A Year of Change

Yesterday Lori dropped me at 6:45 am for my flight. I was the only one in the TSA line when I went through. Have to love our little airport! My neighbor up the street was 15 seconds behind me. All went smooth until we boarded and taxied to the runway. First the pilot said we need to have the plane de-iced, what? There was no frost or freeze the night before, so why the de-icing? Next up Denver had us on a ground stop as their air space was too crowded. This means we took off 30 minutes late. I landed at 9:05 and was off the plane in a flash as my next flight boarded at 9:17. Luckily I made it on time and 90 minutes later was in Dallas.

I took the tram to the D gates to meet Brian arriving from Phoenix and we then headed to the shuttle. Josh met us there. Soon we were in our hotel and an hour later headed out for drinks with Robert and Leon. After meeting with them for an hour or so, they headed home and we had dinner at the hotel. Nice place, horrible food. Then it was back to the hotel via Uber.

This morning we have a 9am meeting with Leon and Robert and another guy will join us by Zoom. After that, I’m done. My flight isn’t until 5 though so I’ll probably go to lunch with Brian and we’ll work a bit. I hope to be home by 8 but Denver is going to get a ton of rain. Cross your fingers I don’t have any delays.

Lori is fine and so are the boys, I talked to them all. Hope everyone is well, God Bless.

Off this morning on a 7:55am flight out of Eagle. Thank God for First Class as it makes flying almost bearable. Not trying to sound snobby but flying coach these days is not an option.

Yesterday Lori and I had a nice day. It was pretty warm and we went to the gym and did some things around the house. We went and saw Dixie who is doing well although she’s slipping a bit more mentally with every passing day.

Lori works from home today and I’m sure will go see her Mom as she does everyday. I land at 1 CST and have drinks with some guys around 4 or 5 and then am done until my 9 am meeting Tuesday morning. This is part of the large deal I mentioned a month or so ago and it’s a critical step towards the end goal. This thing is moving fast and could be wrapped up within weeks.

That’s it, time to head out to the airport. Lori is heading back to Glenwood to get a few more highlights in her hair. She should be back by 9.

Have a good week and God Bless.

Yesterday afternoon Lori and I went to the movies to see Air. It was really enjoyable. In case you don’t know, it’s about Nike signing Michael Jordan and has Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Jason Bateman and others and is based on the true story. If you get a chance, go see it.

Today we might go see Ty. Lori had a headache last night so she’s still sleeping and we’ll decide when she wakes up. I’d prefer not to drive if it’s up to me but I’ll go if she wants to. We or Ty, needs to decide what he’s doing this summer. We’re not renting an apartment and he wants to stay in Denver but not sure how that would work out financially. Tommy offered to let Ty live with him for a month but that doesn’t solve anything. Remember, he doesn’t have a car. Lori just woke up so we’ll see. Looks like we’ll skip the four hour drive today and Lori might go tomorrow.

My flight to Dallas is at 7:30 tomorrow am out of Eagle. I’m back Tuesday at 8pm. I have some emails I need to send today but other than that, I’m good to go. No snow on the ground up here. What we had is all melted.

The boys are done with school May 14th, for Ty, and May 15th for Jag. I need to move both of them out. Lori and I were talking that when we were kids, our parents didn’t help us move out at all! They also didn’t give us money, we both had jobs! My how times have changed.

That’s it, have a good Sunday.

Thought we were going to Denver today but that’s not going to happen. No snow on the driveway but a dusting on the grass. Looks now like the big storm next week will be mostly rain.

I was down in Denver by 7:45 yesterday morning and out by 10:30 or 11. It was a good meeting. Lori was home for most of the day except for the gym and visiting her mom. This morning she’s off to Glenwood to get her hair done and I’m headed to the gym.

Last night we hung out and I watched the basketball game, great game! Today, now that we’re not going to Denver, we’ll just hang out around the house. That’s good news for me as 4 out of 5 days last week I was driving. I do have a call for an hour at 10 to prep for my trip to Texas on Monday.

Time to get moving. Today is Earth Day, now I’m not one of those radical environmentalists but do try to take care of the Earth. I have more of a holistic approach, meaning I try to live in concert with the planet and try to take care of it treating it as another living thing. We only have one planet, don’t screw it up. It’s sort of the approach native Americans take. They believe you can’t own it as Mother Earth is its own being. To each their own.

God Bless.

I was out the door on time and in Silverthorne by 7:30 where I collected Marty and headed out for the Springs. We arrived on time and were soon driving the Grenadier prototypes on an off road course that included steep inclines, declines, and banked turns up to 35 degrees. That might not sound like a lot but you think you’re going to roll over.

These are quite impressive vehicles. They’re made by a billionaire who started a company using all the best car parts from around the World. He hired the top Mercedes G Wagon and top Land Rover engineers to build it starting about 5 years ago. They’re just now coming off the line. Marty and I each ordered one about 3 months ago and delivery should be around January of 2024. Super fun and exciting, pics tomorrow.

I’m off to Denver at 6am for a sales meeting and Lori is 3 hours behind me. Not sure if I’ll stay down and meet up with her or head back. I should be done about 10:15 this morning.

Everyone is fine. Still getting a little snow. Been a long winter, so tired of it. Time to go, have a great day and until tomorrow, God Bless.

35 minutes until I’m out the door so it’ll be a short one today. The Nuggets won, Ty made a killer dinner, Dixie is ok and so is Jag and Lori. I’m headed to the Springs with Marty to drive the Grenadier, a super new cool sort of SUV from England, Google Ineos Grenadier.

The roads are dry here but we had a little snow on and off. Lori hit a white out on the way home. The cleaners come today and either Lori or Dixie have a dentist appointment today. She’ll also get to the gym. Time to go, enjoy Thursday and we’ll talk tomorrow, God Bless.

This morning I have an 8:30 meeting in Denver for an hour and then after grabbing some groceries for Ty, I’ll drop them off. Then it’s back to Boulder before heading home for one more quick meeting. I don’t mind driving but the truck is not the most comfortable vehicle for 5 hour drives multiple days in a row. Oh well, like mom said, you do what you have to do.

Whoops, update as of 5:54 am. Vail Pass is closed due to an accident so today’s trip is a no go. I’ll be rescheduling my meeting which is ok as I’d rather not drive today anyhow. Would have been nice to see Ty and Jag though.

Lori made it home a bit before 5 and cooked up some fresh fish for us for dinner. The hockey game was on at 8 but I couldn’t stay up, thankfully, as we lost, ugh.

While in Boulder I had lunch with Jagger and dropped him off some bread from Breadworks which is a great bakery over by my appointment. Looks like my Dallas trip is on but I changed my flight to fly out of Eagle which means I get to sleep longer and don’t have to drive to Denver and back. It’s $800 more out of Eagle but worth every penny, especially now that valet parking is gone at DIA.

That’s it, time to go. Make it a great day and God Bless.

I’m all over the place the next four days, Denver three times for various meetings and Colorado Springs once. Next Monday I fly to Dallas for a quick two day trip. I have my flight but am waiting on confirmation of the meeting or I’ll cancel.

Yesterday Lori worked until about 5 which is an early day for her. We found out a guy who was on Ty’s lacrosse team hung himself on a hiking trail. This comes about three days after a good friend of his also passed away. We don’t know how but suspect he took his own life too as he was in and out of rehab since high school with drug issues. So sad, Lori said how we seem to have a lot of suicides up here. We’re not sure if it’s that or if it’s because we’re a small community so everyone knows everything. In any case, tragic.

It’s going to be warm but windy today. The boys are fine and so is Dixie. Lori was down at her place for a couple hours as she discovered they never started giving her her medication! No wonder her legs have been so swollen. She finally got everything straightened out by about 8pm.

Today is tax day, ugh. As I’ve said before, we’re fine paying if we get something for it. Problem is we don’t think we get our monies worth. You hear the President say we need to pay more taxes when well over half the people in the Country pay nothing. We pay about 1/3 of everything we earn in taxes, maybe more some years. Not cool. But you have to pay, you have no choice.

6:05 in the morning. Time to get moving. Harley has had breakfast and I my coffee. Lori is still sleeping. Make it a great day and God Bless.

Man I was up late, so late that Lori had to go sleep in Jagger’s room. My cheering was apparently keeping her up! I was watching our Denver Nuggets destroy Minnesota in Game 1 of the playoffs. Finally with 3 minutes to go, I turned it off as we had a 25 point lead. Still I didn’t get to sleep until around midnight. All home teams lost yesterday except us. No one gives us a chance but that’s ok, we’ll play the underdog.

Tomorrow I’m off to Denver and Boulder. Today I’m headed to the gym and then have some stuff to do around the house. Lori is working in Vail as she has clinic.

The snow is melting fast up here, even up high. We have a couple warm days coming up before a little cool down later in the week. James and Addy are having fun in Amsterdam. She texted a picture yesterday of James from a 200 year old cigar shop I found for James to go to. Glad they’re having fun. It’s good he has her as company on this leg of the tour.

The boys are fine. Hard to believe there’s like 3 weeks left of school. Time flies. I’d better get going, make it a great day, God Bless.

Yesterday we went to Dixie’s, Lori went probably three times. She seemed fine. Her legs were a little swollen but I was expecting a whole lot worse. Lori said she looked 10 times better than the day before. So, all in all, it was a good day.

There’s no hiding the fact that she’s 92 and has a bunch of issues but as I’ve said before, it’s hard to bet against her. The great thing is, her mind is still pretty sharp. She jokes, can communicate and can express how she’s doing. She makes funny faces such as sticking her tongue out at you if you tell her something she doesn’t want to do, and has a witty response now and then to something random. We do need to keep her legs wrapped to keep compression on them until the swelling goes down. This all started when the place didn’t get her UA test results back in a timely manner and then didn’t get her the anti-biotics she needed. Hopefully we’re getting her back in her groove.

No snow yesterday and it warmed up in the afternoon. We’re expecting sunshine today and warmer temps over the next three days or so. It’s 5:48 now as I woke up at 5:15. Lori is still sleeping.

Jag and I have been watching a number of Youtube videos on quantitative finance and what it means to risk assessment and the future of the banking system. I’m meeting with the President of the leading crypto bank in the Country in a week or so and Jag might tag along as this guys dad is a PHD and author of many books and is a celebrity in the quant World having been a professor every where from USC to Harvard in quantitative finance. With the IMF launching UMU about a week ago, also known as Unicoin, I want to get up to speed on how this affects the future regarding cash and crypto integration. The IMF (International Monetary Fund) is marketing Unicoin as a way to enable instantaneous real-time settlement of cross-border payments between financial institutions and even companies. The Universal Monetary Unit (UMU) is one step closer to a cashless society which the PTB (powers that be) are pushing as once everything is digital, they can control everything. In my opinion, this is not a good thing and I need to get ahead of it. Last thing you want it to wake up some morning and find out all your money in the bank has been converted to a new Fedcoin. More to come but this has been predicted for a long time as of course all government’s would embrace it so they can wipe the slate clean, (eliminate all their debt from endless printing of dollars) and start over. Not good, and as I said, more to come.

6am now, time to move and groove. Hard to believe we’re halfway through the month. Lori’s 59th birthday is weeks away! Need to start making plans now, God Bless.