands so yeah… later