A Year of Change

The record release party last night was a lot of fun. Tim and Taylor are such a fun couple and really talented too. Our friends, Gary and Jennifer, flew in from Ft. Lauderdale for the 2 hour get together. They’re headed back there today. Gary is an engineer who made a ton of money I think designing Beaver Creek back in the day. Lori mentioned an idea she’s had for 7 years and Gary, being an engineer, is all over it! Jen and I said we can be the minor partners and sit back and count the money, you never know!

Ty did join us after he and his buddies from Denver finished snowboarding at Loveland for the day. Great to see him.

We’re off to Denver this morning for Lori to get her hair done. I’ll make a few stops while she’s getting this done. Tomorrow we’re back down for dermatologist appointments. We tried to get them both on the same day but no such luck.

Almost 6am now. Not a whole lot of other stuff going on. We’re on a tight budget for a few weeks as property taxes are due this month. Looks warm in Denver today, maybe even 70 degrees! Should be 55 up here!

There were a few more shootings in Denver yesterday, nice. That’s sarcasm. One was at Wash Park at 2 in the afternoon! This is a nice park in an affluent area where literally 500 people are at any given time. And this is why we arm up when headed to the big city. So sad.

Time to get going. Lori is already in the shower and with luck, we’ll be on the road by 7. Hope to be back by 3 at the latest. Have a great first week of February. Pitchers and catchers report to Spring Training next week! God Bless.

Nice day yesterday, pretty warm. T-shirt weather for me, but lots of people were still in down coats. After the gym, I headed to Frisco for groceries, dog food and to stop and see Marty. I had about four stops, so I finally made it home right before 3. Then at 4, we headed out to a dance recital at VMS as Cora, our 14-year-old neighbor girl down the street, and Violet, Davy and Abby’s daughter, were both in it. It was fun but two and a half hours. Tonight, we have a record release party for this husband-and-wife duo from Nashville that now live here half the year. They’re pretty good and are really nice people. Their album was released on Mom’s birthday a couple days ago.

Ty has the day off and was playing a game online with Jagger last night at 8, when we called on the way home from the dance recital. Not sure if we’ll go to the gym this morning, might take a break.

Friday a press release went out Worldwide about our merger on the Bocelli brand. I won’t post the entire release here, but here’s the link if you’re interested. Good stuff.

ZONIN1821 and August Imports Announce Exclusive Partnership for the Distribution of BOCELLI1831 Wines in the US – Wine Industry Advisor

Nuggets won which we needed. Another week until the Super Bowl. Lots going on behind the scenes here. Working away on our new Company and Lori is continuously fighting for change at her work. She actually is one of those that does make a difference. We think her head is a little better from her therapy. Hope it continues to get better.

Guess we are going to the gym so time to go. I just got the word from the misses. I could go either way today.

Have a great Groundhog Day! As a sign of never-ending lunacy on the left, PETA wants to outlaw Groundhog Day and replace it with a reveal cake. Check this out, you won’t believe it. Instead of Phil, PETA has offered to send a vegan “weather reveal” cake, similar to a gender reveal cake, each Groundhog Day. The proposed cake when cut would show one of two colors: blue, signifying six more weeks of winter, or pink, indicating an early spring. The left is out of their minds and show no signs of getting better. It’s comical at this point, wow. And people send money to these loonies.

Have a great day, be well, stay safe and God Bless.

Today we’re deep cleaning the house. We sort of fired our cleaners as they’re just not that good. Carmen is fine but every week it seems she has someone new with her, that does more damage than good. So, Lori and I are the new house cleaners. It will save us something like $4500 a year!

Big workout yesterday. Lori had her treatment, so I had two hours to lift. I actually did only an hour and 45 minutes, but still, worked out hard. 7am now but we’ll head out again in about 30 minutes.

Another plane crash last night in Philadelphia. This one was a medical plane from Mexico. The one Wednesday, near D.C., involved some error somewhere. It looks like either by the helicopter pilot or the air traffic controller. Maybe a combination of both. Sad.

We need to go grocery shopping soon. The guys might get together this afternoon to hang out for a bit. Cora, our 13-year-old neighbor, has a dance recital tonight from 5 until 8! She invited us, and we love her, but man, 3 hours at a dance recital? I don’t know if I can take that. Maybe I’ll let Lori just go. We also can go with Davy to the Yeti hockey game tonight. He’s a big sponsor of the team, we’ll see.

Time to get moving. Have a great first day of February. 90 days until May 1st! Wow, God Bless.

6am and we’re working out at 7, and then Lori has her second treatment on her traps and neck. It’s trash day also so no time to waste.

Lots going on at work, for both of us, across all our companies. Last night, a bunch of us guys got together for cigars at the cabin. Good time as usual.

Today I need to get some dog food for Harley as she’s almost out. We’re switching over to a new brand that the vet suggested.

In ten days, Trump has accomplished more than Biden did in ten years. Amazing how fast you can get things done, if you just do it. I’m surprised Nike hasn’t hired him as a spokesman, ha.

That’s it, time to get moving as I need to handle some things around here before we head out. Have a great last day of January, (Happy Birthday Mom, miss you every day!) and bring on February, God Bless.

Not sure how much you follow AI or artificial intelligence these days, but it’s pretty amazing. We (Lori and I) have been using it for a few years now and it seems daily it gets better. Check out our new house design. I told it I wanted a 3000 square foot house, burglar proof, made of steel, concrete and wood, for $250 a square foot, meaning $750K. Check it out,

Now of course that price doesn’t include the land or the construction, meaning the builder. If you add that in, using construction costs of 20%, or $150K, plus let’s say 20 acres for $300K, you build this house for a total cost of $1.2 million.

I’m still refining the details but you get the idea. You can see on the right I added extra security inside and out which includes steel shutters that cover all the windows, and all entry points reinforced, inside and out. Here is a rendering of the main living area, check it out,

Still working on other details but it’s coming along. This is just one example of AI replacing existing jobs. Obviously, I don’t need an architect. You’ll still need a structural engineer, but with us designing the home on our own, there’s $60K in savings alone.

More to come, but just thought I’d share. You can download AI programs for free to get started. I use a higher-level program and pay $20 a month but use it in work almost every day.

Yesterday we had Lori get another treatment with dry needling on her traps. She’ll do about a dozen sessions over the next 3 weeks along with neck strengthening exercises to add strength to the core muscles of her neck. It’s not cheap, but we think it’ll help. This treats the problem rather than just the symptoms.

Tonight, I have cigar night. I have a call at 9 so time to go. We need to squeeze in the gym first. Make it a great day and God Bless.

Last night the four of us went to sushi. Madi was all dressed up and looked really nice. It was really the first time we spent any length of time with her, and she was an absolute joy. She’s a really sweet, together girl. She just received a promotion to front desk supervisor at the Westin. She told us she really doesn’t know what she’s doing but is learning on the job. I told her, good for you, as lots of people don’t want to work at all these days, and to keep it up. Halfway through dinner, Ty’s stomach became a little upset. We ended up taking some of our food to go.

Today, after my 9am conference call, we’re going to Glenwood to pick up Jagger’s car. It has new brakes, battery, and a few other needed things. He needs to come get it sometime soon as it’s clogging up my driveway. He’s of course, doing well at school.

Lots of criminals being taken off the streets nationwide. Keep it up! The mainstream media is lost. They don’t know what to do with the Country winning. All they can do is call the administration names like racist or nazis. In a briefing yesterday, a reporter asked if all those being arrested are criminals. The correct, quick response was, anyone who illegally entered our Country, broke the law and is there for a criminal, bam! The news is trying to make it out that the govt. is arresting grandma and going to schools and pulling out little kids. Nothing could be further from the truth but that’s all they got. In fact, murderers, rapists, child molesters, drug dealers and gang members are the ones being targeted and deported. All we can say is, it’s about time! Frankly it’s unbelievable that these people were allowed to walk free into our Country in the first place. Thanks Dems. I know of no one who is against criminals like those mentioned, being removed from our streets. To be clear, less than 1% of immigrants actually work in agriculture, so you don’t have to worry about getting your veggies!

Here’s a good one. An elected official in California has introduced papers to have the State succeed from the U.S. Are you kidding me? 2 less Democratic senators, 43 less Democratic house members and one less Democratic Governor? Bring it on!

The best one from yesterday is President Trump suggesting we get rid of federal income tax and let States replace it with a sales tax! Who would vote against that? I can’t wait to see any Democrat vote against getting rid of taxes! If he can get that passed, plus put in term limits and get rid of taxes on social security, that would be huge! To be clear, we didn’t always have a federal income tax, and the Country was the most prosperous when we didn’t. All we have to do is put a small tax, or tariff, on everything that comes into our Country. Put something as small as .5 to let’s say 2% on everything, and you can get rid of income tax. Every other Country does it. When you leave any Country in Europe, they charge you a 20% Vat Tax on things you bought. This is the exact same thing as a tariff! Just another word. Trump’s logic is tax other countries to benefit our citizens rather than taxing us, and then sending money to foreign countries, to benefit their citizens. Makes total sense. This would upset the status quo though, so expect the Dems to say the World will end. Remember, 15 years or so ago, the Dems told us the World would be gone in 12 years due to climate change. That didn’t age well, did it.

Enough for today. Big change was needed and it’s here. This transformation is essential to saving America and everyone should embrace and support it. Don’t fall for the fake stories and crocodile tears from has been actors on social media. God Bless President Trump and God Bless America! Have a great Wednesday.

Tonight, we’re going to dinner with Ty and Madi. Think we’re on at 5:30. Lori is in Edwards today and I think will be home early before we go to dinner. She’s going to meet Tiffany, her new nurse she hired, for coffee this afternoon. I think Tiffany starts next week.

We slept in until around 6:45 this morning. Lori is rushing to get ready for work. Our big buck is outside this morning looking for food. The deer are all pretty healthy due to the low snowpack here at the house. I think more snow is coming in this weekend.

President Trump is on it. I was talking with a friend who is high up in the crypto World yesterday, (they sponsored one of the Presidential inaugural balls) and we’re both optimistic about things that are happening. While crypto and AI are advancing at light speed, this doesn’t bode well for smaller banks that don’t embrace the new tech. In fact, crypto’s advancement will eventually change the way we buy and sell things as it’s inevitable that someday, dollars and currencies we use now, will be a thing of the past.

With the release of Deepseek R1 yesterday, the markets and business World was rocked. For those of you unaware, Deepseek was developed by Bejing (China) at a fraction of the cost of our AI programs and operates using about 10 percent of the chips we need to run ours. But the real kicker is, it’s much faster and more efficient. In one day, it was the most downloaded app in history. There are a few expected drawbacks, like it deters you from any question that is critical of China, which is to be expected since it’s owned by the State and was developed there. But here’s the problem, we 100% cannot lose the AI race to China! It will, without question, destroy us and our way of life. Imagine China dictating what is real or not and how things should work! This is all the fault of the Biden administration who did not support AI development as it was too busy pushing DEI and other misguided policies that not only didn’t help us but actually hurt us. Nort embracing crypto is another example. Hopefully our talent (Musk, Altman, etc.) can catch up!

Time to get moving, make it a great day, be well, stay safe and God Bless.

Neither team we had hoped would win, won. The Eagles and Redskins (I still call them the Redskins most of the time), game was a good game and the best team won. The Chiefs, aka, the Cheats, however, once again, had the benefit of questionable calls which went, of course, in their favor. Look, when there’s a controversy every week, that favors one team, something’s wrong. You don’t see this type of thing happen with any other team, in any other sport, and you wonder why people are upset. It’s sad as it just makes things not as much fun. Too bad. Oh well, there’s larger issues in the World than the Kansas City Cheats.

Lori made extra soup yesterday for Davy and Abby and the kids, as they were in Steamboat all day for hockey. River scored a goal, and they won both their games. We’re all going to Aspen next week for a couple games.

Five days left in the month. Hard to believe. Looks like a warm week. Lori, Ty, Madi and I are going to dinner tomorrow night. The whole restaurant is closed today so the entire staff can go skiing together. Should be a nice day as the temperature will be almost 40! Going to be a warm week which is a big change from the single digits and below we’ve had for a while.

Lori’s headache seems to be a little better today. We tried dry needling on Friday morning that we think finally kicked in. I think she needs to lay off the Pilates for a while.

7:15 now, no gym today as you need to let your muscles rest every once in a while. That’s it for the day, enjoy the last Monday of January! Spring will be here soon! God Bless.

Two shot in Denver, two stabbings, 3 bodies found in a parking lot, just another day in the city. And the Governor wants you to believe this is because of guns. Remember, in the Fall, there’s about 50 million people in the woods, every weekend, and no one is killed. Be ready, be smart and be aware, enough said.

Lori is still sleeping. We had another dusting of snow last night, but no accumulation on the ground. Football this afternoon. First, we’ll head to the gym and then drop Ty his snowboard stuff as the whole staff is having a ski day tomorrow.

Davy, Abby and the kids, flew down to Denver yesterday to go to the semi-finals rodeo at the Stock Show. A friend of his has a jet just sitting at the airport for these types of circumstances, ha. Next year we’re all going to go.

Marty bought a lot on Flathead Lake in Polson Montana. It’s a long skinny lot but is waterfront. Nothing we would have bought but we do like the area. As I say, it’s offensively expensive up here. Not sure how to make retirement work up here when it’s so expensive. We’re looking at all options. All I know is I pretty much am planning on being done, except in a consultant role, (I’ll always work in some capacity) by December 2026. What we need to do is be able to have Lori stop working. In a way, I’m retired now and have been for years, ha.

The President is on a role. Cabinet picks are getting confirmed, and things are changing, no matter how much the Dems and libs post and whine on social media. Our Country is on the way back, thank God.

That’s it, time to get moving, big last week of January ahead. Go Commanders and Go Bills! God Bless.

Not much snow outside, maybe a half an inch at most. We’ll take it. Yesterday we worked around the house. I ran to the grocery store and washed the truck. Lori made a beef chili recipe out of the Yellowstone cookbook Robi told me about. Every muscle in my body is sore today, especially my legs, from working out. Lori tried dry needling for her neck but we’re not sure yet if it worked.

Ty works today and its Chef Bob’s birthday so he asked if we’d bring some Ben and Jerry’s ice cream, which is Bob’s favorite. When we go to the gym in a few, we’ll grab some after we workout.

Football tomorrow. We’d like the Commanders and Bills to win, but I think they’re both the underdogs.

Property taxes actually dropped from about $13K to $11K this year, which is nice, but still outrageous for what it is. Jag’s car should be done next week, ($2700, ugh), and Lori license plates are due at the end of the month. It never stops. Not sure how someone who has a minimum wage job, or even one that is under $100k a year, survives. When we were kids, if you made a $100k a year, you’re were rich! No more, that’s chump change these days. Something has to give. Sure wish the govt. would put in a flat tax, along with term limits.

Guess I’ll get moving and get out there and shovel. Stay warm, stay safe and God Bless.