Happy Valentines Day! Happy Birthday Dad!

Kristen and I went out for a pre-valentines day dinner on Friday night. We ate at The Cork, which is a relatively well known Boulder restaurant that I hadn't been to before. The food was great, and our waiter's French accent was fairly hilarious. I half suspected he was putting us on, but he never slipped out of character, so maybe it was real...

We exchanged gifts, Kristen gave me all kinds of great stuff, including this Pabst Blue Ribbon "Tall Boy". You can see the excitement in my eyes.


Saturday evening I tried to recreate the famous Maxwell House "Roma". It turned out a bit bland, the Alfredo sauce was a bit boring. Oh well, it still tasted good.

Sunday we generally took things easy, and watched a marathon of "Flight Of The Conchords". Good stuff.

An exciting week at work awaits. Thursday and Friday involves a few corporate visitors, we're having our "Tech Summit". Hopefully we'll impress everyone with what we've been doing in the last 6 months or so. If not, back to the tree house for me!

This weekend involved a quick trip to Deadwood to meet up with the college friends. The original plan was to do some snowboarding on Saturday, but we didn't make it to bed until 5am or so, which curtailed the day of snowboarding.


We did a bit of gambling on Saturday until the wee hours of Sunday morning. As always it was fun seeing the guys. Brent announced his engagement which was a big surprise for everyone. Nate announced that he's having a second baby, which wasn't quite as big of a surprise, but still good to hear.


We're all getting older, oddly enough. We're coming up on the 20th year of knowing each other, which is pretty mind blowing. Having friends with teenage children is also a bit hard to comprehend.

Here are a few more pictures from this last weekend.

I'm still recovering from a long weekend at Steamboat. My friend Morrissey and I took off Thursday morning around 6, and were on the slopes around 10 am. It had snowed over a foot the night before, so the conditions were amazing.


We stayed at a friends-of-a-friends place that was within walking distance to the slopes. It snowed a bit on Thursday night, and the snow remained good throughout the weekend. I don't believe I've ever been in snow as deep as we saw on Thursday, there were several times where I was belt deep in the stuff. We truly shredded the gnar, to use the parlance of our times.


Kristen spent the weekend in Grand Junction with Katie and Jordan. They did some shopping and trading of books, as is their way.

I unfortunately caught a cold or the flu on the trip, so I've been feeling pretty low the last couple of days. Hopefully things turn around in time for the trip to Deadwood this weekend with the boys.

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