tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6313149823209387532011-08-02T19:18:28.038-07:00Drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06776140728552060539noreply@blogger.comBlogger241100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-631314982320938753.post-89782421627832841262009-11-24T17:37:00.001-08:002009-11-24T17:40:26.763-08:00

Are you a Bunco Boy?Want to play in the 3rd Annual Turkey Classic?Join FullTilt Poker and email me your username, I'll send you the password for the game on November 27, Friday night - 9:30EDT/7:30MDT.Play Online Poker

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Today was a typical day of winter driving – snow packed roads full of morons that don’t understand the space and time continuum. By that I mean these idiots think just because they’re late, the road conditions will not affect their ability to cover the distance (space) necessary to get to work on time. With no regard for the safety of others they drive too fast for the road conditions, passing in

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I attended another funeral this week and I feel better for it. Yes, go back and read that first sentence again. I’ll wait. I really did say that I feel better for it. That isn’t to say that I don't feel utterly terrible about my friend losing his wife and the mother of his two young daughters. I do. I can't begine to imagine the pain and suffering he is dealing with. Heaven’s gain is our

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Snap, crackle, pop. They’re not just the sounds you hear in your bowl of cereal every morning. They are the sounds you want to hear, very loudly, when you’re sitting in the dark timber at oh-dark-thirty waiting patiently for a 600+ pound elk to walk up on your position. Crash, bang, boom - as the sounds gets closer and closer the hair on the back of your neck begins to rise and your pulse

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In case anyone was truly worried, I didn’t flip a coin to decide who to elect for Commissioner last week. I couldn’t let such an important decision rest on the rotations of a quarter – I used a dartboard! Sorry the article was so short, but I was way behind on my work and I still needed to finish reading the Blue Book so I would know how to vote on all of the amendments. It was a good thing I

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My wife just returned from her annual “Babes on the River” rafting trip. To support the effort I have the kids all to myself for a few days. Most years, when the kids were younger, we would just stay home, spending each day staring at each other until nap time or bed time. It was a pretty easy gig. Now that the kids are older, I can’t get away with that anymore. This year I decided to take the

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Our “two weeks of summer” is almost over and that can mean only one thing – time to go for a hike before the trails are covered with snow. Living in the mountains we are blessed with an abundance of outdoor activities: mountain biking, skiing, rock climbing and poker. The easiest activity for any of us is probably hiking. You only need to put on some boots or sneakers, grab a water bottle and a

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Let’s see, where was I… Las Vegas, bender, play date, older, wiser, work, poker… OH YEAH! Now I remember! I was playing poker at the Venetian - $1/$2 No Limit Hold’em. [If you missed last week’s piece, you’ll need to go back and read it before going any further. Why? Because I can’t remember everything I wrote last week and explain it all over again just for you, that’s why. You think I keep a

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The last time I visited Las Vegas it was 1993 and I was there for a bachelor party. My roommate and I drove out, leaving on a Friday afternoon and arriving at 6am the next day. We had just enough time to grab a quick nap before going on a 24 hour bender that left us penniless and wondering which way was up. The real fun came later while we were driving home through a spring snow storm and got

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This past weekend, along with just a handful of other men and what seemed like every woman over 29, I went to see “Sex and the City” with my wife. We had some dinner in Boulder and then caught the show at the Cinemark theater. As my friend Kirk puts it, I took one for “the team.”What may have been even funnier (or sadder) than the movie were the previews. Its felt like every chick-flick coming

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This past weekend, along with just a handful of other men and what seemed like every woman over 29, I went to see “Sex and the City” with my wife. We had some dinner in Boulder and then caught the show at the Cinemark theater. As my friend Kirk puts it, I took one for “the team.”What may have been even funnier (or sadder) than the movie were the previews. Its felt like every chick-flick coming

Drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06776140728552060539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-631314982320938753.post-31697794004312047502008-05-23T07:29:00.000-07:002008-06-02T07:31:11.918-07:00

What We Learn On and Off the FieldLittle league. Been there, done that. I played little league baseball from the age of 6 until the age of 14. I played every position except for 1st base. (I have no idea why I never played first base) My fondest memories were: hitting my first single, double, triple, homerun, and grand slam; striking out my first batter; diving catches in the outfield; stealing

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When I lived in Boulder (yes, its true, but I’m feeling better now) I worked for a video game company that developed games like EverQuest or Worlds of Warcraft. I’d still be working there if it wasn’t for the fact that the games we made we boring and nobody wanted to collectively pay us millions of dollars every month to play them. So, to be more precise, our games were not like EverQuest or

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I had the distinct pleasure of traveling to California last week. While I was waiting for my plane to load up and take off I took some time to observe the classic stereotypes of travelers. I thought I’d share my experience and hope you see some of the same humor that I did.First, there’s the “Road Warrior”. This is the guy that logs over 100,000 miles a year and watches most of his favorite

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I know there's a lot of concern lately about global warming, but what about global slowing?With all the fat people in the world, and more coming, isn't it possible that the world will start to rotate more slowly? Think about that...Follow-up: 5/22/08 - I was close!

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This week's Earthday links...Earth Day Festival at NCAR in BoulderSouth Platte River Clean-upThe history of EarthdayMore Earthday information from the EPA

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The Pulitzer prizes were announced this week. For anyone that doesn’t know, myself included (until I wrote this article), the Pulitzer Prizes are awarded to “distinguished” works in journalism, letters, drama, and music. The Pulitzer Prize Board, headed by the President of Columbia University, determines the nominations and the awards. What’s pretty cool about the Pulitzers is that there are no

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The Rockies’ home opener is tomorrow (Friday) and we’re sure to have a snowstorm the day before or the same day, just to remind everyone that springtime in Colorado means snow, snow, and more snow. Just ask anyone that’s been driving Vail Pass this year and they’ll tell you that winter is still going strong. At least now that we’ve got baseball back we can begin to look forward to lazy summer

Drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06776140728552060539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-631314982320938753.post-48749948362969418202008-03-12T20:07:00.000-07:002008-04-09T09:29:03.404-07:00

I’ve lived in northern Gilpin County for twelve years out of the sixteen years I’ve been in Colorado. I lived in New Jersey for seventeen years. Despite the wind, the snow, the wind, the cold, and the wind, I love living here. Prior to moving here I lived at the beach (Redondo/Manhatten Beach) in California. Weekends were great – volleyball, surfing, cookouts with friends, and bar hopping all

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First and foremost I have to get into shape. I have a shape now, something like a pear with long legs, but it isn’t a very good shape for all the time I want to spend outside hiking, biking, and scouting. My goal before August is to hike from my backdoor with a forty pound pack on my back, up to the top of Fairburn Mountain (the one that everyone in Gilpin seems to be hiking these days),

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