A Year of Change

It wasn’t pretty, especially for the first 3 quarters, but then we pulled away for the win. Say what you will, but the Chiefs, who are 13 and 1, have had six ugly wins, four on the last play of the game. I always say, no one remembers how you win, only how you lose.

Ty and his buddies managed to get way down close to the field as I guess a lot of people left after we fell behind 20 to 7. Turns out we never did fall behind 20 to 7, as the play for the touchdown to get to 20, was nullified. Then our defense and special teams took over and we never looked back. I’m always amazed when I see our coach on the sidelines as he never looks rattled and always seems in control. It’s like he has a plan and he’s sticking to it, no matter what. Have to admire that. In the end, we’re now 9 and 5 and have over a 90% chance of making the playoffs and are assured of a winning season. I’ll take it.

Sunny and warm today with temps in the 40’s. Lots to do this week. Jag’s birthday is tomorrow. He also has his last final then but won’t be up until Friday. Ty is off today but then works Tuesday thru Sunday. Lori is in Vail today, Edwards tomorrow and Vail Wednesday.

That’s it for the day. Enjoy this last full week of Christmas. Next week will go fast! God Bless.

Yesterday we made great progress on the basement and my office. Ty came home after work and cleaned his room too. That was the deal if he wanted to go to the game today. He’s opening at work and will stay for the morning rush which is right when they open for an hour or so. The Women’s Birds of Prey Downhill races wrap up today at Beaver Creek, so teams from all over the World are here for the races. Then he’ll head down for the big game this afternoon. Should be a nice day in Denver.

Travis Hunter from the University of Colorado won the Heisman Trophy last night. This is big for him, Coach Prime, the University and all of Colorado! Super exciting.

Jag has one more week of pressure and then is done for the year. After that, he has one more semester and then is done with college! Lots happening in 2025. It’ll be great to have him up here over the holidays. Madi is going to L.A. for Christmas and Ava to San Clemente so just the four of us will be hanging out having fun.

In politics, George Stephanopoulos and ABC news have to apologize on air and pay $15 million dollars to Trump for saying he was found liable for rape, which of course was not true. The tide is turning. Then you have our idiot Governor who is promoting private companies on social media, (a big no no), raising taxes everywhere, creating new regulations expanding the nanny State and trying to position himself for a role in Washington. We also have the second highest per capita population of people with mental health issues in the Country. Couple that with our economy dropping from 5th to 41st and he’s done a bang-up job. He knows he’ll lose next time in so he’s taking a hard left turn thinking that’ll help him. Good luck with that. What a loser he is. We need to turn back to the right and go red!

Ten days until Christmas! Enjoy it while you can! It’ll go fast. Might be a little cooler today but then it looks like clear sailing thru Christmas. Probably a balmy 10 degrees outside right now. Have a great Sunday, Go Broncos and God Bless.

Lots going on. Next week is a big week. Technically the week starts on Sunday, so that means tomorrow. We’ll kick it off with the big Bronco game. Ty and his buddies are going, and we’ll be working around the house. Then Monday I need to get the license plates for Ty’s car, Tuesday is Jag’s birthday, Thursday is Tom’s birthday, Friday Jag comes home, and Saturday is our annual cigar fellowship party. Throw in work and you can see, it’s a busy week.

Ty needs to come home after work and do a deep clean on his room. That’s the deal I made with him if he wants the tickets. Lori wrapped some presents yesterday. I got a text yesterday from Hailey up in Cody Wyoming. It seems Nick, this great silversmith from Ft. Worth Texas, finished the boys’ crosses. I asked him to make these over six months ago but had no idea he’d get them done by Christmas. Nick is a really cool, in demand dude that makes really unique heirloom stuff. Even his chains are all handmade, link by link. His stuff isn’t cheap, but it is one of a kind. Luckily, I have some more Pappy’s whisky here at the house and I worked out a favorable trade for both of us. Don’t tell the boys as they’re getting them for Christmas!

I picked up a new star for the top of the tree yesterday as ours stopped working. I went to Home Depot and facetimed Lori so she could pick it out.

Looks like a mild weekend with a little snow maybe up here. If we get any, it’ll be just a dusting. Looks like a pretty good week too with temps warming up and no snow.

Haven’t talked about politics lately but Trump being elected is already making positive changes and he isn’t even in office yet. On the other hand, Biden is doing everything he can to sabotage Trump and hurt the Country. Not only is he granting record pardons, the most in the history of the U.S., for many very bad people, he’s selling off building materials to build the wall, for pennies on the dollar, signing executive orders to prevent laying off worthless employees who haven’t gone to work for years, giving billions of dollars to Ukraine and other countries, and more. He will literally go down as one, if not the, worst President in the history of the Country. Again, at this point, he has no clue what he’s signing. People are just putting pieces of paper in front of him and telling him to sign it.

The Dems apparently still don’t know who won the election. They’re vowing to resist, even though they lost all three branches of government and the popular vote. This won’t age well for them as they’ll lose again in four years if they don’t work with the Republicans to clean up the mess created in the last four years. Only time will tell, but I don’t have high hopes based on their history. God help us.

That’s it, 6:45am. Need to head out to the gym in 15 minutes. Have a great weekend and Go Broncos and God Bless.

Most of us know that Friday the 13th is not some unlucky day, unless you were a Knights Templer. Just another day around here.

Yesterday we went to Glenwood to get Lori’s car looked at. Then we stopped at Target before heading home. I washed the car in Gypsum and then we grabbed lunch to go before returning home. Later in the day, I went to meet up with Mark, Cark and Ken for cigar night. It was good to see the guys.

Today we’ll get some work done around the house. We might run down to Denver tomorrow to wrap up any last-minute shopping we need to do. Monday I’ll be shipping Robi and Bobby’s presents out.

Looks like it’ll be warmer next week through Christmas. Should be in the high 30’s to 40 during the day. We’re trying to decide if we’re going to the game on Sunday or not. We’ll let Ty go either way.

Lori is making our salads for lunch right now. We’ll head out to the gym in 30 minutes or so and then stop to see Ty before starting our day.

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

Cold but clear this morning. We’re running out of time to get things bought, wrapped and shipped for Christmas. This morning we’re running to Glenwood to get the estimate on Lori’s car and will grab a few more things while there. As I said a while ago, we’re scaling back this year. Money is just too hard to come by, plus as you get older, things are not as important as the spirit of the season and being with friends and family.

Last night at 5, I went to the annual homeowners meeting down at City Hall. It was pretty uneventful. Ty works today and tomorrow and Saturday. He wants to go to the Bronco game Sunday. We’ll see.

I had a few good calls yesterday to continue moving forward on one of our new companies. Should have two up and running in January. First up was the developer and then the all-important lawyers. These days, with ever changing laws and regulations, you have to make sure things are structured in the right way, or you can end up with huge tax bills. I think a lot of things will be simplified when the new administration gets in in around 39 days.

Time to get moving. Lori is changing batteries on alarm sensors around the house right now. Think we’ll try to get to the gym before we go to get the Porsche estimate. I’ll move the appointment back and hour or so.

Have a great Thursday, feels like a Friday. God Bless.

Managed to get some things done yesterday, professionally and personally. Big news of the day was Lori crunched her car a bit getting off the highway on the way home. She was coming out of a roundabout, went to change lanes, and clipped the front end of an Audi who was speeding by her. Not much damage to her car but the other guy’s car has a busted headlight and front left fender. In the end, her fault, even though he was speeding past her. We think he had preexisting damage, but we’ll let the insurance company sort that out. She was upset, but I told her no big as shit happens and it’s only a car.

I’m lifting pretty heavy these days at the gym, switching up my workouts. No food today. I’ll wait until tomorrow to eat. Looks like about zero degrees outside. Should be around 30 today.

Two weeks until Christmas. Won’t be long now. Lori is in Frisco today. At least the weather is ok. Not sure what I’ll do today after the gym. Have a great Wednesday and God Bless.

15 days until Christmas! One week until Jag’s 23 birthday, unbelievable. I still have some shopping to do. We’re scaling way back this year though so it’s not as much to do as in years past. Today I’ll try to get some stocking stuffers. I should run down to Denver tomorrow for a quick trip to Cherry Creek. We’ll see.

Snow down in Denver. Nothing new up here. I think I have either Fed Ex or UPS showing up just about every day. Robi’s present should arrive today and then I’ll get hers and Bobby’s stuff out later this week.

Still deciding whether or not we’re going to the Bronco game this Sunday. Ty’s waiting to see if Madi can get the day off. I have to find something for Madi and Ava also.

Lori is in Vail today and Frisco tomorrow. I’m going to tackle my office today. Was trying to get to it yesterday but had too many calls and boxes to wrap up and ship.

That’s about it, time to get moving. Be well, stay safe and God Bless.

Today is Dad’s birthday! Not sure how old he would have been, but it was always the start of the birthday season. Dad’s birthday is today, Tom’s is the 19th and mine is the 29th. Throw in Jagger’s on the 17th and we always had a lot of cake in December.

Yesterday Lori put up lights out front and in the back. The ones out front are so bright, I’m sure you can see them from space! We’re up early as Lori needs to be at work by 7:45 and I have a call at 9.

I managed to clean my closet yesterday and today will try to tackle my office. We also need to get the basement cleaned up as Shultz and Jane will be staying here the night of our party, so they don’t have to drive back to Denver. Throw in the mud room and we have some cleaning to do.

Chiefs won last night on a last second field goal. First time I’ve ever cheered for them as it helped the Broncos. Big game next week for us. I think we’re going with Ty.

6:10am now, time to get moving so I can get to the gym before my 9am call.

Have a great day, only 2 weeks and 2 days until Christmas! Ho Ho Ho! God Bless.

Looks like a little snow tonight and tomorrow, maybe around an inch. So far, it’s been a mild winter, snow wise. Hope that continues. We don’t mind the cold as long as we’re not dealing with feet of snow.

Yesterday Abby and Davy’s decoration people stopped by to give us a quote on putting up Christmas lights on the five trees in the front yard. Are you ready for this? $4300 dollars! You’ve got to be kidding! That’s over $800 a tree! I could buy 5 new trees for less than that, ha.

Lori put up some lights yesterday in the backyard, and it cost us nothing! I’ll do the same today in the front yard.

We’re running a little late as we slept in. K.C. and Shannon, next door to us, and between Davy and us, sold their house! $4.1 million! That means we’re holding steady and should be worth $3.5 million easy. Good to see the neighborhood holding steady.

Lori and Nate, our neighbors on the other side, are seriously talking about how we could all move to Idaho and basically own shares of the hospital. It’d be a big move and wouldn’t happen for a couple years, but it would be a game changer for both of our families. Lori would make a whole lot more money too. We’d like to get Dr. B to go too. In the meantime, Nate (who is a ortho surgeon too), has launched a concierge medicine practice Lori might help with. There are lots of people that are willing to pay extra for better care and for getting in right away. More to come here, but things are coming together for both of us with new opportunities. All this right when we’re figuring out how to retire, ha. Good news is we can do these things (our new companies) from home when we retire. We’re trying to develop mailbox money, meaning just have checks come in the mail every month. That’s the key.

8:12 now so time to go. Football later today but we’re on a bye week. Sunny and nice outside. More Yellowstone tonight, fun. Have a great Sunday, God Bless.

I wrapped up my fast and began refeeding yesterday afternoon. You can’t just eat a burger and fries, or anything you want after not eating for 3 days, or you’ll upset your stomach. You start with electrolytes and then a few hours later some protein. I’ll eat light today too. I had bone broth, then some peanut butter on crackers, and after that, scrambled eggs. Throw in a Gatorade Zero and I was good for the night.

I’m down about 8 pounds but did this more for the internal benefits. Fasting for just 48 hours can clean out your fatty liver, which over 50% of Americans, due to our diet, have. Enough about me, as you probably don’t care anyhow, ha.

Yesterday I went to the gym for some light lifting and a mile on the treadmill and then dropped some cookies and stuff for Dr. B who was in the OR all day. Last night we went down to Nate and Dea’s where Lori and Nate talked for over an hour. Nate wants to move to Idaho and wants us to come and he’ll make Lori his practice manager or director and she would make a lot more money. He went over to the Steadman Clinic from Lori’s place about 18 months ago. Somethings fishy in how they calculate the numbers at Lori’s work and she’s stirring things up. Who knows, she and Dr. B might jump ship. She did go in yesterday and told them, if her bonus, that they magically found after she raised hell, was from a year or two ago, it wasn’t fair for her to have to wait and be paid out over the next few months. So now, after the first payment on her next check, she’ll get the rest at the beginning of the year. That’s better for us as we don’t want to pay taxes on any more money this year anyhow. As I said yesterday, her Company better get it together as if she leaves, it’ll create a domino effect, and I think the whole practice would fold. They’re lucky she doesn’t demand a couple hundred thousand dollar raise. That’s how important she is. We’ll see.

Ty works today. Jag’s been feeling off and we need to get him into the doctor when his finals are over. We think he has an ulcer from stress. We’ll go to the gym today and then stop to see Ty.

It’s the anniversary of Pearl Harbor, what a day in history. That’s it, time to get going. Have a great weekend and God Bless.