A Year of Change

I was off to Denver early this morning but I just heard on the news that I-70 (the highway) is closed at Georgetown as a semi truck blew over in the wind and has closed the highway. Not sure now if I’ll make it down or not today, I’ll have to check in a few hours.

Yesterday I had a nordic parent meeting and had to have my ski boots fitted and pick up the boys ski passes, plus did a ton of work. I ended up getting a deal on the ski passes as the kids get a big discount for being Eagle County students. Lucky I found that out!

Lori still has a headache and I’m sure she bruised her brain and it’s probably a little swollen. As long as it’s not bleeding, we should be ok. Time to run, I’m mostly off politics today as it’s just such a joke. This administration is like purposely trying to ruin our Country. I really can’t believe the things they’re doing and that they’re getting away with it. Thankfully now they’ve gone so far, even democrats (politicians and people) are questioning and disagreeing, finally, thank God!

God Bless, hope it’s not too late!

Yesterday after dropping the kids at school and Lori at work, I was in a small fender bender. A young girl and I both slid into each other going about 3 miles an hour. That’s how slick it is here. It’s still snowing but not too heavy. I guess Denver, or at least some parts, were hit pretty hard. Hopefully not our house.

Jag had nordic in the blowing snow as nordic is, well, skiing. I managed to clean up the kitchen between working but that was all for the day. Today I’ll try to get to our room.

So yesterday over half the Governors in the Country said they won’t take any Syrian refugees until they can figure out a way to vet them to make sure they’re not terrorists but our lap dog of a Gov said bring them to Colorado! The only good news about this is he won’t get reelected. Oh and to put it into perspective, so far, in the past few months, the U.S. has taken in 2194 Muslims and 53 Christians, nice. And now Obummer wants to bring in 10,000 and then next year, 200,000!

Guess I’ll run, Lori still has a headache if you’re wondering but x-rays of her neck were fine. She might need an MRI today, not sure why she just didn’t get one yesterday. They did say she has a concussion. Another day, here we go. Need to get snow tires on Lori’s car and the dreaded ski passes which I’ve been putting off thinking they’d go on sale but no such luck.

God Bless.

Well it’s snowing here already and supposed to continue for a couple days with totals way above a foot. This is the storm that can also bring a foot to Denver so hold on.

Yesterday after cleaning the house some more in the morning we went to the worst football game I’ve ever been to. I guess our quarterback was hurt and shouldn’t have been playing but if this is true, why then was he playing? Anyhow we left in the 3rd quarter and made it home by 7 pm. Ty and his friend Warner had a good time and fell asleep on the way up into the mountains. Once home I needed to unload the truck that Lori drove up with Jagger.

Now onto the concussion. Lori, Jag, her friend and kids went on a hike to Red Rocks and Lori somehow slipped on ice and hit her head and almost was knocked out! She should have gone to ER in Denver but of course didn’t. So when I made it home I made her call one of the doctors she works with who told us what to look for. This morning I’ll drive her to work and then she’ll get checked out. I guess it was a pretty bad fall where she had to sit down again after getting up. We made it through the night and I’m sure she’ll have an MRI this morning when she gets to work. We’ll keep you posted.

The house if full of boxes that were too fragile to go to storage (china, etc.) and that’s it. We can’t hold anything more here at the town home. I’ll need to clean things up and organize everything today, garage and all.

Hope no one was offended by my rant yesterday but that’s the new normal people, get used to it. Politicians are out of control, on both sides, and in all countries. The people are getting tired and as Bob Dylan sang, “there’s a change a coming that’s blowing in the wind” or something like that.

So God Bless, take care and if you’re in Colorado, get ready for the storm today, at the end of the week and again next Wednesday as well.

Yesterday no matter where we went, people were talking about the terrorist attacks in Paris and immigration. From the bank to people we overheard at Starbucks, there is a genuine concern going on among people. While several of my friends, and Lori’s, were not surprised (as what would a sane person expect when you let hundreds of thousands of people who follow a ideology that harbors some that hate and want to kill you) into your country, apparently many were shocked. It has now been proven that at least (and I’ll bet all) of the attackers were refugees that were taken in by countries to try to offer them a better life. The sad thing is that the vast majority of Muslims are not bad people but now, whether you admit it to yourself or not, when you see one walking down the street, you’re going to take an extra look and be suspicious. So the divide will deepen, Trump has surged in the polls as people are getting scared. Things are going to get worse before they get better, trust me. Political parties are rising like the Phoenix in European countries in opposition to this forced immigration. A few bad seeds among the immigrants are causing this to escalate. In Germany, German women are being told to wear long dresses and cover their faces when walking near Muslim neighborhoods, In Sweden, gangs of Muslim men are roaming the streets raping Swedish women as in their religion all women are supposed to be submissive to all men and they see it as their right to attack whoever they want. Meanwhile in America, the Black Lives Matter group (don’t get me going) is upset that the terrorist attacks in Paris are taking attention away from them. Boy oh boy, hold onto your hats, we’re in for a bumpy ride.

Here at home, college professors and administrators are being forced to resign over threats from students that they are racist or don’t protect them from someone saying something mean to them. Oh how I feel for these poor poor kids who are having their feelings hurt, wah wah wah. The other day there was another protest against institutions of higher learning, read on for another opinion as this gets even better.

This “Million Student March” which occurred the other day (and it was no where near a million students) was supposedly organized by a social justice warrior named Keely Mullen who will be graduating from Northeastern University in Boston with a staggering $150,000 in debt. What is Ms. Mullen majoring in? This information is carefully concealed in numerous articles touching on the march, which leads me to believe she majored in something über-useless. Doubtless now, she is facing the terrifying thought of working for the next 40 years as a barista at Starbucks, desperately trying to pay off the student loans she stupidly acquired to begin with to study a useless subject. And if she isn’t concerned about this fate, it’s probably only because she foresees a long career as a taxpayer-funded rabble-rousing activist espousing more nonsense that will lure others into debt slavery.

So who’s to blame for this debt Ms. Mullen acquired? Who’s at fault for her choices? Did someone point a gun at her head and force her to major in peace studies or sociology to the tune of $150,000? Of course she wants her debt dismissed. (This is called “freeloading.”)

At what point do young people begin to take personal responsibility for the decisions they make in life? In my opinion, Ms. Mullen is the epitome of the stupidity being bred in colleges today – no concept of supply and demand, a strong sense of entitlement, the notion that socialism will cure all problems and an insistence they should be given for free all the things other people spent decades acquiring through hard work. Goodness, I sure as heck wouldn’t want to hire Ms. Mullen, even if I owned a coffee house and needed a barista.

Who do you suppose did not walk out of their classes on Thursday? I’m willing to bet it was the mature, intelligent, practical students who are meeting the demands of the marketplace by obtaining useful degrees in the STEM subjects. These are kids who know their future depends on their grades and don’t have time for silly nonsense that won’t accomplish anything. Presumably, after graduation they won’t be demanding the government supply them with pointless “social justice warrior” jobs, either
So now in addition to wanting all student debt forgiven (forget who will pay for it) student leaders are calling for an end to the 1st Amendment. Now they demand safe spaces where no one can say anything to anyone. If students need a safe space, they should go home, put on their jammies, grab their teddy bears, suck their thumbs and come back when they grow up and can face the real world.

So to all you college cupcakes, if you really want to make yourself employable, skip the social justice warrior route and instead spend your time cultivating the intangible but valuable skills all employers seek: a strong work ethic, discipline, self-control, a dedication to your commitments, the ability to arrive on time, to perform a task without complaint and (after training) without supervision, the ability to write coherently instead of like a texting monkey, the ability to speak clearly without saying “like” or use an expletive every fourth word, and other indefinable skills that raise you head and shoulders above the crowd.

Forgo that internship with the ACLU or embarrassing public demands for coerced handouts. The world doesn’t need more shakedown artists.

Are you kidding me, what the hell is going on. America, get your shit together before it’s too late. Wake the fuck up. I’ll stop for now but we’re close to that inflection point where we won’t be able to turn back and things will just spiral out of control, and when we all do wake up and realize we need to stop this insanity, it’ll be too late. In closing, and I hate to bring politics into this, but the democratic party is a big part of pushing this agenda. I never thought I’d see the day where one couldn’t speak their mind, even if it was hateful speech, especially on college campuses. For centuries we have sent our children to fight in wars so anyone can say anything they want, free speech right? But now people are being told you can’t say this or say that, or dress like this or dress like that. Watch out as if you advocate this approach, soon you’ll lose much more of your rights than you ever thought possible. Ok, now onto the day, this is what you get when Mojo wakes me at 5:33 am.

We made a ton of progress yesterday, unfortunately the people buying our house are going out of town for Thanksgiving week so our closing is pushed back until the 30th. Anyhow we packed and moved a lot of stuff. Lori had her friend Andrea come over who stayed until 9 or 10 and they packed the entire kitchen. There’s just a few areas to go and tomorrow (Monday) James will get the big pieces of furniture out. A big snow storm is supposed to arrive Tuesday so I won’t come down again until Wednesday and then we’ll all be down next weekend to wrap things up. I’m going to the game today with Ty and one of his friends from Vail and his dad who are driving down. Ty never gets to go much less take a friend so when he asked a few weeks ago, I said yes. I think Lori and Jagger will drive the truck up (as it’s loaded with stuff) before the game is over and I’ll stop by and pick up Mojo this evening. There’s increased security today at all football games so we need to leave early, great. Time to run so I can pack some more books, man we have a lot of books. We did donate some to the boys old school yesterday but still have hundreds. I love books and refuse to throw them out. Someday books will be extinct which will be a real shame. Anyhow it’s a changing World we live in and I’m afraid more changes than not are not for the best. There’s always hope though that mankind or better yet, God will somehow save us from ourselves.

God Bless

Man you sure accumulate a lot of stuff, and junk, in 16 years. It’s fun when you find something you’ve been looking for for a long time but there’s a lot of stuff that makes you wonder, why did I ever buy that! I think it’s human nature to hold onto just about everything thinking you’ll use it someday. Well, that doesn’t seem to be true and now it’s just time to let that nondescript 70’s sweater from high school go!

I made it down by 9:30 and then had to run around town until about 12:30 when I started on the house. I made a trip to the dump about 2:30 and then came back to work some more. Lori and the boys sat in traffic due to road paving and finally made it a bit after 6pm. Today is the big day, lots to do and we should probably also have a garage sale.

We slept on the floor on old mattresses and Mojo slept right next to me. He’s the reason I’m up at 5 as he jumped up looking for breakfast.

Sad about all the people whose lives were cut short in Paris. In my opinion, Europe is done. They have just let in too many people who won’t assimilate into their new country’s culture but rather want to take it over. Of course our Pres wants to bring in over 200,000 so called refugees and more. Mark my words, sooner rather than later, and I do mean sooner, this type of carnage will be coming to a town near you in the U.S. Enough said.

God Bless those who died and their family’s as they will be scared forever over misguided ideology. This problem will not go away as all these senseless acts do is fuel the cycle. Now authorities, rightly so, will increase pressure on muslim groups and then they will resent the so called infidels (us and other non-muslims) even more and attacks such as these will continue. You see, they see this as a war when in fact, it is a lie perpetuated by sick twisted people who influence those who have nothing to lose. No religion or prophet says go kill, this is just there interpretation and I’m afraid it’s now too late to stop.

Sadly we live in a different World, get right with God and hope for the best but prepare for the worst!

GB

I’m off to Denver this morning and Lori will come down with the boys this afternoon. I hope to get the garage and basement cleaned out so we can focus on the kitchen, mud room, closets and bedrooms on Saturday. We’re all stressed out these days and need a freakin break. No time to go into details, God Bless

That’s the menu for the day, nordic after school and 4 basketball games in which our boys play in 3 of them. It cleared up yesterday afternoon but we still have snow and it’s cold this morning although I just took Mojo out in bare feet and boxers so it isn’t all that bad. Lori had a good day at work and we’re trying to figure out how to get everything packed and out of our house in 10 days.

Everyone but Mojo is still sleeping. We’re trying to figure out our holiday plans as now if our house closes early, we’ll have no backyard to put Mojo in for Thanksgiving. We’re also not sure what to do with him at Christmas. We do have a neighbor girl, must be in her mid 20’s, who is a ski coach who loves Mojo and hopefully can look after him. We’ll figure something out.

I have a few issues at work which is normal for this time of year but should be able to work them out. Hope all’s well, take care, have a great day and God Bless. And remember, there’s only 43 days until Christmas and more importantly, 47 until my birthday! Ha ha

It’s here, the white stuff, and a bunch of it, like 8 to 10 inches. Lucky I didn’t book a flight to Dallas for today as I almost did last week. It’s supposed to stop today and then clear out but it’s here to stay, probably until mid April.

I was talking to our realtor last night and now we could close as soon as next Monday but no way we can get everything out by then so I’m shooting for a week from Monday. Lots of work to get done at the house.

Ty had a bad dream so he woke us up around 4am. Everyone but Jag is up. Mojo loves the snow, big time. It makes him jump around and he gets all frisky. My trip to Denver was quick as I was back up here by 1:30 and that included a stop at the grocery store in Frisco. I have a couple calls this morning, 3 to be exact, and then will be done for the day. I should probably go to Denver tomorrow or Friday morning for sure to get a jump on the house. That’s it, we need to get our ski passes today, $2105 for the three of us boys! You should all buy stock in Vail Resorts! This year though, we’ll get our money’s worth as the kids ski every single Friday at school. Jag has nordic training today which should be a blast with all the new snow. Basketball tomorrow, after nordic and then nordic on Friday too.

Last, Happy Veteran’s Day to Grandpa Jim and anyone else I missed!

Time to run, hope all’s well, God Bless

I need to make a quick trip down and hopefully I’ll get back up before the snow hits. No time to write much as I’m already late.

Jag had nordic and was on skis for the first time yesterday and then I rushed him to basketball for a game at 6pm. Meanwhile Ty played his game at 4pm and then I dropped him and his friend at the house. Lori has a sore throat and the boys aren’t feeling too well either. Guess it’s going around up here. Time to run, God Bless.

We managed to get through our room, Ty’s room and the guest room pretty much all the way. We still need to do Jag’s room and then the rest of the house. We have a little bump (of course) in the sale as the house our buyers are selling didn’t appraise for what they thought it would and they now need some cash. I should be getting paid as I’ve now taken charge of the deal and told my realtor and theirs what to do and how to handle it. It’ll probably cost us a little money but everyone is kicking in. Hopefully I’ll get it all handled today.

We made it back up by 2:30 for me to watch the Bronco’s lose. Green Bay lost also so it wasn’t a good football day. Lori and I are sore from sleeping on the floor and cleaning. We did get Ty’s bed set up and I need to go to the dump today with the old mattresses.

Time to run, God Bless.