I made it to Denver around 10 yesterday morning with Ty riding along. I dropped him at Jack’s who would later be riding back up with us to spend a couple days. Then it was off to Arvada for an appointment. I called Tommy who was on the way to the airport to drop Ali to go visit her Mom and Dad in Phoenix. Bet it’s warm down there! Turns out Tom wasn’t feeling well so we postponed cleaning as we’re down to the small closet in the basement and things like the hutch when you walk in the door. We like to go through this stuff together so we can decide what to do with things. Most of it is clutter but some things like old china we just don’t have a home for. Today he’ll probably rest some more so tomorrow I’ll probably end up cleaning instead. We have to get it done!
Jag was tired and ended up falling asleep with Mojo on his bed around 5 pm. I went downstairs and made his bed and we finally coaxed him down there where he fell back asleep and is still sleeping as of 6:18 which it is now. Man can that kid sleep! Lori and I will head out to the gym in 30 minutes or so before coming back to clean up around here.
Lori, Jag and I met with an architect yesterday who’s a good friend of a good friend. We’re exploring building something as we just can’t find anything we like for the money. One thing’s for sure, we cannot continue to live in 1564 square feet with two teenagers and a 100 pound dog. The main issue is with things so expensive up here, we need to go down valley a good 30 minutes to find anything affordable. If we do things right, it can actually be less expensive to build something than buy something, and then you get what you want and it’s new construction. It just takes a good 8 months before it can be done. Colorado in general is way overpriced as everyone wants to live here. Wish we could build a wall between California and the rest of the Country. We’ll see what happens. We did buy a lot in Eagle a couple of years ago but building costs were too expensive back then so we sold it about a year ago. The first step now if we want to go down this road, is to go look for a lot again. More to come.
How about Facebook, wow! I don’t know why anyone is surprised that they have been collecting everything on everyone and selling it. Years ago when their founder came up with the idea he told a buddy he was amazed people would just provide all their info, no questions asked. He even famously said, and I quote, “what a bunch of dumb fucks”! Maybe there’s hope for society after all as guys like Elon Musk (founder of Tesla) has deleted his and his company’s facebook page. Hopefully this will be a wake up call but I suspect most people will overlook this massive intrusion into their lives so they can continue to post a facade of their lives trying to make everyone think everything is perfect in their little World. When they finally realize what they’ve done, and all their info is used against them, it’ll be too late. Again it’s the frog in the boiling water thing. The larger issue is data mining which is being used to shape elections, public policy (laws), our economy and more. Most information you are exposed to is actually not true, yet the sheeple (people who act like sheep) follow along without questioning anything. Guess he’s right, most all of us are a bunch of dumb fucks!
Time to go as Lori just came down, have a great weekend, take care and God Bless.