travis' brain dump

… it’s quite possibly time for a blog.

With this new week it seems as though there are plenty of things going on. The weekend was quite nice I must say.

Saturday wasn’t too bad, well overall… We got some great runs in up at Breck on an absolutely amazing day. The temperatures were up in the 40’s with wondeful powder/packed powder surfaces. You couldn’t have asked for a better day. I believe we’ve gotten Ryan off to a great start in his endeavor to learn how to snowboard. He made significant progress within a short amount of time, however he was pretty done by the time he made it down the mountain… Just a couple more trips and he should be good to go. 🙂 The day however wasn’t without incident. Ronnie smacked his head pretty good towards the end of his 5th run and it left for an interesting afternoon. What started innocently as a good whack to the head ended up with a wild ride through the land of a pretty decent sized concussion with all the trimmings an emergency room trip to top it all off. It was good to see him up and moving around and remembering things again by the evening that’s for sure. Glad you’re ok buddy, you gave us all a good scare!

Sunday… well typical at best I must say, however a nap would have made the day all the better. I seriously woke up feeling like a coma patient coming out of it, but strangely I wasn’t all that tired. Pretty good for how long I was up and the pretty darn good workout I got up on the mountain. Oo… I broke a record too… but I’ll talk about that one later… LOL Later that night I had a lil crew show up for some fun and hanging out sometime around 6 so that was interesting. Shout out to Kate and crew, Mike, Ryan and Sharon for coming up! By the end of the night I think everyone was pretty tired out but seemed to have had a good time. Thanks Kate for bringing up the ingredients for dinner. Judging by the fact we didn’t have a single left over… I’d say it turned out good. LOL

So far the week as a whole hasn’t been bad at all. Interesting things going on all around and it’s only Tuesday. *scratches head* scary, lol. Overall I’m doing pretty good … I’d say a lot better than prior to Thursday for sure. Nothing like a little forceful self-smacking around and self-demand to pull ones head from ones rear end to get things rolling. 🙂 Just can’t let stuff bug me, whatever the case, that’s all. Either or, feeling pretty good today exception a meeting scheduled for 4pm. I really hate that crap. I’m trying to wrap stuff up from the day, not get something started… And people wonder why engineers always want to choke the life out of marketing people. muhaha :) 

I need to work out today…. I missed one last week and it’s frustrating me just a little, but what can one do? Weight has been holding steady so I can’t complain there and overall I’m feeling much better now so diet and exercise is working quite well. Mike, bring your butt up tonight. I’m serious, we need to talk bro. Same for you Andy! 😛

hmm phone call … much more interesting than blogging… later 🙂

Well, we didn’t get exactly what we were hoping for going on here, seeing as how the storm shifted south about 50-75 miles… GO COLORADO WEATHER! But we have landed a couple new inches up at Breck and it’s lightly snowing there now… at least the temps are hanging out where they should be. So we’re still good to go for tomorrow and we’ve got plenty of nice powder/packed powder surfaces to ride on. 🙂

I personally think it was a cruel prank played on us by nature for Friday the 13th… hehe

Today is just kinda yucky overall. It’s quiet around the office… at least I’m not dog tired today. The most entertaining thing was slacking off with Matt across the hall who is out of here at 12 today. I’m doing so shortly after… 2-3 for me. At least I’ve gotten most everything I had planned completed so far. This project is going to be a nightmare getting everyone to agree on the next steps for the process and actually lining up to hire in some help. I just hope we can get started on time with this thing. It’s turning out to be a little more complex than I had anticipated.

You know, I took my first nap in a long time last night… I can’t believe I was that tired when I got home from work… I just passed out for a couple hours… it was kind of awesome. lol I did miss my workout though, but whatever. I’ll just have to make up for it this weekend. 🙂

Well, I guess I better get back to work.

wow… so if this week wasn’t already a phenomenal week with snowfall amounts in the mountains, we’re getting some more!

Breckenridge, CO reported yesterday 10″ in 24 hours 28″ over 7 days and calling for another 6-12″ over into Friday night… Kids, it’s time for some snowboarding!!! With the temperatures being as cold as they have been and the increase of the base with fresh powder over the last 7 days, it’s time to tear it up! We could actually cross the 100″ mark by tomorrow night on the top mountain base… To top it all off, highs on Saturday will be in the mid 40’s which means beanie and hoodie day! WOO! 🙂

Let’s coordinate to get everyone up for a great weekend… it’s highly doubtful we’re going to see conditions like this again in the 06-07 season. Hit me up, you know my number!

On a side note… today is boring. LOL
I spent most of the morning doing some mop-up work from last night’s server outages that I had to take care of after hours and now everything is running smooth. The phones are quiet, most everyone has left out for the weekend … and well I’m bored. Tomorrow will be the worst, but I’m cutting out early so who cares. 🙂

All seems well on other fronts. Things are calm at home, calm at work and I’m doing my best not to let other things get to me anymore. All in all, today is a good day. Still a bit tired from torturing myself this week with chemicals and late nights… LOL but I’m doing okay.

Hope everyone else is having a great day!

ok, well after a long afternoon & night of fiberglass and body fillers… the hood is done. 🙂

thanks mike for priming that thing for me… i was in no condition to hold the gun steady by the time we got to that point last night, lol… i’ve got a slight headache today from all the fumes, but all in all – doin pretty good.  i was working on it yesterday afternoon and decided to just finish it. why not right? it’s not like i had anything else going on. total project time was about 8 hours once I got everything tallied up. not too bad – record for one of these is about 5-6 hours so i think i did pretty good.

i was even able to keep my promise to andy and get some ffxi time in last night. 🙂 all in all, not a bad evening and a good way to end the day especially after how it started out. it was good to just hang out and do some things with andy and mike. now that i’ve got my distraction out of the way it kinda sucks, heh. time for the next one, lol. oh well. so today… hmm meetings meetings — ok well only primarily the one has me stressed. it’s back on the ball with the project here.

anyway… i should get to work…