Jen and I are off to Copper Mtn., CO to spend New Years with Jake and Shondi. Jen's never been to Copper, so this should be a fun trip... assuming we can even get there! It's supposed to snow 10" today and we're driving to Copper from Denver. Wish us luck! We're also spending a few days in Boulder afterwards getting some stuff done for our house and also hanging out with my brother Josh. He'll be in town for a day with my dad while they check out CU. Fun times! Until next year...

Last night as Jen and I were driving home from a friend's house, some ass hat started throwing gang signs at me as I drove by, just as we entered our neighborhood. At first I chuckled at it, but then I realized that I had the hood of my red hoody up. For f's sake, I'm so over our neighborhood. That incident made me realize that we have absolutely no business in a place where a normal personal has to remember to not wear their hood during the winter for fear of upsetting some dumb ass who strolls around the neighborhood at 11pm looking for trouble. Not that the whole neighborhood is like that, because honestly I've never had an issue there before. I guess it's just like the surfer who has their first encounter with a shark. You always knew they were there, but it's easy to let it slip from your mind when it's never been an issue. It's just really frustrating, and it makes me worry about my wife's and my own safety. I can't wait to move.

In other news, I got Sirius in my car and it's ridiculously awesome. I highly recommend it!

Then buy these...



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It's really hard to figure out where to start when you haven't written in a while, so I'll just start from right now. Jen and I just got back from Colorado, a trip we took to close on the house we just purchased. It's so awesome. I'm sure everyone thinks their first house is awesome, so I guess I'm no different. I'm not saying it's better than anyones - just that it's awesome - for me. While we were out there we visited Jake and Shondi's house, which is currently being built. Their house is awesome too. I can't wait until both our places are done and we're all out west and settled in. That's the point of this, I guess. The waiting game is something I've never been very good at. I generally set my mind to something and figure out a way to defy all time lines to achieve it. In the case of the house, the move... these things have to happen on their own time. I'm excited about this. It's fun for once to know that I can't hurry it along and it's forcing me to enjoy the suspense.

To help it along, I'll focus on working pretty closely with our architect on redesigning the interior. We're only doing a few major projects and a bunch of smaller ones. I'm super stoked on our architect, as he works for a firm we'd never be able to work with because they don't do projects as small as ours (and we probably couldn't afford them anyway!). We really lucked out on working with this guy freelance, as he was brought to the table by our contractor.

Anyway, I'll be updating here with the happenings of the house renovation and stuff like that. Also, Jake is helping me add a "Work Blog" which will replace that dusty old useless work section that never seemed to work anyway. I'll keep that updated with all the stuff I'm working on for skinnyCorp.

Hopefully it won't take me 3 months to post again...